Quote (GinJuxtaposition @ Dec 10 2022 08:47pm)

Of course games are fixed to some extent. Vegas, organized crime, e.t.c. try to sway things one way or another all the time. This is why they leave some things that could be done more accurately with technology as a judgment call by the ref, they can phone in a bullshit call and sway a game one way or another. It isn't, however, fake. There's no way you can fake something on that scale with that many people for that long, look at wrestling. The players and coaches are playing to win, the powers that be just nudge things in one direction or another so the "house" always wins.

Anybody who doesn't recognize this is naïve, in denial, or willfully ignorant, possibly all three. And this goes for every major sport. There's just too much money to be made, and when there's money to be made, there's people trying to game the system.

Quote (magikod @ Dec 10 2022 07:48pm)

bingo

aka the bullcrap call in the last superbowl against the bengals on 3rd and goal.

Quote (GinJuxtaposition @ Dec 10 2022 08:53pm)

Having said all that it's still very worth watching to me. The better team usually wins, and sustained success can't be blamed on the nudging of a third party one way or the other. The people who are good at football really are that good, sometimes he powers that be just phone something in to make a lot of shitty people very very wealthy.

Well, wealthier.

Quote (GinJuxtaposition @ Dec 10 2022 07:47pm)

Of course games are fixed to some extent. Vegas, organized crime, e.t.c. try to sway things one way or another all the time. This is why they leave some things that could be done more accurately with technology as a judgment call by the ref, they can phone in a bullshit call and sway a game one way or another. It isn't, however, fake. There's no way you can fake something on that scale with that many people for that long, look at wrestling. The players and coaches are playing to win, the powers that be just nudge things in one direction or another so the "house" always wins.

Anybody who doesn't recognize this is naïve, in denial, or willfully ignorant, possibly all three. And this goes for every major sport. There's just too much money to be made, and when there's money to be made, there's people trying to game the system.

Quote (BearGri11z @ Dec 11 2022 08:24am)

The earth is flat

Quote (Slowtoanger @ 9 Dec 2022 17:23)

So buffalo wild wings was right all along.

Quote (GinJuxtaposition @ Dec 11 2022 11:35am)

It's not, but you do you boo.

Quote (Cransational @ Dec 11 2022 12:21pm)

football is a sport