Eagles @ Cowboys

[jinx]

Why do they care who they draft then, if money and not talent wins the games?

[W.HI.P]

Originally Posted by jinx

Why do they care who they draft then, if money and not talent wins the games?

i never said anything about winning.
the massive amounts of money that are wagered in the nfl, is on the pointspread.
they don't need to alter very much to be under or over a spread.

if there is the equivilant money of 2 nuclear bombs on the line, that will either end up in their hands or in the people's hands, which hands do you think it will end up in?

the nfl is in existance, and is funded by the money that is gambled.
the kind of balances that are in the air in each season, especially play-off time, is greater than the money that the nhl, nba, nfl, and mlb make combined.
this money is what its all about, and no grown men playing with a ball are going to mess with the balance of that money.
it is all under control, and the anual gross is greater than most countries make.
i guess the real question here is, who's on top of this pyramid?
i can tell you that they're not local

[Elspode]

Is it...The Illuminati?

So, let's summarize:

1) The ultimate outcome of NFL, and most other sports, is based on who gets drafted, which is in turn based upon who finishes last?

2) So much money is bet on NFL games (let's just leave it at that for the sake of argument) that it is bad business for the outcome of a given game, or at least the point spread, not to be known with certainty before the contest begins?

So, knowing what you know, please provide me with the winners of the first round of the playoffs? Because I can get by just on a win/lose bet easily, I don't need the riskier proposition of a bet on the spread.

[jinx]

Originally Posted by W.HI.P

i never said anything about winning.
the massive amounts of money that are wagered in the nfl, is on the pointspread.
they don't need to alter very much to be under or over a spread.

Ok, my mistake, it's just the losing that's fixed, and the point spread, gotcha.
So what specifically do they do to not make the spread? What exactly do they alter? And who are they?

Also, why did the Eagles lose by so much (24-0)?

[Elspode]

That's easy...to increase the bets on the Cowboys to win, so that the odds are higher against the Iggles. Then, when they win the game, more money is there to be made. I think he referenced that concept earlier.

[xoxoxoBruce]

OK, granted there's money of Biblical proportions bet on each game, but the franchises aren't seeing that money. That's all peripheral to the actual teams, so they must be throwing games for draft choice.

Unless the gamblers are "tipping" the owners. Hmm, so when a franchise is valued at say a billion dollars, it's not because of TV revenues and t shirt sales.

[W.HI.P]

bruce, to help you see it a little more clearly, there's been an nfl game with an 18 billion dollar differential.
thats a plus or a minus.
coincidently, the people lost....or you think maybe it wasn't a coincidence.
do you really think 18 billion dollars is left to chance on wether eli manning or tom brady throw the ball well?

if the nfl had to depend on tv revenues and t-shirt sales, it would have shut down last millennium.

[xoxoxoBruce]

OK, so you're saying the team owners are owned by gambling interests... or are the gambling interests.