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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 603406" data-attributes="member: 8704">I was making a joke at how moronic the Head of Officiating looked when he all but admitted that he couldn't look at two different things that happened in the same play. It was sort of a can't walk and chew bubblegum at the same time type of joke. Fixing a game is sort of complicated and this guy apparently can't rewind a tape to look at a different thing that happened in the same play? Is it possible that the game was fixed, well I guess so but they would have to be really stupid to do it in this game, I mean if you did it for betting purposes then wouldn't you want to do it in a game with a huge underdog so you could actually make money on the bet? You wouldn't really make money on this game as Tennessee was the favorite and the game was expected to be tight so odds just wouldn't be there. Would the league do it for ratings? well then they should of done it in the Atlanta/Phildelphia primetime game, not the game that they felt was going to do the weakest ratings wise and was on at a bad time to do great ratings anyway. So why screw Pittsburg, what is the reason, and why would they screw themselves out of all the money they would make if they won? Why would Pittsburg screw themselves? There just is no logic to any arguement you could put up except that Washington was intentionally trying to blow the game on his own for some obscure and worthless reason. Yes there could be some mechanic to them pulling the wool over our eyes but it would have to be a bad reason, they took a huge risk to fix a game just so Pittburg could screw itself just for the sake of screwing itself. Pittsburg gained nothing from this, the league ganed nothing from this, and Washington just made it harder for himself to keep his job next year. Give me one good reason for this, heck give me one bad reason for this. This was a poor game for gambling, the odds just were not there. This game means very little to the National audience who expects the Raiders to beat whoever they play, and if Tennessee does go to the Super Bowl it will probably be bad for ratings not good. The only reason that even remotely stands out is to screw Pittsburg out of a game they were doing a good job loosing on their own anyway, and why would Pittsburg screw itself? Do you know just how hard it would of been to set up that last play that way, I mean what if one of the Titans accidently blocked him, what if he actually blocked the kick, it's not like he was that late getting there, the kicker still had his foot in the air. What if he tripped, what if Cower had actually got the timeout he was trying to call. There is absolutely no reason for somebody to go through that much trouble to try and influence the outcome of a game that could accomplish no purpose but making one Pittsburg player look bad. There was no money to be made, there was no ratings to be upped in the final second, and there was no reason for anybody to do it except to cause the Seelers to loose, and the only people who could of done the fix were the Steelers. Yes it is possible for somebody to do it but they would have to be a complete moron to want to, or there is a secret organization out there that's sole purpose in existing is to screw the Steelers. There is absolutely no good reason to rig this game, there isn't even that many bad reasons to rig it.</blockquote>

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