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One of us (meaning hunter and conservative) is fine with me. But sometimes, we need to check our own - especially when the rest of us are made to look guilty (and crazy) by association.

He'll be along shortly with a YouTube or some other obscure link that may or may not be relevant.

Brannon Condren said only a few players on the teams are involved, > the players that can make it happen. He said it's common knowledge that it happens but it's not to be talked about.

Nope. Not concerned either as they are the same bunch as they were then. Prove me wrong.

Hulk Hogan on professional wrestling

"... a choreographed event with a predetermined
outcome. ..."

Is professional football (baseball, basketball, hockey....!) entertainment?
Look at the participants salaries!
Look at the advertising!
Look at the advertisers and the products they push!

Ask yourself, just what social benefits are there to a football stadium full of beer soaked fans and hormone infused athletes (?), all beating each other into oblivion?

I'd rather spend a day in the hospital having prostate surgery! 😉

Back when Bill France Sr. ran NASCAR, it was choreographed. If any driver managed to break out and get a commanding lead, especially at Daytona, old Bill would have the flagman throw the yellow flag- - - - -"debris on the track"- - - -some of the radio announcers back then would joke about it- - - -"Here comes Pierre DeBris again!"

True. The question was, are they still kneeling and that photo from 2017 was profferred as an answer.

Did I say you were wrong?

No and I didn't suggest you did.

It has been rigged for years. Anytime something is bet on on a large scale. It is being manipulated for someone to make money.
My dad had a client who was a professional gambler. Dad asked him if he bet on Pro football. Guy told him he never did unless he knew what the fix was. This was 35 years ago. Now sports betting is legal most places.

I used to argue it with my dad when I was a teenager. He was convinced his whole life that the NFL is fixed and you couldn’t even debate it with him. “Those games’ outcomes are determined before the teams ever run out on the field boy.”

These days, I have to admit maybe the old man knew what he was talking about.

I do believe that people being what they are, and with the amount of money at stake, the outcome of games is not decided by the players on the field. I laugh at the NFL’s claims of “integrity.”

Hopefully this explanation is relevant.


It involves Court rulings.

They can't wait until the games have been decided to print up stuff like that. There are multiple copies of other combo's, but the odds are pretty darn good those 2 will be in the Superbowl. There are 10's of thousands of T-Shirts and caps already manufactured with each of the 4 teams still in the playoff's proclaiming them Superbowl winners. That way they can be sold within minutes of the end of the game. The ones printed up for teams that lose are either destroyed or donated to 3rd world counties.

I don’t believe that it’s rigged but of course it’s weighted for ratings. Remember when the NFL was a run first league and most QB’s needed to sit a year two to learn the game?

The NFL changed the rules from salary caps, to intentional grounding, to strike zones, to what a legal tackle is all to get the product that they want. They did it to draw in as many casual fans and soccer moms for ratings as possible. It’s not rigging the game. Why rig individual games for ratings if you can just change the rules of the games for ratings?

Same thing for the three second rule in the NBA when the NBA wanted less emphasis on centers and more emphasis on guards cutting to the basket or shooting three point shots.