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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 602195" data-attributes="member: 4937">reapersaurus:  This is not a flippant question.  It is I think very germane to the issue you are raising in several ways.Where you ever on a football team?Beyond that line of inquiry, you've done nothing to address the problems with conspiracy that I raised nor any of the problems with this particular conspiracy jdavis raised.  That hypothetically it is possible to have a perfect conspiracy that never fails further than having one person on a BBS questioning whether a game was fixed does not mean that such a conspiracy exists.  In fact, a little thought should show that it is highly unlikely that such a conspiracy exists.  In order for the conspiracy to work, everyone involved must believe in it, while in order for it to break down only one person must reject it or become disgruntled.  And the more elaborate you make the conspiracy, the more probable that such a thing is impossible.If the game was rigged, the most probable explanation is not some sort of far reaching conspiracy, but that one person paid one player to throw the game for simple economic reasons - like a bet.  But you've not even provided any reason to believe that.   So one mediocre player having problems all season makes inexplicable big mistakes in the big game?  Please, like we haven't seen highly consistant skilled players, blow up and inexplicably do stupid things in football games both big and small.For one thing a massive conspiracy raises the question of why rig certain games and not others?  Why rig the Pitt/TN game to be a nail biter won by the Titans (assuming you could do such a thing by paying just a few players to throw a few players), and rig the SF/Bucs game to be won in a blowout by the Bucs?  Why so many one sided superbowls?  Why so many bad playoff games?  Why so many blow outs?  Why allow good markets like Detroit to have such bad teams?  Why take such a big risk when the return on the investment is so small?</blockquote>

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