(02-12-2016, 02:34 PM)jcfreeman0 Wrote: I'm sorry about the grammar and non-paragraph form.

This freaking game has ruined my life. I still cant get over it. I'm trying to find closure and I decided to post / rant about it. I am a lurker from the original Bengals board but have not really posted much. I love the info and insight here though!

(02-12-2016, 02:34 PM)jcfreeman0 Wrote: This freaking game has ruined my life.

(02-12-2016, 01:40 PM)jcfreeman0 Wrote: The National Fixed League (NFL) suspends #55 for the 2nd highest amount of games (3) for an on field infraction ever. He has never been suspended before in his NFL career and is considered a first time offender yet gets the 2nd highest amount of games ever in the history of the league. The hammer was dropped just 2 days after the game was played and the call on the field was arguably a legal hit. Not only does the NFL prematurely drop the hammer, they double down and stand behind their decision after a month to think about it. They chose to make an example out of #55 whether right or wrong. Then they willingly let Talib rip a guys head off inside the 5yd line during the biggest game of the year since he knew it wouldnt cost his team much and admitted that's what he was doing after the game, yet its been 5 days and no suspension. This isnt Talib's first rodeo either. He was suspended earlier in the year for poking a guy in the eye after the play in front of a ref and has a reputation similar to #55 as far as being a bone head. Roger makes 40+ mil a year. The refs arent even full time employee's. Think about that for a second, arguably one of the most important parts of the final outcome of games isnt even a full time employee. I read as a whole the refs make roughly 3.2 mil a year (total between all of them!). Why cant they have 10 guys sitting behind a computer for every game watching tape / replays / multiple angles etc and less on field calls and refs to get in the way. With a crew watching the games live it could be done in a very timely manner (similar to watching replay on tv but maybe even faster). This would cut down on bad calls, let them radio down to on field refs if they got a call wrong, or missed a call. The onfield refs cant even get it right half the time anyways. The National Fixed League is calling games now based off of slowed down to a single frame replay shots so why not adapt to it and have a bunch of tech guys sitting behind computer screens? Or scrap the slowed down multiple frame replay crap and call it how you see it in live game action. Its so easy to manipulate a play how you want it to be called when you have all of these slowed down replay angles and hd technology and only one or two guys calling the shots. I say it every year but after the Bengals Steelers game this year I'm really fed up. I'm losing interest in the game. It's the same shit different day every week with Cincy getting called but not called for them. It's like Groundhog day. Which leads me to my conspiracy theory that the league is fixed. Why wouldnt the NFL make these changes if its such a controversy every year? It would be so easy to implement and would produce a much better outcome of the games. I honestly think Vegas runs the show behind the scenes and its very easy to manipulate these games how they want. I'm not saying full out WWE pick the winner before the game starts, but a few calls here and there if they come up to help sway the momentum one way (calls that would be easy to miss or call even if its not correct such as holding, pass interference, catch/no catch etc that can be drive killers or spark the momentum of a drive) . It would be so easy to do. A few refs, a few executives and owners on board is all it would take. No one else would know. They Players, coaches, team employee's etc all not in the loop. You're talking about billions of dollars at stake so the risk is worth the reward. When you look at the first 50 super bowl winners and only 19 teams have won it all out of 32 teams in a league that is built to be evenly matched with a salary cap and designed to help the bad teams become good with the way the draft is set up, it just doesnt add up. Thoughts?

(02-12-2016, 04:56 PM)grampahol Wrote: I have little doubt there is fixing in games. I'm not sure where it originates, but there are millions upon millions wagered every year and game on football. It's no revelation that gambling tends to attract the criminal element. I have no idea if the league is behind it or if refs are involved or if certain players are involved, but there is just too much money available out there for there to not have a certain level of fixing going on.
Think about it..say for example a corner is offered a few  cool million to let a reciever catch a ball and win the fantasy jackpot for the week..  That would be more than easy enough to do..miss a tackle here and there,  fall down and be injured for a few plays. There's no limit to the availability to let plays happen and I'm not just picking on corners because any position can fail to make a certain play.
Everyone has seen games where the defense looks like they couldn't tackle a ref much less a running back and offenses look like there's no possible way they could ever score..

Oh well..all I know is I'm not going to be offered millions to throw a game..

(02-12-2016, 05:19 PM)jj22 Wrote: There's no fixing games, just favoritism to certain Owners. Davis like Brown was contrary, and voted against everything. But Davis stood up for his team spoke out against atrocities and attacks on them. Brown doesn't, and that leaves his teams at the mercy of the league. A league with a thin skinned and desperate for credibility Commissioner looking to wield power and show strength, and he's found it in a toothless and clawless Owner named Mike Brown. This one is on Brown for not having the gull to stand up for his players and team. Marvin can't do it all. Poor guy traveling around League headquarters trying to work with Goodell on behalf of Burfict like an Owner would have been anywhere else. He certainly can't put public pressure on Goodell like strong Owners have (Kraft, Bisciotti, and Irsay) and won.

Hey Mike Brown....Quit picking fights with the league and then disappearing as the league manhandles your organization in response. Nobody likes that one person that votes no to everything. But nobody really likes that one person if they don't have the guts to fight and stand up to those who frowned upon those tactics, and use it against working with you.

And quit sending Marvin to do the dirty work. Maybe that's why he can't win a playoff game. He needs to coach. Not be the GM, de facto Owner, crisis manager, team psychologist etc.