26-01-2013, 02:55 PM
Charles,
We're back on common ground here. I've long suspected that the NFL and NBA routinely fix games. The game you mention, Super Bowl III, was probably the most obviously fixed game in NFL history. I can still remember Earl Morrall ignoring a wide open Jimmy Orr on a flea flicker play, as Orr waved his hands desperately in vain. It's important to note what happened to Bubba Smith after he went public with his "fixed" beliefs. At that time, he had a lucrative acting career, as a regular in the Miller Lite commercials and all the "Police Academy" movies. To my knowledge, his acting career effectively ended after his controversial public comments.
Do you recall when former Nebraska WR Irving Fryar publicly admitted, sometime in the 1990s, to having accepted money to drop passes in the 1983 Championship game with Miami? Fryar's remarks drew little media attention, and no one ever dug deeper. Who paid him, for instance? The NCAA evidently wasn't concerned, as it never looked into this, or wondered about the probability of this being the one time such a thing had happened. Fryar's NFL career didn't suffer, and the fact he accepted money to help throw a game (and recall that he did drop several key passes in that game, including at least one TD pass) didn't seem to effect his reputation.
I think it's extremely naive to think that the elite who control everything in our society would keep their hands off a lucrative empire like spectator sports.
We're back on common ground here. I've long suspected that the NFL and NBA routinely fix games. The game you mention, Super Bowl III, was probably the most obviously fixed game in NFL history. I can still remember Earl Morrall ignoring a wide open Jimmy Orr on a flea flicker play, as Orr waved his hands desperately in vain. It's important to note what happened to Bubba Smith after he went public with his "fixed" beliefs. At that time, he had a lucrative acting career, as a regular in the Miller Lite commercials and all the "Police Academy" movies. To my knowledge, his acting career effectively ended after his controversial public comments.
Do you recall when former Nebraska WR Irving Fryar publicly admitted, sometime in the 1990s, to having accepted money to drop passes in the 1983 Championship game with Miami? Fryar's remarks drew little media attention, and no one ever dug deeper. Who paid him, for instance? The NCAA evidently wasn't concerned, as it never looked into this, or wondered about the probability of this being the one time such a thing had happened. Fryar's NFL career didn't suffer, and the fact he accepted money to help throw a game (and recall that he did drop several key passes in that game, including at least one TD pass) didn't seem to effect his reputation.
I think it's extremely naive to think that the elite who control everything in our society would keep their hands off a lucrative empire like spectator sports.