TheKing Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 I feel sorry for people who are dumb enough to gamble. Unless you are locked into a government job or something equally insulating ,life itself is a gamble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 Unless you are locked into a government job or something equally insulating ,life itself is a gamble. Read the thread, that post was a quasi-joke. I gamble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKing Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 I wasn't implying that athletes don't gamble. In fact, I'm sure that some of them do. My point was that everybody is just so much quicker to jump on the referees. When they make an honest mistake (because they are human) everybody is out for their blood. I was talking about players gambling. I'm saying that we don't always know for certain that mistakes are honest mistakes. I think it's naive to believe that fixes cannot take place. Let's say an entire crew of officials somehow doesn't see a challenge flag thrown on the field in response to an obviouysly blown call. Does that cause suspicion? It does for me, especially when it comes on the same drive where a questionable unneccessary roughness call is made just prior. Like in the Patriot's opening drive. I don't rule it out. Cheating is rampant in gambling. NFL football thrives because of gambling. So it can happen in the NFL. When you have a lot of gambling and a lot of people in a position to attempt to influence an outcome, I would never rule it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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