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Monday Night Football Is Rigged

This website was not created to infuriate anyone, nor to change anyone's opinions about the wonderful game of football (American football). After all, the game has been around for well over 100 years, and Monday Night Football has existed for 34 of those years. In addition, the authors of this site believe that Monday Night Football is entertaining and well-produced. However, we have strong evidence that the National Football League's games on Monday nights are rigged.

In a world where reality television has cornered the broadcast market, MNF has realized in recent years what it is really all about - what it was originally created to produce - ratings. And when a program needs to boost ratings, the first place to turn is to the writers.

WHY would you fix a football game?
This question has puzzled us for some time, but didn't take us long to figure out. In fact, the answer is quite simple: MONEY. Good games = good ratings = $$$$. But, come on…a football game? It's impossible. There would have to be so many people involved - referees, players (from both sides), coaches, announcers, camera and production crews, the list goes on and on. We totally agree with that argument, but, we're not talking about a small-time, handing-money-under-the-table-to-one-guy fixing of a game. The American Broadcasting Company makes billions of dollars on this production yearly - and their ratings have been DOWN in recent years. With all the money they've had in the past - with all the cash they have to hand out a wad to Britney Spears or Sly Stallone to help out with an introduction to their show - if you DON'T think they have enough dough to pass it around to all the necessary people each and every night, YOU'RE the one that's not thinking right. These guys have bucks. The show has been ranked in the top 10 among primetime shows for 13 straight years. No other show has done that. No other show has the revenue that MNF does. Not even close. People in the big money television business believe it's well worth it to pump in a few extra million dollars for a few more ratings points. And when it's just ONE game, a lot of key ballplayers aren't afraid to take a loss or make a game close just to make a few thousand dollars on the side.

HOW would you fix a football game?
While fixing a football game in front of a national television audience is a little more than fixing an NAIA college football game (why anyone would do this, I have no idea), it is much more possible than you might think. ABC and Disney have writers - some of the best in the world. Television is all about fooling the audience, and they have the world's best football television crew to take care of that; show this here, don't show this here, etc. Now the trick is to get things to follow a certain script. This would be the difficult part.

Football is a highly unpredictable game, this much is true. But with an excellent team of writers, multiple scripts could be written to turn to if certain unexpected things happen in a game. We are sure that each MNF game follows a number of scripts, not determining the one of multiple endings until the final minutes (or even seconds) of the game. The outcome is always the same however, the team that MNF wants to win, wins. That's all that has to happen for these guys to come out ahead. After all, if you know the outcome, it's not hard to have 1,000 people working for you in Vegas "put $20,000 dollars on the Jets" and pull in a massive sum. And if the game is close, all the better for Disney/ABC. Ratings start to soar, more money comes in, more players/coaches/writers can be paid to rig the next game - which can now be an even more fantastic contest in which more money is pulled in. It's a business. Once you make money, you can pay for better equipment to help your business produce more of a better product. Don't you think that Monday Night Football has grabbed a little cash in the past three and a half decades to put a little into a game that they ultimately know the winner of and can therefore make essentially all their money back by betting on the winner?

Yeah, right, okay, but I want proof….
This concept was absurd to us when we started to research it, believe us. It started as a joke when one of our favorite teams lost in an improbable game one Monday night. But when we started noticing strange little things happening in the game that you wouldn't notice if you weren't looking for them, we started taking it a bit more serious.

We definitely wouldn't present this to you without proof. We don't expect you to believe what we are telling you just because WE SAY it's true. Sometimes we can't even believe it ourselves. We almost refused to believe it until all signs seemed to keep pointing us in this direction. So have a look at some of the research we've compiled over the past three years and come to your own conclusion. Like we mentioned before, we are not trying to start a cult of believers or change your opinion of the game of football. All we want to do is get this out in the open in hopes that people will at least be aware that MNF is simply a glorified WWE. There is nothing wrong with that, because Monday Night Football is quite entertaining. But let it just be known that it is not sport so much as it is just that: entertainment.

Have evidence? Email mnf_rigged@yahoo.com