The NFL is rigged

[kramer1]

can't two people be paid to lie about something, in just as shady a manor as what you are claiming the payouts for people to shut up about it are gaining?

We can go on all day, I will never accept that the Superbowl is rehearsed.

I bet you think that power outage in last years Super Bowl was just a freak thing. Riiiiiiiight.

I have a bridge to sell ya too.

 

[RobToxin]

So, you are going to tell me that former players are willing to sue the NFL for head injuries....

and yet not one of them would leak this out?

Yeah.....

 

[kramer1]

LOL...you can't make up the timing of this...

Reche Caldwell, former NFL WR, was just arrested on charges of running an illegal casino and BOOKMAKING. I'm sure he wasn't involved in any of this while in the league, though. Riiiiiiiiight.

 

[kramer1]

So, you are going to tell me that former players are willing to sue the NFL for head injuries....

and yet not one of them would leak this out?

Yeah.....

The players are employees. You do what your employer tells you to. The NFL is good at covering shit up.

Hell, Penn State covered up their coach raping boys for 14 years. Don't be so naive.

 

[RobToxin]

The players are employees. You do what your employer tells you to. The NFL is good at covering shit up.

Hell, Penn State covered up their coach raping boys for 14 years. Don't be so naive.

The only being naive is someone believing that all those Saints players would have fallen in line and not said a word about this after what Goddell did to them over Bountygate.

Oh, or was that also part of the WWE script you are trying to sell everyone?

 

[TKOSpikes]

I bet you think that power outage in last years Super Bowl was just a freak thing. Riiiiiiiight.

I have a bridge to sell ya too.

I bet you don't.

I have a bible to sell ya...

 

[RoboticDreams]

 

[kramer1]

Dan Moldea wrote a book on Jimmy Hoffa, becoming the first reporter to link the former Teamsters president and two mobsters to the JFK assassination.[50] Nothing happened. No death threats. No cement shoes. He wrote another book detailing Ronald Regan's mafia ties. Again, nada. No blowback. Favorable reviews.
He then wrote a book connecting the NFL and organized crime, 1988's "Interference."

"That book," Moldea says, "ended my career."

Moldea may be exaggerating. Or not. He digs into an omelet, tomatoes on the side. We're sitting in a Washington, D.C. diner, an inconspicuous spot near American University, a few miles north of the mailbox where convicted spy and former CIA agent Aldrich Ames once left chalk marks to request meetings with his KGB handlers.

Moldea is definitely not crazy. Quite the contrary. Wearing a black polo shirt under a gray suit jacket, he looks like what he is: an old school investigative journalist. He prefers documents and interviews to speculation and intuition. Two of his other books -- one on the RFK assassination, the other on the death of former White House attorney Vince Foster -- disprove longstanding conspiracy theories. He is seasoned and smart, stubborn and unafraid.

He says he should have known better than to pen "Interference."

Moldea's father, Emil, warned him. From his deathbed. A former Ohio State football player and roommate of pro Hall of Famer Dante Lavelli, Emil tried to shoot down the idea just hours before losing his battle with pancreatic cancer. "Don't write that goddamn book," the 64-year-old told his son. "It will break your heart."

"He knew raw power would come at me," Moldea says. "Like a rifle shot."



Moldea wrote "Interference" anyway. The contents were explosive. No fewer than 26 past and then-present NFL team owners with documented personal and/or business ties to members of the gambling community and/or organized crime.[51] No fewer than 50 legitimate investigations of league corruption either suppressed or killed due to a sweetheart relationship[52] between NFL Security[53] and law enforcement.
Moldea confirmed that Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom really did bet on his own team in the 1958 NFL championship game, taking the points and wagering $1 million.[54] He found that Rosenbloom likely gambled another million on his club to win Super Bowl III. He corroborated evidence -- originally obtained via separate IRS and FBI investigations -- suggesting that two league referees helped fix no fewer than eight NFL games.[55] In Las Vegas, Moldea met with bookie Don Dawson, who admitted he personally conspired with NFL players in at least 32 games that had points shaved or were dumped outright.
"I didn't put [everything I had] in the book because I didn't want lawsuits," he says. "Dawson talked a lot about [former NFL quarterback] Bobby Layne. I wrote fairly mild stuff about Layne. I got a call one night from a guy who identified himself as Layne's son. He said he hired a hit man to come kill me."

Looking back, Moldea says he was naïve. He knew the NFL would attack him. But he figured there were honest people he could trust, like then-NFL Security head Warren Welsh.[56] Moldea began his book tour at Las Vegas' Stardust Hotel. He says he invited Welsh to his room, laid out his Dawson tapes and documents, went downstairs to give an interview. He returned to find Welsh shaking his head. "Jesus Christ, Dan. You just made my job so difficult."
The two men went to the lobby. Welsh hailed a cab to the airport. Before getting in, he turned to Moldea. "He says to me -- and I'll never forget this -- 'Dan, we gotta destroy you now,'" Moldea says.

Next came the bullets. Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell called Moldea a "sick muckraker." The league dismissed "Interference" as tabloid journalism, a collection of half-truths, rumors and distortions.[57]
The most damaging attack came from a New York Times book review, penned by veteran NFL beat writer Gerald Eskenazi. Eskenazi[58] accused Moldea of "sloppy journalism," a career death blow at the time;[59] Moldea responded by pointing out factual errors in Eskenazi's review and demanding a retraction. The paper stood by the article. Moldea sued for libel, claiming Eskenazi's opinion was based on provably false facts. The case became a five-year ordeal, a First Amendment flashpoint that nearly reached the Supreme Court,[60] with almost every major national media organization lined up against Moldea -- in theory, to protect free speech -- and a U.S. Court of appeals ruling for Moldea before reversing its own decision.
"I wanted to fight the NFL," he says. "Instead, I went to war with the New York Times. They ran interference[61] for the league. Usually, people cheer for David. No one was cheering for me."
Things got worse. And more suspicious. Moldea discovered that Sandy Smith -- a Washington Post book reviewer who had slammed "Interference" -- was in the middle of a lawsuit against Moldea's publisher. Representing Smith? Bill Hundley, a former chief of NFL Security. The 1992 book "Alien Ink" detailed a covert FBI program that "reviewed" -- read: sabotaged -- authors and their published works. "Interference" was among the targets. In 1996, Moldea filed a FOIA request; resulting documents revealed that the FBI placed him under investigation just days after his book's release and that the special agent heading the inquiry was Mitt Ahlerich, a man who later became head of NFL Security.

"When you get involved in something like this, your worst fear is that you run up to people in the street and grab them by the lapels and want to explain your half of the story," Moldea says. "I didn't get quite that bad. But it was close."

Moldea can live with paranoia. Every investigative reporter, he says, believes there is some force out there screwing with his or her life.[62]
What still bugs him about "Interference" is this: During his 13-city book tour, he brought his tapes and notes to every stop. Ready to open up. Lay things out. Only no one asked to see his evidence, pick up the baton, investigate further.

Moldea mentions another court case, this one involving the NFL and game-fixing. Says he testified as an expert witness, along with key law enforcement people.[63] Says the case was ultimately settled, and sealed, and that the depositions would give me a full-on heart attack ... but if I really want to see them, he just might be able to help me. "Play this wrong, and it's a quick way to destroy your career," he adds. "You're talking to a cautionary tale here. I'm not kidding around. This is dangerous [expletive]."
The FBI. The NFL. The media. The courts. The hidden hand writ large. Do I want to take them on? Am I crazy? Moldea thumbs his cellphone. He offers to help.

"I have an up-to-date number for Warren Welsh. I think he might be ready to talk. If you want Warren's number, call me."

I force a brave smile. But I know I never will

 

[JDM]

It is not ILLEGAL for the NFL to fix it's own games. They are classified as "entertainment." They cannot, in any way, be prosecuted by ANY ENTITY for fixing their own outcomes.

You simply do not know what you're talking about and you need to educate yourself.

Because they set that precedent in the case you mentioned.

The coverup you're talking about? That's where the illegality comes in. It would be impossible to keep that many mouths quiet without illegal action, and lots of it.

 

[JDM]

Completely rigged. I suppose these guys are lying, though. Right? Right?

Two NFL replacement referees tell Inside the NFL why certain calls weren't made - National Sports Conspiracy | Examiner.com


Then, on Showtime's Inside the NFL, two former replacement referees told hosts James Brown and Cris Collinsworth that not only did the NFL instruct its officials not to call pass interference on Hail Mary plays (like the blatant one on Monday Night Football between the Packers and Seahawks in Week 3), but that there are "philosophies" behind when and when not to throw a flag. This means, in short, that the NFL dictates to its officials how to call a game...and therefore how to manipulate it.

Can you read? Philosophies on when to call fouls is based on the rhythm of football. You don't call borderline penalties when that penalty decides a game. But if a quick personal foul early is what you will need to keep the players from killing each other, you probably throw it.

That's what philosophies are, not "give this team the win".

 

[TKOSpikes]

This just in!! NFL referee sneaks David Tyree some glue for the top of his helmet, to ensure the Patriots go 18-1, and lose the Superbowl!

The Bills "refuse" to get a capable Quarterback, as to ensure their basement status in the state of New York....or are they just paid more?

NFL is happily anticipating an upcoming blockbuster movie, "The Back Side", telling the story of Jerome Bettis' rigged ride to his hometown Superbowl win! Big Ben's shoestring tackle on JB's fumble had nothing to do with it!

Now I know why Jim Fassel made that prediction... he put all his chips in because he knew!


...and so what if articles are printed minutes before something, that's common practice, to get it out first... you don't think championship hats and shirts are made of the losing teams?

I'm so done with this (as I'm sure you're done with me).

 

[alf8478]

The only being naive is someone believing that all those Saints players would have fallen in line and not said a word about this after what Goddell did to them over Bountygate.

Oh, or was that also part of the WWE script you are trying to sell everyone?

1-The league need a new villain, so it can have a redemption story for this season.
2-Manning was supposed to win that Super Bowl and the Saints blew it.

 

[TKOSpikes]

I'm so done with this (as I'm sure you're done with me).

except for this...

Of course TV ratings are more important than fans in the seats... if you owned a restaurant, would you rather make money only from the customers in that restaurant, or rake in cash as a billion people watch you cook?


and one more thing.. since "all" sports was referenced; the Spurs would not be in the finals so much if it were up to David Stern or whatever powers that be to whom you are referring.

 

[DanBengalfan]

you know dang well Ric Flair is getting paid to comment on football games now. otherwise who would give a rats a$$ what he has to say.

 

[TBBishop]

So what needs to happen for it to be fixed for the Lions? With everything the city and the franchise has been through you would think the Lions would be prime candidates for your theory.

 

[redseat]

and we're talking about something wrong within the NFL? $185, 000, 000.00? That is the most pathetic attempt to get rich I've ever heard of...how it got that far in court is what's wrong in the world, that, someone suing a restaurant for hot coffee, a driver coming to an immediate stop to get hit from behind resulting in "whiplash", congress more worried about Barry Bonds than George Bush...

humans

When people (or in this case an organization like the NFL) have a buttload of money you will always get these obscene types if lawsuits asking for this kid of money.

 

[redseat]

The NBA is more rigged than the NFL

 

[briz almighty]

now this explains the steelers recent garbagebowls.

 

[kramer1]

The Heisman trophy winner QB of the undefeated #1 ranked team in college football is sailing passes 10 yards over his receivers heads.

Something stinks here. We'll see what happens as this game goes on....

 

[tallglassofwater007]

If you think there's a chance that there has never been a disgruntled ex-player or coach to shed a light on this and that it exists, you're nuts.

Exactly. Every single person has been tight lipped the entire time? Hard to believe. I do think that there is some bias towards the stars of the league, but it is not fixed.