Smitty
DCC 4Life
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I do buy that the league has an agenda and tries to push that agenda. I think, for example, that when Jerry Jones sued the league in the 1990s, it was curtains for the Cowboys in terms of ever getting honest treatment again from the league or the officials. That's why we always lead the league in penalties no matter who the coach has been. That's why we are the most suspended team. That's why we lose every appeal. It's why year after year we draw the fewest holding penalties, which are subjective, and get called for the most.
Especially because the league is run out of NY, which is also close to Philadelphia for commuting employees of the league on a train, and hey, lookie there, our two rivals play in those cities. In a subjective matter, the people who run these departments, even absent direct instruction to fuck Dallas, they know where their bread is buttered and they know the preferences of their employer and they seek to please that employer. If you don't think refs have a conscious choice in affecting the outcome of games, just look at the NBA with that ref who was fixing games. It can happen and you'd have to be a naive idiot to think it doesn't happen in the NFL.
But SCRIPTED? It would be essentially impossible to script events that require unique displays of athletics.
Especially because the league is run out of NY, which is also close to Philadelphia for commuting employees of the league on a train, and hey, lookie there, our two rivals play in those cities. In a subjective matter, the people who run these departments, even absent direct instruction to fuck Dallas, they know where their bread is buttered and they know the preferences of their employer and they seek to please that employer. If you don't think refs have a conscious choice in affecting the outcome of games, just look at the NBA with that ref who was fixing games. It can happen and you'd have to be a naive idiot to think it doesn't happen in the NFL.
But SCRIPTED? It would be essentially impossible to script events that require unique displays of athletics.