7 Biggest Losers of The 2023 NFL Conference Championships

The 2023 NFL Conference Championships were a real rollercoaster. One game was a complete blowout because the 49ers ran out of quarterbacks on their roster while the Bengals and Chiefs had a war against the referees.

But like every big weekend in sports, there are winners and there are losers.

Here are the 7 biggest losers of the 2023 NFL Conference Championships:

1. Joseph Ossai

Rarely do you get the pleasure of witnessing someone have the worst day of their life but Joseph Ossai hit rock bottom directly before our eyes Sunday afternoon when he singlehandedly cost the Cincinnati Bengals the Super Bowl with an atrocious late hit sending Patrick Mahomes into the benches from behind when he was already clearly out of bounds.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING JOSEPH OSSAI pic.twitter.com/wEP6BZ3QBS

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) January 30, 2023

You know you fucked up when you immediately reach for your knee and pretend like your leg exploded. I think the moment was too big and he tried to ‘make a play’ and be the hero and maybe even take Patrick Mahomes out since he was limping the entire game.

But nope, he just cost his team the game. Sucks but he’s a 22-year old who has all the makings to be a real difference-maker in his career. Or, I guess he’s already proven that he’s a difference-maker but, ya know, for Kansas City.

2. Referee discourse

Talking about the referees is the worst. “These refs suck” is just a lazy way to interpret what you just witnessed. The refs are always against your favorite team. They have every NFL team all the time according to NFL fans.

Yes, the refs gave the Chiefs a second chance on a third and long play late in the 4th quarter because the clock was malfunctioning. That re-do resulted in another penalty gifting the Chiefs even more yards with an Eli Apple defensive holding call because Eli Apple stinks.

Well, the Bengals ended up stopping Kansas City and getting the ball back.

The refs didn’t prevent them from winning that game. There was a bad holding call that forced the Bengals into a long third-down conversion. The Bengals converted the 3rd and long. The referees literally didn’t stop the Bengals at all. They overcame everything except the Joseph Ossai unnecessary roughness call which was 1000% a penalty and not some referee conspiracy against Cincinnati.

Who cares about the refs?

3. Burrowhead Stadium

Joe Burrow has been great against the Chiefs on the road but uh, it’s a pretty small sample size to be renaming Arrowhead Stadium to Burrowhead. The blatantly obvious media turn on Patrick Mahomes so early in his career to hand the keys of the NFL to Joe Burrow has been obvious and nasty.

Burrow is cool as hell. He is not only a great QB but unlike previous greats, he actually cares about his black teammates and has gone out of his way to defend certain social issues that top guys pretend to not notice. I have no doubt in my mind that Burrow would’ve been on the right side of history if he was in the league with Colin Kaepernick.

But the dickriding has been unbelievable. Peak Ava Devine dickriding going on for Burrow. Let’s chill.

4. The Mayor of Cincinnati

A WHO DEY proclamation from the Mayor: @Bengals pic.twitter.com/W1tCqupdTw

— Aftab Pureval (@AftabPureval) January 27, 2023

I probably should’ve combined this one with the last one but this list is 7 Losers and damn it, I’m going to stretch this book report out to fill the requirements.

Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval, added to the Burrowhead Stadium nonsense and now he’s a loser on Deadseriousness Dot Com.

5. Kyle Shanahan

Since arriving in San Francisco, Kyle Shanahan has brought this team to 3 NFC Championship games. He’s 1-2 in these games and lost the one Super Bowl they made. Let’s also add in when Shanahan was the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons in their historic 28-3 Super Bowl collapse against the Patriots.

He deserves all the credit in the world for having all of this success without ever having even a Top 20 quarterback. And I will absolutely give him all of his flowers—as soon as he wins these big games and walks away with a Super Bowl trophy. Until then, I’m refusing to call this man a ‘genius’ or other insane qualities that he’s given by the media despite any of the real accomplishments.

6. The Empire State Building

Fly @Eagles Fly! We’re going Green and White in honor of the Eagles NFC Championship Victory. pic.twitter.com/RNiwbCIkt7

— Empire State Building (@EmpireStateBldg) January 29, 2023

People lost their minds about the Empire State Building putting up rival Eagles colors because sports fans are super annoying. These are the same sports fans who hate when (black) players celebrate or show any confidence in themselves because they love sportsmanship or whatever but the second a fucking building shows sportsmanship, it’s the end of the world.

There are far worse things that have happened to iconic Manhattan skyscrapers than this.

7. White quarterbacks

For the first time in NFL history, we are getting two black quarterbacks competing in the Super Bowl. LETS GOOOOOOO BAYBEEEEEE. It’s over for the generations of treating black quarterbacks like less than. We are no longer calling white QBs ‘smart’ and black QBs ‘athletic’.

Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes are the final bosses of black quarterbacks who can run, pass and read defenses. The NFL has finally discovered that hey, maybe your offense has an advantage when your quarterback is one of the fastest players on the field while possessing a cannon arm. Only took 100 years.