Could the NFL be rigged?

[TommyBass]

I think there needs to be a distinct difference between "influence" and "rigging".  You can only do so much influencing as a ref... the players would have to play along.  You'd have to call a ridiculous amount of 15 yd penalties on someone like Peyton to make a huge difference.  He can erase 4 of those in one pass.

[Little Luey]

At this point, I don't think anyone is saying that this past Super Bowl was rigged. It would be very hard to argue.

I don't think anyone can say that there's absolutely no way some NFL games are rigged.

this makes more sence, could some games be influenced by players or a refferies, I supposed you could say yes to that, based on what we have seen from other sports. I still think that for this to happen there would have to be many people involved. In the NBA there are 3 refs and 10 players on the court at one time, a lot less people to convince and brive. The NFL has som many refs and players on the field at one time that it would be hard to get everyone to fail to make plays or to  make the wrong call. That is where it is different.

the original comment was more like can the NFL rig the outcome of the games, that I don't think so. This would imply that the NFL somehow would prefer the Saints to win the game over the Colts. As someone mentioned before, a team with bigger stadiums and more appeal would make more sence to benefit from such plot. Then team revenue, which is divided among all teams, would make sence.