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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.
It actuallly depends on the way you look at it. Football could be rigged if you think of the New England Patriots, video taping their rivals plays and hand signals,or you could just think of that as cheating. However scientist do believe that there is a way of rigging touchdowns, by the type of plays and the order that there in. However this question just could be thought of as an opinion question, and that football is a sport of talent.
I'm pretty sure they are actually. At least recently anyway.. And definitely in the year after the Winter Olympics (like this year). Here's why I say that
1) The City that hosts the Winter Olympics always wins the Stanley Cup the next year. That's been going on for 80 years
2) When I was a kid, the playoffs were usually 4 and maybe 5 games long. Because the winning was actually better then the loosing team, and they could win a game against them almost every time. These days the series always goes 7 games (sometimes 6). Is that because that already sold the millions of dollars in tickets and TV Commercials for the 6th and 7th games, and they don't want to refund all that money? Yeah, I think so to
3) The home team always wins. That ensure greater fans satisfaction, which keeps they're hopes up and spending more, every year
4) We are currently in game 5 of the Canucks vs Bruins series, and it's pretty clear that Boston has a waay better team. I mean, Boston beat Vancouver 8-1 and then 4-0 in Boston last week. But then, when they get back to Vancouver, they always loose by 1 point, and seem to play like they don't care. (Also see point 4).
This series has not finished yet, but mark my words "Vancouver will win in Vancouver on the 7th Game of the series. Even though Boston is able to beat them 8-1 if they want to."
(BTW, I live in Vancouver, and am not a Boston Fan. Never have been. I'm just a fan of "true sport" and letting the better team win. And I hate to see that corrupted by the owners "NHL Inc.")
No, the NFL is not staged. If it were staged or rigged, then every team would have won a championship by now. That has not happened.
Super Bowl XXII was not rigged. The Broncos got slaughtered 42-10 because the Redskins were a better team.
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