Entertaining for neutral fans, but I have never EVER seen this happen in the NFL

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    10 months ago

    I’m just going to throw out that Big Ben rushing TD in super bowl XL for consideration.

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    10 months ago

    What people apparently don’t remember is that we punted the ball anyway on literally the next set of downs and this “outrage” did not actually impact the game at all

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    10 months ago

    Anyone who watched the Eagles Cowboys game last Sunday saw it to. The Eagles have got lots of ref calls this season… The Miami game being another case of that.

    The NFL is so obvious with their biases at times, it’s crazy

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    10 months ago

    Whenever the idea of rigged games comes up, I point to the almost 30 years of the Cowboys not making the Super Bowl. If there is any franchise the networks and the league would want to see in the big game from a ratings standpoint, it is the Dallas Cowboys. Yet despite the Cowboys’ success in getting into the playoffs many times over that period, the powers that be never rigged it for them to make it to the Super Bowl. Doesn’t make sense to me. Unless the games aren’t rigged.

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    10 months ago

    this one of those things where no one knew what the hell was happening and then people immediately jumped to “rigged” and refused to change their minds when it was explained what happened.

    a few minutes later on the same broadcast they clearly showed one of the refs coming in from the seconary blowing the play dead before the ball was snapped. thats it, the play didnt count. there was no extra play.

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    10 months ago

    I’m still of the opinion Bengals should have been at Super Bowl. I remember being oddly disgusted with that game.

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    10 months ago

    Why TF would the NFL rig the game for the Chiefs? That’s always been so stupid to me. The NFL and particularly the Super Bowl are always gonna get ridiculous ratings no matter who’s on. And it’s not like The Bengals are an unpopular team or anything right now. It serves no purpose to them. People who believe this stuff is rigged invest too much mental energy into gambling.