Many people had known the outcome of that Super
Bowl 55 as early as December of 2020 (2 months
prior), because the rigging of some playoff game
results had already been set up. The National Football
League had been rigging games to make the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers the first team to win a super bowl in
their own stadium, and to make Tom Brady the oldest
player to win the Super Bowl MVP. Tom Brady has
traditionally been a personal favorite of NFL
Commissioner Roger Goodell. Goodell has openly
compared the NFL to World Wrestling Entertainment
several times previously, as that making fairy tales out
of the game like this is entertainment. This in his own
words, meets the bottom line of the league’s biggest
sponsors and satisfies the growing sports betting
industry.
Officiating crews of the NFL also agree that this is good
to make up for the lost revenue from lacking fan
attendance over the years. Scripting and rigging games
also make scheduling easier and makes booking
games earlier. Then again, their jobs are much easier
than the players and they get paid more, so there is no
longer any incentive for them to be concerned with
missed calls and bad decisions often affecting the
careers of players and coaches who work so hard to
train for and prepare for games. Talent in great players
like Tom Brady gets overshadowed by rigged games.
Players can be overrated no matter how good or bad
they are.
Many football fans have eventually become wise to
this. Such fans who love the sport for the game and not
the theater, are very unhappy about it (I being one of
such many fans) want football, not fairy tales. Super
Bowl 55 is one of many examples of rigged games.
Unfortunately, the NFL is not alone. The National
Basketball Association and Major League Baseball are
also staging and/or scripting their events more and
more as structured entertainment, rather than
spontaneous sports based on the hard work of the
players and coaches who formally put so much time
and work into preparation. This has been mainly
influenced by the gambling industry, the misuse of
money in sports and management decline of interest in
athletic challenge.
Most fans would not have noticed a thing if not for all
the political statements and actions in games, which
have made things more conspicuous. In addition, woke
sports had come along, and has contributed to the lost
revenue in contracts and attendances.
Another consequence in all theses it is the loss of
morale in players, which has led to less effort, shotty
training, more time out and higher demands in pay
regardless of how much they deserve it. Many major
team sporting events now become way to predictable
and less exciting and enjoyable to the fan, so what’s
left.
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