Buffalo Bills fans are nursing their wounds after a playoff loss to the Denver Broncos that felt less like a football game and more like the Game of Thrones series finale. But for NFL superfans Scott and Kim Yang, it wasn’t heartbreaking—it was just Episode 17 of the season-long drama.
“The whistle-blowers aren’t on the field; they’re in the league office writing scripts,” Kim Yang told GWU! over a post Sunday Night Football MicroSoft Teams call. “Saturday wasn’t an upset. It was a plot twist to set up the conference championship they want.”
What sounds like a fringe conspiracy theory is gaining traction among the pigskin devotees who see the NFL not as a sports league, but as live-scripted entertainment, a billion-dollar cousin to the WWE. The evidence, they say, is in the narratives.
Don’t Hate the Players, Hate the Game(show)
“Look at the arc,” Scott explained to GWU! and his somewhat disbelieving wife. “The Bills, the lovable losers? Great for a few episodes of hope. But their market’s too small to carry the season finale—the Super Bowl. The league needs a marquee matchup. This year, the script calls for a ‘Coastal rival’ showdown or a legacy franchise revival. Denver fits the bill for now. But it depends which way the writers want to go, I guess.”
The Yangs point to the game itself: a dominant Bills performance suddenly undone by a cascade of flag-fueled momentum shifts—a controversial pass interference, a phantom holding call on a key drive. “Josh Allen was playing UFC,” Scott laughed. “But the refs? They were doing a children’s pantomime. That last Broncos touchdown drive was a masterpiece of orchestrated drama. You could see the plot armor kick in.”
𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: NFL Films has released new footage that shows Bills WR Brandin Cooks CLEARLY caught the ball.
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) January 21, 2026
The refs somehow ruled this an interception essentailly giving the Broncos the win over Buffalo.
One of the worst calls in NFL history… pic.twitter.com/CTSUojKpZD
The nail in the coffin is that the Buffalo coach, who had been with the team for almost a decade, was fired after the loss. “That’s basically the same as killing a character,” Kim points out. “No season renewal for that background character.”
Red String Reruns
Scott, who has every episode of the Super Bowl saved on his Hulu account, says that the comparison to pro wrestling is direct. “This was like Hogan vs. Iron Sheik for the World Heavyweight title,” he continued, saying he is also an ’80s wrestling aficionado who grew up watching it illegally in his village outside of Beijing. “The outcome was decided backstage to serve a bigger story. The Bills’ job was to look strong in defeat and make the Broncos’ comeback look epic. It’s not about athletic competition; it’s about selling the next season so they can get a network renewal.”
The alleged motives are multifaceted: boosting gambling revenue with dramatic swings, propping up flagship franchises, and creating celebrity personas that transcend the sport. “Why do you think Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are the league’s top promo package right now?” Kim asked. “He’s the charismatic veteran in a pre-written romance angle. It’s pure sports entertainment.”
Bet on ICE
This season, under heightened political tensions, the league is also accused by some online of crafting an overly political narrative. Only a few years ago, the NFL was all BLM and BLT+ programming. Now, producers have shifted to anti-ICE story lines. “They’re scripting a ‘Sanctuary City Supremacy’ arc,” Scott laughed. “Denver, Seattle, LA, Boston—they’re the heroes in this year’s episode block. It’s a calculated move to secure the cultural cachet of blue-state markets. Red states will always tune in for football. But the league wants to be seen as progressive entertainment, not traditionalist sport.”
He adds that Kim, who is in the US illegally, is hoping the Super Bowl changes America’s opinion of ICE and also that they don’t find her.
(In a related story, Seattle is the latest city to be outed by YouTube star journalists as part of the Somali Daycare scams that have rocked the nation—ed)
Scott goes on to pitch that next year, fans may see a revival of the hapless Minnesota Vikings in honour of Renée Good and in a nod to past liberal legends, the ceremonial retirement of drug addict George Floyd’s Steelers jersey, which he stole. “It’s an overdue narrative arc,” smiles Scott.
“Don’t get mad at the players. They’re just hitting their marks. Wait for the heel turn or the redemption arc. It’s all coming next season. Uh. Have you seen my wife?”
