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Sports debate: Is the NFL rigged?

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorPrincess8, Feb 12, 2024.

  1. antny1

    antny1 GC Hall of Fame

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    Not even close. Absurd to put those two games in the same sentence.
     
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  2. GatorJMDZ

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    1. The NFL is not rigged.
    2. The Super Bowl was not rigged.
    3. The 2020 election was not stolen.
    4. Biden really did get that many legitimate votes.
    5. The moon landing was not faked.
    6. The lady on Facebook was correct.
     
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  3. RealGatorFan

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    I think the consensus was that the NFL wanted KC to win because of the $$$ it brought to them. No rigging but secretly they wanted KC to win. Swift = $$$. The NFL this year was taylor-made:)
     
  4. antny1

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    The NFL wants the best matchups and the biggest markets to meet up. Sure they have vested interest in rooting for those things but that's a far cry from rigged. The best matchup would have been Detroit vs KC. Clear case of " good vs evil" for the casual fans.
     
  5. Emmitto

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    The NFL choosing to take one of the worst athletes ever and write him into 7 SB wins pretty much exposed the whole charade. Can't blame everyone for seeing how rigged it has to be to make a 30 year-old great grandpa win.
     
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  6. duggers_dad

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    Rigged ? No. Boring ? Yes.
     
  7. antny1

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    Man the scriptwriters screwed the pooch when they let Jim Harbaugh come back to an AFC team. There goes the brother vs brother rematch in the superbowl. Heads will roll!

    The conspiracy theorists will always find the conspiracy somewhere. Chiefs vs eagles =Andy Reid vs his former team. Chiefs vs Bucs, mahomes vs Brady. Chiefs vs 49ers=Taylor swift haters vs underdog Purdy
     
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  8. l_boy

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    Never mind. Not worth it.
     
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  9. Emmitto

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    Yeah, this was probably the last year of the NFL without the Swifties.
     
  10. citygator

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    Who is "the NFL"? They are a consortium of teams that each want to win. KC winning doesnt make Carolina Panthers shitty season any better. I guarantee you the other owners arent rooting on anyone but their own team.
     
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  11. WestCoastGator

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    In my opinion, The Swindle was the most corruptly officiated football game ever on any level while Super Bowl XL was the most corruptly decided NFL game of all time.
     
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  12. channingcrowderhungry

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    I kind of want Kelce to dump Swift just so I can watch the crazy hatred poured on the Chiefs/NFL from the swfities. Would be amusing
     
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  13. antny1

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    I can agree with that. I had to look it up but that Seahawks steelers game was pretty damn bad.
     
  14. GatorNorth

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    How do you rig 3 field goals between 50 and 60 yards kicked with 100 million people watching?

    Some people on here just astound me.
     
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  15. WestCoastGator

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    Thanks, it really was that bad. And I'm still not over it.
     
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  16. apkgator

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    Apparently the refs in the AFC championship game didn't get the memo since the Chiefs OL was flagged for 3 holding penalties
     
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  17. GatorNorth

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    Well if it’s “rigged” they failed miserably in the “biggest markets” component-SF (13th) and KC (31st) arent even in the top dozen MSA’s in the US, all of which have NFL teams.

    This whole “the NFL is rigged” is complete nonsense.
     
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  18. jhenderson251

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    I say this with as much kindness as I can express: message boards are not a proxy or substitute for therapy.
     
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  19. archigator_96

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    The NFL and the SB is not rigged. However, going into it the outcome that happened was as expected. If you want to call it fate or the gods intervening that's fine but the chefs were going to win that game even as poorly as they played. The 49ers had to come back to win both against Green Bay and Detroit to get to this position. The chefs beat both Buffalo and Baltimore more easily and should have won the SB by more.
    The outcome should come as no surprise. Even if the niners made that earlier extra point to make it a 4 point game, Mahomes would have just converted the 4th down for a TD and won in regulation anyway instead of going for the field goal to tie it.
     
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  20. antny1

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    Of course which is why I said it isn't. They have rooting interests but that's it. The NFL wants no part of a Carolina vs jacksonville superbowl lol but they can't control it if and when it happens.
     
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