The proliferation of sports betting makes me wonder.... There are sports books opening up in stadiums which would be unheard of a generation ago. So do the popular teams and betting favorites get special treatment? I don't have any concrete evidence, but It would make an interesting study.

On 2/9/2022 at 5:13 PM, matchew88 said:

The NFL makes money off of ads, which makes them a hype machine and have dominion over the refs. I've been seeing many videos in my youtube feed with claims of the NFL at least partially being like the WWE. Then you have this Moldea guy saying the mafia and others actually have fixed NFL games. 

Burying spygate, wanting artificial parity to maximize ad profits, league revenue sharing, etc. The red flags do seems to start to pile up. While I don't believe the whole thing is staged, it does seem like there is storyline management, etc. I've seen whole drives move forward on questionable calls. And the media was declaring Tom Brady retired when he was reported as saying he hadn't made a decision yet...much of this seems managed, and the NFL seems to be moving closer and closer to the WWE idea.

Lastly, the NFL quietly won a supreme court decision from a fan who sued them for fixing a game. Instead of proving they didn't, the NFL just argued that the purchase of a ticket was just you going to see a show. Because they'll destroy America's sport, dammit, and you'll like it.

I'm not sure what to make of all this and what it means for the future, but now that the offseason is here, I just have to wonder.

What do you think? Any instances you saw a game and wondered too?

you believe the election was stolen so this wasn't a reach for you, at all.

On 2/9/2022 at 5:13 PM, matchew88 said:

The NFL makes money off of ads, which makes them a hype machine and have dominion over the refs. I've been seeing many videos in my youtube feed with claims of the NFL at least partially being like the WWE. Then you have this Moldea guy saying the mafia and others actually have fixed NFL games. 

Burying spygate, wanting artificial parity to maximize ad profits, league revenue sharing, etc. The red flags do seems to start to pile up. While I don't believe the whole thing is staged, it does seem like there is storyline management, etc. I've seen whole drives move forward on questionable calls. And the media was declaring Tom Brady retired when he was reported as saying he hadn't made a decision yet...much of this seems managed, and the NFL seems to be moving closer and closer to the WWE idea.

Lastly, the NFL quietly won a supreme court decision from a fan who sued them for fixing a game. Instead of proving they didn't, the NFL just argued that the purchase of a ticket was just you going to see a show. Because they'll destroy America's sport, dammit, and you'll like it.

I'm not sure what to make of all this and what it means for the future, but now that the offseason is here, I just have to wonder.

What do you think? Any instances you saw a game and wondered too?

Yes, the NFL is rigged.
You can imagine how incredibly hard it is to keep it a secret especially with four thousand employees not counting each franchise team which is kind of like its own business with its own staff. 

Did you or do you currently enjoy watching professional "haha" wrestling? Because it is clearly rigged, and though most fans realize that they still enjoy watching it. Just don't gamble on it.

 

15 minutes ago, JournalistMic said:

Yes, the NFL is rigged.
You can imagine how incredibly hard it is to keep it a secret especially with four thousand employees not counting each franchise team which is kind of like its own business with its own staff. 

Did you or do you currently enjoy watching professional "haha" wrestling? Because it is clearly rigged, and though most fans realize that they still enjoy watching it. Just don't gamble on it.

 

Yeah, I am sure the 1000's of players the last 20 years just all signed off on Brady getting to win half the Super Bowls.

Just now, downundermike said:

Yeah, I am sure the 1000's of players the last 20 years just all signed off on Brady getting to win half the Super Bowls.

Or having the Philadelphia Eagles be the best team in the NFC all season, you know how much they hate our city.

On 2/9/2022 at 8:45 PM, MidMoFo said:

Right now, there is a disgruntled and recently fired head coach who is suing the league because he doesn’t feel an equality rule, put in place by the league, is being implemented with honesty. Don’t you think, if games were being fixed, other disgruntled participants would have leaked information about it by now?

The ex Dolphins coach won something like 7 of his last 8 games, then gets fired.  When has that ever happened before?