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Originally Posted by CanadianChiefs
I've been watching the NFL my whole damn life and it feels different to me lately. The past 5 ish years many games have felt "scripted" and there have been so many clutch or magical moments that now when you see them, it feels almost normal. I would love to see statistics of how many of these "magical, low-percentage moments/comebacks, etc." have happened in comparison to the early 00's.
It's ridiculous and ever since the chiefs blowing 38-10 lead with Luck as the up and comer NFL marketing QBOTF making "history", then when Seattle threw the ball on the one yard line with Lynch and the subsequent interception it's felt phony as shit, then the Manning Super Bowl with Cam staring at his fumble and then after Manning's product placement just pissed me off and made me realize how terrible this shit is.
How many times does a team get to a big lead only for the team that is getting completely smacked around all of a sudden run down the field in 10 minutes to get like 17 points and make it a game? It's suspicious as hell. It never used to be like this. Sure there were momentum swings but how many coincidences can happen week in and week out? Coincidences don't feel like coincidences anymore...
It's become more of a product than a sport. This topic trigged me...
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I don't think it's coincidences as much as it is player safety is so bad right now that it's making survival in games a game of chance.
It's no longer about the best teams slugging it out. These days, it's about if your team is lucky enough not to get slugged by the injury bug. The Indy game swung wide open because of injuries. We lost Jamaal Charles, flowers, knile Davis in mid game after Houston and Hali were already playing at 75%. The next year, we play without Maclin and Houston. It's such a shitty way to lose. I get dealing with a few injuries here or there. But this is just getting nuts. The problem is... How exactly do you fix this?
I don't buy into rigging games. But I would agree that there is also way too much subjectivity in officiating that bad officiating swings games in unprecedented ways.