it is frankly impossible to meet the requirements of what you seem to be calling "rigging"
you seem to expect it to be outright and OBVIOUS altering of things within the game to favor one side over another...but you can't do that because then it would be SO obvious, so you have to do it in back alley sort of ways
and if you don't see the back alley sort of ways that the league HAS in FACT been doing it, you haven't been paying attention (or reading a lot of posts in this thread)
but for arguments sake, why dont YOU, OP, explain to US what in your eyes would qualify as rigging, how would you know it was happening, etc
>>but for arguments sake, why dont YOU, OP, explain to US what in your eyes would qualify as rigging, how would you know it was happening, etc
First of all I am simply commenting on what a lot of other fan bases are saying on boards, probably just because they are pissed. But I am more specifically referring to the more idiot ones who actually think the players are like actors in a play. (Those are exact words from one Bronco fan, who actually said he was depressed because he is "finally accepting" that that is what his favorite sport is like, fake.)
Rigged? So by your post you are saying that on some levels some things are going on.. I think you are wrong, at least on an official, league, team, conspiracy type level.
My reasons for thinking you are wrong are many. The biggest though is that it simply is not in the best interest of any of their enterprises. (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL) ANY level of it is fake would be KISS of DEATH for these leagues. If you think that is going on there is a Flat Earth society for you as well.
Other examples of why you are wrong, is the fact that the times when stuff occasionally does happen (Black Sox scandal, point shaving players on the take, corrupt refs) they are seen as tremendous black marks and are considered shameful.
SO, you say that in back alley ways the league is doing **** to determine outcomes of their games, which would be a majorly damaging thing to do to their own product. The burden of proof would be on you not me, since you are making the rather blatant claim of it as fact. There is no burden on me, to take these leagues at their word, that their sports' games are on the up and up, and real competition. You are the one making the remarkable claim, not me.