Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Day (2)10 (Part 1): A Decade

You are not going to believe this, but, yes I did check...

TODAY is the TENTH ANNIVERSARY of the beginning of Super Fraud.

October 7, 2010 was the first post on this blog.

And this blog has basically gone completely off the rails I had originally intended it.  I'm not even sure I meant this as a long-term project.  My ORIGINAL INTENT was to use this blog as a case study of the then-44 Super Bowls to establish how many of them were fixed, rigged, manipulated, tampered, whatever have you.

Well, I never really got there.

Why?

If you had told me the kinds of things we would find out in the last 10 years about sports and the true machineries behind it, I would look at you and wonder why we even watch another sporting event, whether that level be professional or our nephew's youth basketball league.

I don't know when I finally openly converted the blog to a running commentary on match-fixing, game-rigging, the politics (both literal and simply sports-related) behind sports, etc.  It may have always had that bent (my second post was from no less than Brent Musberger commenting on the effectiveness of steroids in sports -- and even if he hadn't meant it as an endorsement, it WAS a material endorsement of same!)

Now, I make no warranty that I ever break stories around here.  I don't have the "secret sources" around to break that final chain that's going to cause the entire house of cards to come down for any one sports league specifically with respect to game-rigging, or to the American Sports Machine.

That doesn't mean I haven't seen some awful zingers in ten years:

And that's just about the first four years.  More to come...

1 comment:

  1. The 2010's was the decade that I moved completely away from college sports, and I am proud of that. Brian Tuohy is right (this is what he wrote in his book The Fix is Still In): College sports need to be eliminated completely in this country.

    The name Penn State has been tarnished forever. Rape-Lor is another black eye, as well as Florida St (which I have referred to as BB-Gun U. There were players running around in the Rapeis era around Tallahassee shooting people with BB-Guns, and they didn't get punished).

    Also, pro sports have been a joke for a long time, with the Pats and Astros cheats and all the fixing in the NBA (the wretched ball hog era and the 00-02 Flukers are prime examples). In addition, the NHL had a disgrace with their needing teams in sun belt areas, and their fixing of the 2018 playoffs (getting Vegas there undeservedly).

    Keep up the good work. I hope you can stay on for another ten.

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