NFL unable to find sufficiently interesting game for Sunday Night (NYE), simply cancels it

please refrain from the name calling

as "Sarah Palin" indicated you asked a question & I responded with

one of many 'situations'

if the fix comes from 'the league' then it is not illegal so

nfl is in the process of having officials all become full-time league employees

nba & mlb already are

here is something for you to read at your leisure

http://www.thefixisin.net/theproof.html

@scheme wrote:

If you do know how many people it would take to rig a major professional sport, you obviously don't know anything about human nature - someone always talks.

You clearly don't watch enough boxing. The higher you get in the sport, the more rigged it gets.

Also...while drug cheats clearly exist in our sport (and don't get me started on pro-cycling), look how long athletes can go, without getting caught. Just because the results aren't rigged, doesn't mean everything else surrounding the sport isn't.

Zev wrote:

@scheme wrote:

If you do know how many people it would take to rig a major professional sport, you obviously don't know anything about human nature - someone always talks.

You clearly don't watch enough boxing. The higher you get in the sport, the more rigged it gets.

Also...while drug cheats clearly exist in our sport (and don't get me started on pro-cycling), look how long athletes can go, without getting caught. Just because the results aren't rigged, doesn't mean everything else surrounding the sport isn't.

You actually have boxing backwards - not that aren't any fixes at the highest levels. But most matches that "up and coming contenders" have are set up along the lines of, "My guys needs 4-5 rounds of work. You got somebody that can give him that?"

scheme wrote:

please refrain from the name calling

as "Sarah Palin" indicated you asked a question & I responded with

one of many 'situations'

if the fix comes from 'the league' then it is not illegal so

nfl is in the process of having officials all become full-time league employees

nba & mlb already are

here is something for you to read at your leisure

http://www.thefixisin.net/theproof.html

If you are going to call yourself a hypocrite like Sara Palin, you are fair game for name calling.

And your link relies on pure speculation, no proof.

Ronald Dump wrote:

Star wrote:

So the NFL, not NBC, decided to cancel the NBC Sunday Night game.

All scheduled NFL games are being played. There have been no games cancelled this particular weekend.

Correct, that no games actually have been cancelled.

They cancelled the broadcast.

You wrote "The NFL has not cancelled anything."

That is not true, because they did cancel the evening broadcast referred to as the Sunday Night Game.

NBC likely has some compensation deal with the NFL to make up the advertising they will lose for not having that broadcast.

I guess the NFL could have let NBC broadcast something like the Redskins/Giants game between tow eliminated teams.

But that's not the way to end the regular season.

It's pretty amazing every game this week is a division match-up and not one single match-up will decide any of the divisions.

At least one of these games was supposed to produce a division winner when scheduled.

Cowboys/Eagles

Seahawks.Cardinals

Panthers/Falcons

Packers/Lions

Chiefs/Broncos

How is it possible to have 16 division match-ups for the 8 divisions in the last week and not a single math-up be a winner take all game?

Every single division has been clinched going into this week except for the NFC South and the Saints/Panthers match-up was last week.

Is Mo Farah available to jog 24 laps and run 1? This is a chance for Americans to see a truly exciting sport!