American sports are socialist

[sealybobo]

Google NPR.org here & now "are American sports leagues actually socialist? We have salary caps and luxury taxes. And we reward failure. We give the worst teams the best picks and if a rich team overspends he has to pay an owner in a smaller market to make things " fair".

I like it better this way. In Europe the lions would not get good draft picks they'd be in the b league.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

So does that mean you have finally come around to the fact professional sports ESPECIALLY the NFL is corrupt? lol

Btw,you never answered my question i posed you which is why would it not be obvious to you NOW that the NFL has it fixed so the Lions never go to the superbowl after that playoff game two years ago in dallas when that cowboys defender committed "what was obvious to everyone around the world watching around the country." a pass interference penalty against that Lions defender and the refs picked up the yellow flag and gave NO EXPLANATION whatsoever for picking up the yellow flag and then saying there was no pass interference?

come on dude,even a CHILD after seeing that,could figure out these games are as phony and as rigged as pro wrestling only difference being that the players are not involved.

I still till this day cannot get over that call and as you know,I am not even a Lions fan.when I saw that call,the words I immediately said to myself was-"man this is the worst call in NFL playoff history since that BS tuck rule call that went against the Raiders."

In both cases,there is no way in hell the home team would have won those games had they been officiated FAIRLY.

In certain cases like in the pats/raiders game and the cowboys/lions game,they benefit from home town reffing. Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft are both very powerful men with deep pockets and influence.

there is no way in hell in either case had those games been played in oakland or in detroit that the refs would have ever made those horrible bad calls they made,no way, no how.

Here watch this short minute video here.




Here is ANOTHER example of how having home field advantage paid off for the seahawks,NFL refs in close games,are always afraid if they made the correct calls,they wont leave the stadium alive obviously.

Had this game between the seahawks and niners been officiated fairly,there is no way in hell the seahawks would have won that NFC title game.

the refs wanted the best defense in the league to play against the best offense in the league that year so they fixed that game to make sure the seahawks won.

same as the year before.The NFL wanted a Harbaugh bowl so they fixed the game between the falcons and niners so the niners won since the ravens advanced to the superbowl earlier that day.they made a couple of critical bad calls that went against the Falcons in that game that had they been called fairly,the falcons would have been in the superbowl and not the niners.

 

[DGS49]

"Socialist" can mean a lot of things.

Unions, for one thing, are an entirely "socialist" institution. Everybody gets the same amount, regardless of what you produce, right? In a sense, anything that inhibits the workings of the free market is "socialist." If professional sports were entirely "free market," then the richest owners (or the ones who were willing to lose the most money) would simply hire all the best players, and the "competition" would then be a joke - to the fans of other teams.

So professional sports have had to introduce some "socialist" concepts in order to [try to] prevent this from happening. If not, fans in smaller venues would simply stop coming.

But the governing bodies are made up of the same rich bastards who own the teams, so there are always some who fight, oppose, and cheat, simply because THEY CAN. See, "George Steinbrenner." And this is theoretically why there are people called, "Commissioners," whose job it is to keep the rogue owners in check, so that the competition doesn't become a farce. But...the Owner's committee hires and fires the Commissioner, so...

In baseball, no one would take the job of commissioner, given the constraints that the Owners wanted to place on the Commissioner, so they appointed one of the owners as Commissioner, Bud Selig, which didn't work out all that badly, even though it was an un-funny joke to anyone who was paying attention.