01-07-2024, 08:20 PM
(01-06-2024, 04:10 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: Your definition of rigged might be slightly different than mine, if some sole individual is causing a ref to sway a game due to financial reasons, periodically - is that being influenced, or rigged? What if that sole person is a billionaire? lol. If you jump one level higher you have every NFL team owner being a billionaire. They share their money too, do they want to lose money or make money? :) Sure, there is evidence games are getting influenced. The Browns 2 wins back to back on multiple suspect calls at the end of those games were fishy enough! Like who would be the one doing the paying, anyway, a book keeper?
NFL definitely wants to make money like any business, that's why they schedule all these divisional games at the end of the year lol. They almost had their browns vs. bengals game mean something that they desperately wanted when they scheduled it there.
it's very possible these professional sports without money were all "real" but something might change when there is so much money involved.
The NBA only caught that one ref, it's a bad mark when they're caught for sure, they probably wished he wasn't caught and just retired! lol
If you let your mind wander on "too many people are involved", you can then think only the ones that are athletically capable of controlling a game are the ones in the know (curry who can make 150 3s in a row in practice, the QBs who can drop dimes with their eyes closed/etc). Or in other words, the ones that are paid 50x more than the average player lol. Everyone else is just trying their best lol.
I think refs (in NFL specifically) refereed in disregard with the score, who is home or away, who was supposed to win, etc - a lot of games going into the 4th quarter would already be over and the game would be turned off and people have left the stadium lol. I think the warriors were something like 30-8 at home and 8-30 away, at some point recently (within the last few years). They're professionals and home cooking matters that much? lol
Being rigged, influenced or cheating, some combination is probably occurring. Like belichick says if you're not trying ot cheat you're not trying to win. The Astros (I think) were caught recording pitch signals from the outfield right? It just doesn't stop lol. I wonder what % of games we watch are fair and square. I realize players cheating is entirely different than a game being influenced, but we should probably be as mad either way. When belichick made that statement it immediately made me think no wonder we lose because mike brown tries to play fair lol. Kobe used to say if the ref doesn't see it, it's not a foul.
Or rigged in the fact that they may nor be trying to select the winner but trying to make a good show. Calls or no calls specifically at the end of games to drive up scoring or help teams get a chance to score at the end.
