Imagine what it would take to initiate a conspiracy in which the referees will favor one team over all of the others.

1 - Someone like the commissioner or the head of referees would have to decide to do it. It's taken for granted that they would want it because of tv ratings, but the legal peril would be enormous. Prison awaits for anyone that initiated or took part in any such conspiracy.

2 - The initiator would have to bring other people into that conspiracy. Everyone knows it would be highly illegal and failing to report such communications is also punishable. So, as the initiator, you're taking a huge chance merely by talking to anyone else about putting such a conspiracy into motion.

3 - You and your conspirators must then involve all of the officials. Bringing the officials into the conspiracy involves all of the same dangers. Surely there would be at least SOME honest officials that would not only refuse to take part, but would immediately "blow the whistle" on such conspiracy.

4 - Finally, you need to get everyone to stay quiet about this conspiracy. Nobody can retire and write a tell-all book. I dealt with classified information in the Air Force and one of the biggest problems with keeping classified information secret is that increasing the number of people that know that information exponentially increases the likelihood that the information gets out.

5 - Why would any owner allow such a conspiracy to happen? The real value of owning a team in the NFL is the increase in value of the team. Any conspiracy to push one team over all others could kill the entire league and therefore, every team. Why would any owner risk the $5-$10 BILLION asset they have in their team just for some temporary tv ratings?

There is lots more, but let's leave it at that.

They have an antitrust exemption - rigged!

God bless Mitch but he works for the Chiefs. Even if he didn't, he's wasting his time.

Here. Here. Once the internet became the next big thing people stopped communicating in person, scam rates went through the roof, and all hell broke through.



I remember having to ground my pre-teen son outside just so he would go out and meet people.



Teh intrawebz is da Debil.

There's actually a MOUNTAIN of evidence they don't get the refs help.

It simply doesn't matter. Evidence is for thinking people. These people are pure emotion.

That's what I've been trying to say and why this bothers me so much. If they're willing to go to these leaps of logic for a GAME, we as a society are straight ****ed. Critical thinking is dead. Bring on the tears.

1 and 5 are intertwined. Goodell couldn't rig the game without the up-front consent of the owners.

There’s a growing number of people that are firm in their beliefs that the world is flat. Despite there being nothing but evidence that the world is indeed round, they will argue blue in the face and die on the whole flat earth conspiracy. There’s no use arguing with them. You really can’t ever fix stupid and unfortunately the stupidity is growing.

People who don’t like the Chiefs should probably spend their lives in prison in the most inhumane conditions imaginable.

It’s only fair at this point.

Is that really a bias, though? There can only be one championship winner. That's zero sum, by definition. Everyone else loses.

Yeah, no. Flat earthers are a loud, but tiny, segment of the population. We are talking about practical mass delusions here.

50 million people watched the AFC championship game.

It's referring to the loser's bias.

Still, Jesus **** that number is insane. A third of your points were aided by a drive extending penalty?

They did play a lot of trash this season, so it stands to reason.

It's hilarious to me that playing mistake free football in the biggest games is now some sort of scarlet letter that automatically means you're cheating to win.

So unless the Chiefs play like the Raiders, rack up a couple hundred penalty yards and THEN win the game, it's rigged.

It is more “scarcity mentality “ than zero sum bias . SM is the idea that there is limited (fill in the blank) success . So if the chiefs are successful my team can’t be . It is like that relative who isn’t really happy when something good happens to your family or one of your kids —— because that leaves less success , happiness etc for their family/ kids . ****ed up way to go through life