What's with the "NFL Rigged (NFCCG vid)" making the rounds on the web?

[sallynemo]

40WHINERS...have never lost a game outright...it's always they were robbed, the other team cheated, or the ref's were against 'them...

 

[Mondio]

Crying about calls after a game is so lame unless we're talking about the fail mary which is totally legitimate to complain about forever.

And Jerry Rice's " non-fumble" that led to the "catch II". That one is fair game too

 

[R.J. MacReady]

The only thing that raises an eye brow for me is considering the tens of millions in bets riding on the Super Bowl ....there has been a safety in the last 3 super bowls.

how many games in a season? 210 ..something like that?
Average amount of safety's in a season 10-15?

Sure seems odd.

 

[ram29jackson]

The only thing that raises an eye brow for me is considering the tens of millions in bets riding on the Super Bowl ....there has been a safety in the last 3 super bowls.

how many games in a season? 210 ..something like that?
Average amount of safety's in a season 10-15?

Sure seems odd.

power outage, New Orleans

 

[geezer]

40WHINERS...have never lost a game outright...it's always they were robbed, the other team cheated, or the ref's were against 'them...

You can confirm that by reading posts on their board. They got a handful of fans (every team does) who just don't live in reality.
Superbowl is only a few days old and the sports hate for the upcoming season has begun. The Niner's are a really good team but they got a percentage of their fan base that suffers from cranial rectumitis.

 

[WizardHawk]

Don't need to watch a 15 min video to know there were bad calls in the game. If you watch the coaches film you see missed and/or bad calls in every game. How many went Seattle's way? I don't know, but if it was 3-1 then it was 3-1. Would I prefer to win a game beyond a shadow of a doubt? Of course. No one wants a tainted win, but once it's in the can what are we supposed to do about it?

Any time you lose a game turning the ball over in every 4th quarter possession you really can't complain about the refs robbing you, even if there were heinous calls.

 

[octagondd]

I stomached about 5 minutes of it. Complete whining butthurt Niner fans. The video never shows the camera angles that actually show our TE get hit in the head for the PI or the angle that shows the RB's elbow down in front of the goal line the play before Iupati got hurt. I am sure there were plenty more in there but it was utter garbage.

The premise was rediculous that the NFL wanted the Seahawks in the SB over the Niners. Give me a break, there are way more Niner fans world wide than Seahawk fans so if the NFL wanted the juiciest matchup it would have been the Niners in the SB. Some of those fans just cannot take the fact that Kaep cannot get the job done. He is still too immature and just not a smart QB. Why throw on Sherman with 3 timeouts and 4 downs to get a TD?

 

[gohusk]

Yes, the PF on the hit was a bad call. But everyone who's watched the NFL this year knows if a guy gets a whiplash shot (clean or not) there's going to be a flag. And the drive was basically killed with a weak holding call on the Seahawks as well. Then there's the weak ass defensive holding call on Sherman, and instead of punting Kaep busts that big run. 49ers had all the chances in the world to win that game but they didn't.

 

[geezer]

No to mention Crabtree got away with pushing off and Sherman made the tip anyway. Why wasn't that in the video?
If I ever get to be such a stupid biased homer that I can't see a game as it is, please just slap me!
This kind of stuff just means the WHINER nickname will never go away. Bummer for those Niner fans who have showed a lot of class on these boards. Like making good on the avi bet.

 

[WizardHawk]

I don't believe in any of the conspiracy theory garbage. I don't believe that SB40 was intentionally given to the Steelers and I don't believe the league is involved in any other such bad calls. There are bad calls in every game in football. There is absolutely no doubt Seattle got hosed in that SB game and there have been dozens since then. Again, I have no idea if there were that many bad calls in this game they are whining about as I haven't looked into it and why would I? I do know that no order from the league caused Kaepernick to turn it over 3 times in the 4th quarter and that was the story of the game. Period.

 

[RoboticDreams]

Not to beat a dead horse but, this stupid vid continues to pop up on my FB timeline as promoted vids from Deadspin, Huff Post and Bleacher Report.

Really trying to get the word out eh fellas?

You realize you can hide the shit don't you? Spend more time worrying about that puke of team you support and stop your whining about the Niners. It's like all you ever talk about, dude.

 

[Mr. Tacoma]

How about that blatant offensive PI against Sherman right in front of the ref that didn't get called.

A simple mistake by the ref? Hardly! That one had the Illuminati's fingerprints all over it.

Think about it sheeple! Today a blatant offensive PI doesn't get called, tomorrow we're all living in FEMA concentration camps with our nuts hooked up to car batteries. Wake up!

 

[RoboticDreams]

How about that blatant offensive PI against Sherman right in front of the ref that didn't get called.

A simple mistake by the ref? Hardly! That one had the Illuminati's fingerprints all over it.

Think about it sheeple! Today a blatant offensive PI doesn't get called, tomorrow we're all living in FEMA concentration camps with our nuts hooked up to car batteries. Wake up!

I think they're called "residential centers."

 

[WhiteMamba]

Seattle is a small market team without a huge national following. How would the NFL benefit from cheating to send them to the Super Bowl?

The game got huge ratings but don't you think a Denver/San Fran SB would have drawn even more? I mean, San Fran has a way bigger following. Nitpicking bad or missed calls is all well and good but there needs to be motive for a conspiracy. I'm not seeing one.

 

[WhiteMamba]

Designated Market Area (DMA) Rankings

• 1 New York, NY
• 2 Los Angeles, CA
• 3 Chicago, IL
• 4 Philadelphia, PA
• 5 Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
• 6 San Francisco-Oak-San Jose, CA
• 7 Boston (Manchester), MA
• 8 Washington, DC
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• 12 Seattle-Tacoma, WA*******
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• 24 Raleigh-Durham (Fayetvlle), NC
• 25 Charlotte , NC
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• 27 Baltimore, MD
• 28 San Diego, CA
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• 30 Hartford & New Haven, CT
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• 32 Columbus, OH
• 33 Salt Lake City
• 34 Milwaukee, WI
• 35 Cincinnati, OH
• 36 San Antonio, TX
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• 47 Albuquerque-Santa Fe, NM
• 48 Louisville, KY
• 49 Memphis, TN
• 50 Jacksonville, FL

 

[WizardHawk]

Yeah, I'm not sure what he was talking about either. Seattle is not a small market, but it is a remote market. Many of the markets on the east coast have other metro areas within a reasonable drive to them. All we have is that crap hole portland to our south. And nothing else for hundreds of miles in any direction.

Still, there is a huge fan base for the Seahawks in Alaska. I believe they still have an alaska airlines flight that brings season ticket holders from up there down for every game. There is also a lot of following from Idaho to at least the Oregon border if not some Oregon residents.

We are not small, but we are remote and yet still have a wide following beyond just Seattle/Tacoma metro corridor.

 

[gohusk]

Some guy who can't stand the fact that the 49ers lost put together a lame video. And the sad thing is the first play he point out (the short on 3rd) was the fucking correct call.

1. He was short
2. They scored anyway the next down

Maybe there's more interesting crap as it goes along, but the bottom line is that Kaep wanted to challenge Sherman covering a mediocre receiver and it ended bad for them.

 

[Destroydacre]

I thought the officiating favored Seattle in the NFC championship, but to echo what a few others have said, I can't imagine that the NFL would have rigged either the NFC championship or the Super Bowl in favor of the Seahawks over the 49ers or Broncos respectively. Those are two of the most storied franchises in NFL history, meanwhile the Seahawks have been an afterthought for most of the franchise's 38 year existence (which I hate to say being a Seahawks fan, but it's true).

 

[AngryNiner]

Yeah, this video is kind of embarrassing.
The NFL would have a lot to lose if word got out that they were rigging games. No way they would take the chance of ruining their crediblity to make a few extra bucks. Just would not be worth it to them at all.
Also how can you take this guy serious if he is making claims like the "The NFL has been rigging games since the early 2000's". I'd like to check your references on that one.
The officiating was just bad in this game but that happens all the time. Niners still had chances to win and couldnt. simple as that.

 

[AngryNiner]

Some guy who can't stand the fact that the 49ers lost put together a lame video. And the sad thing is the first play he point out (the short on 3rd) was the fucking correct call.

1. He was short
2. They scored anyway the next down

Maybe there's more interesting crap as it goes along, but the bottom line is that Kaep wanted to challenge Sherman covering a mediocre receiver and it ended bad for them.