The 49ers played the Dolphins in the Super Bowl in Santa Clara. Not their home stadium at the time, but it was a home game. It's where they play now in fact.
That's more of an advantage than a stadium that's 1/3 full of nurses and sportswriters. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DRM08:
Good motivation for Mahomes and his teammates leading into that game if they are able to get the job done against Buffalo tonight. But I still think the NFL is going to rig the shit out of that game in favor of Tampa.
If you need motivation for playing in the superbowl you might as well not even show up [Reply]
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
I will say this: the NFL does not rig games. There is too much risk involved for it to happen. However, I absolutely believe that there are far more Tim Donaghys out there than we want to realize. If you want to swing a money line bet, what better way than to toss a flag in that spot?
NFL is among the easier sports for a ref like that to rig as well. [Reply]
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
Because of the 3,000 other times they didn't call it today. If you're going to let them play, let them play, don't decide to throw one on the biggest play of the game.
Originally Posted by DaFace:
There's letting them play, and there's completely ignoring the giant handful of jersey that's obvious to anyone within three miles.
That was a bullshit call. Complete anomaly. Rodgers only interception was on a "fistfull of jersey" holding call that never got called.
But Greenbay's little bitch-boy coach has nobody to blame but himself. Nobody's getting rewarded for kicking field goals and taking the ball out of Rodgers hand. [Reply]
Originally Posted by notorious:
Damn, Hamas, you are the last guy I'd expect to hear this from.
I'm not saying that the NFL rigs games, but we know that there have been dirty refs and dirty players in many other sports. Point shaving is a real thing for a real reason. Donaghy admitted as much about other NBA refs. It's not a conspiracy, but individual shitheads. Think about how easy it is to swing a game as a ref and how little accountability they have. Think about all of the playoff games that Clete Blakeman, Jeff Triplette, and Jerome Bogar have officiated.
They need to pay refs a hell of a lot more and hold them a hell of a lot more accountable to rinse this shit out. [Reply]
Originally Posted by keg in kc:
Well, part 1 of the superbowl script I expected has come to fruition. NFL had to have Brady. Now it's time to throw 8 million flags on our defense to help start Josh Allen's career as the foil to Patrick Mahomes.
What? NFL is all about profit and story telling. pedo tom v Mahomes is a million times more intriguing and likely to draw adverts than Josh Fucking Allen.
Packers have a legit case to be pissed given how the game was ref'd. That said, LaFleur is absolutely not getting a pass for that stupid fucking field goal at the TB 8 yard line with 2:05 left. [Reply]