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Originally Posted by Flying High D

If the NFL is rigged can we please have some documentation?

https://www.businessinsider.com/supe...oodell-2013-10

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs says NFL commissioner Roger Goodell "had a hand" in the power outage that delayed the Super Bowl for 34 minutes last February.

The Ravens were up 28-6 in the third quarter when the lights at the Superdome in New Orleans went out. The 49ers went on a furious comeback when play resumed, narrowing the gap to 28-23 before Baltimore pulled away for good.

Suggs told ESPN that the blackout was a ploy:

"I was like Vegas, parlor tricks, you know what I mean? I was like, ahh, Roger Goodell, he never stops, he always has something up his sleeve. He just couldn't let us have this one in a landslide, huh?
I thought he had a hand in it. Most definitely, he had a hand in it."
Officials said a shoddy relay - a device designed to protect the building from a power failure - caused the outage.

Suggs isn't the first Raven to call it a conspiracy.

Last month ESPN's Ray Lewis told an NFL Films documentary that it can't see how the blackout wasn't pre-planned:

"... You cannot tell me somebody wasn't sitting there and when they say, 'The Ravens (are) about to blow them out. Man, we better do something.' ... That's a huge shift in any game, in all seriousness. And as you see how huge it was because it let them right back in the game."
The main takeaway here is that players don't trust Goodell. Since he became commissioner he has had an antagonistic relationship with players. When they view him as dictator who abuses his own power, conspiracies like this are going to inevitably pop up

https://www.brandonsteiner.com/blogs...bowl-iii-fixed

Bubba Smith was an outstanding, 6’7” defensive end who played nine years in the NFL for the Colts, Raiders and Oilers – from 1967 to 1976. He later became an actor, best known for his role as Moses Hightower in the Police Academy movies.

In 1969, Smith started for the Colts in one of the most famous games of all-time, Super Bowl III. Before the game, Jets quarterback Joe Namath “guaranteed” an upset over the heavily-favored Colts, a prediction that came to pass when the Jets won 16-7.

But in 2004, in an interview I did with him for my first book, Bubba offered, shall we say, a different “take” on that storied game. (Sadly, Bubba died in 2011, at the age of 66.)

What was the hardest loss you experienced as a player?

The Jet game. Super Bowl III.

A lot of people talk about that game. They talk about Joe Namath, obviously. But they also talk about the game possibly being fixed? Were some players on the take? Do you feel your team just wasn’t up that day? Were the Jets that good?

No. The Jets were not that good….Something was happening and I didn’t know what it was. We were inside the 20 five times in the first half and came away with no points. That’s not characteristic of the Colts. You understand what I’m saying?

What do you think happened?

It was the difference between millions and billions and you just now are catching the billions side of it. When CBS went in to negotiate down…I think they were paying $750 million for four years and they wanted it to go back to $500 million. And they brought Rupert Murdoch in and he paid $1.5 billion. That was the start of the billions.

So was it the team? Was it the referees or the league?

It was the quarterback. Honest. Between you and I, Carroll Rosenbloom (the Colts owner) bet $3 million on the Jets. (Colts Coach Don) Shula told (QB Johnny) Unitas to warm up for the second half. And Unitas got warmed up and said, “Well, we’re going to go with Earl (Morrall) a little while longer,” because Unitas, he’s so prideful, there was no way in hell you were going to tell Unitas to do this. They didn’t put Unitas in until there’s six minutes to go in the game. And boom, boom, boom. He goes down to score. But he had to score three times in six minutes and no one can do that. You needed to give him time to do what he does so well, which is dissect the defense.

So that was the most difficult loss you’ve ever experienced?

I was wondering all along why (Jets QB) Joe (Namath) was guaranteeing a win

http://thefixisin.net/nfl2013.html

Next time your friend(s) argue with you over the notion of the NFL fixing their own games for "entertainment purposes," higher ratings, more profit, etc. drop this little nugget on them: The NFL earns approximately $6 billion a year (more than 60% of its revenue which is enough to pay every players' and coaches' salary in the league) from its TV broadcast partners - ABC/ESPN/Disney, NBC, CBS/DirectTV, and FOX. Only Time Warner isn't directly involved with the NFL, though they do own Sports Illustrated and HBO - which aired Inside the NFL for 31 years. NO OTHER BUSINESS IN THE UNITED STATES IS DIRECTLY AFFILIATED WITH OR FUNDED BY THESE MAJOR MEDIA CONGLOMERATES EXCEPT THE NFL. Think about the implications of that.

I think the only people to care about the Titans v. Chiefs game was the referees. Jeff Triplette, who is one of the worst rated officials in the NFL and was yet awarded a playoff game, is supposedly retiring after his performance in this game. I'm surprised the NFL would want him to go. His "bad" calls have done a lot of good for the league. And on Saturday, they certainly helped the Titans. Triplette's crew somehow ruled a sack-fumble a non-fumble because of "forward progress" and later prevented another Titans fumble on a two-point conversion with a quick whistle (which would've been returned by the Chiefs for two points and changed the game from 22-21 Titans to 23-22 Chiefs).

You know it's bad when you see this post-game:


Mike Pereira
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@MikePereira
Horrible way to start the playoffs. I hate to say it but this was not a good performance by the crew. Teams and fans deserve better.

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Of course, Andy Reid didn't help his own cause by refusing to call the league's leading rusher Kareem Hunt's number for most of the second half when the Chiefs were leading 21-3. This is then chalked up as another one of Reid's patented "choke jobs," yet his 1-6 record in the playoffs since 2009 has yet to cost him his job. Anyone understand why if perfomance really matters in the NFL? Perhaps Reid's job is secure because he's a true "team player" for the NFL.