I don't give a flying fuck if there is a conspiracy or not. I don't care if the league is behind it or not. I just want it to fucking stop. Period.
There is horrendous officiating in every single game in the NFL. The difference with the Patriots is that it's completely fucking one sided. Anyone that knows a damn thing about football that watched that game tonight can find a half dozen calls that were made up out of whole cloth against the Patriots. And most of them just so happened to wipe out huge, game changing plays that the Patriots made. You keep saying that the Patriots should have done this, they should have played better, yada yada yada bullshit. THEY MADE THOSE FUCKING PLAYS. Then the refs took them away. Brady made the 51 yard pass to Martin that would have put at least another 3 points on the board. Brady made the pass to Gronk that would have given them a first down and wiped at least a couple more minutes off the clock (and probably would have saved Gronk from having his leg destroyed not one minute later). The Patriots sacked Osweiler and forced a 3rd and goal from the 20, which the refs literally turned into a 1st and goal from the 5.
On the flipside, what the fuck did Denver do? On the go ahead touchdown, the refs blatantly missed illegal hands to the face (the picture is up thread), a "point of emphasis" penalty that they aren't supposed to miss. On the winning touchdown, they missed McCourty getting raped on the edge to the point where he couldn't move one foot to make a tackle, leading to Anderson's td. They missed two blows to Brady's head that would have kept drives alive, and countless other holding calls that led to "cutback" lanes for Denver's runners.
You seem to think that one side should be required to play perfect football, otherwise, they deserve to lose. That's all well and good, but that's horseshit. The Patriots did what they needed to do to win that game tonight, and probably win it easily, and it was stolen from them by the zebras. Whether or not the league office had anything to do with it is up to others to decide. I could give a shit. I'm just getting tired of watching it week in and week out. I'll settle for the horrible BALANCED officiating I see elsewhere in the 20+ football games a week, thank you very much.