The Kansas City Chiefs were facing the Detroit Lions on Sunday night football. Kansas City defeated Detroit by a final score of 30-17.
Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff (16) looks on before a play against Kansas City Chiefs during the first half at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025.
With the win for the Chiefs, they improved to 3-3 on the season. As for the Lions, they dropped to 4-2 on the season. One of the more interesting things in this game was that there was not a lot of flags thrown. Detroit didn’t commit many penalties, but there were some NFL fans who were livid that there were no penalties for Kansas City in the game.
NFL Fans Livid Over Zero Penalties On the Kansas City Chiefs Against the Detroit Lions
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell talks to a referee before a play against Kansas City Chiefs during the first half at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025.
There are a bunch of conspiracy theorists out once again about the officiating favoring the Chiefs. In reality, they may have not called penalties on them, but it isn’t like Detroit was called for 10-13 penalties on them during the game. This is what some NFL fans had to say about the Chiefs not getting any penalties called on them:
I see the #Chiefs are back!
Play 1 – Kelce ball hits the ground
Play 2 – Kelce holds a Lions player directly trying to make a tackle
Play 3 – Mahomes runs right past a Lions player being strip searched.
And… the Chiefs had zero penalties in the game. Thats basically… pic.twitter.com/q04zBbvlBU
— Dave Myers BIB (@DaveMyersBIB) October 13, 2025
Wild: The Chiefs have had ZERO penalties called against them tonight against the Lions.
I wonder how that is possible…🧐 pic.twitter.com/VxbfTaVNWM
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) October 13, 2025
The Chiefs have ZERO penalties called on them tonight.
That’s happened ONCE in the last 70 years in the NFL 😭 pic.twitter.com/B6rvYRFdja
— BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) October 13, 2025
The Chiefs had ZERO penalties called against them tonight against the Lions. ZERO!
They not even trying to hide it. pic.twitter.com/euQYIf3k3c
— Hater Report (@HaterReport_) October 13, 2025
No way the @NFL and their @NFLOfficiating cronies were going to let the @Chiefs go to 2-4. ZERO penalties called and took an un-reviewable TD off the board for the @Lions
Par for the course… pic.twitter.com/fw3frHTnUT
— Curtis Foust (@monticrush) October 13, 2025
Every time the Chiefs win the NFL fans always complain about the refs and rightfully so. As for the Lions, they just flat out lost the game and will look to rebound next time.
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