Troy Aikman has lived the life. He's won three Super Bowls. He's interacted with - and berated and befriended - refs. And now he's a lead voice in the NFL community as the long-time analyst now on ESPN's "Monday Night Football.

The referees’ alleged Chiefs bias has become a hot topic this postseason, with Kansas City being on the right end of some debatable rulings.

With 1:41 left in the third quarter of the Chiefs' divisional-round rendezvous with the Houston Texans, a slide by Mahomes caused two Texans defenders to run into each other. The play drew a flag for unnecessary roughness, which Aikman criticized on air after rebuking a similar marginal moment earlier.