Even the most hardened conspiracy theorists among those who believe the American professional sports entertainment industry would go as far as to instill a practice of colluding with Las Vegas to rig the outcomes of predetermined events would be dubious of the fact that the mega-conglomerate that is the NFL would perform the kind of theatrics the likes of which occurred in a showing between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Buffalo Bills on ESPN Monday Night Football in direct correspondence with the fallout of the rollout of the vaccines.
Yet still, the drunken and otherwise afflicted spectators who frequent sports stadiums and gullibly believe they're paying to watch a genuine sporting competition rather than something as staged and scripted as professional wrestling fail to realize that corporations such as the National Football League have argued in court that spectators are only entitled to "sports entertainment" shows, nothing more.
"In 2010, in a court case against the NFL over branded items like hats and shirts, the league presented itself not as 32 separate teams, but as one singular business 'unit in the entertainment marketplace'.
Throughout that case, the NFL repeatedly positioned itself legally as a 'sports entertainment' business, not a genuinely contested 'sport'. College football, for example, is legally classified as a 'collegiate sport'. The only other 'sports entertainment' businesses are professional wrestling and roller derby.
Financials back up the NFL’s case that it operates as a single entertainment business unit. Some 75% of all revenue is shared equally among the NFL teams, far more than the NBA (roughly half) and Major League Baseball (about a third).
Thus, with the vast majority of NFL revenue coming via television rights, it most certainly behooves all teams to provide the best possible show in the 'entertainment marketplace'.
So how’s that coming along? Well, there’s no question Super Bowl contests have become much more entertaining in the past 15 years — as these legal battles were playing out — than they were in the previous 35. To wit:
From Super Bowl 1 to 35, nine games (25.7%) were decided by a touchdown or less. Two were decided by a field goal or less. The average win was by 16.7 points, more than two touchdowns.
From Super Bowl 36 to 51 — or every Super Bowl since the 9/11 attacks — 10 of 16 games (62.5%) have been decided by a touchdown or less. Five were as close as a field goal or less. The average win was 8.7 points.
So we’ve got the legal foundation. We’ve got circumstantial video evidence galore. The rest basically comes down to the NFL and Establishment sports media asking fans: Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?
But if you won’t believe your lying eyes, and you won’t believe me, will you believe the thinly veiled revelations of some of the game’s players? Here are a few that have popped up in the past couple years, with links to the original sources:
'And we all know, now that we’re grown men, that wrestling’s fake. Well, football is not played like it was when I played'. -- retired Houston Oilers halfback and Hall of Famer Earl Campbell.
'We're talking about a different NFL now ... before it was more about the game. Now it's such an entertainment business. It's turning into the WWE really. It's like the Vince McMahon stuff. Basically, [Roger] Goodell is like Vince McMahon'. -- Cleveland Browns tackle Joe Thomas.
'[The NFL is] like a spectacle of violence, for entertainment, and you're the actors in it. You're complicit in that: You put on the uniform. And it's a trivial thing at its core. It's make-believe, really. That's the truth about it'. -- former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland, who retired after a single season.
So how was The Big Game? Were you not… entertained?
When it comes to its court-granted right to fix the outcome of professional football games, there is no question the NFL has the legal right to fix games. Any game, including the Super Bowl”. -Tom Siebert, Nedia Post
The player who collapsed in the first quarter did not do so because of a vaccine that he probably never even took. He did so because he is a paid actor who doesn't have a moral compass and has allowed himself to be used as a tool to deceive lowbrow plebs into believing he had a heart attack, which he clearly didn't.
Not only are people like this evil, but their sociopathic tendencies also make them into rather unconvincing thespians.
It looks for the moment like the orchestrated spectacle was intended to incite dissension over vaccine efficacy and allow the media to run headlines about how conspiracy theorists have exploited yet another "totally real" tragedy.
For example, take almost any high-profile police abuse case. Half the public will claim the media is falsifying the evidence to make the police abuse appear unjustifiable, while the other half will cry injustice regardless of who the purported victim happens to be or what crime the individual may or may have committed prior.
Only a very slim percentage of the populace will have enough discernment to disregard the propaganda entirely and view it as nothing more than a fraudulent event meant to elicit a particular emotional response in people.
Many deranged "fans" have even sent their own money to a GoFundMe campaign in the crisis actor's name that was conveniently devised only days before the phony demonstration.
One can't help but imagine that the donations will only serve to fund the logistics for the upcoming psychological operation after the participants of the latest one receive handsome compensation.