The theory, myth, punchline, or whatever you’d like to call it, about the Kansas City Chiefs gaining the help of NFL officials to win games is as crazy as a team winning three straight Super Bowls. Yet, here we are. There are plenty of fans (mainly of other teams not named the Chiefs) who think NFL referees favor Patrick Mahomes and his team during games. Of course, Mahomes disputes that in the most polite way possible.

“I don’t feel that way,” Mahomes told reporters on Wednesday, via Adam Teicher of ESPN.com. “At the end of the day, the referees are doing their best to call the game as fair and as proper as they possibly can. And all you can do is go out there and play the game that you love as hard as you can and live with the results. . . . I think that’s what we preach here in Kansas City.

“You get new referees every year, you get new circumstances, and you never can really tell because every play’s different and that’s what makes the NFL so special. I feel like I’ve just continued to play the game, and I just try to win, and whatever happens, kind of happens.”

The same people who believe the referees help the Chiefs also believe the NFL is scripted. That, of course, is absurd and would be impossible to facilitate while still keeping it a secret.

Related: Travis Kelce’s Ex Kayla Announces Chiefs Super Bowl Prediction The Chiefs are good. Patrick Mahomes is good. And some people are just tired of it, the way those same people were tired of Tom Brady and the Patriots. The same way those people will be tired of the next great quarterback and dynasty.