Ch 12.4 - Sports
"Time to let a professional football team that doesn't know I exist determine my entire mood for the next four months." - Unknown
a. NFL/Basketball
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”There is no job worth $2 million a year. That’s why they pay athletes these fantastic salaries. I was listening to the radio the other day. They just contracted to pay one player on one team $6 million a year. Can you believe this? And why is that? It’s the Roman circus, What does the emperor do when the people become restive? When the people are asking questions? And when the people don’t like the policies of the emperor? He sends them to the circus. He creates a circus. He builds a giant colosseum. And he begins to throw the Christians to the lions. And chariot races. And football games. And basketball games. All to keep the idiots preoccupied so they don’t have time to learn what the truth is. So they don’t ever question the emperor.” - Bill Cooper
"Americans are very busy eating salty snacks and watching other people throw a ball into a basket." - Unknown on basketball
"I also think the NBA is sort of low-key rigged. Why does that surprise any NBA fan I don't know how many times you can watch a game a team goes up by 20, right? And then all of a sudden... Ticky tack foul. Ticky tack foul. They're in the penalty box. The other team's going through the line and then an ESPN talking head then comes on and goes 'I'll tell you right now I'm really concerned about that team that used to be up by 20 and it's now only up by five' and it gives you this idea oh what's gonna happen first half of the third quarter is for the players and then the referees assess what they need to do to make it come down to the final two minutes. I've said it is rigged forever and when a mobbed up ref came out you know people still say it's just one guy just one guy Jimmy. Yes, just one guy right if you're officiating a game, and I'm shaving points. How many games does it take before you pull me aside like 'Hey Bill what's going on with you? Huh?' Yeah, right got some stuff going on you know. I'm saying there's no Santa Claus. I apologize." - Bill Burr
"In 2022, 82 of the top 100 TV shows in America were NFL games, and the top 50 most viewed sporting events were football games or events that immediately followed football games. By contrast, in 2016, only 33 of the top 50 were football-related. The country has lost interest in so much else, but football remains a huge draw and, in fact, is gaining relative market share." - Unknown on football
"I have nothing against football. It just seems very wasteful losing two hours of my life to watch 22 millionaires on tv chasing a bag full of wind in their underwear" - Guy Martin.
"Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life
End over end, neither left nor the right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life" - Bobby Bare
"As a former fan I'm now an advocate of boycotting Roger Goodell's product." - Unknown
"Have you ever stopped to wonder how Vegas makes the point spread line and over under so close every week? - Goodes
"It's a pretty good script this year wouldn't you say? But we got together and we decided two brothers should play each other in the Super Bowl. So... when the Bosa brothers said no, I said well, I guess the Kelsey's will do. So we got the Kelsey's." - Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner
"Arian Foster: It's funny. Before we started taping, Arian was telling me about how the NFL is rigged, and he used to get a script on Day 1 of training camp that would get dropped off at his locker. And it was like, week 1 you'll do this, week 2 you're gonna have a hamstring injury, week 3 this is gonna happen, week 4 you're gonna get 3 touchdowns.
Interviewer: Did you memorize those before the season or would you rehearse the script before every game?
Arian Foster: We were really dedicated to it, so it was more like that's what practice was about. It was about practicing the script. This is what goes on. This is what we have to do.
Interviewer: And this referee is going to miss this call because they hate you and they love the Colts.
Arian Foster: WWF we know what was going to happen. But that was just part of the show." - Raphousetv interviewing Arian Foster who alleges the NFL is Rigged
"The superbowl is predetermined by the NFL and this year they are not even trying to hide it. But before I tell you who this superbowl narrative is forming around I need you to fully understand how crazy the scripting really is. Now since the NFL was created rigging and scripting has always been a part. But Tom Brady and the Patriots are a perfect example. Now Tom Brady came at the perfect time. After 9/11 America needed a hero. Maybe even an underdog story. So who better than Tom Brady on the Patiots. I mean you honestly couldn't have scripted it any better. After 9/11 the star quarterback goes down. The underdog comes in saves the day. The Patriots go on to win the Superbowl. Congress enacts the Patriot Act. And all of a suden there's a Patriots dynasty amongst the league. It doesn't stop there. Katrina hits New Orleans in 2005. Construction doesn't finish until 2010. And can you guess who won the Super Bowl that year? And I don't want this video to be 20 minutes long. So let's skip to 2020 with a familiar face, Tom Brady. This is after COVID. Everybody's staying at home so who better than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with Tom Brady to win the Super Bowl at home in Tampa. It makes perfect sense and you could not have scripted it any better. What about the Rams? Sean McVay with the Ukranian wife? The Rams with the same exact color way as the Ukranian flag? And that reminds me I think the Golden State Warriors won that same exact year with the same exact colors. Kind of like after the Boston Bombing. The Boston Red Sox went on to win the World Series. It's not just the NFL. And I could go all day about this. But the one thing I want you to take from this video is the Kelce brothers and their connection to Swift. This off season the Philadelphia Eagles signed Deandre Swift who is from the Philadelphia area to team up with Jason Kelce to team up and that offensive line. Now the past two weeks Travis Kelce has his own Swift, Taylor Swift and they could not stop talking about that. And this entire video has been focused on how major events are planned with the Super Bowl. Now I would find it extremely perfect if there was a rematch between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs this year. Tied in with some global banking event. Because SWIFT is an acronomym for a system that allows countries to transfer money between banks. This cannot be a coincidence. This has to be foreshadowing by the NFL." - tinfoilhatpod
"If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible." - Unknown
"Almost every rock concert, Super Bowl halftime show, and Olympic opening ceremony is riddled with symbolism. What people need to realize is that they're witnessing a religious ceremony. And the public is an unwitting participant. Why? Because where attention goes, energy flows. Attention is a form of worship. The forces at work in our culture influence you every day, and they aren't Christian. Art, sport, music, and architecture are uplifting and good for the human soul in their purest form. Likewise, when inverted, they are poisonous. You get what you pay attention to. Be careful or it will manifest itself." - Unknown
“Right after the game, she said, 'See, I did a lot of work. You do your work. I do mine.' She said, 'You're lucky you married a witch, I'm just a good witch.'" - Tom Brady on his wife Giselle being a witch.
b. Wrestling/MMA
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”In a 2004 lawsuit, the NFL argued they are not a collection of 32 teams in competition with each other. They argued they are a single entity, providing ‘entertainment’ in the marketplace, and as such they are not subject to Anti-Trust laws. The only other ‘sport’ that occupies this legal position is the WWE.” - Unknown
If I’m going to watch a sport that is fake I’d rather watch wrestling. At least the characters can act and have a better stage presence.
"The WWE came into existence by Vince Mcmahon asking the question, 'What if I took the American political system and placed tights on it?'" - Unknown
"What we do is entertainment. They wouldn't go to Tom Cruise and ask if his movies are fake. We provide entertainment. I would rather someone tell me I'm not entertaining than ask if what we do is fake." - John Cena, on WWE
"You just won the biggest fight of your career - you know? America doesn't want to hear your thoughts on Jesus and keep that stuff at home. Religion, politics, all that stuff. When you're out there fighting and you're being interviewed, they want to hear about the fight. It's awesome you love Jesus. Love Jesus all you want. You just don't have to do it publicly." - Dana White on a fighter who won his match saying 'First of all I'd like to thank Jesus Christ, my Lord and saviour. Without him I'd be nothing.'
"Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven." - Matthew 10:32 KJV
c. Cheating
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"If you ain't cheating you ain't trying" - Lance Armstrong
"Sex categories exist in sport because, if they didn't, the variable that would dominate would be sex (the advantages conferred by sex on half the population). Similarly, weight categories exist in boxing because, if they didn't, the variable that would dominate would be weight. Sport exists to celebrate exceptional abilities within similar categories. You're not celebrating the exceptional abilities in sport if you do not separate by sex, because the variable that would almost always be rewarded over everything else, even weight, would be male sex." - Zach Elliott
"What's your 5 favorite female basketball or soccer teams? Who are your 5 favorite female athletes? See, you can't answer. That's why male athletes get paid so much." - Unknown
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