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Originally Posted by -King-
So football is rigged because refs can make judgement calls? That's your proof?
And so let's say that the owners do indeed control everything and they rig games to have certain winners etc. Why the **** are the biggest market teams so shitty then? Why has New England been so dominant the past two decades? Why has Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia not won shit in 30+ years? If the owners are rigging football to make more money, they're doing an amazingly bad job at it.
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Ratings (and profits) are at an all time high. 32 owners split $15b in tax money equally.
The numbers say that they're doing a great job at it.
Some owners honestly don't give a shit about winning. At all. That's hard for Regular Fan with his room temperature IQ and highly competitive nature...but I guarantee most owners care about getting 1/32 of $15b annually first and foremost. Some care about being respectable enough to respect the legacy. The Hunt Family is like that. Some, like Jeffery Lurie and Dan Snyder, are new guys on the block. They won't win shit. Some are gangsters - when the DeBartolos were winning Super bowls, Carmen Policy looked like Carmen Corleone from the ****ing Godfather. And then got kicked out of the league for being a gangster. Some, namely Jerry Jones, have pissed off the NFL - this is the first time Dallas has been relevant since the Triplets. Paul Allen is Paul Allen.
But mostly, it's still the old blood and the OG Teams who are the creme de La creme. Teams owned by families like the Rooneys and the Maras, who have had ties to illegal gambling long before they ever owned football teams...the NFL has a VERY interesting history. Read up sometime. Do your homework. Bob Kraft has had ties to the NFL and CBS for a long, long time - there's a reason his small market team has been great since he bought them in 93 - they went to the Super Bowl in 96, long before Brady and when BB was the DCo, with a trip to the Jets and a Pete Carroll stint as Pats HC in between. Remember when Belichick bailed on the Jets to take the Pats job, how the NFL facilitated that?
Speaking of the Jets...isn't it ****ing amazing how the first 2 AFL/AFC teams to win Super Bowls have never been BACK? In fact...the only time when either team got close is when aging legends were padding stats and riding off into the sunset (Montana/Parcells)...
Some people think about these things. It's okay if you don't.