01-11-2017, 12:43 PM
(01-11-2017, 10:07 AM)Au165 Wrote: There is no fix, and it is kind of comical to believe there is. What people always seem to forget in a conspiracy is how many people they have to keep quiet in an age where book deals can make even the lowest rung of a conspiracy into a multi millionaire. The video is wrong in saying that there is no law against fixing their own games as there are some round about laws that could cause issues. If they in fact pay the officials more, or provide a benefit of some sort, for doing the fix it would fall under match fixing laws and would subject the person doing it and encouraging it to prosecution. If they can prove that multiple owners were in on it, and it was prevalent across the whole league, they could actually use RICO and go after everyone.
I believe there is tremendous bias, which implies the games are "fixed" to an extent. I haven't watched the videos but I've seen enough over the years to know why the officiating tilts toward certain makrkwts and fan bases.
If anyone doesn't want to believe theat, they are welcome to their own opinion. But to use the size of the dollars involved as a reason to claim it wouldn't allow for the corruption, I would argue the opposite. Greed is ugly, and it is very present in the NFL.
As close as a lot of these teams are matched, it only takes a few calls to alter the outcome of a game, and the NFL has done this more and more as more dollars are generated.