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Originally Posted by rabblerouser
Logic dictates that the league started by mobsters so that degenerate gamblers could have something to book on Sunday was never truly on the up and up, but let's just say "rigged" isn't the word.
It's a TV show. It's entertainment. Sporting contests are "rigged".
Since we've proven it's not even legitimate, it's impossible to rig it.
You win. Not rigged
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The league wasn't started by mobsters. We have the list of owners and people present at the meeting in Canton. It was full of team owners trying to keep escalating salaries that chain jumping players generated which plagued pro football.
Mobsters liked making money. Pro football in the 1920s didn't make money. It barely eked an existence. College football made the money. That is where the mobsters gambled.