Originally <a href='http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=24903329'>posted</a> on 11/30/2015:
For arguments sake:
Rookie refs make about $80k. Average is $173k.
NFL betting alone is a Billion dollar industry.
People can be bought.
What would it cost do just buy off ONE ref in a Prime Time game? $20k? $50k? $100k??
Chump change when you are moving MILLIONS.
Some personal perspective / analogy:
I live in Mexico. Police here make about $1,000 a month.
$20 gets you out of any ticket. $50 for DUI (and they let u drive off)
For $100 I could probably make one do jumping jacks in the street for me.
I don't know if the NFL is rigged, but do I have my suspicions?
Yes, I am not as closed minded as many here. ANYTHING that controls a great deal of money WILL have some form of corruption.
IF there are fixed games, it would be Prime Time games when the most amount of money us at stake. It makes good business sense to me.
For arguments sake:
Rookie refs make about $80k. Average is $173k.
NFL betting alone is a Billion dollar industry.
People can be bought.
What would it cost do just buy off ONE ref in a Prime Time game? $20k? $50k? $100k??
Chump change when you are moving MILLIONS.
Some personal perspective / analogy:
I live in Mexico. Police here make about $1,000 a month.
$20 gets you out of any ticket. $50 for DUI (and they let u drive off)
For $100 I could probably make one do jumping jacks in the street for me.
I don't know if the NFL is rigged, but do I have my suspicions?
Yes, I am not as closed minded as many here. ANYTHING that controls a great deal of money WILL have some form of corruption.
IF there are fixed games, it would be Prime Time games when the most amount of money us at stake. It makes good business sense to me.