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Series Ballers claims NFL is corrupted, is is true or exaggerated?
- Thread starter fireflame
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Weren't they covering up how bad player concussions were? And they are still letting the redskins run around with their racist name.
What makes you assume the NFL is not corrupt? Seems safer to assume that it is.
ESPN's Playmakers was all over this back in the early 2000s. If you can find that series anywhere then I highly recommend watching it, way ahead of its time.
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This is a strictly usa organization, so why would Senate not order investigations for example?I think American senate can "question" incidents?
Look through OP's thread creations. Every one of them is a question posed because they heard or read something.
To the degree the show goes out it's way to make that point? It's false.
is there corruption? Yes.
I don't think it is, the NFL is a completely corrupt organization
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what is special about Saints fans?They don't like losing or they win a lot?
Consider just how much money NFL has put into politics. Even just talking about the issues with stadia (stadiums).. there is huge corruption.
Daniel Snyder's Washington football team told a player his tumor was no big deal and then when said player went public with the fact that it was actually malignant (after getting a second opinion) the team now refuses to pay him contract money owed.
So I guess it's up for debate.
So I guess it's up for debate.
It's a sport where they know it causes brain damage and CTE, just like boxing, but let it continue. The players should be aware of the risks by now, and they are handsomely paid for the risks, but the whole thing doesn't seems wrong.
Of course it's true. American football is a fundamentally damaging sport. Causes CTE and other serious injuries. How is this even a question?
The no-call in the NFC Championship game last year. A PI call would have been a for-sure victory for the Saints to advance to the Super Bowl. It dominated sports news for a while.
I don't think its corrupt on the same level as FIFA. Not even remotely close.
It's not corrupt in the rigging games sense. Refs make stupid mistakes. It can cost games. Doesn't mean its rigged.
The issue with the NFL is twofold
1. Despite being a non profit (lol) they want to continually boost revenue. I believe its actually been falling in the US but I could be mistaken. There is more than enough troubling evidence that shows playing football is just absurdly dangerous from a head injury aspect. Your body will get banged up but CTE is a hell of a thing. To make matters worse, without fundamentally changing the game, CTE is unavoidable. Because its been proven that its not the big hits that cause it. It's the tiny little hits of your helmet hitting other players, the ground etc. The only way to truly remove that would be to essentially turn it into flag football. There are countless of current and former NFL players that say they 100% will not allow their kids to play the sport. The issue here is that a lot of the NFL fanbase fucking LOVES the big hits. They see it as a blood/gladiator sport. Any rules introduced to get certain hits out of the game are always met with "wow the NFL is trying to pussify the game, back in my day you could take peoples heads off, smh"
2. The league is set up in a way that gives owners/the commissioner WAY too much power. It's why there is horrendously inconsistent punishments all of the time. It's why player contracts suck. The commisioner, literally in their collective bargaining agreement, is basically judge jury executioner and can do what he wants.
It's not corrupt in the rigging games sense. Refs make stupid mistakes. It can cost games. Doesn't mean its rigged.
The issue with the NFL is twofold
1. Despite being a non profit (lol) they want to continually boost revenue. I believe its actually been falling in the US but I could be mistaken. There is more than enough troubling evidence that shows playing football is just absurdly dangerous from a head injury aspect. Your body will get banged up but CTE is a hell of a thing. To make matters worse, without fundamentally changing the game, CTE is unavoidable. Because its been proven that its not the big hits that cause it. It's the tiny little hits of your helmet hitting other players, the ground etc. The only way to truly remove that would be to essentially turn it into flag football. There are countless of current and former NFL players that say they 100% will not allow their kids to play the sport. The issue here is that a lot of the NFL fanbase fucking LOVES the big hits. They see it as a blood/gladiator sport. Any rules introduced to get certain hits out of the game are always met with "wow the NFL is trying to pussify the game, back in my day you could take peoples heads off, smh"
2. The league is set up in a way that gives owners/the commissioner WAY too much power. It's why there is horrendously inconsistent punishments all of the time. It's why player contracts suck. The commisioner, literally in their collective bargaining agreement, is basically judge jury executioner and can do what he wants.
Yeah, it's a shitty league.
You don't hear about it because a combination of $$$ and "It's just sports"
You don't hear about it because a combination of $$$ and "It's just sports"
A team that lost a Super Bowl appearance by way of a hilariously blatant non-call on a super obvious penalty. In a stroke of weirdness; rather than acknowledge it, people have chosen to mock the rightfully upset fanbase about it in the years following for some odd reason. NFL fans are weird asf.
The NFL built their current foundations on the backs of generations of underpaided now-broken people. Like most players worked summer jobs and shit to make ends meet while destroying themselves on the field, and the NFL has fought to every extent to deny them benefits after the fact. The players union is still one of the weakest of any major sports league too.
Because new stadiums every 6 years boosts tourism, even if they have no idea what to do with the old stadiums.
And yes, OP, it's extremely corrupt, the Kaep stuff and how they deal with drug abuse and physical abuse is enough to show that.
Why doesn't anyone step in?
There is some truth to the fiction. You don't get to be the most profitable league in the world without breaking a few eggs.
This is true of every major sport league in the US.
1) They have about a thousand better things to spend their time on.
2) NFL is a huge moneymaker and keeps people sedated on Sundays.
This is true of every major sport league in the US.
1) They have about a thousand better things to spend their time on.
2) NFL is a huge moneymaker and keeps people sedated on Sundays.
To the extent that they were damaging their bodies and the estimated cost associated with those health concerns, it's not even close.
It's not FIFA corrupt, but it treats it's players worse than any other league (sans WWE, for which a Wrestler is a disposable commodity).
What degrees are you considering here?
Money laundering, use of public funds, large scale lobbying, college football, covering up CTE, .... what more do you want?
FIFA doesn't have any CTE level controversies though. NFL has blood on its hands.
Absolutely but players having to work summer jobs and living regular lives was the norm prior to FA.
Tbh, they kinda do along with rugby, its also the reason headers were banned in youth soccer in the US.
Obviously,, it's not as prevalent but it's an issue as CTE research is mainly in the states.
And FIFA has the whole Qatar slavery debacle
It's not hard to surpass a bar that is buried 10 feet underground.
So this is a hard question. Is it corrupt... yes. Is it corrupt more than any other sport organization? I dont think so (maybe with CTE issue).
I personally have a much bigger issue with the NCAA and not paying the players while they make MILLIONS off the players.
I personally have a much bigger issue with the NCAA and not paying the players while they make MILLIONS off the players.
it's abhorrent. FIFA is worse but at least FIFA doesn't spend half of its games buying up commercial time advertising what a force of good it is and how much it 'cares'. It's hypocrisy is off the charts
Perhaps because blaming a loss on the refs rather than the team itself is silly.
ESPN's Playmakers was all over this back in the early 2000s. If you can find that series anywhere then I highly recommend watching it, way ahead of its time.
And the NFL was so shaken by the show that they basically forced ESPN to cancel it.
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