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Originally Posted by BlackOp
They arent going rig every season for the same team...unless your owner controls the television contracts.
They caught so much blow-back from the Rams fiasco..including the entire city of NO boycotting the Superbowl and billboards being put up...that they had to create a new rule...which they had no real intention of enforcing. It was just PR damage control...the SB was the least watched in 2 decades.
The entire NFL watching public wanted a Brees/Mahomes SB...and both were denied due to questionable 4th quarter officiating.
Chargers are decimated by injuries...again. How are they going to pimp 2 teams in the same division as their #1 moneymaker and ratings darling? The NFL will do what it can...but the Chargers are a lost cause this year.
If Herbert looks as good as he has...2021 will be their year of favoritism.
The maximum the officials can sway an outcome is around 10 points without widespread attention...and the teams still have be somewhat competitive. Simms called out the DPI no-call on the Raiders. Word travels fast these days. They couldn't push the Jets into the winner's circle...even if they wanted to.
The Rams sold out to make a SB push...then had to dismantle their team. There was already a spotlight on them after how they got to the SB...you really think the NFL is going to risk pimping them again..in back-to-back years?..after terrible SB ratings?
I was honestly surprised the Raiders didn't get the final spot...but Jacobs went on IR at the end. They were 6-4 at the time I predicted it... then were outscored 74-12 in back-to-back blow-outs. No amount officiating can massage that...then the Titans beat them by 22. They gave up 116 points in a 3 week span...you cant rig your way out of being terrible. Most games are decided by one score or less..
There was also the threat of their stadium being behind schedule..and playing at UNLV for a season.
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Why do you assume the Raiders even need help selling tickets? From all reports, fan enthusiasm for the Vegas Raiders has been high. They haven't had any financial set backs, haven't struggled to sell tickets or licensing, and their fans have been the most receptive to the relocation than the other two teams.
Meanwhile in L.A, both teams are struggled to sell season tickets and the Chargers, embarrassingly, have way, way undersold their projected seat licensing in a SoCal market that the NFL typically struggled with.
Your logic, from a business standpoint, simply does not hold up here at all.
1. The Chargers, the team that needs the most help, has year after year failed to produce a decent season. Their one winning season in recent memory came AFTER the stadium deal was approved, so don't even bother with your cliche answer there. If the NFL were rigged for financial reasons, the Raiders need the least amount of help, the Chargers the most.
2. Rigged Refs prevent blow outs from occurring with simple holding calls and P.I's. Matter of fact, if it were rigged, based off YOUR logic, there would be no blowouts. As you explained in weeks past, the refs are used to at least keep the games close. That's how you've gone on to explain why the Chiefs aren't blowing teams out.
3. Back in week 2, you claimed that the games was rigged for the Chargers to win. That's changed all of a sudden because of injuries?
What injuries are you referring to? They don't have ONE season ending injury to a key player. You completely made that shit up based on the ol' "Chargers are always injured" rehtoric. Keenan Allen? Hunter Henry? Mike Williams? Joey Bosa? Melvin Ingrahm? All of their key players are still there. So that's BUUUULLSHIT.
4. In year's past you've gone on to say that even players and coaches are in on it. After teh Chiefs won the SB you've changed your tune to "Well, sometimes teams are so good that they can overcome the script writers". Which is it, are they playing to win or playing to adhere to the script? You can't seem to make up on your mind on this so you teeter back and forth on this.
5. Admit that you were wrong. That simple. You were wrong about the Raiders, Rams and Chargers last season, you were wrong about the Chiefs. You were wrong about the Chargers this season and the jury is certainly still out on the Raiders and Rams.
6. Do you believe that ONE season of success is what builds a fan base? Because that's what you're riding on. That a team can have one flukey season and then sell out the corresponding season. If that were true, why haven't the Chargers and Rams built a substantial fan base off their limited success?
Not only are you proven wrong year after year, your argument makes no sense from a monetary standpoint and you completely lack consistency in your theories.
You're making the shit up as you go and you're not bright enough to be good at it.