Ex NFL LB Will Compton says the NFL is fixed - scripted

[XXLMike]

https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/the-black-hole-plus/will-compton-nfl-wwe-las-vegas-raiders-super-bowl

Will Compton of Bussin' with the Boys, called out the most powerful professional sports league in the world, the National Football League.

He took to X, formerly known as Twitter, by saying, "NFL is basically the WWE now. All scripted. Fixed. They pick who they want to win. It’s all for entertainment & honestly I don’t even know why I watch & care so much. It’s all fake."
https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/the-...-wwe-las-vegas-raiders-super-bowl-fake-fixed#

Are wasting our lives watching this garbage?

https://nypost.com/2024/02/12/sport...ining-steam-after-wild-super-bowl-finish/amp/

 

[zrinkill]

What a load of crap

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

It was obvious after the whole taylor swift thing. You can't make that up.

 

[Redline360]

I'm not into the whole conspiracy thing but it's starting to get hard to ignore certain games aren't fixed. Not saying the superbowl was but in general.

You also have tons of ex players saying the same thing over the years. Goes deeper into other sports like basketball as numerous explayers have said they were paid off on certain games. I believe one team got fined for tanking on purpose this year or the year prior

The entire Taylor swift thing was to blatant. You knew they were at least going to the superbowl

 

[Howboutdemcowboys31]

My thing is this: Greatness exists. Mahomes and Andy are greatness. They won 2 Super Bowls without Swift. They showed Jessica Simpson anytime we got a first down too. If the 49ers would've won people would change their narrative to still win by saying well yeah Vegas had to collect all their Chief Money Lines since 74% of the money line bets went to the Chiefs per Draft Kings right before kickoff. I have a friend that no matter what happens he'll find a way to say it was rigged to fit his narrative. Just don't watch?

 

[Rockport]

https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/the-black-hole-plus/will-compton-nfl-wwe-las-vegas-raiders-super-bowl

Will Compton of Bussin' with the Boys, called out the most powerful professional sports league in the world, the National Football League.

He took to X, formerly known as Twitter, by saying, "NFL is basically the WWE now. All scripted. Fixed. They pick who they want to win. It’s all for entertainment & honestly I don’t even know why I watch & care so much. It’s all fake."
https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/the-...-wwe-las-vegas-raiders-super-bowl-fake-fixed#

Are wasting our lives watching this garbage?

https://nypost.com/2024/02/12/sport...ining-steam-after-wild-super-bowl-finish/amp/

There’s a sucker born every day who believes this tin foil trash.

 

[Quickdraw]

There’s a sucker born every day who believes this tin foil trash.

That's what makes the world go around. People with different ideas and beliefs.

 

[Flamma]

I don't believe for a second games are scripted. But I won't totally deny that the refs can alter games at will. I'm not saying they do. But they could if they wanted to, and we wouldn't know.

 

[CyberB0b]

It would be really hard to convince 1000s of people to keep this a secret.

 

[Rockport]

That's what makes the world go around. People with different ideas and beliefs.

Yeah, and people to sell swamp land to.

 

[StylisticS]

I don’t think it’s fake but I also just absolutely hate how they kept parading Taylor Swift around putting her on camera. That was annoying.

 

[EST_1986]

I don’t think it’s fake but I also just absolutely hate how they kept parading Taylor Swift around putting her on camera. That was annoying.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/the-black-hole-plus/will-compton-nfl-wwe-las-vegas-raiders-super-bowl

Will Compton of Bussin' with the Boys, called out the most powerful professional sports league in the world, the National Football League.

He took to X, formerly known as Twitter, by saying, "NFL is basically the WWE now. All scripted. Fixed. They pick who they want to win. It’s all for entertainment & honestly I don’t even know why I watch & care so much. It’s all fake."
https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/the-...-wwe-las-vegas-raiders-super-bowl-fake-fixed#

Are wasting our lives watching this garbage?

https://nypost.com/2024/02/12/sport...ining-steam-after-wild-super-bowl-finish/amp/

If they have any proof of fixing games, they should sue the NFL for fraud ... that's IF they have any proof, which they don't.

 

[ghst187]

Hard to ignore so many coincidences. I don’t think it’s possible to blatantly fix an nfl game without too many people being involved the the secret getting out in 0.5 seconds. I do think it’s possible for officials to purposely nudge an outcome one way or another just like the nba officials definitely did. Not at all crazy to think that couldn’t or doesn’t happen in the nfl, esp when you watch the product.

 

[SultanOfSix]

Not scripted per se, but definitely manipulated for entertainment and gambling winnings and other forms of financial compensation. Too deny otherwise is to put a blindfold over one's eyes. The fact that the NFL legally considers itself an "entertainment" company/conglomeration proves it, otherwise it could be held accountable for fraud. It is already given special treatment by the government with a bypass of anti-trust laws because it's effectively a monopoly since the merger that prevents any kind of real competition with similar companies (of which none really exist), and that's because it's also a tool, being part of the modern day "bread and circuses" of the Romans that all sports "leagues" have become.

 

[jwitten82]

If they have any proof of fixing games, they should sue the NFL for fraud ... that's IF they have any proof, which they don't.

How can they sue the NFL for fraud if the NFL is considered entrainment? That's gives them the right to have fixed outcomes, not saying it is rigged just that I think this has been to court and fraud wouldn't hold up

 

[jwitten82]

It would be really hard to convince 1000s of people to keep this a secret.

I'm not saying I believe it's rigged, but I never understood when people say this. You're right, it would be hard for 1000s to keep this a secret, but I believe he's not the only ex NFL player to say it's rigged, it's just that people will call them crazy. So this guy could be telling the truth, everyone will just say he's crazy

 

[Reverend Conehead]

How can they sue the NFL for fraud if the NFL is considered entrainment? That's gives them the right to have fixed outcomes, not saying it is rigged just that I think this has been to court and fraud wouldn't hold up

There's a precedent set. The 1950s TV game show, Twenty One, was proven to be rigged, and the FCC forced them to shut down, and set up broadcast rules saying that a game could not be rigged and that the only shows that could be scripted had to not pretend to be real. Thus, if the NFL scripted its games, without letting the public know, they would be committing television fraud. The WWF gets away with it because they don't deny that their matches are scripted.

 

[CT Dal Fan]

The entire NFL may not be rigged, but it is a whole lot easier to manipulate games than "purist" fans want to admit. Not even every player needs to be in the know; which just might explain CeeDee Lamb going off so early in the playoff loss to the Packers. Maybe he heard something he didn't want to hear.....

 

[CT Dal Fan]

There's a precedent set. The 1950s TV game show, Twenty One, was proven to be rigged, and the FCC forced them to shut down, and set up broadcast rules saying that a game could not be rigged and that the only shows that could be scripted had to not pretend to be real. Thus, if the NFL scripted its games, without letting the public know, they would be committing television fraud. The WWF gets away with it because they don't deny that their matches are scripted.

The NFL now identifies itself as an entertainment industry. I believe this change came in 2012 or so.

And from a legal standpoint, in entertainment industries the outcomes can be controlled.