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NFL News and Notes: Integrity of the NFL at stake, Real fans priced out of the Super Bowl, the Commanders is a bad name and more
MIAMI, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 13: Owner Daniel Snyder of the Washington Redskins (L) and owner Stephen Ross of the Miami Dolphins talk on the sideline prior to the game between the Washington Redskins and the Miami Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium on October 13, 2019 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
A week and a half before Super Sunday, and you would think that the NFL news would be scarce? You would be wrong! We have a new(stupid name) team, the GOAT has retired, The Dolphins and Browns ownership accused of offering to pay their head coaches to throw games, and I almost forgot Brian Flores suing the league for racial discrimination, what an off week it has been. We will go over all of that and much more!
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The Redskins, wait, I mean the Football team will be known as Commanders from now on, at least until commanders get offended! The Football team sounds better than the Commanders! So all of the tradition will now be lost; the rivalry with the Cowboys is gone, I am sorry, but Cowboys vs Commanders does not elicit the excitement Of Cowboys vs Redskins. A woke minority has destroyed this tradition, and bad ownership in Washington had to succumb to it, or maybe Daniel Snyder’s emails would have gotten out, or perhaps he could have gotten in trouble for the sexual harassment that went on under his watch in Washington. Daniel Snyder didn’t destroy the Washington Commanders by changing the name. For lack of a better term, he destroyed them by being a low-life scumbag. This once-proud franchise has been drug through the mud since he took over. Ron Rivera is an excellent coach and deserves much better than what he’s gotten. The uniforms look like something that Kurt Warner’s Arena Football League team would have worn in 1996. Try out some of the best new betting sites!
2) The integrity of the NFL is at stake
What is going on in the NFL isn’t just about race, although race is a huge issue; it is more about the integrity of the game. Tanking games is just a vanilla term for game-fixing. They are fixing games and incentivizing the fixing of games. It is a fraud on the public and tarnishes the integrity of the game. One black coach got paid to fix games, did their bidding, and got fired (but not before being rewarded handsomely financially for throwing those games). Another black coach refused to do their bidding and fix games, had a winning record, and was fired. Think about it. Both teams wanted the black coaches to lose before firing them. Consider also that gambling on games is now legal in most of the U.S. All of this is an enormous problem for the NFL; when the integrity of the game is threatened, it is possibly the end of the league with the issue. If you don’t believe me, ask Major League Baseball? The 1919 World series scandal was not the first issue baseball had back at the turn of the twentieth century. There were rumors about the possible fixing of regular-season games for years before that, and other World Series were rumoured to have been compromised, including the 1918 World Series. MLB hired a cut-throat commissioner to show people that they were dealing with the issue. The big question is, how will the NFL deal with this?
People have been questioning the integrity of NFL games over the last thirty years, and it has gotten so bad that when the Chiefs get beat by the Bengals, many fans are convinced that the Chiefs lost the game on purpose. Are they crazy? Probably but these recent accusations by Brian Flores and Hue Jackson are adding big-time fuel to a fire that the NFL must put out! The other issue of race is something that is a huge issue, and when you have coaches like Hue Jackson being brought in to fail for a year or two only to see a white coach hired as the team is starting to improve, that, sadly, is as racist as it gets. Coach Culley is an example in Houston that not many people are bringing up, but let’s face it, he was brought into an unwinnable situation and fired after one year; who will the next Texans coach be? That will be interesting to watch.
3) The Super Bowl is unattainable for true fans of their teams
Go on any ticket broker, and you will see tickets going for over 6 thousand dollars for the cheap seats, and I guess that’s fine; my issue is that very few tickets are given to fans from the teams they have followed for many years. Season ticket holders are put into a lottery to have the right to buy face-value tickets. Less than thirty-five per cent of the tickets in the entire stadium go to the two teams playing it. The sad fact is that this event was put on for big corporate sponsors, and real fans need not apply. Face value tickets are 1800 hundred dollars apiece; how many true fans can afford that? Throw in air travel and hotel rooms, and even if you are lucky to win your team’s lottery when all is said and done, you will be playing at least 5K a person to see your team play in the Super Bowl! That is disgusting, and the sad part is people act like it’s not a big deal. The NFL already proved they don’t care about players, look at the CTE issue, and we now, from lack of access to the biggest game shows, don’t give a damn about the fans either. Check out the best real money betting apps!
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4) Tom Brady retired, and Adam Schefter ruined it to be first
The GOAT retired, and instead of letting him announce it on his own time and in his own words, NFL reporter Adam Schefter decided it was more important to be the first person to report it. He did this a few years ago with Andrew Luck, and the truth of the matter is this is another issue with the NFL. Schefter has all the inside information because the NFL wants him to, not because he is a great reporter. Adam Schefter makes it about Adam Schefter when he does stuff like this. ESPN controls the narrative in the NFL, and the reason is that they pay huge money. Wait, I am wrong! The NFL owns the narrative, and ESPN is just their mouthpiece.
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