Not really an outright rigging/skepticism/conspiracy comment, but something that I saw today which might explain more than a few things regarding the present state of the NFL, including matters in which games are probably manipulated or outright rigged.
During the last part of last night's 30-3 blowout by the Tennessee Titans over the Jacksonville Jaguars (long after the game was really decided), the coaches were asked, by the referees, to call time outs to satisfy the advertising commitments of the Monday Night Football game.
It turns out, according to Terry McCormick of the Tennessee Titan blog Titaninsider.com, that this is standard operating procedure!!
(Quoting from the Yahoo! Shutdown Corner blog article, referenced above... This is apparently from Titan coach Jeff Fisher's press conference, yesterday:)
"At the two-minute warning in every game in the fourth quarter, there are conversations that go by. There's conversations that take place at the two-minute warning before the first half. But there's conversations that take place, and it's the official's responsibility to give the head coach a status of commercials and TV timeouts," Fisher said. "Yesterday, I was told that they were two short. And they looked at me and smiled, and I said, 'Sorry, I can't help you.' Mike Carey came across and said, 'Here's the deal. We're two short.' And I said, 'Mike, I can't help you. I'm trying to get a first down and I'm gonna kneel on it.'"
Oh boy.
Oh -- my...
If this is basically going on in every game, it makes you wonder what else might be going on in many of these "contests".
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