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Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar
I think refs sometimes manipulate games to keep them close to maintain a TV audience. Do I get the ban hammer too?
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Yes, because the much more plausible explanation for bad calls would be the coaches and players of the team that's losing being in the ears of the refs, plus the general likelihood of any call simply being bad as opposed to bad on purpose, and even players of the losing team doing things to draw fouls (such as Brady underthrows).
And I'd also really doubt the NFL cares about 2nd half ratings of individual games as I'd have serious doubts that contract talks go into details of "well, we'd offer $x.y billion over 10 years, but that one AFCCG 3 years ago wasn't close after halftime, so scratch that number".
Fans don't simply stop tuning in week after week because of a blowout, which is the only thing they would care about.
So yeah...
