by DeadRinger » Sun Feb 03, 2019 2:20 pm
Well, the NFL is about a $25Bn business.
Any time that kind of money’s involved, people are doing everything they can to influence outcomes.
Take the Saints no-call for example.
Already fans are blowing it off, telling people to get over it and “let it go.” And what’s their rationale for saying that?
Well, first they say “bad calls happen all the time.” Tuesday they get blown the fuck out of the water with that one because calls sure as fuck don’t get blown THAT badly all the time. In fact, calls hardly EVER get blown that badly. So that’s a total bullshit line of argument.
Then they say people need to get over it, “it’s just a game.”
REALLY? Just a fucking GAME?? I beg to fucking differ. This is people’s livelihoods. And it goes WAY beyond the players. All the way down to janitors, laundry people, valets, cashiers... this is a MASSIVE international business.
And THAT no-call shifted MILLIONS of dollars around from pocket to pocket all over the world. It cost people bonuses, jobs, fortunes - who knows, maybe even their lives if they lost everything they had and decided to open up a vein...
So it pisses me off to no end when these myopic idiots talk about these things like it’s no big deal. It’s a fucking MASSIVE deal.
I had a job in a company about the size of the NFL. If someone in that company had made a mistake the size of that no-call, people would be fired all over the place, there would be lawsuits, people would be under criminal investigation.
BETTER be a playoff win in 2022.