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re: Poll: How many think the NFL is scripted?
Posted on 2/13/23 at 7:17 am to LB84
Posted on 2/13/23 at 7:17 am to LB84
quote:Mega corporations do everything in their power to maximize profits. I just don't understand why people think sports is any different than any other mega corporation.
I’m a big conspiracy theorist but I don’t know why they would rig it for the team from Kansas City. Pretty ineffectual town.
They just lost Tom Brady. This gives the media more content and hype to produce. We get to hear about how Mahomes can surpass Brady this entire offseason.
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Posted on 2/13/23 at 7:17 am to KCM0Tiger
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Scripted? Not necessarily. Influenced? For sure.
this
Posted on 2/13/23 at 7:21 am to LB84
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They just lost Tom Brady. This gives the media more content and hype to produce. We get to hear about how Mahomes can surpass Brady this entire offseason.
That argument already existed because Mahomes has the best start to a career in NFL history (regardless of the game last night).
If the NFL wanted to create this argument, they wouldn't have let Brady beat Mahomes 2 years ago...or Burrow last year.
Jalen Hurts, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, and Herbert are all as marketable as Mahomes potentially. All had "script" calls against them preventing them winning.
This argument just doesn't make sense.
Also, Mahomes is already established as one of the GOATs. If the NFL is trying to create "Brady magic", they need a Payton Manning. Burrow could have been that last year but instead they let LAR and old Stafford win? Or Josh Allen/Hurts this year?
Posted on 2/13/23 at 7:27 am to Arthur Bach
Everybody cries "cheater" when things don't go their way. It's the new American way.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 7:38 am to Arthur Bach
If you truly believe this, why would you watch it?
Posted on 2/13/23 at 7:40 am to bearhc
If the game is scripted, how do you guys think the Eagles feel when they find out they lost the game beforehand.
Think they go out and put in 100%?
Think they go out and put in 100%?
Posted on 2/13/23 at 8:09 am to Mizz-SEC
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Saints screwed the Vikings by purposely injuring Brett Favre
They had like 5 turnovers that game yet you pick a story conjured up by the NFL as your explanation. Hell, the Vikings jersey is a better explanation for losing in the postseason.
This post was edited on 2/13/23 at 8:19 am
Posted on 2/13/23 at 11:20 am to theunknownknight
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conspiracy theorists have been proven true over and over
Man you really believe that don’t you
Posted on 2/13/23 at 6:02 pm to theunknownknight
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You sure as hell can try
That's why the most they can do is put their thumb on the scale.
If the Rams had missed their field goal after the NOLA No-Call, or our defense made a stop, Goofdell would have been crying. The no call was a mulligan.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 6:15 pm to MBclass83
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Everybody cries "cheater" when things don't go their way. It's the new American way.
Sure
Now explain the rams/saints no call
Posted on 2/13/23 at 6:16 pm to Arthur Bach
223 of yall are retarded.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 6:18 pm to bigberg2000
Your mother
Posted on 2/13/23 at 7:20 pm to TX Tiger
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Mega corporations do everything in their power to maximize profits. I just don't understand why people think sports is any different than any other mega corporation
The issue with this scenario as it would apply to the NFL is that its not one corporation. It is 32 huge privately held corporations worth billions of dollars each, owned by type A egos who would all have to be in collusion and agree to personally "lose" at times for the financial betterment of the group as a whole. No way in hell do you get them to do that.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 7:30 pm to Mr. Hangover
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Now explain the rams/saints no call
One of the worst no calls in NFL history made (or in this case not made) by a fallible human being.
I mean, think about it. If its a scripted event, WHY would you be so obvious about it? An offensive holding call is so much easier to script and get away with. That no-call was made three years ago and its still thrown in the NFL's face at every turn. Why would they purposefully bring that heat upon themselves in such an obvious manner?
You want to go tin foil hat, it would be a LOT more likely if it was a single individual making a ton of money on a single call, not some massive conspiracy involving hundreds of people.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 8:01 pm to Basura Blanco
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One of the worst no calls in NFL history made (or in this case not made) by a fallible human being.
Pretty sure they reviewed it
Posted on 2/13/23 at 8:23 pm to Mr. Hangover
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Pretty sure they reviewed it
The Saints no call? Of course it wasn't reviewed. It was not reviewable.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:35 pm to Mr. Hangover
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Now explain the rams/saints no call
Incompetence.
I've made this point before, and I'll make it again: WWE works because the wrestlers are not paid based on their actual wrestling prowess. They are paid based on marketability, full stop. Rigging the NFL would never work because football players are paid based on their performance. Telling them to purposefully not play at the highest level they are capable of all the time is effectively telling them to take money out of their own pocket. Do you truly think of all the players through the years who have been cut from the league, there wouldn't have been at least one who would have gone to the media and complained that they lost their job not because they couldn't perform, but because the league told them to not perform on purpose and then fired them for not performing? There would be lawsuits galore if that happened.
And for those who say, "It's only the refs who are in on it," I say yes, it is completely possible for refs to be on the take and to influence the outcome of a game. But why would the NFL itself ever get involved with that? Everyone knows the NFL has huge sums of money bet on it. Do you understand how open the league would be to racketeering charges if it were to come to light that they were artificially controlling the outcomes of games? What purpose would scripting games serve that would be worth that level of risk?
Posted on 2/13/23 at 11:01 pm to Arthur Bach
If you believe it is rigged to favor certain teams, you should be getting rich betting on them.
Posted on 2/14/23 at 12:29 am to Arthur Bach
The so-called foul by the Eagles occurred within a few yards of the LOS.
The flag was thrown once the receiver was 16 yards downfield near the endzone.
As others have pointed out, the refs were clearly waiting to see what happened with the play.
Ball was overthrown, out comes the flag.
Weird people are white-knighting for the NFL after the Nola no-call. Mahomes is the biggest star now. Its a product like the NBA...promoting the biggest stars...
Lakers-Kings
Jordan's no-calll push-off
Brady all these years
Desire to get the relocated Rams into the SB and build that market back up again.
Its all just business for hundreds of billions $ Corporations.
The flag was thrown once the receiver was 16 yards downfield near the endzone.
As others have pointed out, the refs were clearly waiting to see what happened with the play.
Ball was overthrown, out comes the flag.
Weird people are white-knighting for the NFL after the Nola no-call. Mahomes is the biggest star now. Its a product like the NBA...promoting the biggest stars...
Lakers-Kings
Jordan's no-calll push-off
Brady all these years
Desire to get the relocated Rams into the SB and build that market back up again.
Its all just business for hundreds of billions $ Corporations.
Posted on 2/14/23 at 1:07 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
quote:Jordan shot terribly bricking off the front of the rim all 4th qtr. He was like 14-34 for the game just coming down and taking every shot the 2nd half. But still that game is incredible. It's a display of will against a noodle arm. Jordan's steal from Malone set up the opportunity for any push off, laterally fading deep inside jumper, a difficult shot. Don't even care about the little push those kind of tricks everyone was doing on every play. The hidden elbow tap on defense was well known. It was just amazing the shot went in if you saw how exhausted his shooting was. Anyways it was only game 6, odds are very good he shoots much better in Game 7. It was his last year, his 6th title and ratings plummeted the next few years without him. I don't know what they got out of it.
Jordan's no-calll push-off
This post was edited on 2/14/23 at 1:08 am
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