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Did anyone see the NFC championship game today and think the Bucs got screwed? That overturned call in the last minute was beyond belief. I guess ABC wants the flashy Rams to go to the Super Bowl rather than the defense-led Bucs. And Kurt Warner's (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I can't believe you would suggest such a thing. Are you honestly suggesting that something as time-honored as a championship professional football game could be rigged? What are we supposed to believe next, that a popular televised quiz show (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) We're not talking about the WWF where no pretense is made. The NFL is *supposedly* on the level (I'm assuming your tongue is firmly planted in cheek). -John (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Cemented there, as a matter of fact. :) At least I don't have to feel bad for rooting against Manning since the Titans are going to the Super Bowl now. Lots of people around here had a problem picking sides for that game. (24 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I found it comforting that a local radio personality thought the same thing I did that something nefarious was/is going on-- I can't believe nobody is taking my troll bait! -John (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, ya, it's rigged. But so what? Look, even the WWF is rigged, but it is still true that: - being a WWF participant requires a great deal of skill. Falling HURTS if you don't do it right. - it's a gateway to even MORE rigged things. Name me (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The WWF (and wrestling in general) isn't rigged, it's predetermined. There's a difference. Rigged implies that it was done immorally or illegally. Wrestling matches are predetermined so that the storyline is followed, just like any other (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Larry, (...) Hmm... I don't know, Larry, I get crispy every now and then. :) Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Page -> (URL) (24 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! (24 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 (...) (24 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! (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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 - (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I'd say that for pro-wrestling to be an olympic sport, we'd need a bunch of different matches and the judging would be on the match as a whole (that is, all participants in the match would be judged together), with criteria such as: realism, safety, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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