← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · xmetalhead
Thread ID: 4340 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2003-01-06
2003-01-06 15:47 | User Profile
I don't know how, when, or where, but Pro and College Football must be fixed. Like the WWF or other "pro" Wrestling leagues, the bad guys are kicking the crap outta the good guys for 3/4 of the match, when lo and behold the good guys eat their Spinach and down to the wire they turn it on and defeat the bad guy! Unbleivable!! How'd they do it?!?!?!?!? I've often wondered about the authenticity of professional sports. College teams and players have been indicted in the past for point-shaving and betting on themselves.... so I just know it's gotta carry over to the pro level in some way. Players can make more on a bet than what their salaries pay. Especially in NFL, where players careers are short, and their salaries may not provide for a lifetime. This past weekend's NFL Playoff games were sickening displays of unsportsmanship, unprofessionalism, and plain thuggery. The Steelers, 49ers, Falcons and NY Jets games were simply way too good to be true.....to perfect an outcome to be taken seriously. Pro players "suddenly" can't catch the ball, block, kick, or snap?!!? Quarterbacks who "suddenly" can't complete a pass?! OR, "suddenly" start completing every pass they throw when earlier in the game they looked like Olive Oil throwing a football?!?! Remember football is very heavily and widely bet on....legally and illegally......so I just needed to vent. And no, I don't nor ever gamble....especially on football.
2003-01-06 16:33 | User Profile
Kill your televitzion.
2003-01-06 16:35 | User Profile
From #13
"...In order that the masses themselves may not guess what they are about WE FURTHER DISTRACT THEM WITH AMUSEMENTS, GAMES, PASTIMES, PASSIONS, PEOPLE'S PALACES .... SOON WE SHALL BEGIN THROUGH THE PRESS TO PROPOSE COMPETITIONS IN ART, IN SPORT IN ALL KINDS: these interests will finally distract their minds from questions in which we should find ourselves compelled to oppose them. ..."
2003-01-06 17:29 | User Profile
Originally posted by xmetalhead@Jan 6 2003, 15:47 ** Especially in NFL, where players careers are short, and their salaries may not provide for a lifetime. **
Pro football players make plenty of money to live very nicely all their lives and I'm sure they are provided with retirement programs that make the necessity very clear to them and that make it easy to provide for themselves into their old age.
If there's any rigging in football, there's not much. This sort of thing is difficult to keep secret. As for pro-wrestling, an alien could land on Earth, turn on a match and in 30 seconds realize that it's not a real competition.
2003-01-06 18:02 | User Profile
I might think you have a point if Saturday's games were not blowouts. 41-0 and 27-7 are ratings-busters, and the NFL did not want either one.
Pro wrestling, like Nascar and women's hoops, occupies none of my brain.
-Jay
2003-01-06 18:06 | User Profile
**Players can make more on a bet than what their salaries pay. **
Not in the NFL. This doesn't mean they couldn't make more by taking a dive at the request of a gambling syndicate (though I have no specific knowledge of fixed games in the last 30 years -- apparently some KC Chiefs games were fixed in the early '70's). One must always be open to the possibility that the League itself fixes games to promote marketing goals.
2003-01-06 18:31 | User Profile
Originally posted by mwdallas@Jan 6 2003, 13:06 ** One must always be open to the possibility that the League itself fixes games to promote marketing goals. **
This, I have to agree with. The NFL wants the biggest superstars in their biggest games to please the wealthy Advertisers, specifically those companies which sell beer. I'm not a sports fanatic, but I do like the sport of football, and I don't watch it in order to know what beer I must be drinking. Advertising is purely insulting.