Posted on 01/25/2025 10:25:38 AM PST by Enterprise
On Friday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about the NFL playoffs.
Marlow said, “You guys know the NFL just rigs it for the Chiefs, right? Because they need to have Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl. … [T]hat does seem real, right? … I don’t follow sportsball that close. I haven’t watched any football this year, I don’t think. … I’ve seen some of the calls.”
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That’s funny but sometimes I wonder.
The NFL hasn’t been entertaining in about 20 years. Probably the last time I watched a game. The WWE is more real.
Absurd!
You can’t rig @#@#@ing getting touchdowns or not
You can make or not make a few penalty calls for sure.
But Buffalo beat them during the year and if a team wins convincingly, refs won’t matter.
I’d worry more about fumbling and throwing INTs than a “fix”
I’m sick of KC winning and one or two calls do go their way during a game.
Not enough for it to be a “fix”.
For the record, I am of course skeptical of this.
Yeah. Would be difficult to do and fairly easy to prove.
Buffalo lost 4 SBs in a row. They are big time jinxed. But you never know this could be the year. They were AFL champions in 1964 and 65 so there is that little bit of glory but I was too young to recall any of it.
Nonsense. Patrick Holmes should win because . . . he’s Patrick Holmes. And the Taylor Swift thing just means everything is right in the universe. Everyone should just be thankful you are alive to witness this great event.
“Because they need to have Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl”. Who wouldn’t want to have Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark at the Super Bowl?
Ummm... Patrick Mahomes. ;-P
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
We don’t need Taylor Swift—anywhere!
The Super Bowl is over, and Ohio State won.
Sign me up for Sidney Sweeny.
KTHXBYE
Never forget watching the 1999 NFC championship game. Dierdorf made the comment before the game “Does anybody really think the NFL is going to allow the Bucs to win today after Tennessee won the AFC championship”? His reasoning was with Tenn and Tampa Bay having the worst offenses in the league, no one would watch a 6 - 3 Super Bowl. Then after the infamous Emmanuel catch and miscall Dierdorf said “ ahh the fix is in”.
Tim Donahghe (crooked NBA ref) used to say he was good for about 6 points a game. Couldn’t make it too obvious. Think NFL refs are good to extend a drive or 2, but that’s about it.
Also, that Miami coach firing (Rhoades?) that became a racial thing... interesting part was him saying Owner told him to lose games and he refused. Some games, the play calling on offense and defense do often look conveniently scripted.
Also, NFL is registered as entertainment, not a sport. So even if there is a bit of rigging, can’t complain much, they register the same as WWE.
I think the Taylor Swift angle played out last year. For interest in the league going forward it’d be better if Bills won. Makes a real rivalry. That’s how I’d script it anyway
“The NFL hasn’t been entertaining in about 20 years. Probably the last time I watched a game. The WWE is more real.”
Most sports are in the dumpster.
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