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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Yeah - this is just mob stuff.
I think the suspension of disbelief required is just remarkable to believe that the NFL is 'rigging' games. I mean set aside any of the data as it relates to Josh Allen's roughing calls. Or the 'my bad' pat that Allen got that would've set the internet ablaze had Mahomes gotten it.
To believe the NFL is rigging these games or that the officials are in some way influence requires two things:
1) That a pack of billionaires who own these teams are simply okay with it happening. Not just taking the loss but taking the MASSIVE risks associated with a rigging scandal. Rigging games would have ZERO benefit to the league and would cost them literally tens of billions, if not HUNDREDS of billions, now that they're in bed with sports gambling. Can you imagine the lawsuits? If it were proven that the league in any way influence games when there were billions on the line in gambling wins/losses every single week.
And the respective sports books who are hurling money at the NFL would also take a kick in the dick so they would pull their sponsorship (more billions) AND sue the league into the hinterlands.
2) It also assumes that the refs even CAN make those sort of bang/bang immediate judgment calls in real time. Good lord, can you imagine how difficult it would be for an official to put his thumb on the scale as the play is happening like that? I guess you could argue that they give it the Jawaan Taylor treatment and just lock onto certain players at critical moments hoping to find a reason the throw a flag, but you never know when 'critical' might be. The penalties against Houston were at pretty benign points of the game (y'know, until Aikman made them a national narrative).
It just makes very little sense.
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It doesn't make any sense. There's a million leaps of logic in believing the NFL is rigged.
But we don't live in an era of logic. We live in an era of validating feelings.