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(...) Thanks for pointing out that important distinction! Or is it? I didn't think that rigging implied that, I had always thought it was just a less polite way of saying predetermined. :-) Honest question, NOT flame bait. (...) Larry Pieniazek - (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ???!!! $1,000,000 of legal bets are placed on the NFL each week, and you're saying "so what, it's rigged"?? Last time I checked that was illegal. (...) But that's exactly my point! NO ONE will debate the point that the Bucs were flat out (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'll buy that. My question was only a little serious, in any case! 8^) Dave! (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I suspect it's not the scripting that is the problem, it's that in wrestling, somebody knows who is going to win and tells the athletes that information. In your examples, while probably much more heavily scripted than the average wrestling (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) For that matter, why is pro-wrestling denied the status of "sport" on the grounds that it's scripted, while Figure Skating and Gymnastics, which use highly-coreographed routines, are applauded for the same thing?! Dave! (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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