Dear NFL Rookie...

Dear NFL Rookie,

Welcome to the NFL and congratulations on being drafted or inducted as a free agent. We hope your career with us will be enjoyable.

Please note that the game you love, the game you've been playing for the past eight years, the game you're GOOD at... is gone.

That's right. Here in the NFL we script/stage each and every game.

We realize you won't be able to keep this information to yourself, so telling your wife or your best friend is fine, but you have to get them to promise THEY won't tell anyone, ever.

The only person who is aware of this, outside of the NFL, is chic-cardinals of the Covers sports forum. Yep, Chic is on to us. We just can't get anything past him. Heck, during Divisional Weekend of the 2021-2022 season we scripted four exciting games. As it turns out, they were just a bit TOO exciting. Chic saw right through that shit and correctly deduced they had to be scripted.

If you're a field goal kicker, at times you will be asked to miss field goals by inches. You will also be required to MAKE field goals by first hitting the crossbar and bouncing the ball through.

If you're a receiver you will, at times, be asked to make one-handed catches that seem impossible to make.

If you've been drafted as a quarterback you might be required to bring your team back from a three point deficit with just 13 seconds left on the clock.

No matter what your position, you are now considered an actor and will be receiving acting lessons. (We realize you are not professional actors, hence the lessons. We need you to display the proper emotion after each game.)

If you play for the Detroit Lions you won't be winning any playoff games. Sorry, but that's a part of our script.

We script/stage all of the games because we believe they would not be exciting to watch, otherwise.

There will be further memos and instructions throughout the season. Please destroy each and every one of them, including this one. We don't want any evidence left behind, ever, that the games are all staged.

Again, enjoy your time in the NFL.

- Roger Goodell, Commissioner

Fantastic.

ROFL...

Of course, you aren't critically thinking and cant prove any of this.  You were Programmed to say this. 

If you didn’t actually believe this, it still wouldn’t be funny. Just less sad. 

@Ed-Collins

 Solid

Nice breakdown but I think you let out the " non disclosure" portion of the contract... Dear NFL Rookie... You are not allowed in accordance with  this contract to disclose any of the above material to the general public under penalty of law.. EVEN if you blow out a knee after a year or two or get cut you must go out into  the real world and work for scraps instead of raking in millions for a "tell all' scenario.. Note how Colin Kap took his medicine and kept quiet even as we blackballed him from the NFL for taking a knee.. Not a peep from him.. Learn from Colin and soldier up..  Hell even AB is not crazy enough to break the code of silence.. For fear of retribution from the NFL.. he is a smart chap that always toes the line when it comes to rules and regulations.. Good luck gentleman remember do not wear to much jewelry on the field due to the magnets in the ball and goal posts.. 

@Ed-Collins

I cant stop laughing lol...

ASJ:

Good luck gentleman remember do not wear to much jewelry on the field due to the magnets in the ball and goal posts.. 

@Ed-Collins 

where's Chic-Tard he should be chiming in verily soon hehe

You forgot to add they send out top secret numerical codes that Chic intercepts and deciphers.  

Simple answers for simple people.

I've already stated a million times that they are given lectures etc. 

As far back as the 60s, Peter Gent , author of north dallas 40, said they were told by the PR director.

"Boys, this is show business.

For there should be a fundamental difference between professional and amateur sports that goes beyond the technical distinction of whether athletes make money from their sport. I learned the difference at the end of training camp my rookie year with the Dallas Cowboys. Management called a meeting to explain the responsibilities of being a professional football player. The man to give the best advice was the team's public relations director. He told us: 'Boys, this is show business.'

"With these words in mind, nothing about professional sports, even Howard Cosell, is mystifying. Professional athletes are first and foremost show business, dealing in illusion and entertainment. The first responsibility of the players is to the audience, not themselves. If the audience wants winners, that is what is given. If it wants losers, that also it will get. The principle is the same for midget wrestling and the National Football League."

Cooper Kupp at post game press conference.

He said basically..

We are told the Destination isn't the goal. It's just to enjoy the process.

That means  just do as your told and execute.

We'll worry about the outcome.

You're being incredibly overly simplistic with your childish interpretation of a billion dollar industry. Billionaires don't become billionaires through honesty and integrity.

@Ed-Collins

 Awesome!!!

Lol such a fool. You think you're being sarcastic about calling them actors...

Jim Brown, and on and on down the line of jocks who did movies and tv shows. Apparently they are all schooled.

Watch a post game interview you mental invalid.

They are constantly looking down and to the side. They are reading and or hearing in their ear, what to say. And it's always the same stupid cliches. 

Manningcast, Manning commercials, State Farm.

The introduction to Monday night football. Yes, the jocks are trained actors. 

Read post #12 again. 

Not all of them of course. Not the bit players, the journeymen. That's why they only average 3 years.

Conspiracy theorists seem to LOVE bringing up the fact that the NFL classifies themselves as "entertainment."

So what?

That doesn't make any difference at all. It's irrelevant.

It doesn't indicate the NFL is scripting the outcomes... or that it's desirable to do so... or that it's possible to do so on the level suggested by most.

Actually, it's much, MUCH more entertaining when the outcome of a sporting contest is NOT known or scripted.

Have you ever watched a replay of a sporting event when you already knew the result? Not nearly as exciting, was it?

Have you watched the emotion of the players and coaches and assistant coaches on the sidelines, in a closely contested game? Most people aren't good enough actors to fake that. They aren't.

The nature of the game itself lends to a lot of drama. That's why football has been popular at the high school, college, and pro levels, for what... close to 100 years?

The ultimate problem with  people is.

I can't figure out how they can do it, so of course it's impossible.

...... seriously.....?  This shows a complete lack of self awareness and critical thought.

This is where you lack critical thought.

He was in fact acting. Controlled opposition.

Just part of the show. Why the hell you think he got nike money? It's all part of the same whole.

Propaganda

Show me the evidence the games are scripted. That's all I ask.

The game itself is evidence? Sorry, that's not evidence. Demonstrate to me that the outcome of said game, and the way it unfolded, could not have occurred naturally, on its own, without a script.

If you can't do that then you can't know for sure whether that game was scripted or not.

If you believe the games are scripted, that's up to you... but you have no evidence to justify your beliefs.

@chic-cardinals

 Your interpretation is so distorted and unrealistic.    

Whether things are rigged or not that statement by Kupp in no way implies that it’s rigged.    What he’s saying is what coaches say during interviews which is when a player is having fun playing the game they will play looser and better.  Don’t worry and stress about winning the super bowl and take one game at a time  

hope that helps.  

@ chic-cardinals Re: The ultimate problem with people is. I can't figure out how they can do it, so of course it's impossible. ...... seriously.....? This shows a complete lack of self awareness and critical thought.

That describes you perfectly. You can't believe this game result could have occurred naturally... therefore it must be scripted. You can't believe a fumble could have occurred at that moment... therefore... script!

You have no evidence it's scripted... but it certainly must be. That's a complete lack of self awareness and critical thought.

Cte is part of entertainment too. Those guys are just faking it like WWE. 

You have no clue who night have cte and who doesn't. Just because news says so doesn't make it true . And leads guys have it with all this flag football , tiny pads and big helmet crap. 

Yeah , jocks get injured, so, what's your point? Wwe guys get injured while faking it

That's why they get paid big money. But you basically sold your self with the contract.

 And what you fail to realize is, you prove my side even more. Nfl don't give a damn about them. They chew them up and doit them out.

Don Majikowski , recently had a surgery for his neck etc, one of many. And it's never made national news. He ain't Brett Favre. 

It's called circumstantial evidence. And I already explained your inability to perceive reality, last night and now.