BeautifulSoup returns None even though the element exists

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try this code:

from selenium import webdriver
import time
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


driver = webdriver.Chrome()
url= "http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201309050den.htm"
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get(url)

time.sleep(5)
content = driver.page_source.encode('utf-8').strip()
soup = BeautifulSoup(content,"html.parser")
officials = soup.findAll("table",{"id":"officials"})

for entry in officials:
    print(str(entry))


driver.quit()

It will print:

<table class="suppress_all sortable stats_table now_sortable" data-cols-to-freeze="0" id="officials"><thead><tr class="thead onecell"><td class=" center" colspan="2" data-stat="onecell">Officials</td></tr></thead><caption>Officials Table</caption><tbody>
<tr data-row="0"><th class=" " data-stat="ref_pos" scope="row">Referee</th><td class=" " data-stat="name"><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/officials/ColeWa0r.htm">Walt Coleman</a></td></tr>
<tr data-row="1"><th class=" " data-stat="ref_pos" scope="row">Umpire</th><td class=" " data-stat="name"><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/officials/ElliRo0r.htm">Roy Ellison</a></td></tr>
<tr data-row="2"><th class=" " data-stat="ref_pos" scope="row">Head Linesman</th><td class=" " data-stat="name"><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/officials/BergJe1r.htm">Jerry Bergman</a></td></tr>
<tr data-row="3"><th class=" " data-stat="ref_pos" scope="row">Field Judge</th><td class=" " data-stat="name"><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/officials/GautGr0r.htm">Greg Gautreaux</a></td></tr>
<tr data-row="4"><th class=" " data-stat="ref_pos" scope="row">Back Judge</th><td class=" " data-stat="name"><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/officials/YettGr0r.htm">Greg Yette</a></td></tr>
<tr data-row="5"><th class=" " data-stat="ref_pos" scope="row">Side Judge</th><td class=" " data-stat="name"><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/officials/PattRi0r.htm">Rick Patterson</a></td></tr>
<tr data-row="6"><th class=" " data-stat="ref_pos" scope="row">Line Judge</th><td class=" " data-stat="name"><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/officials/BaynRu0r.htm">Rusty Baynes</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>

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