Clark Hunt and Tavia Hunt.
Tavia Hunt has an opinion about the Chiefs’ continued success
The wife of Chiefs owner Clark Hunt pushed back on the idea that the team gets better calls
The Chiefs won back-to-back Super Bowl titles in 2022 and 2023
Tavia Hunt is pushing back on the notion that her team gets all the calls.
The wife of Kansas City Chiefs owner and CEO Clark Hunt shared her perspective on her Instagram Stories on Monday, Oct. 5 amid the team’s 4-0 start to the season.
“So sick of the past narrative that the Chiefs get all the calls,” Hunt, 54, wrote alongside a controversial play from the Chiefs 30-27 win over the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday. “Stats don’t lie and neither does film — so I’m leaving this here.”
In footage she shared from the game to make her point, defensive lineman Chris Jones appeared to be held in the end zone during a play, but he did not get a flag from officials.
Tavia Hunt and Clark Hunt take a selfie with Andy Reid before being awarded the Lamar Hunt trophy after defeating the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Championship Game on January 19, 2020 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Tavia Hunt and Clark Hunt take a selfie with Andy Reid before being awarded the Lamar Hunt trophy after defeating the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Championship Game on January 19, 2020 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Despite last season’s statistical blip of a season in which the Chiefs missed the playoffs for the first time in a decade, fans of the franchise have had little about which to complain, particularly with back-to-back Super Bowl wins in 2022 and 2023.
However, the knock against the Chiefs is nothing new.
In January 2025, in advance of the Chiefs run for a Super Bowl three-peat, quarterback Patrick Mahomes weighed in on the ongoing controversy.
“I‘ve kind of learned that no matter what happens during the game, that something’s going to come out about it if you win and you continue to win, so I don’t really pay attention to it,” Mahomes, 31, said on his weekly guest spot on local radio at the time.
He added, “I mean, obviously I’ve been on both sides of it as far as how I felt the calls were made, but at the end of the day, man, those guys are doing their best to make the best calls and keep it to where the players are making the plays in the game. And that’s what decides the outcome.”
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During that same run, the team also dodged buzz that they were winning due to the “Taylor Swift Effect.”
Dean Blandino, the NFL’s former vice president of officiating and rules analyst on Fox, said in January 2025 that his own brother believed that the league is “rigged” and that the Taylor Swift Effect was in full force.
“My brother is like, ‘They want Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl,’ ” Blandino said in a guest spot on SiriusXM Radio before the game. “One-hundred and fifty million people are gonna watch the Super Bowl regardless of Taylor Swift being there. Like enough, stop.”
Blandino added, “[He says] the league is rigged and that I can’t say anything about it. I say, ‘Listen, hey, I think if there was a script, I think the head of officiating would be pretty important in that process and no one ever invited me in the room.’ ”