Is the NFL setting the stage for a Chiefs win in Baltimore?

Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty ImagesIt’s the year of Taylor Swift in the NFL and she is attached to the Kansas City Chiefs. The NFL has good reason to hope they take down the number one seed Baltimore Ravens this weekend to reach the Super Bowl. Those are the kinds of things conspiracy types would suggest, but this time there is hard data to back them up.

Warren Sharp of Sharp Football Analysis this week broke down the facts after the NFL assigned Shawn Smith’s crew to the AFC Championship Game this weekend.

Home teams have won only 40.8% of games in the last three years with Smith as referee.

That is the lowest win rate for any referee in the NFL.

Across the NFL, home teams have won 55.4% of…