The truth about the NFL

[DjMe]

Sad that this is going over so many people's heads.
Doesn't help that the original video is so far out of left field with their speculation about why the NFL wanted certain teams to win.
To those of you that think the players have something to do with this... come on man. They are at the whims of the agents who can control the outcomes of games: officiating crews.
It doesn't even need to be that many. There can be 9 clean refs for every 1 foul, but if that snake is the head of an officiating crew, a game will be called a certain way.
On any given Sunday, the league may have a vested interest in 3 teams winning. 3-4 officials can take care of that with ease.
Do you really think this multi multi multi billion dollar ENTERTAINMENT organization is going to leave to chance a playoff bracket that could feature the Buffalos, the Clevelands, the Jacksonvilles, and the St. Louis's of the world fighting for the Super Bowl in half empty stadiums?
Nah.
Having a kid opened my eyes to this fukkery big time: I watch the games on mute now, and have them on in the background.
Without the idiot announcers and beer commercials every 20 seconds, you can catch the flow of the game. You can see how disjointed the action is--there is no "momentum" no rhythm, no nothing. It's 5 plays, commercial, 5 plays, commercial. For 3 and a half hours. If a call is atrocious, they take a tv time out, find the best angle to make it look like it was a good call (or show nothing) and then move on with the show... errrrrr game.
If it's getting too far out of hand, the game is called closer to give the trailing team a chance to catch up.
Same 7 teams are on prime time games every year, they never have "down" years.
Its literally turned into an absolutely awful product, I don't even want to call it a sport.
College ball is infinitely more compelling, and Silver seems like he smells blood in the water and wants the NBA squeeky clean so it can lop the head off of the NFL.
Good riddance.
I tell anyone who listens--in about 10-15 years, the NFL either won't exist, or it will be as popular as soccer is in america right now.
Participation rates are dropping, and they won't get any better any time soon.
fukk the nfl.

 

[concise]

Yep, it's those type of calls especially on critical drives. 3rd down plays is when it occurs most. Greenbay gets so much help it's crazy. If you are stopping them and playing physical D the refs will back you off with illegal contact, PI type of calls. Destroys your teams mindset and game plan and you get ran through. They do tons of holding and rarely called for it.

The game that changed me was a Detroit vs Greenbay game with Favre and Samkon Gado. Detroit was winning/tied and in control of the game. The play would've pretty much sealed a win for the Lions. A first time win for Detroit in Greenbay since the 90s. Packers were backed up against their goal line. Gado was hit in the backfield in the endzone on a stretch play. He fumbled the ball forward in an effort not to get a safety because his progress had been stopped.
Detroit recovered the ball and scored a td basically putting the game out of reach.

Instead, the refs removed the td and or safety from intentional grounding, a holding call that still should have made the play a safety, fumble recovery and fumble itself. Changed it to a "forward pass" that landed incomplete so Greenbay could have a chance to win later in the game.



Lions vs. Packers - Game Recap - December 11, 2005 - ESPN

This post had me look up what Samkon Gado is up to and if he's still in the league.

Looks like he moved on with his life and is a doctor now.

“In the NFL, it was easy to think that you’d reached life’s ultimate goal. But in reality the NFL was only a means to an end and needed to be treated as such. Medical school is the same way. Also the temptation to feel like I didn’t belong was great, but I had to consider that there was so much scrutiny involved in my selection on the team that someone believed in me enough to put me on the squad. Similarily, in medical school, I had to remind myself that I worked hard and met the requirements and I belonged here.”

MUSC medical student meets goals as athlete, physician