Not a formula 1 guy, but watching them make shit up on the fly to get verstappen right behind Hamilton 2 years ago for a final lap showdown was pretty insane.
at this point I assume anyone who tells me they like F1 is just faking it because what they really like is the Netflix show about it.
College football. It was pure and righteous until espn got involved and sec teams started playing in the 90s.
Sports are rigged in that the team/person with the most resources/money wins like 90% of the time. That's it
Polls and bowls were less rigged than the playoff committee. CFB is an absolute joke now from a competitive balance/parity standpoint. That said, I still love it.
College football is obviously rigged, when Georgia gets a targetting call on Harrison reversed in the booth in a 2022 CFP game or when Clemson gets an OSU scoop/score reversed in the booth in a 2019 CFP game. It was a much purer sport when OSU was able to kick a FG after the play clock expired against Penn State in 2014 or when Miami was called for pass interference in OT in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl.
e-sports, table tennis and low-level tennis are way more rigged than anything listed here. Like legit rigged
What? That’s not at all true. For one, millions watch WWE. Also, like half of the discussion on any sport is about officials favoring one team over another.
That's more speculative and prob just a case of bad refereeing as opposed to actually being rigged. I think people either consciously or subconsciously know this. There's often no evidence of it being rigged and I highly doubt people as a species are capable of keeping much of anything a secret. Anyway, if you really thought something had a preconceived outcome beforehand I'd question why you'd watch. WWE you know it's rigged but you're still not certain of the outcome, like a movie. It's why people get mad about a movie or tv show being spoiled. They want to be surprised. I feel like this subject could get really in the weeds because there's a couple of different kinds of rigged imo and people also claim foul play to placebo some emotional attachment to an outcome.
the nba still employs multiple refs who had hundreds of calls with donaghy while he was doing his thing
rigged means that the deck is stacked to favor the teams with the most resources. thats why the choices are leagues that allow that. if you think leagues rig games with refs you’re a tinfoil hat psychopath
i tried to tell the world this during the 2006 cotton bowl when alabama was unfairly gifted a touchdown though the receivers knee was down. nobody listened!
2016 NBA finals. Warriors are up 3 games to 1. Draymond accumulates 3 flagrant fouls over the course of the playoffs (all of which were assessed retroactively i.e. after the game was over), the third being assessed following game 4 of the NBA finals because he retaliated to Lebron stepping over him at mid court, results in a 1 game suspension. Draymond misses game 5, Cavs win, momentum swings, the series is extended (more $), Cavs come back to win it. I believe people, or in this case corporations, do what they’re incentivized to do and in this instance the league has clear incentive to extend the series. I’m not saying I 100% believe the 2016 finals were rigged, but I’ve always thought it to be suspicious.
The coaches would always stack our little league tournament teams. We had two tournament teams - AL and NL and they would literally have a draft and stack one league. Looking back, it was so toxic. My LL (Northwood) had players that ended up at SC, Clemson, CofC and UT. Not to mention another who was drafted by the Orioles in like the 30th round but decided to go to a Juco school so he could up his draft status because he wasn't smart. Some parents are crazy. I could go on about the politics of 6-12 yos, but it makes me feel dirty. Oh yeah, one of the main umpires was caught molesting kids at that Cooperstown tournament.
If people legitimately thought their team had no chance and the world was titled against them, I'd question their sanity in continuing to watch
Even NBA announcers talk about how certain players shouldn't get called for fouls that other players would get called for.