OCCULT SPORTS: It's Legal To Rig NFL Games. So Do They? All Evidence Points to Yes.

"All the world's a stage..." and so is the National Football League

I hate to deflate your illusions NFL NPCs, buuuuut….

[A version of this article was originally published on 8FEB2018 and remains active on MediaPost. This version has been revised and updated.]

"We all know, now that we’re grown men, that wrestling’s fake. Well, football is not played like it was when I played." — retired Houston Oilers running back and Hall of Famer Earl Campbell

"We're talking about a different NFL now ... before it was more about the game. Now it's such an entertainment business. It's turning into the WWE really. It's like the Vince McMahon stuff. Basically, [Roger] Goodell is like Vince McMahon." — Retired All-Pro Cleveland Browns tackle Joe Thomas

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Let’s say you were given an endless “Get Out of Jail Free” card. What would you do with it? Would you commit crimes? Steal? Kill somebody? Try to rule the world? Would you settle for, say, $17.2 billion a year?

That’s the luxurious position the NFL finds itself in when it comes to its court-granted right to fix the outcome of professional football games. There is no question the NFL has the legal right to fix a game. Any game, including the Super Bowl.

So, then, the real question becomes: Does it?

Just so we’re clear and you stop living in brainwashed ignorance: In 2007, the New England Patriots were caught cheating, videotaping opponents’ formations and coaching signals — even as the league tried to protect them, when evidence was destroyed by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Turned out the Patriots had been doing it for 10 years. A Jets fan and season-ticket holder, Carl Mayer, sued the New England team, asking for reimbursement to all Jets fans who went to those games.

He lost. But why did he lose?

If you read the brief one-paragraph explanation that ran in The New York Times on May 19, 2010, you’d only learn that “Mayer failed to prove any legal right to damages.”

OK, but why not? Digitally search your way around the internet and you’ll find explanations hard to come by from any sports, business or legal reporter in the controlled corrupt collectivist corporate media. But at least the court decision is online, and you can read it for yourself.

Since you probably won’t, here’s the tl;dr: The NFL argued, and the court agreed, that people who buy tickets to an NFL game have the contractual right to a seat to watch two teams play each other, and nothing else. The court even quoted Mayer’s ticket stub, which reads: “This ticket only grants entry into the stadium and a spectator seat for the specified NFL game.”

If the Patriots cheated to win that game, well, tough. Legally extrapolate that and it means: If any NFL outcome is fixed…well, tough.

Also in 2010, the same year, in a separate court case against the NFL over branded items like hats and shirts, the league presented itself not as 32 separate teams, but as “one singular business unit in the entertainment marketplace.”

Throughout that case, the NFL repeatedly positioned itself legally as a “sports entertainment” business, not a genuinely contested “sport.”

That’s a big difference. College football, for example, is legally classified as a “collegiate sport.” Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NHL are all legally classified as “professional sport.” The only other “sports entertainment” businesses are professional wrestling and roller derby.

“It’s totally not scripted, bro!”

Financials back up the NFL’s case that it operates as a single entertainment business unit. Some 75% of all revenue is shared equally among the NFL teams, far more than the NBA (roughly half) and Major League Baseball (about a third).

Thus, with the vast majority of NFL revenue coming via television rights, it most certainly behooves all teams to provide the best possible show in the “entertainment marketplace.”

So how’s that coming along? Well, there’s no question Super Bowl contests have become much more entertaining in the past 22 years — as these legal battles were playing out — than they were in the previous 35. To wit:

• From Super Bowl 1 to 35, nine games (25.7%) were decided by a touchdown or less. Two were decided by a field goal or less. The average win was by 16.7 points, more than two touchdowns.

• From Super Bowl 36 to 56 — or every Super Bowl since the 9/11 attacks — 12 of 21 games (57%) have been decided by a touchdown or less. Six were as close as a field goal or less. The average win was 9.2 points.

FWIW, nearly half of the Super Bowls since 9/11 have featured the red-white-and-blue Patriots of New England (nine of 21). Two of the 35 prior did.

Are the Patriots that good? No. We know for a fact they cheat, because they’ve been caught. But worse than that, until they lost Tom Brady, there was too much video evidence that showed, again and again, favoritism for the most “Patriotic” of American football teams.

Obviously, NFL results cannot be scripted as minutely as professional wrestling, and are far more “finessed” towards desired results than intricately orchestrated. But the overarching plan is to create the most compelling narrative for the season, like the New Orleans Saints’ surprising run after Hurricane Katrina, or the Patriots after 9/11 or what the Buffalo Bills nearly did after Covid-vaccinated safety Demar Hamlin died on the fie…pardon me, had that heart attack during a game. One of the sloppier psyops recently, which raised too many questions so they shifted the storyline towards the resurrected guy who used to have tattoos but now seemingly doesn’t for some reason (like George Floyd!) and put the Bills season to bed.

Dig the guy in the number “33” shirt named “Neal” who isn’t kneeling, as well as every other bizarre incongruity that went along with this blasphemous resurrection story, right down to the reborn dead guy tweeting “OMFG!!!!!” right after we spent days praying for his health.

Mostly the rigging is done through referees, who basically had their balls cut off after the 2012 lockout and now must sign NDAs and can’t talk to the media and only get one-year deals. But it surely happens through a few key players or coaches as well; look, for example, at the NFL arrest database, and how many "Resolution Undetermined"s there are. If the league has leverage over a player's future, most players would likely do whatever the league asks. 

When this story first appeared in MediaPost, there was a comment from a gentleman named Chris Rodgers, who wrote in part: “I'll point out other ‘fishy’ things. For example, an offense will have a critical 4th down and three yards to go, and suddenly the highly rated cornerbacks will play 9-11 yards off the wide receivers thereby giving up an easy slant pass play for the first down.

“I believe sometimes head coaches are told by their owners/ franchise to lose,” Rodgers continued “I'm thinking of the Atlanta - New England game a few years back when I think Atlanta was up 25 points at halftime. Halfway through the 3rd quarter I predicted a NE victory, as I turned it off. Then the next fall I saw my Minnesota Vikings get pounded by Philly. The defense was coached to lose. This was obvious as they did not do the things that got them to the playoff game, like disguising the defense, blitzing, bump n run, etc….”

So we’ve got the legal foundation. We’ve got circumstantial video evidence galore. The rest basically comes down to the NFL and Establishment sports media asking fans: “Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?”

But if you won’t believe your lying eyes, and you won’t believe me, will you believe the thinly veiled revelations of some of the game’s players? I airballed a couple atop this page; here are a couple more that have popped up in the past few years, with links to the original sources:

"[The NFL is] like a spectacle of violence, for entertainment, and you're the actors in it. You're complicit in that: You put on the uniform. And it's a trivial thing at its core. It's make-believe, really. That's the truth about it."-- former 49ers linebacker Chris Borland, who retired after a single season.

”The NFL is scripted, but they make us sign something, so we can’t go into detail…Tired of holding back…Who wants the full story?” — Ex-NFL player Benny Cunningham

So how’d you enjoy your NFL season, suckahs? Were you not… entertained?

I highly recommend Brian Tuohy's book The Fix Is In and its sequels, plus (+?) his website of the same name; as well as Dan Moldea's book Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football, which has some eye-popping documents acquired from the FBI under FOIA requests. 

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