My 2¢ is if I believed in a grand conspiracy, I wouldn't necessarily know the why, as we all know potential reasons include money, Vegas, TV ratings, etc.
The repeated questions that are widely ignored by the most convinced though is how it's rigged... and that's where these discussions always fall apart.
One week the NFL is rigging a game with bad calls by long time officials, which apparently means long time officials are in on it... and another week they have to make last minute changes to the officials, because I guess the original crew wasn't privy to rigging the games like other crews? So, they needed to ensure incompetence over rigging?
But then other weeks entire games are rigged or "performed", like the week the Bills lost to Jacksonville and all of the other upsets happens.
So, it's actually WWF and it's all just a performance and the players and coaches are in on it, except when the refs are involved to rig games, or substitute refs are brought in become the original crew wasn't riggy enough or something.
So.... deciding what the hell you all believe would be a nice start, since it changes so dramatically depending on the outcome of the games and what can be cherry picked as sus.
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