Week 17 · 2025–26 season
Broncos
W 20-13 at Chiefs · Dec 25, 2025
Misery Index · Miserable
Broncos fans swept the Chiefs on Christmas and still spent the night cataloguing every uncalled hold.
The emotional rollercoaster
Fan misery across the game window. Up is worse.
What happened
A Christmas sweep of the Chiefs, sealed by B.Nix finding R.Harvey for a 1-yard touchdown with 1:50 left, and somehow the dominant fan emotion is exhausted rage at the officials. The L.Humphrey 17-yarder and a C.Sutton deep ball to set up points were the kind of throws this offense has been promising all year. Enjoy the win, but the lingering question is whether anyone will remember it past the holding calls that never came.
What fans said
“You can't tell me with a straight fucking face that the Queefs only committed a single penalty all damn game.”
u/AaronC31▲ 175rage
“Santa gifted us a Chiefs sweep this year.”
u/SupMaelstrom▲ 320joy
“We won on Christmas idc about any of the details 🎉”
u/x872YEOx▲ 60joy
“THE HOLDNG, BRO. Every single fucking game, non stop, NO CALLS.”
u/IncubusDarkness▲ 33nuclear
“That amount of uncalled holds on the chiefs last drive was fucking insane.”
u/Artifyce47▲ 48rage
“It's honestly just insane how hard the refs fuck us every week.”
u/Doggcow▲ 27rage
14 more
“Just abysmal reffing.”
u/modernzen▲ 69frustration
“I fucking hate Vinovich he's always screwed over the Broncos going back to the Manning days.”
u/BingBongtheArcher19▲ 23rage
“This game is becoming unwatchable coming from a born bred 49ers fan…Surtain literally dominated Worthy’s whole route & went ahead and had them throw a deep ball out of bounds…an uncatchable ball & that’s a PI ?!…”
u/ResultsHaveVary▲ 22rage
“The really good news is that’s the last we’ll have to suffer through Chiefs commentary this year. God, that was like watching a Chiefs documentary. We really didn’t need a 3D rendering of Mahomes’ knee. GO BRONCOS 🏈🏈🏈”
u/Additional_Carrot234▲ 50frustration
“Chiefs have no chance of driving the field so what do we do? Give up a huge punt return. Our special teams is fucking garbage.”
u/thelegend17▲ 20rage
“HOW DARE HE MOVE HIS THUMB LIKE THAT?!”
u/parsec0298▲ 29rage
“And here's the shitty officiating. Fucking inexcusable that the number one sport in america has officiating this shit”
u/roushmartin6▲ 23rage
“Investigate these refs. That PI ball was nowhere near catchable. Phantom false start on Powers. Fucking bullshit.”
u/radial_s▲ 19rage
“That PI was an egregious call what are we even doing here”
u/Bulkopossum▲ 28rage
“Fuck Travis Swift, Mahomes, and the Chiefs! Lets Go Broncos!”
u/brandon7219▲ 18rage
“He lined up offside EVERY SINGLE short yardage play.”
u/HoovesCarveCraters▲ 78frustration
“I truly hate Thursday night football. Most games are sloppy and bad.”
u/GeneStarwind777▲ 41frustration
“Oops, we called the penalty on the wrong team accidentally on purpose. Bullshit penalties to alter the outcome of the game.”
u/-NolanVoid-▲ 17rage
“Good riddance.”
u/YABOYLLCOOLJ▲ 19rage