I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist. Perhaps that stems from my desire to believe in the sanctity and goodness of people, the purity of institutions and in the integrity of the truth. I hear it all the time, and perhaps you do too, that the NFL is fixed, that it is rigged. I have close friends who remind me that the NFL is entertainment and they’ll add that just because it’s entertainment it doesn’t mean that it’s on the up-and-up.
I’m told that the NFL will do all that it can to drive TV ratings, to nickel and dime fans to death by forcing us to buy apps to watch games; that Roger Goodell and his merry band of unscrupulous opportunists will due everything in their power to squeeze another nickel from a rock.