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In a word, yes. Now I'm not saying that the league's top management decides at the beginning of a season which teams will make the playoffs as if it were pro Wrestling and I'm not saying individual players purposely throw games but there are other ways to go about it.

Consider: On any given Sunday there are tens of thousands of dollars being bet on NFL games in Atlantic City and in Vegas. Referees don't get rich being an honest referee and if you're a mafia don with $500,000 riding on the Patriots covering the point spread you can afford to spare $10,000 in an envelope to the game's head referee to make sure that certain calls go a particular way and make sure that the Patriots cover the spread. Ever notice how poorly officiated games are nowadays? And ever notice that they never affect both teams haphazardly or randomly? More times than I can remember I've sat through an NFL game whether it's regular season, playoffs or Super Bowl and seen a pattern of consistently bogus calls going against one team while the refs totally ignore what should be penalties against the other, sometimes even for the same exact infraction or supposed infraction. I have seen the refs go out of their way to FIND something to call against a team to negate big plays and oops just happen to be looking the other way when the other team does it. Time and time and time again. So yes, the league is most certainly rigged and the corrupt referees being paid on the side by Guido and Luigi to make sure this or that team covers the spread or gets the upset are the ones to blame and who should be audited by the IRS every year automatically. And the situation seems to be getting worse, about to the point where it makes it difficult to watch.

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14y ago

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