The Football Gods were smiling on Minnesota for sure. I lost count of the wounded ducks that dropped harmlessly or were caught for good yardage. But that's OK, it still counts until it doesn't.
Vikings vs Packers
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snobuilder
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TV reception must be sketchy way up there....We all have seen Rodgers thread the needle just millimeters off defenders finger tips 100's a times. That's why he is a HOF shoe in. You can only dream about having such a QB,...but wait a minute, aren't you the same guy that swore off the NFL years ago as being rigged?
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It is rigged. The Queens were short of the sticks on their first drive when Murray rushed on 3rd down but the zebras gave them a first down. Then a questionable pass interference penalty on another drive set them up to score again. Just about all the calls in the first half went Minnys way. 17 -0. So then things had to get interesting. The Vikes got sloppy and Brees came back. No penalty or ejection on the Sendayo hit. The zebras wanted it close at the end. And it was. And then the Queens pulled off a hail Mary. Which they seem to always be on the wrong side of up to now. Yes I watched the game. I didn't say I don't watch the games. But they are mostly pre-ordained. For ratings. I would still be shocked if the Queens didn't win in Philly so they can be THE FIRST NFL TEAM TO PLAY IN THE SUPERBOWL IN THEIR OWN BUILDING. God if I hear that one more time I am going to puke. In the many years I have sledded in Wisc it has always been fun when the Pack was in the Superbowl. Ice sculptures out in the middle of nowhere and all the bars decked out on gameday. I am sure I will see it all again before I am done sledding.
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snobuilder
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Love yur consistency...LOL...the 100 YO vikqueen, can't leave her out of the equation!
lol....that makes no sense.
momoney2123
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Maybe it is rigged, i dont know. But answer this, if its rigged, why do the patriots play in the AFC title game or Super bowl or win the super bowl every year? Surely if it was rigged one team could not gain this much success.
snobuilder
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MOMO might be tight....and how can other teams be cellar dwellers equaly as long?
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The NFL is about money. It is a product. Superbowl ads go for millions of dollars a minute. The NFL knows they have to make it interesting. There is holding on every play. They can call whatever they want either way to keep games close. There is pass interference either offensively or defensively on many pass plays. They can call whatever they want either way. The NFL hates blowouts. They want close games for the audience and their advertisers. They know the value of having a King that everybody grows to hate. The Patriots. Then you have to have underdogs. There are 3 left this year that were not even in the playoffs last year. All with good stories. 2nd hand QBs and Jacksonville who hasn't made the playoffs since the 1800s. And there is Goodell that everybody everywhere hates. All kinds of storylines. Something for everybody. How do they beat last year? The Pats come back from way down to not only take Atlanta to the FIRST OVERTIME IN SUPERBOWL HISTORY but go ahead and win so Goodell has to present the trophy to the 'cheaters' Brady and Belechic. All very marketable. But every single thing had to go right in the second half for this to happen. How is it possible for the Falcons to be so dominant in the first half and then be unable to do ANYTHING right in the second half. Very unlikely. But it kept the TVs on. It is a billion dollar product. It has to be interesting. And to be interesting it has to be controlled sometimes.
momoney2123
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How is it possible then that there are plenty of blowouts in the playoffs and even the Super bowl. Surely if it was rigged this would NEVER happen. Hate to say it but if the NFL told the refs to keep the game close vs making the correct calls, one of these hundreds or thousands of refs woulda already spilled the beans on this.
I dont buy it. it is very difficult to make in game calls in the NFL. Almost every play you could find a penalty. not sure id turn this into a conspiracy.
Also teams make adjustments at halftime, especially a team like the patriots, so it isnt that shocking they played a different strategy and made a run in the 2nd half. it happens ALL the time with good teams/coaches
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The NFL does not pay taxes like the rest of most corporations. The NFL does not even pay for the Halftime shows at the Superbowl. What makes you think they would pay the refs? It is selective enforcement of the rules. I agree the game happens too fast for just a few refs to make all the correct calls. BUT, some of the bad calls get overlooked and there are plenty of non-calls that the refs never see. Selective enforcement. In just about every single game. Sometimes there gets to be too many turnovers or injuries that the outcome cannot be affected. Sometimes there is an otherworldly performance by a QB. But every other circumstance is very much controlled.
srt20
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LMAO mmmmmmmk
snobuilder
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Packers signed Danica.
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That's a good one! Who will have better hair, Danica or Clay?
Grub,
Soooooo you're trying to say the Falcons purposely let the Patriots get back in the game for ratings with the hope they could pull it out at the end?
That's blasphemy. They lost cause they, the players and the coaches choked and played the 2nd half to lose not to win. Their were no calls in the 2nd half that swayed that game. They choked and Brady went and got it.
And your theory about the NFL rigging games fly's right out the window cuzz no one and their mothers wants to see a Foles-Kennum-Botles SB.
Especially the NFL.
You've been hanging with Jesse Ventura up there to long reading too many conspiracy theory novels.
Soooooo you're trying to say the Falcons purposely let the Patriots get back in the game for ratings with the hope they could pull it out at the end?
That's blasphemy. They lost cause they, the players and the coaches choked and played the 2nd half to lose not to win. Their were no calls in the 2nd half that swayed that game. They choked and Brady went and got it.
And your theory about the NFL rigging games fly's right out the window cuzz no one and their mothers wants to see a Foles-Kennum-Botles SB.
Especially the NFL.
You've been hanging with Jesse Ventura up there to long reading too many conspiracy theory novels.
Rigging the Superbowl?
There'd be a better chance of Aaron Rodgers & Danica Patrick.....
Oh wait, what just happened here?
There'd be a better chance of Aaron Rodgers & Danica Patrick.....
Oh wait, what just happened here?