Why not make it the Jets and trade the NFL's smallest market for it's biggest??

Makes Total sense from a a financial perspective....smfh

Nah man, having recently watched "The Four Falls of Buffalo", its quite clear the Bills repeatedly ****ed themselves in every one of those super bowls... it had nothing to do with being rigged, IMO

The Buffalo thing is simple. Elway was blowing the script at the Super Bowls because he couldn't even win a rigged game without Terrell Davis. The NFL needed to deflect and bury the story of Elway's suckitude, so they needed a team failure that would bury his story. None of the league's preferred teams wanted to lose four straight Super Bowls, so they let Buffalo do it. It gave Buffalo a short-term leading role in the story line, which satisfied their market, and it satisfied the league's bigger goals.

They still have to produce a quality product that entertains...Just because it is rigged by a few... doesn't prevent them from creating the illusion of fair competition. It's what they sell...How many times do athletes say "it's a business". It gives them a platform to be rich and famous....and feed their athletic ego. Their job is to compete. The players dont call penalties at certain junctures in a game...the owners control the NFL, the selected officials and the commissioner...who is their front puppet/actor. It's his job to promote some sort of faux-integrity.

The NBA, soccer and now tennis have all been hit with cheating scandals...why? Because they arent listed as an entertainment entity. The NFL can settle their corruption allegations, internally, without facing any legal/media ramifications.

If it were as blatant as some of you seem to think... SOMEONE would rat, period

I'm giving you conspiracy loons the benefit of the doubt by thinking 90 percent of this shithouse rat craziness would go away if KC wins a Superbowl.

PERIOD!!

Close da tread main

Like that is ever going to happen.

Nope. Too much shady shit has happened to do that. Like little kids holding on to hope Hogan and Warrior were really duking it out.

Funny coming from you.....

Lets not confuse the two subjects

Funny how the 'its rigged' folks often point to cheating--usually by the Patriots. If the outcome is fixed, why would a team need to go to the trouble of taping practices and such?

Did you not see the media built up of this season's "revenge tour?" It's not all rigged, but it's sports entertainment. Games and seasons are influenced towards a certain result....period

There are books about it...there have been a lot of investigations that get squashed. You are risking, potentially, your life to expose powerful people... who have the means to make life for your family miserable. Is it worth it...to take on the mob and a Billion dollar entertainment corporation? It's not even a sport..legally. The corporate media would discredit them...

Not everyone is in on it.....it's controlled.

So...you ignore my point.
And I don't get the fixation on "sports entertainment." The term doesn't hold any meaning. It's just a description--people are entertained by it. Playing blackjack at a casino is also entertainment, as are many other activities.