I’ve felt for some time that the NFL and NBA have many pre-arranged results. After the Patriots went 18–0 before losing the Super Bowl to a very mediocre Giants team, I was sure that gambling money had finally become too powerful a force to resist. Since then these two leagues in particular have devolved into just another form of WWE - a lot of theatrics with no real competitive value.
“I’ve felt for some time that the NFL and NBA have many pre-arranged results. After the Patriots went 18–0 before losing the Super Bowl to a very mediocre Giants team,”
As I recall they were playing the Colts that season and the Colts scored a go ahead TD with just a couple minutes left in the game. The TD was called back on some obscure rule that nobody had seen called before. Moving them back away from the goal line, and there-by taking away their chance for a TD before the game finished. Other wise Bellicheat an the crew would have been 17-1. That was when I decided the whole NFL season was fixed. Haven’t paid attention to the NFL since. BTW I was not a Colts fan but they were definitely cheated out of the win.
“After the Patriots went 18–0 before losing the Super Bowl to a very mediocre Giants team”
The last Patriots game of that season was against the Giants; they won 38-35. If there was ANY team that was going to beat them, it was the Giants. The Ravens were the only other team to come that close.