November 17, 2008
We are run by corrupt and incompetent monkeys. They're everywhere. And now, they're even infesting the NFL
Longtime readers know the one thing I hate the most is corrupt or incompetent monkeys.
George Bush.
David Lereah.
Chris Dodd.
Hank Paulson.
Nicholas Retsinas.
Angelo Mozilo.
The list goes on and on and on.
Well, now add NFL officials to this group.
Here's the replay of the end of the Pit / SD game yesterday, where Pittsburgh scored a miracle touchdown to cover a 5 point spread. The ball never touched the ground, and it was an obvious and easy call on the field. There was NO question. NONE at all.
But no. The refs, because they don't know the most basic rules of football, or because they are taking bribes, said no TD. So anyone who had Pit lost. Later, after the game, the admitted they made a mistake, and yes, it was a TD. But they kept the score 11-10.
Monkeys.
Corrupt, incompetent monkeys.
On Wall Street, on Main Street, in the White House, and now on the pitch on Sundays.
I hate monkeys.
And yes, of course, I had Pit.
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Glad to know Keith is also addicted to the sports book!
keyser soze
I'm taking my 150 to 1 Obama money and putting some to work on the NFL
Hitting big right now (except for the damn Pit game). But because of that probably going to get more conservative.
I also put some Tex Tech long money down, and I see the Giants playing Pit in the SB. And winning.
I saw this... I thought it was BS also.
I think that they screwed up in the Redskin Game also. Maybe it wouldn't made a difference. But, it was the play when the Redskins punted and it went to the one yard line.
A Redskin player touched it at the one and let go before any Cowboys were able to touch the ball.
Doesn't that make the ball dead at the one?
They called it a touch back after the ball was then touched by another Redskin player and pushed to the endzone. (It hit the back of the same player that touched it at the one while he was in the endzone). I call BS.
I'm a huge Steeler fan and have no interest in gambling. I watched the entire game and have some issues some of you may have missed.
There are a lot of fishy things about this game from the ref point of view.
Pit had 13 penalties called against it to SD's 1. The one SD penalty was a false start even a monkey would have called
Pit was down 10-8 and driving for the winning score. The go-ahead TD with :15 left was also called back on against Pit on a holding class. Very marginal call at best and something teams get away with many times in the NFL.
There was $100M bet on this game, of which $66M was bet on Pit. Casinos struggling big time. I wonder how those refs are doing financially... a lot of people are hurting from bad real estate or stock market losses.
I'm no Oliver Stone, but I don't think it's out of the question that a sports book manager whose trying to make their bottom line better under pressure from above found out about a financially hurting NFL official or two and found a game where "a deal" could be made. Peter King at SI.com said no way but he was thinking at the high-level conspiracy level, I'm thinking this could have been a job by a few people without the corporate higher-up knowledge.
At the least there needs to be an independent investigation of this. Integrity of the game issue we're talking about here
Has anyone ever wondered how sports pros salaries could keep on going to the statosphere? Well it's the credit bubble.
Just look at the advertising budgets of the top 50 global firms and see what happens to the total when the economy collapses.
Sports teams are going to implode.
Whoa there Truther! You just chose the most complicated explanation for that missed call. The Occam's razor explanation says: simple human error. Not sexy, but likely.
One missed call is human error.
But huge penalty imbalance, plus timely penalties that effected the gambling outcome, plus potential motivation to fix the game...
Maybe it's coincidence, but we're starting to build evidence in the fishy direction
This kind of crap happens almost every game, every week. What aboutthe Browns Patriots last year? Rams Seahawks 2 years ago? Touchdowns in garbage time. It is not a conspiracy ya paranoid fools, it's what makes the NFL so great.
Besides, the more both teams are bet evenly, the happier the bookmakers are. If they are not evening the bet, they are not good bookmakers. Think about it, before you fall off the deep end. Keith, you made a stupid bet. Broncos moneyline was much better! Browns moneyline tonight.
gub - I agree, like with most things I like betting against the crowd.
But Pit not covering on something like that was unreal. I don't mind losing. I mind having money stolen from me.
But I did have a great great great week. And I do have Buffalo tonight to wrap it up in a nice bow. They'll win by 18.
As a contrarian, you should have bet SD. Never bet the team that the majority of the public is betting on (Pittsburgh, in this case).
Pit covered that spread. Sometimes the crowd is right.
But just like Wall Street, sometimes the market is fixed.
I had money once on a college basketball game - NC State. Long time ago. And then 10 years after the game, it came out that the game was fixed.
Part of buying stocks or betting on sports. Sometimes the game is fixed.
Meanwhile, I'd like more 150 to 1 shots in politics, but those days are over. Obama is less than even money to win again in 2012. And I don't see any Republican having any shot against him. I guess I'll have to wait until 2016.
I feel your pain on this one Keith as I have had more than my fare share of losses due to outright blatant fraud calls by an official.
The monkeys are everywhere indeed.
p.s.
Take Florida in the SEC championchip game if the spread is -9.5 or less. Florida is on spicey fire!
I don't mind losing. I mind having money stolen from me.
Then why are you betting... :):)
man, are y'all just now figuring out that the nfl is rigged? I guess you still have your Randy 'Macho Man' Savage posters up on your walls too.
Oh, so that's what happened. I turned the game off after the Urineburgh field goal. Yeah, that was a touchdown. You got screwed.
Meanwhile, I'd like more 150 to 1 shots in politics, but those days are over. Obama is less than even money to win again in 2012. And I don't see any Republican having any shot against him. I guess I'll have to wait until 2016.
There you go again. Predicting the 2012 election before "The Messiah" has even taken office. This guy has so many curve balls coming at him, who knows how things turn out. If the Dems try to seize 401k and IRAs, you may have a second civil war on your hands, this time generational. These long range predictions ruin your credibility.
From Yahoo:
Mistake in Steelers game costs some bettors big:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-blowncall-gambling&prov=ap&type=lgns
Wide right.
I mind losing, but not when it's fair and square.
It's funny, I've never EVER seen the MSM talk about bettors losing on a game because of a blown call. And yet there on the yahoo home page right now is this Pit story.
Maybe the MSM is waking up too?
Is there anyway to add Photo Radar to the list of corrupt and fraudulent activities run by private companies that are in the wallets of public officials aka monkeys?
The NFL is still the purest sport out there because it's the hardest to control and has replay. Having said that, the play at the end of the Steelers game on sunday, along with the subsequent comments by the head official stunk to high hell.
Keefer,
I thought that since you moved to the UK you had to abandon your love of American football. Shouldn't you be betting on cricket and football (soccer)?
-Mike
Soccer outside of the world cup sucks. Bunch of girly men running around taking dives, crying if they get touched, and wonderful 1-0 matches. 90 minutes of nothing happening.
The NFL is far and away the world's greatest sport. Except for that damn Pit match. Gotta have refs that know the basic rules of their game.
I get the games streamed on yahoo season pass. Woke up early to watch the end of MNF. Should have stayed in bed.
THE KICKER FOR THE BILLS HAPPENS TO BE THE BEST FRIEND OF MY COUSINS EX BROTHER-IN-LAW WHO IS A REALTOR! THE INTEREST RATE ON HIS SUBPRIME MORTGAGE IS FIXING TO EXPLODE.
I KNEW THE FIX WAS IN!!!
DOLTS!!
TARDS!!!
SNAPPER TURTLES!!!!
ENJOY THE DIE OFF... PIGS!!!!!
Put a rugby player or football player up against a soccer player any day, and the soccer player dies.
Wimps. Girly men. Fakers. Pu**ies.
The penalty for taking a dive should be a red card. The penalty for crying like a little girl when someone touches it should be everyone from the other team gets to piss on you.
I like soccer. I played soccer. But I don't like what soccer has become.
Overpaid metrosexual girly men taking dives.
The sport needs an enema. These pu**ies are killing the sport.
how is an obese 350lb. man an athlete?
Try keeping up in the 40-yd. dash with some of those 350-lb. guys. They can haul.
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