This is how the NFL rigs games

[rabblerouser]

The refs really showed out for the Bungles today.

**** the NFL.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Red Dawg

This game was cooked. Not every game was but this one for sure was like the SB.

I can tell that you're an adult who has watched these games.

[notorious]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

I can tell that you're an adult who has watched these games.

Rabs, we just need to put ourselves in the position to receive the bump when it really counts.

[ThyKingdomCome15]

Originally Posted by Stinger

So if the league is rigged we have to thank the league for our Super Bowl, and not Mahomes, Andy and the rest of the team?

Well the Chiefs should be going for their fourth in a row. The NFL said no.

[DJJasonp]

LOL at "part time refs" excuse. what a joke.

It's how the NFL maintains plausible deniability with the "inept" and 'part-time" excuses.

SO easy to fall back on that excuse, year after year.

Even with the most blatant screw-up in playoff history (outside of "forward progress") with the saints, they had ONE year of being able to challenge pass-interference. ONE.

The NFL will never get "better" refs, because they don't want "better" refs.

At least with Baseball, if an ump has a wide strike zone for one team, and a small one for the other, the batter can still swing and hit the ball, regardless of strike zone.

In the NFL, you have no chance against PI and illegal contact (and the deadly holding penalty that negates a score or 3rd down conversion).

ever since last year's super bowl, I watch half-heartedly......it's entertainment that is pushed and nudged in certain directions to:

1) avoid blowouts and people tuning out early
2) point-spreads
3) not allow teams to clinch divisions too early
4) create narratives/rivalries

[smithandrew051]

I don’t know if these games are rigged. I guess I’m dumb for watching if they are.

That said, this outcome does make the AFC playoffs a whole hell of a lot more interesting.

The Chiefs with the 1 seed is damn near an automatic Super Bowl berth. A lot more drama now.

[stevieray]

Originally Posted by Mecca

Yea but Jamar Chase just won people their fantasy title so cares right?

[Ghost of Maslowski]

the way to fix this is to have NFL refs more worried about getting fined for making horrible calls, than a HOF guy like Andy Reid worrying about getting fined for calling them horrible

and that's how you know the NFL gives zero ****s about solving the problem

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by DJJasonp

LOL at "part time refs" excuse. what a joke.

It's how the NFL maintains plausible deniability with the "inept" and 'part-time" excuses.

SO easy to fall back on that excuse, year after year.

Even with the most blatant screw-up in playoff history (outside of "forward progress") with the saints, they had ONE year of being able to challenge pass-interference. ONE.

The NFL will never get "better" refs, because they don't want "better" refs.

At least with Baseball, if an ump has a wide strike zone for one team, and a small one for the other, the batter can still swing and hit the ball, regardless of strike zone.

In the NFL, you have no chance against PI and illegal contact (and the deadly holding penalty that negates a score or 3rd down conversion).

ever since last year's super bowl, I watch half-heartedly......it's entertainment that is pushed and nudged in certain directions to:

1) avoid blowouts and people tuning out early
2) point-spreads
3) not allow teams to clinch divisions too early
4) create narratives/rivalries

Ding ding ding ding ding. If the owners weren't getting what they want from this kind of officiating, they would have changed it a long time ago, but they're getting exactly what they want.

[stevieray]

To a certain degree they all are responsible.

You can call holding on every play...why?

You can call DPI on almost every play...why?

You could call OPI on almost every play...why?

Because the players are cheating. Why? Because they don't want to get beat.

Nobody is telling these players to play within the rules, and risk getting your ass kicked.

Therefore, these calls, especially at crucial points, will ALWAYS swing games and and determine winners and losers.

That defensive stand at the goal line was a thing of beauty, and regardless that it RARELY happens, meant nothing.

It's not the loss that hurts so much, its the integrity of the game being sold down the river.

[Mecca]

Originally Posted by stevieray

To a certain degree they all are responsible.

You can call holding on every play...why?

You can call DPI on almost every play...why?

You could call OPI on almost every play...why?

Because the players are cheating. Why? Because they don't want to get beat.

Nobody is telling these players to play within the rules, and risk getting your ass kicked.

Therefore, these calls, especially at crucial points, will ALWAYS swing games and and determine winners and losers.

That defensive stand at the goal line was a thing of beauty, and regardless that it RARELY happens, meant nothing.

It's not the loss that hurts so much, its the integrity of the game being sold down the river.

They've also turned so many really important plays into judgement calls. Crews don't call things the same etc etc

[poolboy]

Originally Posted by stevieray

To a certain degree they all are responsible.

You can call holding on every play...why?

You can call DPI on almost every play...why?

You could call OPI on almost every play...why?

Because the players are cheating. Why? Because they don't want to get beat.

Nobody is telling these players to play within the rules, and risk getting your ass kicked.

Therefore, these calls, especially at crucial points, will ALWAYS swing games and and determine winners and losers.

That defensive stand at the goal line was a thing of beauty, and regardless that it RARELY happens, meant nothing.

It's not the loss that hurts so much, its the integrity of the game being sold down the river.

Tony Soprano agrees

[petegz28]

NFL.com calling it the most wild finish of 2021

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by stevieray

To a certain degree they all are responsible.

You can call holding on every play...why?

You can call DPI on almost every play...why?

You could call OPI on almost every play...why?

Because the players are cheating. Why? Because they don't want to get beat.

Nobody is telling these players to play within the rules, and risk getting your ass kicked.

Therefore, these calls, especially at crucial points, will ALWAYS swing games and and determine winners and losers.

That defensive stand at the goal line was a thing of beauty, and regardless that it RARELY happens, meant nothing.

It's not the loss that hurts so much, its the integrity of the game being sold down the river.

I'm not sure it just lost its integrity, that cherry got popped many moons ago. From changing rules to protect QBs but never limiting what the QB can do in order to stay healthy, to changing rules to get scores much higher, to having different standards for what constitutes a hold of a WR vs a pass rusher, the league's integrity wasn't much higher that the average street walker's morality.

But hey, we keep watching. Basically we're enablers.

[KChiefs1]

Chase won me a $1000 today!

Some good did come from this.


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[stevieray]

Originally Posted by Mecca

They've also turned so many really important plays into judgement calls. Crews don't call things the same etc etc

I didn't even factor that in...