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Come on, does everyone actually think that when you watch the NFL, you are seeing the "best team" win all the time? Certain teams make more money for the NFL than others. Those moneymakers will get help from officials along the way. There are certain storylines that draw big ratings for the NFL, and the officials will help along the way for those, too. This isn't to say that officials are "on the take" or that they have been given instructions from Goodell to make sure one team or the other wins. They aren't taking orders to fix the games...they are doing it because they can tell that it's supposed to happen. However, they know who butters the NFL bread. They know that their careers with the NFL will go more smoothly...better scheduling, bigger games...if they nudge the outcomes into the right direction during games. Now, the refs cant always swing the outcome in the "right" direction. That's why nobody can say the NFL is "fixed." Because sometimes, teams play well enough to overcome unfair officiating. Most fans will NOT want to admit all of this because they want to believe that the best team on a given day wins. It doesn't work like that. Never has. Seriously. Do you REALLY think Belichick and Brady are SOOOO GREAT that they can dominate the NFL for freaking 16 years, season after season, with a rotating cast of characters around them? And NOBODY has ever figured them out? It doesn't work that way. It never has in the history of ANY pro sports. It's just a very good coach and very good QB who are cheating their way into the record books with WEEKLY assistance from the officials. Good lord, it's been happening for years and years and years...the Pats always getting those perfectly timed holds, PIs, etc....right when they need them, week in and week out. Their O-line holds everyone all day long and rarely get flagged. Does that mean they would suck without help from the refs? No, of course not. But NO WAY would they have 6 rings and counting. NO WAY. The Pats mean ratings, and money, for the NFL, as long as they keep winning, and the NFL will do everything to keep that going. It's EXTREMELY easy for officials to effect the outcome of a game without being as blatant as they are sometimes. The ones who can do it without being blatant are rewarded. With all this said, I still enjoy the games, I just don't have the naive belief that I'm watching a fair contest where the best team will always win and the refs are neutral.

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