Every call and non-call should be reviewed as it happens. If tennis can do that ball bounce replay in 2 seconds, football should have someone with an ounce of sense that can do it in under 15 seconds.
Be sure to spay and neuter your refs. That will fix them.
They don't want to. That's the point. Look at all the subjective penalties that have been put in place the last few years. We have illegal contact that just so happens is an automatic first down. I have seen SO many times a WR getting mugged downfield and it not be called. Then on the next drive, the other team's WR can get breathed on wrong and the refs call it.
The roughing the QB rule is the same.
Then the pass interference call. That is what the refs use when they need points to be scored and the team can't do it by themselves. There is a reason they have not scaled back the PI call to 15 yards like college. If they need points and need em quick, they pull out the PI flag.
Every call and non-call should be reviewed as it happens. If tennis can do that ball bounce replay in 2 seconds, football should have someone with an ounce of sense that can do it in under 15 seconds.
Be sure to spay and neuter your refs. That will fix them.
They don't want to. That's the point. Look at all the subjective penalties that have been put in place the last few years. We have illegal contact that just so happens is an automatic first down. I have seen SO many times a WR getting mugged downfield and it not be called. Then on the next drive, the other team's WR can get breathed on wrong and the refs call it.
The roughing the QB rule is the same.
Then the pass interference call. That is what the refs use when they need points to be scored and the team can't do it by themselves. There is a reason they have not scaled back the PI call to 15 yards like college. If they need points and need em quick, they pull out the PI flag.
On to how it can be done, and better yet, how it has not come to light.
All it would take is one or two players and maybe a referee. Not the big names, but a journeyman DB or kicker. The guy who makes $400,000 a year. Not the player who makes $8 million a year. Why would THEY rig a game? They are set for life after a few years. The journeyman DB who A. is probably trying to keep up with the lifestyle of his teammates, and B. has to worry about what they will do for work when they are 40 years old, is the one who makes me suspicious.
The journeyman DB misses a few tackles a game, and what do ya know? His team wins the game, but they didn't cover the spread. No big deal. No one, except the degenerates notice. The media has people so conditioned to where if anyone even says the word "fixed" or "rigged," they are labeled as cooks. And that plays right into the bigwigs hands.
Then lets take a referee. All flags are not equal. Momentum is HUGE in football. If a team picks up a big third down, and the ref throws a phantom flag, that destroys all a team's momentum. The league has put in such bull crap subjective rules. Look at penalties such as helmet to helmet, roughing the QB, pass interference, and illegal contact. Those penalties have been called many, many times when they should no have been called. I wonder why?
Don't just focus on a team covering the spread. The total points in a game can be manipulated as well or better than the spread, especially by the refs.
Now on to how they can get away with it. There are several ways I have came up with as to why a player/ref has not or will not come forward.
We live in an "I scratch your back, you scratch my back" type society. If a player cooperates, there are people who will look out for them during their playing days, and after their playing days. They can either be paid some form of hush money for the rest of their life, or they can be given a cush job until they are 80 years old.
Let's say one player shaves twenty games during their ten year career. After their career is over, they get looked out for with a job at the main office or one of the networks. One network in particular has a lot of "experts" that played in the NFL that were not very good. Or they can just be paid hush money the rest of their life. If someone made $100 million off this players 20 games, what is $500,000 a year for the next 50 years. Seems like a good investment to me.
this is the single most insightful comment that has ever been made on Covers...
On to how it can be done, and better yet, how it has not come to light.
All it would take is one or two players and maybe a referee. Not the big names, but a journeyman DB or kicker. The guy who makes $400,000 a year. Not the player who makes $8 million a year. Why would THEY rig a game? They are set for life after a few years. The journeyman DB who A. is probably trying to keep up with the lifestyle of his teammates, and B. has to worry about what they will do for work when they are 40 years old, is the one who makes me suspicious.
The journeyman DB misses a few tackles a game, and what do ya know? His team wins the game, but they didn't cover the spread. No big deal. No one, except the degenerates notice. The media has people so conditioned to where if anyone even says the word "fixed" or "rigged," they are labeled as cooks. And that plays right into the bigwigs hands.
Then lets take a referee. All flags are not equal. Momentum is HUGE in football. If a team picks up a big third down, and the ref throws a phantom flag, that destroys all a team's momentum. The league has put in such bull crap subjective rules. Look at penalties such as helmet to helmet, roughing the QB, pass interference, and illegal contact. Those penalties have been called many, many times when they should no have been called. I wonder why?
Don't just focus on a team covering the spread. The total points in a game can be manipulated as well or better than the spread, especially by the refs.
Now on to how they can get away with it. There are several ways I have came up with as to why a player/ref has not or will not come forward.
We live in an "I scratch your back, you scratch my back" type society. If a player cooperates, there are people who will look out for them during their playing days, and after their playing days. They can either be paid some form of hush money for the rest of their life, or they can be given a cush job until they are 80 years old.
Let's say one player shaves twenty games during their ten year career. After their career is over, they get looked out for with a job at the main office or one of the networks. One network in particular has a lot of "experts" that played in the NFL that were not very good. Or they can just be paid hush money the rest of their life. If someone made $100 million off this players 20 games, what is $500,000 a year for the next 50 years. Seems like a good investment to me.
this is the single most insightful comment that has ever been made on Covers...
Yea let me start by saying I love sports but the truth is THEY ARE ALL RIGGED, not much different then WWF where its pretty much scripted and they almost always play out exactly as planned. And a selected few of the players are told what needs to happen in the game and Im sure they DONT have a choice in this matter. For example Brett Favre and his wife cried for two days LEADING UP to the saints game, now ask yourself could these be tears of joy? Not a chance these were tears of sorrow from a guy that was just told he must lose the game that he came back to play in and believe me he had no choice in the matter! Might be hard for some of you to understand or believe this but at some point everyone realizes there is no santa claus and this is no different.Sorry theres just too much money in sports for there not to be corruption.
Yea let me start by saying I love sports but the truth is THEY ARE ALL RIGGED, not much different then WWF where its pretty much scripted and they almost always play out exactly as planned. And a selected few of the players are told what needs to happen in the game and Im sure they DONT have a choice in this matter. For example Brett Favre and his wife cried for two days LEADING UP to the saints game, now ask yourself could these be tears of joy? Not a chance these were tears of sorrow from a guy that was just told he must lose the game that he came back to play in and believe me he had no choice in the matter! Might be hard for some of you to understand or believe this but at some point everyone realizes there is no santa claus and this is no different.Sorry theres just too much money in sports for there not to be corruption.
LOL. LOL. LOL. Any of you paranoid delusional's who have convinced yourselves that any playoff games were fixed or that this game today will be fixed by Vegas or any other entity were obviously on the wrong side of a number of bets and don't know yet how to lose with class. Some of you may learn down the road and a lot more will never learn and just keep blaming someone or something else for your less then accurate capping ability. Your probably the same people who kick the dog when the pipe under the sink breaks. LOL
Instead of watching the game today, since you believe the outcome is already set, you should all go to the show and see Avatar or From Paris with Love since your all into the realm of make believe.......................LOL.
LOL. LOL. LOL. Any of you paranoid delusional's who have convinced yourselves that any playoff games were fixed or that this game today will be fixed by Vegas or any other entity were obviously on the wrong side of a number of bets and don't know yet how to lose with class. Some of you may learn down the road and a lot more will never learn and just keep blaming someone or something else for your less then accurate capping ability. Your probably the same people who kick the dog when the pipe under the sink breaks. LOL
Instead of watching the game today, since you believe the outcome is already set, you should all go to the show and see Avatar or From Paris with Love since your all into the realm of make believe.......................LOL.
LOL. LOL. LOL. Any of you paranoid delusional's who have convinced yourselves that any playoff games were fixed or that this game today will be fixed by Vegas or any other entity were obviously on the wrong side of a number of bets and don't know yet how to lose with class. Some of you may learn down the road and a lot more will never learn and just keep blaming someone or something else for your less then accurate capping ability. Your probably the same people who kick the dog when the pipe under the sink breaks. LOL
Instead of watching the game today, since you believe the outcome is already set, you should all go to the show and see Avatar or From Paris with Love since your all into the realm of make believe.......................LOL.
Have a nice day losers.
I haven't bet a playoff game, my man.
But keep trying.
Like a poster earlier pointed out, the media has folks so conditioned to think "rigged?? Noooo way."
Keep your head in the sand. I am sure you think our country will pay off 14 trillion in debt one day too.
LOL. LOL. LOL. Any of you paranoid delusional's who have convinced yourselves that any playoff games were fixed or that this game today will be fixed by Vegas or any other entity were obviously on the wrong side of a number of bets and don't know yet how to lose with class. Some of you may learn down the road and a lot more will never learn and just keep blaming someone or something else for your less then accurate capping ability. Your probably the same people who kick the dog when the pipe under the sink breaks. LOL
Instead of watching the game today, since you believe the outcome is already set, you should all go to the show and see Avatar or From Paris with Love since your all into the realm of make believe.......................LOL.
Have a nice day losers.
I haven't bet a playoff game, my man.
But keep trying.
Like a poster earlier pointed out, the media has folks so conditioned to think "rigged?? Noooo way."
Keep your head in the sand. I am sure you think our country will pay off 14 trillion in debt one day too.
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