A Case Study: How To Ensure A Result If Your Team Is Supposed To Lose

(All videos will be linked.)

I'm sure this is going to get a lot from "Unknown" and the people who swear that there's NO WAY these games can be rigged, manipulated, thrown, etc.

I'm going to take you on a tour of a bunch of plays from several key college and professional games this weekend:

We'll start in Alabama and the Iron Bowl.

No one is going to confuse this Alabama Crimson Tide team with some of the more dominant teams they've had in the last 5-10-15 years.

But you're down 10-3 in the fourth quarter, and Auburn is one first down from pinning your second loss on you at 6-6.

We'll start at the start of this video, as CBS is replaying what probably was the main crux of Auburn throwing the 2021 Iron Bowl to Alabama to benefit the Southeastern Conference and attempt to create a situation of five teams to fit in four so that the CFP Committee can exclude Cincinnati.

How does #4 for Auburn, Tank Bigsby, have ANY BUSINESS near the sideline on that sequence??  How does he have an ounce of inkling to be anywhere near where the clock can be stopped unless he is ACTIVELY THROWING THE GAME?

2:05 of the video:  NO RELEVANT DEFENSE WHATSOEVER FOR THE OVERTIME TOUCHDOWN for Alabama.

3:02 of the video:  Auburn's 3 offensive plays of the second OT:  Stuff, stuff, sack/near-fumble.  No effort made to advance the ball in any feasible respect.

4:32 of the video:  The ending conversion for Alabama's win.  No defense.  None.  Nada.  Zero.

Though I do not agree with everything Pat Truthner says on his conspiracy videos, he has opened my eyes to the concept of what he calls the "Slop Play".  A "Slop Play" is a play where it is clear to anyone with open eyes that insufficient (if any) effort is being made.

You want another great example of a "Slop Play"?  Let's go to Bedlam, and the punt which changed everything in favor of Oklahoma State.

3:55 of the video, one of the #0's -- there is more than one, another #0, just earlier in the video, got a key taunting call after getting an interception to stop a Oklahoma State drive. -- alligator-muffs a punt inside the 5 yard line and Oklahoma State recovers for eventually what would lead to the winning touchdown.

1) Why is he fielding a punt inside the 5?

2) If he's going to field the punt, can he at least make a remote effort to catch the ball?

That is, unless...

And the pro games had a goodie too:

34-26 San Francisco, 4th and goal for Minnesota from the SF, and your professional quarterback lines up under...  Right Guard!!!

Burns a timeout, the pass falls incomplete, and 34-26 is eventually your final!!!

I want you to watch those plays, and then I want you to ruminate on the following:

On a college level, the NCAA is purporting these as students at college.  Men who are working toward advanced degrees, requiring intelligence and acuity (yes, you may stop and laugh at any point of that, but the point I'm making is that this is what the NCAA is trying to present to you as valid)...

The NFL is purporting these as the smartest, most athletic men in the world.

Under either of these premises:  HOW IN THE FUCKING HELL CAN YOU DRAW ANY OTHER CONCLUSION THAN THAT THE GAMES ARE BEING FIXED/RIGGED/THROWN, WITH THE FULL ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE ATHLETES INVOLVED??

And if you don't think a player would throw an Iron Bowl or a Bedlam or whatever -- why not???  What repercussions are being suffered by these players when it is clear they are, if we are to believe the baseline and want to believe the games are legitimate, dangerously incompetent to that end as an inescapable conclusion???