I understand a lot of frustration towards football. I personally cannot stand NFL. I do think that all those people are incredibly far removed from reality, they believe their own hype, and personally every time they open their mouth I can't stand anything that comes out, considering that most of them are ego-maniacs who think they are gods for throwing around a football. I hate people like Michael Vick and actually would delight in them getting a career-ending injury.
However, even with all of that opinion, I enjoy college football. The vast majority of them are playing just for a scholarship not unlike the same scholarship someone could get for academic performance in high school. Most are not going pro. They are typically not ego-maniacs unless the media starts blowing them up and they decide to buy into it themselves. That is usually what happens around the draft period and the first 2 or 3 years in the NFL when they begin to think they are gods. However, there is good reason for all the talk about Cam Newton. He is hardly-even-arguably the best quarterback in college football in the last 50 years, if not all time.
And football is definitely not scripted. There have been far too many nationwide-disappointments for it to be. If you want to see scripted football, go back and look at some XFL tapes from earlier last decade. It was owned by the owner of WWE wrestling, and it had way too many "storyline victories", fourth-quarter comebacks, etc. It was pretty obvious that while it may not have been scripted, there seemed to be things going on behind the scenes to favor a team or another. But those things don't just happen in traditional football any more than blind probability. If someone is scripting the NFL, they are doing a terrible job of it. There is also far too much money
for it to be scripted. You can't forget that every team is privately owned. Superbowl wins can be worth millions upon millions to a franchise. How could you get them to go along with taking a loss when a win would be worth more money than the NFL company could pay (and they absolutely are)? Eventually some chairman would throw a tantrum and threaten to blow the whole thing open. And it really doesn't matter to the NFL who wins the season. If it is a team who hasn't won in decades or ever, it strengthens the NFL in that region, and if it is a "dynasty team" victory, it just saturates the region further, setting the seeds for young lifetime fans. Also, what about all the retired players who have no allegiance to the NFL anymore? Wouldn't we eventually get a death-bed admission to the whole thing being scripted? That is my main problem with conspiracy theories, is they don't take the pride or conscience of the thousands of involved individuals into consideration.
Sorry, but I just can't see it
