Anyone suspect these Finals/Super Bowls/World Series are fixed?
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DramatisPersona — 9 years ago(February 06, 2017 04:18 AM)
Of course they are. They're all effectively monopolies with the primary purpose to bring in money for their owners who laugh among themselves in their private jets as the digital currency "rolls" in by providing "entertainment" relief to bored and stressed masses who have nothing better to do. They aren't regulated, nor have they or would they ever legally bind themselves to provide anything more than that. They aren't "scripted"
per se
, but they are fixed to make it easier to generate certain outcomes via their shills (refs) on the court or the field. Parity in the NFL is a god-send. It makes such manipulation that much easier.
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DramatisPersona — 9 years ago(February 06, 2017 04:16 PM)
No I'm not trolling.
The game is rigged and has been for years. Everyone with a brain knows it except Cheatriots and their moronic fans, sharing in some fake glory of the shady victories of a team like they had anything to do with them or the team gives two sh!ts what they think like the fools they are. As someone on reddit succinctly put it:
Of course it's fixed. Vegas makes $BILLIONS on these games. Any dummy that thinks the NFL is not fixed is retarded. I stopped watching years ago. Refs can call holding on virtually any play to kill a drive. It's WHEN they make a holding call or not that matters. It's rigged. The NFL shares 70 to 75 percent of its $10+ billion-a-year income including television/broadcast/internet rights and licensing. Ticket sales are split 66 percent for the home team and the other 34 percent shared equally among all franchises. Only luxury boxes sales (which explains the "need" for new stadiums), local advertising & sponsorships, and official pro shop sales are not shared. No other league shares as much of its income as the NFL. It's one big business folks and they are all in on the take. Most people assume the NFL is a "sport," however, they are in fact a business. Their business is *entertainment." The NFL has actually argued this fact before the Supreme Court as recently as 2010. Being "entertainment," the leagues are legally entitled to do what is needed to entertain their audience, such as the creation and promotion of certain "storylines." Despite arguments to the contrary, this makes the NFL on par with Roller Derby and Professional Wrestling. Even if somebody has proof of the game being "fixed" you can't sue the NFL because it's not an actual "sport" as we are to believe. They have the LEGAL right to fix games in the name of entertainment.
It's all just entertainment with the facade of the legitimacy of sport. Every national sports organization is a monopoly that isn't bound by law to produce anything more.
Like every other business in this world, it's all about the money.
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thebricks — 9 years ago(February 06, 2017 04:35 PM)
Remember, you're talking to 5 year old kids who think America is the only country without cheaters and crooks. The holding thing and the do-overs definitely is a way to rig play. Teams going up 3-1 in a series, or up 20 something points, then mysteriously stop playing seriously reeks like hell. Look at Atlanta in that first half, Golden State and Cleveland in the NBA and MLB Finals. The series was over. The game last night was over. Then all of a sudden, the winning team forgets to play and loses. I saw this too much last year to fall for it anymore
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DramatisPersona — 9 years ago(February 06, 2017 04:54 PM)
What's even more laughable than yesterday's obviously rigged outcome was the 7th game of the NBA finals where the GS Warriors were "held"
to 13 points in the final quarter. A team with the two best shooters in the league, the highest scoring team in the league, and with the best record ever in the league, all of a sudden suddenly simply forgot how to score. 13 Points. Less than 1 point per minute. Braindead sheep.
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tyler-92 — 9 years ago(February 06, 2017 04:18 AM)
It's impossible to script these. Hitting a baseball is too hard to control. Making an NBA shot is too hard to control. Throwing/catching a football is too hard to control, particularly the way Edelman had to catch it.
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merh — 9 years ago(February 12, 2017 07:28 AM)
Not a sports person. Fangirl who married a Raiders fan in 1980. After attending a few games in the 80s I decided the only sense to make of it was it was rigged. Not wrestling level scripted, but the number of referee calls where they missed stuff, but then caught stuff no one else saw
They know who they're sending to the Super Bowl every year.
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NJtoTX — 9 years ago(February 12, 2017 08:39 AM)
If you were deciding by coin flips, a team coming back from 3-1 down should happen in 1 out of every 8 series. But when you have home arenas and injuries and all that going on, or the better team is down 3-1, the odds go down.
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