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Originally Posted by Fish
Billionaire owners are not risking everything they have by conspiring with part time refs in an effort to win vegas bets on the side. JFC, apply just a little bit of critical thought. It's not worth the risk. They would never entrust their fortune to someone else like that, especially not a ref that makes 1% of what they make. That would never happen. Billionaires have plenty of ways to increase profits without risking everything in a conspiracy. The other owner billionaires aren't going to allow the NFL to favor specific teams at the expense of their own. Someone like Jerry Jones isn't going to allow his team to get ass****ed for decades when his franchise brings the NFL double the profit of half the other teams in the league. Part time refs wouldn't keep quiet, especially when one of them was already fired this year for incompetence. Billionaires didn't get to be billionaires by gambling. Jesus, there's a thousands reasons why it would be impossible.
You say "You couldn't hide it or write it any better." yet at the same time want to act like it's perfectly evident to anyone that's paying attention that the system is rigged. Yet you're somehow incapable of seeing any contradiction in that. Idiot.
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1) Bets on the side? Who the **** said anything about that? You're not looking at the long term, big picture. This has nothing to do with short term gains, and EVERYTHING to do with expansion and global market share. In case you forgot, the NFL is a BRAND.
Now, the acquisition of additional funds to grow the brand may have been in practice back in the 60's and 70's, possibly the 80's too, but they've LONG since moved away from that. Thanks to successful branding and licensing, it's hardly necessary for the owners to slum in Vegas.
That said, there IS a new influx of online, legal gaming these days, and I'd be VERY interested to see a rundown on how many games have covered the spread over the last say 10 years, vs. those that have not.
2) Not on an ongoing basis, anyway. You can't turn the 0-14 Buccs of yesteryear in to a Super Bowl dynasty in the course of one off season, it doesn't work like that. You CAN however take the "hot hands" in the league and collectively decide that it's better for the league overall to have stars and winners in prime time games than the Herm-led KC Chiefs who didn't SNIFF a Monday night for YEARS.( Oh wait! that's EXACTLY how they do that shit! )
The point is, you have to bring something to the table to begin with, and that's why we HAVE the cap and this "parity" of sorts that allows the 0-14 Buccs and the shitty Herm-Chiefs to get things turned around, and have an opportunity to duke it out with the Krafts on Monday night.
So to your point, Jerruh has to bring a winning, marketable product to the table before he can get any serious consideration from the other owners in regards to who is going to be marketed, and who will be filling in the gaps.
3) I've already detailed the referee program and just how VERY easy it would be to keep them quiet because you're not corrupting the ENTIRE goddamned staff, so I'm not going over that again.
The only true variable in this league is talent. Talent in the coaching sector, talent in the player sector, and the uneven balance of FAR more untalented folks that talented ones.
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Originally Posted by TEX
THAT was silly... But the fact remains that he did make his 2016 Raiders prediction, and this season's Chargers prediction, before each season.
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This.