NFL conspiracy article

dutar76 said

I can and will always believe that the NFL is interfered with. Much like TLL.

But... so, for the sake of argument, let's just say the NFL is rigged. straight up. I get that they'd want LA to get some traction in their region. The NFL has always lusted after that. But there's an unlimited amount of years to make that happen. Literally.

But for one year, the league had the opportunity to have a GOAT vs GOAT superbowl... Brees vs Brady checks every single box. Everyone of them. How hard would that be to sell? Then next year, you have the young-guns... the next-gen QBs in the spotlight.

So as much as I believe that the league "tilts" things, for the life of me, I can't figure out why they'd do it the way they did it. I'm being as objective as possible here. Either it's not rigged or the league shot-callers are dumb as bricks. (Well, in my life, I've had a huge peak behind the curtain of the "country music world"... So the shot-callers not being all that intelligent isn't all that foreign of an idea for me.)

If it's not fixed... the Refs blew it. If it is fixed... the league blew it.

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I've thought about this and utilized nearly identical logic as you, but with one exception. I don't think the NFL was focused on a 1-year time frame (but if they did, I think you're spot on!) I think the NFL was contemplating the length of time Stan Kroenke will be making payments on the debt service of his $5B multi-event venue. No NFL stadium, nor NFL ownership, has ever gone belly-up; but no one has ever spent more than $2B on a new stadium. Kroenke was a minority owner who recently purchased a majority stake of the Rams, and is now spending what is reported to be in excess of $5B for his stadium/complex. That is MORE THAN DOUBLE the price of the 2nd most expensive stadium (the Atlanta Spincter-dome?). I believe the NFL will do "whatever it takes" to make sure their 1st failure doesn't occur in the 2nd largest media market in the country!

With that said, a 1-year hit of the most amazing Superbowl matchup EVER...GOAT vs. GOAT...doesn't do much for the NFL over that time period of debt service. They NEED the Rams to engage with LA and they NEED that LA money to flow to the NFL until that debt service gets reduced to a more typical level. And the way to do that is to cultivate the next generation of young fans and start selling them Goff, Gurley, Donald, & Suh jerseys...and any other FA "stars" the Rams can afford to buy. And maybe I'm wrong, but I think they'll sell MORE suites in that stadium by losing the SB than they would've sold if they had won. If the Rams had won, there's no "upside" to purchasing fandom. But with losing the SB, there's the opportunity to get in now, and to claim you supported the team "before they were champs." I can almost hear the sales pitch now... But that's JMO...