ARE CROOKED REFS RIGGING SUPER BOWL?
Sports industry insiders believe THE FIX is in!
AGREEDY moneyspinning plot to fix the 2024 Super Bowl is in the works as the National Football League climbs into bed with big-time sports bookies, who have billions of dollars in bets on the line, according to investigators and sports industry insiders! A special National ENQUIRER report reveals lawmen are zeroing in on organized crime and overseas gambling rings after a series of questionable calls changed the outcome of key games this season, creating a windfall for sports books. Bombshell evidence also indicates the 2018 Super Bowl win by the Philadelphia Eagles was fixed by the city’s powerful Mafia boss Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino, who insiders say made a killing with the inside information.
“Word is the feds are looking into it — and it could take down the whole sport!” says a snitch. “But I wouldn’t hold your breath. There’s too much money on the line.”
Since the NFL approved legalized gambling on games in 2021, pro football betting has become a $100 billion industry — and last year, more than 50 million Americans put money on the Kansas City Chiefs–Eagles Super Bowl via online wagers, bets at legit sports books and illegal bookies.
A veteran sports insider says the massive money involved has increased belief that football games — including the Super Bowl — are rigged, just as baseball’s 1919 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds was fixed by New York mobster Arnold Rothstein. “The billions being bet is bigger than the sport itself,” the insider says. “The belief was making betting legal would put things on the up and up, but instead, it’s only thrown gasoline on speculation the games are fixed and illegal gambling rings are still influencing results.”
Indeed, the past two
Super Bowls have triggered suspicions of fixing.
Fans cried foul when a lategame phantom holding call against the Eagles virtually handed the Chiefs the Super Bowl victory!
Podcaster Joseph Robert questioned the 2022 Super Bowl, claiming the NFL knew business interests dictated it was better to have the bigmarket Los Angeles Rams defeat the small-market Cincinnati Bengals.
“You got to follow the dollar, you got to follow the market, you got to follow the storylines,” Robert says. “I think a good portion of it is a show and a big portion of it is probably fixed.”
Insiders also believe NFL referees are in the thick of it — either being told by the league or by shadowy underworld figures to manipulate games.
In a crucial December game, the Detroit Lions were going for a two-point conversion after a touchdown to seal a win against the Dallas Cowboys.
A Lions player, who reported to a referee as an eligible receiver, caught the seemingly winning pass, but then was bizarrely penalized as being an ineligible receiver, handing the game to the Cowboys. “There were so many calls
like that this season, which leads people to believe these games aren’t played so much as scripted,” the insider says. Former NFL star Arian Foster triggered shock waves when he said in 2023 that NFL games are predetermined — and players were even taught to practice the results!
“That’s what practice was about — it was about practicing the script. It’s like WWE [pro wrestling], we know what’s going to happen, but you’ve still got to put on a show,” Foster insists.
Former National Basketball Association referee Tim Donaghy, who served 13 months in prison after being convicted of betting on and manipulating games, claims sports refs are always a target for changing the outcomes. “Any time that you have a sporting event with a Vegas line to it, there’s always going to be somebody involved in organized crime trying to make a dollar off of it,” Donaghy says.
“They constantly are trying to get to that referee, to get to a player, to get to somebody, a trainer, or a coach, who can give them inside information they can take advantage of.” Adds the insider “There is just too much monkey business going on to believe tampering isn’t involved in the outcome of the Super Bowl and other games.”