Do you think the NFL is rigged?

ur just mad Tom MF Brady is the man

Yes, the NFL is rigged. I stopped watching sports years ago because they become so foolish. It was hard to give sports up, because I grew up loving them, but it was worth it.

Now when I check in to see a highlight I laugh and shake my head, because I can't believe how rapidly things have deteriorated since I quit watching--the games just within the last few years have become so fake. I don't know how anyone could watch, for example, the final play of the Minnesota game and think it was real. Then, to add insult to injury, they didn't kick the extra-point just to rub in the fact that they were maintaining the spread.

Yes. It's the refs and it's all got to do with gambling.

I quit watching the NFL before the political BS. It's just laughable. I read somewhere that the Pats got called on only one penalty yesterday, and it was on special teams. Remember that there's a penalty on every single play of an NFL game.

The way the nfl is rigged has nothing to do with having a certain team win. What the nfl does is have the officials keep the games close so virtually every game goes down to the last play. Blowout games mean people turn the channel which means advertisers are not happy nobody saw their ad. More close games equals more advertisers which equals more money.

Years ago the lowly Clowns were playing the Chiefs. Somehow they had a 2 touchdown lead and was driving for a 3rd score. The refs called 8 straight penalties including taking 2 touchdowns away. Clowns had to settle for a field goal. The Clowns kicked off and the Chiefs immediately fumbled. The refs finally had to give up trying to keep it close.

I really haven't watched much football after that game.

Of course the nba saw how successful that was and do the same thing, especially on the nationally televised games. It's like watching a whole different sport when watching a regionally televised game compared to a nationally televised game.

Always rigged for the Patriots: favorable calls from the refs, deflated footballs and spygate.

https://nypost.com/2018/01/21/ref-congratulates-tom-brady-for-conspiracy-theory-gold/

I have subscribed to your theory for a long time now, though I don't really know who The Clowns are. I also have suspected that league offices prefer having teams from large TV markets in their championships than those from smaller ones, or in general having teams that they think will draw bigger TV audiences. With that in mind, I thought that both Jacksonville and Minnesota were playing at some sort of disadvantage.

I’m actualy surprised with how many of you actually think the game is rigged. I think there could be few bad refs now and in the past who have taken money to change games. But for nfl to systematically rig it, I highly doubt it. It is too much at stake for the nfl.

I do however believe referees can get influenced from atmosphere of the game or possibly as humans not being perfect and to make certain calls that end up making the game more exciting. I don’t think there is intent to rig it, but as human nature when you have the power and the control of the game, you may unconsciously call the game in a certain way that would alter the game.

We'll probably never know for sure. Even if professional sports are rigged to some extent no league is going to acknowledge it. But over the years it's seemed to me that borderline calls go the way of big market teams more often than they would if iwas just a matter of referees making errors.

It's a multi billion dollar industry. Why would you let the outcomes of the games be dictated by what happens on the field?

I think the question should be,

"Does the NFL have to be rigged for it to be highly successful"

Take the ball from there

I lived in Las Vegas and worked in the sportsbook industry for 25 years. Only the losers thought the games were rigged. It was beyond laughable. We always hoped they felt that way because it meant they had absolutely no chance. Instead of figuring out ways to actually win they would recoil in self pity while rationalizing that the world was slanted against them and they had no chance, no matter which side they picked.

Online forums are the same way. You can basically dismiss anything said by the pathetic types who think that games out in the open with 22 people involved and countless variables are being rigged. Football is so complicated it's difficult to prescribe an outcome even if half the people out there are determined to do so.

Rigged is behind closed doors and shut mouth. Paper and numbers not physical.

If NFL games are rigged-

Why so much favoritism toward New England?

Why does the NFL hate Cleveland?

rig her mortis wrote:

If NFL games are rigged-

Why so much favoritism toward New England?

Why does the NFL hate Cleveland?

I think the Russians are involved. We need to investigate the NFL's ties with Russia. Obviously Russia loves New England and hates Clevland.

yes it's fake wrote:

Now when I check in to see a highlight I laugh and shake my head, because I can't believe how rapidly things have deteriorated since I quit watching--the games just within the last few years have become so fake. I don't know how anyone could watch, for example, the final play of the Minnesota game and think it was real.

Um, you really don't think freak plays can happen to win a game? Or that this is somehow a "new" thing? The Immaculate Reception, Doug Flutie's Miracle in Miami, Bill Mazeroski's "Shot Heard Round the World," Grant Hill & Christian Laettner's buzzer beater against Kentucky, California's kick return against Stanford, Appalachian State's BLOCKED FIELD GOAL RETURN against Michigan, Kirk Gibson's home run in the World Series, Lorenzo Charles' alley-oop dunk to defeat Houston, the Music City Miracle ... the list goes on and on. Professional, college, high school, pee wee leagues; football, baseball, basketball, soccer ... every sport, every level it happens. You must live a sad life if you don't believe anything extremely exciting can happen without it being "rigged."

Who is rigging it? How is it even plausible?

Wouldn't the players on the non "certain teams" spill? Or the executives and owners from those non "certain teams?" Or is everybody in on the scam and they're all getting under the table payments. Or they're cool with it cuz it doesn't matter whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game?

Or the players and most of the owners and execs don't know, only a select few on the "certain teams" are in on the deal and sworn to secrecy even if they get fired from one of the "certain teams?"

Or the owners/execs/players are all in the dark. They are just pawns in someone else's scam and not a single one of them has a clue?

Personally, I think every race I've entered has been rigged because I haven't won a single one of them.

Do you seriously think the NFL would have an issue with Jacksonville playing the Vikings in the Vikings dome in the Superbowl?

That's the answer.

It's not that difficult to understand. Refs could throw a flag on every single play. They don't. They threw ONE flag against New England yesterday. One.

It's very hard to win with penalties. That's all they have to do. If you watched not yesterday's, but last week's game with New England (against the Titans), you would have seen the most bizarre calls ever. Flags picked up, calls removed from New England, switched to the other team, phantom holds, the whole thing.

I don't "not understand." I asked who is doing this rigging? For the benefit of whom?

Surprised wrote:

I’m actualy surprised with how many of you actually think the game is rigged. I think there could be few bad refs now and in the past who have taken money to change games. But for nfl to systematically rig it, I highly doubt it. It is too much at stake for the nfl

Do you actually watch the games? It is EXTREMELY easy to manipulate games. In football holding can be called on every play. Calling it a couple times a game on a big play can easily stop a team from getting a larger lead. Not calling it can easily allow a team to catch up. Basketball is even easier. The nba is so bad at times it practically makes up rules as it goes. It's so bad they even come out at times and say how many calls the refs "missed" at the end of the game even though scores and wins and losses are never changed.

Remember the Lakers Celtics game when 21 foul shots were taken by the lakers so they could win?