09-22-2017, 03:49 PM
I'm going to take a different point of view.......The NFL isn't rigged or scripted. Refs don't hold a meeting before the game with some NFL exec to find out who's supposed to win that day.
I can't wait for the Bengals to finally win a couple of playoff games which will make all this nonsense stop. The day is quickly approaching that in Pgh, Ben will retire, Bell will be gone, etc and they will slip into mediocrity for a while. At the same time, the Bengals will have a new coaching staff, new attitude and focus and trade places with the steelers.....and then all the talk of games being fixed, the league not wanting us to win, the refs let all the other teams cheat when we play them, blah blah blah, will miraculously disappear.
The thing I don't understand is if you truly believe the league is fixed, then you have to also believe the Bengals players are in on it. In 2015 we had the playoff game won. The ONLY possible explanation for the actions of Hill, Burfict, etc at that point in the game is that they were told on the sideline that "the wrong team is winning...we're running out of time, fix it"....so they did.
So my question is, if you know the league is scripted or fixed, and that the Bengals have to be in on it, why on earth would you invest the time and emotion on them? Or do you believe everyone else is in on it, except the Bengals? Or do you believe the Bengal players, after spending most of their lives competing and training to be in the NFL, know and accept that they have no choice but to lose to certain teams.....oh and keep it all a big secret?
It's all pretty ridiculous. There's ALWAYS going to be bad calls. It's a fast game. As of last week, the steelers were the 1st or 2nd most penalized team in the NFL...weird stat for a so called "favored", big market team. (I believe the Pittsburgh market is equal to or smaller than Cincinnati.) BTW, I only use Pit as a reference point because, well, everyone else here seems to.
The NFL isn't rigged, for the same reason many here say that it is...money. Imagine all the bazillions of dollars of sponsorship money and tv money that would bolt if it came out that the league was determining or influencing games. And it's pretty standard contract language that allows any sponsor or network to do so under those circumstances. Nike, Pepsi, All the car makers, etc.etc, etc would be gone in a heartbeat. The only channel you could watch games on would be the NFL channel, but why bother if you already know that the game has a pre-determined outcome? Plenty of things more worthwhile to do.
Just my humble opinion.
I can't wait for the Bengals to finally win a couple of playoff games which will make all this nonsense stop. The day is quickly approaching that in Pgh, Ben will retire, Bell will be gone, etc and they will slip into mediocrity for a while. At the same time, the Bengals will have a new coaching staff, new attitude and focus and trade places with the steelers.....and then all the talk of games being fixed, the league not wanting us to win, the refs let all the other teams cheat when we play them, blah blah blah, will miraculously disappear.
The thing I don't understand is if you truly believe the league is fixed, then you have to also believe the Bengals players are in on it. In 2015 we had the playoff game won. The ONLY possible explanation for the actions of Hill, Burfict, etc at that point in the game is that they were told on the sideline that "the wrong team is winning...we're running out of time, fix it"....so they did.
So my question is, if you know the league is scripted or fixed, and that the Bengals have to be in on it, why on earth would you invest the time and emotion on them? Or do you believe everyone else is in on it, except the Bengals? Or do you believe the Bengal players, after spending most of their lives competing and training to be in the NFL, know and accept that they have no choice but to lose to certain teams.....oh and keep it all a big secret?
It's all pretty ridiculous. There's ALWAYS going to be bad calls. It's a fast game. As of last week, the steelers were the 1st or 2nd most penalized team in the NFL...weird stat for a so called "favored", big market team. (I believe the Pittsburgh market is equal to or smaller than Cincinnati.) BTW, I only use Pit as a reference point because, well, everyone else here seems to.
The NFL isn't rigged, for the same reason many here say that it is...money. Imagine all the bazillions of dollars of sponsorship money and tv money that would bolt if it came out that the league was determining or influencing games. And it's pretty standard contract language that allows any sponsor or network to do so under those circumstances. Nike, Pepsi, All the car makers, etc.etc, etc would be gone in a heartbeat. The only channel you could watch games on would be the NFL channel, but why bother if you already know that the game has a pre-determined outcome? Plenty of things more worthwhile to do.
Just my humble opinion.
