I don't track every single foul.
And, yet, here you are... questioning the legitimacy of those very fouls that put the Celts into the bonus. Do you understand how ridiculous that looks? You can't name one foul that was called that was not legitimate, but they were the result of crooked officiating. Stop.
And yes they are fixed. To what level? I don't know for sure because nobody dares to ask the question or do any investigating. I supposed fixed may not be appropriate for every game, but is highly influenced a better term? I think there are some games that are played on the up and up. Put it this way. If on replay you or an announcer says...well, or hmmm or I don't...well then it was most likely an influence foul. Missing fouls is natural and SOME actual missed calls are natural as well. This is why a foul needs to be blatant and for the entire world to say yup, that was a foul and there are plenty of those.
There is no way the NFL, MLB, NBA, and whatever other sport you think is fixed would get away with fixing games in an era of social media where, if one farts the wrong way, a Tweet from 2009 is dug up. Who are they? The mob? Would people start dropping if they exposed these leagues? FFS, we have an Internet community so good at what they do (4chan) that they can identify a man based on some grainy video of his face after he opens fire into a crowd. And you think major sports leagues could get away with fixing games during an era like this when such a thing would, undoubtedly, be the biggest sports scandal of all time?
As far as when "my" team wins, I fully believe they overcome both. It's an anti-New England mentality in all leagues that drives the "influenced" calls. Again, just look how Brady is being treated in the media now, versus when he was in NE. I have head far more excuse making and more respect than he ever got in NE. Hell look at the 3 PI calls he got in one game, his first game that were extremely rare when he was in NE.
1. Nobody cares about New England outside of New England, let alone enough to try to fix sporting events against teams from that region.
2. If a game/sport is fixed against an opponent, the whole point of the fixing is so that opponent does not win. Point blank. There is no overcoming that. In the period of time in which you've accused the NFL of fixing games against the Patriots, they've been to nine Super Bowls and have won six. If the NFL fixed anything against the Patriots, they did the ****tiest job of all time.
Also, LA/LA is one market. LA/Denver at least grabs another market share which in the end will probably be much bigger than the former.
This is exceptionally incorrect. LA is a big basketball market. Denver is not. Kawhi and Paul George are big names. Jamal Murray and Jokic are not. The former going against LeBron/AD would almost assuredly smoke the latter going against the same duo. And yet the latter advanced anyway. That blows a massive hole in any "fixed" argument.
Again, Tony Brothers. 15-2 in Rap games. They won so it went to 16-2. Does that guy have any business officiating a Raptors playoff game? I mean its a running well known saying, if the NBA wants a result, send in Brothers or Foster.
What that tells me is the Raptors have been a good team over that period of time. Further, if the NBA wanted the Raptors to win, why wouldn't he have officiated Game 7?
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