02-08-2017, 02:35 PM
Another thought..suppose the league is feeling heat from people who want it investigated for fixing games..Let's just go with that assumption.
In such a scenario you have to have at least one patsy to make it plausible that it's not fixed and the patsy has to be in on the fix. I can certainly see a scenario where someone like Brady would just walk away from the game, but he didn't. That argument could go either way.
There's also the 'theory' that says players are paid too much to be corruptable. Well that doesn't hold water either. Since when have people with a butload of money not wanted more money? For plenty of the super rich there is no such thing as enough money.
These games are just too easy to fix and nobody has to sneak into the locker room with big bags of dirty cash. Billions of dollars can go around the globe in the blink of an eye so it becomes untracable. That kind of stuff goes on every day and if you're on the receiving end of one of these transactions you certainty wouldn't want the rest of the world to know about it . Big organizations have all kinds of ways to move money around so the bean counters have no way to keep track. The bottom line is that if you are going to cover up kind of things like game fixing you absolutely have to have a way to sew doubt that it's happening in the first place. And on top of it all there are no laws that prohibit the leagues from predetermining the outcomes. Even if the league is caught red handed they can always say that it's a scripted bit of the entertainment industry which in fact it is and that is completely legal. If you don't think football is entertainment then please explain exactly why you bother to watch in the first place.
In such a scenario you have to have at least one patsy to make it plausible that it's not fixed and the patsy has to be in on the fix. I can certainly see a scenario where someone like Brady would just walk away from the game, but he didn't. That argument could go either way.
There's also the 'theory' that says players are paid too much to be corruptable. Well that doesn't hold water either. Since when have people with a butload of money not wanted more money? For plenty of the super rich there is no such thing as enough money.
These games are just too easy to fix and nobody has to sneak into the locker room with big bags of dirty cash. Billions of dollars can go around the globe in the blink of an eye so it becomes untracable. That kind of stuff goes on every day and if you're on the receiving end of one of these transactions you certainty wouldn't want the rest of the world to know about it . Big organizations have all kinds of ways to move money around so the bean counters have no way to keep track. The bottom line is that if you are going to cover up kind of things like game fixing you absolutely have to have a way to sew doubt that it's happening in the first place. And on top of it all there are no laws that prohibit the leagues from predetermining the outcomes. Even if the league is caught red handed they can always say that it's a scripted bit of the entertainment industry which in fact it is and that is completely legal. If you don't think football is entertainment then please explain exactly why you bother to watch in the first place.
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