Super bowl part deux
The last word on the Super bowl: The NFL is a business, period. Everyone that works in a company knows what makes money, what doesn’t and what the bosses want. If they have Project A that clearly will make more money than Project B and everyone in the company knows it, Project A goes ahead, and this is the point, even if the board doesn’t explicitly say “Do Project A.” From the NFL’s point of view the Super Bowl was a success: ratings up, the team that the majority of the country wanted to win won, the bookies beat the spread, everyone gets to hear about the Bus for another 48 hours, merchandise flies off the shelf.
It’s simple from the point of view of the referees: you are an employee of the NFL. Pittsburgh winning is the favorable outcome. You do you job in a manner that brings about that result. Doesn’t mean there was a fix in, it was just a "do your job but this is what the bosses want” thing. Any chemist at a big pharma company knows exactly what I’m saying; produce the results the bosses want. Done. The NFL’s got the ref’s back. Everyone is happy. Next year the Seahawks will get the calls… maybe.
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It’s simple from the point of view of the referees: you are an employee of the NFL. Pittsburgh winning is the favorable outcome. You do you job in a manner that brings about that result. Doesn’t mean there was a fix in, it was just a "do your job but this is what the bosses want” thing. Any chemist at a big pharma company knows exactly what I’m saying; produce the results the bosses want. Done. The NFL’s got the ref’s back. Everyone is happy. Next year the Seahawks will get the calls… maybe.
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