Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

X: Feds Launch Investigation into Browns vs. Packers Game after $1.1 Billion in Bets - Fixed Game?
X (NFC North News) ^

Posted on 09/22/2025 7:17:06 PM PDT by TigerClaws

NFC North News @NFCNorthNewss 🚨🚨BREAKING: The NFL is cooperating with Federal Investigators over potential match fixing by the #Packers.

This play in particular is what is raising red flags. A total of 1.1 BILLION was on Packers Moneyline, a record amount for the NFL.

Yikes. 😬


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Sports
KEYWORDS: fakenews; followthemoney; football; investigation; nfl; sports
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-43 next last
To: Racketeer
This caused the Phoenix Suns to lose a great chance to win the title that year.

The 2007 NBA fixing scandal involved referee Tim Donaghy who bet on games he officiated, including the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. An FBI investigation revealed Donaghy provided inside information to gamblers and influenced games to affect the point spread. Donaghy was convicted for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and transmitting wagering information, leading to a prison sentence and contributing to increased gambling policies and monitoring within the NBA.

21 posted on 09/22/2025 10:02:57 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Racketeer

I’d start at the 1985 World Series.

In the 1985 World Series, the Cardinals famously lost the series after a controversial call in Game 6, with Tudor giving up five runs in the decisive Game 7 loss.

I always felt Game 7 was fixed.

Tudor had a great year but he was purely a control pitcher, a left-handed Greg Maddux.

Tudor was easy to beat if the umpire squeezed the strike zone.

And Tudor was squeezed big time.

All the money was on the Cardinals and Tudor who had a big year.

The big money was mostly illegal back then and the bookies cleaned up as did the legal sports books.


22 posted on 09/22/2025 10:30:18 PM PDT by Biblebelter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

Rams, Eagles game
Narrowly beat the spread & some awful, suspect calls


23 posted on 09/22/2025 10:41:41 PM PDT by rainee (Drain the swamp!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

The 2007 Spurs-Suns playoff controversy centered on the suspensions of Suns’ players Amar’e Stoudemire and Boris Diaw for leaving the bench during a confrontation with Robert Horry, who had been issued a flagrant foul for hip-checking Steve Nash.

The controversy also involves claims by crooked former NBA referee Tim Donaghy that the series was influenced in the Spurs’ favor due to a referee supervisor’s dislike of Suns’ owner Robert Sarver.


24 posted on 09/22/2025 10:52:44 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rainee

The play that changed the money from one side to the other was the last play of the game, a blocked kick picked up and run in for a TD, nothing on that play was affected by a bad call


25 posted on 09/23/2025 12:31:29 AM PDT by srmanuel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Right_Wing_Madman

There are a couple books out there by sports fans with some knowledge of potential fixing shenanigans. Long and short is it takes less that you would think to accomplish it and these author fans still watch sports but only fir fun and with sadly no expectation that the games are matches of skill and luck only. For what it’s worth....


26 posted on 09/23/2025 1:48:35 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (hite sea. My grandfather shouted warning to anyone who would listen that the Titanic was going to st)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: SSS Two
The starting moneyline odds for the Packers vs. Browns game had the Green Bay Packers as heavy favorites, with the Packers listed at -450 to -445 on the moneyline, meaning a bet of $445 or $450 was required to win $100. The Browns were listed as +340 to +350 underdogs, offering a potential return of $340 or $350 for a $100 bet.

Starting money lines

You are right. If a billion dollars was bet on the Packers moneyline, that money went up in smoke because the Packers lost! I would also like to see what the allegation is then!

27 posted on 09/23/2025 2:09:26 AM PDT by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: dangus; TigerClaws

:: A big casino fixing a sporting event? Inconceivable! (But then I’m pretty certain the word doesn’t mean what I think it means.) ::

Primae Facia evidence: Super Bowl XLVII


28 posted on 09/23/2025 3:07:08 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (There are no more conspiracy theories, only questions that further the truth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

Didn’t something like this happen a century ago with MLB baseball?


29 posted on 09/23/2025 3:13:39 AM PDT by fso301
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

Its for entertainment only. That is what the NFL has been saying in court for 50 years. Why should we be surprised?


30 posted on 09/23/2025 3:18:58 AM PDT by anton
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Az Joe
This caused the Phoenix Suns to lose a great chance to win the title that year.

The Phoenix Suns are always the bridesmaid and never the bride. They don't know how to win. That is their history.

31 posted on 09/23/2025 3:24:50 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Enterprise
Re: "The Packers lost."

Inside or outside the point spread?

32 posted on 09/23/2025 3:36:37 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: zeestephen

Went off at Browns +7…7 1/2


33 posted on 09/23/2025 5:19:54 AM PDT by wardamneagle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

Stupid satire account.


34 posted on 09/23/2025 6:14:45 AM PDT by rwilson99 (How exactly would John 3:16 not apply to Mary?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: zeestephen
"Inside or outside the point spread?"

This was a moneyline bet, so the point spread was not an issue. But to answer your question, the Packers started out as a -7.5 favorite. The final score was Browns 13, Packers 10. For Packers to have beat the spread, they needed to win the game by 21 to 13. As it was, for gambling purposes, they lost the game 13 to 2. (Rounded up to 8 for each score)

35 posted on 09/23/2025 7:32:50 AM PDT by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: TigerClaws

You should be given a time out for posting this crap.


36 posted on 09/23/2025 7:40:08 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dangus
A big casino fixing a sporting event? Inconceivable!

Sportsbooks make money on the juice. Sportsbooks win regardless of the outcome of the game. If the Sportsbooks were worried that too much money was being bet on the Packers, they could just adjust the moneyline to make it a less attractive bet.

37 posted on 09/23/2025 9:18:37 AM PDT by SSS Two
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Right_Wing_Madman

‘07 was their year. The crooked ref said the head ref, Tommy Nunez, San Antonio resident, hated the Suns. The bias on foul calling was extremely obvious.

Commissioner Stern f’d us with the suspensions. Once the Suns had gotten past the Spurs it would have been easy to win it all that year. Definite screw job


38 posted on 09/23/2025 9:51:14 AM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: SSS Two

Do you actually believe that every bet made in Las Vegas is made between two completely independent people, neither of which have any ties to the casino, nor anyone whom the casino has any interest in?


39 posted on 09/23/2025 10:22:03 AM PDT by dangus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: dangus
Do you actually believe that every bet made in Las Vegas is made between two completely independent people, neither of which have any ties to the casino, nor anyone whom the casino has any interest in?

I'm not sure what you're saying. I addressed sportsbooks (casinos & legitimate online betting) only.

40 posted on 09/23/2025 2:13:07 PM PDT by SSS Two
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-43 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson