All sports in which billions of dollars are involved are rigged.
If you start a business you will not leave things up to chance and just hope that your business is successful. You will do everything in your power to help your business succeed.
The NFL is one of the easiest to rig for betting and entertainment purposes.
All you need is the refs.
On every single down there are multiple penalties being committed on both sides of the ball. Refs can pick and chose what to call to stop a team from driving or to help a team score.
They do this to keep scores with in betting spreads and to keep games exciting and entertaining.
See for yourself,
record a game and analyze every drive, you will notice that multiple penalties are being committed yet there are no flags. Then analyze the betting spread for said game and see how it’s being officiated. At the end of the game the match will most likely end perfectly within the betting spread.
There is no way this is possible time and time again. Specially when they claim “any given Sunday” if that quote where true we would see a bunch of blow outs there would be no way to guess the spread so accurately. We would see random teams making it to the playoffs and Super Bowl, not the usual suspects.
Specially the way the league is designed with a salary cap, the draft rewards the worst team. In theory every team should be pretty equal. So in a non rigged world in which refs let teams play we would see random teams in the playoffs.