I gave up football after being a huge fan for years. Been about 5 years and I don't miss it much. No BLM slogans in the endzones for me.
I call BS on this whole idea though. Way, way too many of these guys are too stupid to keep this under wraps. Occam's razor and all, weird play that's it.
Consider, though, that it doesn't necessarily require everyone to be in on the rigging as it really only takes a few select people - a coach, a player or two or three and/or a ref or two - to rig a game. Done strategically ("randomly"), it could seem like weird plays, butter fingers, poor playing conditions, missed touchdowns/field goals, brain farts, bad calls, poor coaching/bad play calls, etc.
The NFL rulebook is the size of a phonebook compared to what it used to be (exaggeration of course, but you get the idea). You can throw a flag on any given play for the most part. That's how they control games.
Watch Superbowl XL ... that game was thrown for the Steelers ... I say that as a former Steeler fan ... that game basically turned me off football despite "my" team "winning" the fucking thing.
Agree games can be fixed. No way this play was an example though. Too many variables but the biggest is swatting the ball backward and counting on a D lineman to catch it and take it back.
A QB or a ref could certainly swing a game but you're not going to see any Rube Goldberg crap if the fix is in. QB will just start missing throws and hitting DB's not WR's with his passes.
I ditched the game around the time the WSJ published an article about “11 minutes of game action”. A 60 min game clock w/ avg. of 11 mins of live ball time that takes 3hrs to watch. Talk about hoodwinking. 75 mins of commercials, 67 mins of players standing around between snaps, 17 mins of replays. Brutal. All those beer commercials make sense,,,
They're like soldiers, though- they aren't paid to invent plays, but to execute formations. If the plan fails, it wasn't their fault (as long as they did what they were supposed to), but the fault of the strategists. Do they pick the brightest, or the most compliant? How many players have glitched mk ultra-style on camera, and how many are lower-rung gangsters? If anyone in their mafia wakes up or grows a conscience, what happens to them?
I gave up football after being a huge fan for years. Been about 5 years and I don't miss it much. No BLM slogans in the endzones for me.
I call BS on this whole idea though. Way, way too many of these guys are too stupid to keep this under wraps. Occam's razor and all, weird play that's it.
Consider, though, that it doesn't necessarily require everyone to be in on the rigging as it really only takes a few select people - a coach, a player or two or three and/or a ref or two - to rig a game. Done strategically ("randomly"), it could seem like weird plays, butter fingers, poor playing conditions, missed touchdowns/field goals, brain farts, bad calls, poor coaching/bad play calls, etc.
The NFL rulebook is the size of a phonebook compared to what it used to be (exaggeration of course, but you get the idea). You can throw a flag on any given play for the most part. That's how they control games.
Watch Superbowl XL ... that game was thrown for the Steelers ... I say that as a former Steeler fan ... that game basically turned me off football despite "my" team "winning" the fucking thing.
Agree games can be fixed. No way this play was an example though. Too many variables but the biggest is swatting the ball backward and counting on a D lineman to catch it and take it back.
A QB or a ref could certainly swing a game but you're not going to see any Rube Goldberg crap if the fix is in. QB will just start missing throws and hitting DB's not WR's with his passes.
I ditched the game around the time the WSJ published an article about “11 minutes of game action”. A 60 min game clock w/ avg. of 11 mins of live ball time that takes 3hrs to watch. Talk about hoodwinking. 75 mins of commercials, 67 mins of players standing around between snaps, 17 mins of replays. Brutal. All those beer commercials make sense,,,
WSJ
It is third and goal from the two and they do a QB sneak?
They're like soldiers, though- they aren't paid to invent plays, but to execute formations. If the plan fails, it wasn't their fault (as long as they did what they were supposed to), but the fault of the strategists. Do they pick the brightest, or the most compliant? How many players have glitched mk ultra-style on camera, and how many are lower-rung gangsters? If anyone in their mafia wakes up or grows a conscience, what happens to them?