River_Dog wrote:Hehe! I never pegged you as a Grassy Knoll conspiracy theorist. Was that really Neil Armstrong? Any Elvis sitings lately?
Sorry guy, I had to do it.
I believe in conspiracy theories as I see many of them happening right in front of everyone, but they just ignore them because what can the little guy do about them? Stock manipulation, economic manipulation, guys with islands prostituting young women for other rich guys, politicians making dirty deals with corrupt leaders of foreign nations that don't share our values, there are so many conspiracies out there. Some get caught, but for all the ones that get caught there are tons more that aren't. Then you have conspiracies that are probably drummed up to get everyone looking in different directions and thinking conspiracies are a joke, while they're doing something else in a different direction. History is filled with conspiracies that get found out and documented, some made up and made fun of, and most done in a way you'll never hear about or fully understand that get covered up by very powerful people with a lot of money and resources. You'd be more insane to think conspiracies aren't happening all around you given the historical evidence of the bad things that have been done behind all our backs that get found out.
Sure, some folks like to make fun of the crazy ones, but who knows if the crazy ones aren't conspiracies to create the idea conspiracies aren't real.
The real way I deal with this is to simply not worry too much about it, but I definitely believe in conspiracies. Watch them occur around me every day or read about them in history books or watch the way powerful people cover up or just walk in the grey areas of morality and legality to get done what they want to get done.
As far as how it relates to football, it sure does seem like we have had some very biased calls against us at very key times, egregiously bad calls. Maybe it's just a screw up by the refs and that's likely what it is, but is it beyond believe the NFL would shade things a little towards larger market teams given the revenue the NFL obtains from such teams? A call here or a call there? Even the Patriots multiple scandals make you wonder if they were mentioned behind the scenes and known about by the NFL, but so long as it doesn't make it to the press, they don't do much about it. Really, if the Patriots were cheating, it was definitely worth it and they still have all their trophies and accolades. It seems Robert Kraft and Brady had enough juice to make sure nothing much happened to them, the team, the QB, or the head coach, just a few ball boys and camera guys tossed to sacrifice.
Suffice it to say, we'll never know the entire truth. The NFL won't be derailed by it, just like the Patriots get their six trophies with a a lost draft pick or two which did nothing to them.
So do I think conspiracies exist even in the NFL? You're damn right I do. Does it matter? Nope. You gotta be able to win even when the league doesn't want you to. We eventually got it done by being so damn good that we crushed the opponent even though I'm quite sure the league would have preferred to see Peyton win.