Super Sunday...

All things are not as they appear...

Later today a football game will be played that over the years has achieved "Event" status. An Event being an occurance of such magnitude that a large share of the population is aware of it and may actually stop what they're doing to pay attention to it.
In our world of "gotta have it" in which we are lured into a growing desire to own a particular something, an "Event" is an advertiser's dream come true. Super Sunday has reached the promised land. It's not only an "Event" in the United States, it's now attempting to achieve that same status around the so-called civilized world (where people can enjoy advertisement driven television...).


Today, 32 billionaires make up the National Football League, each owning one of the teams that competes in the league. From late summer through mid-winter these people play a game with the television watching public where billions of dollars are at stake. So long as the public tunes in to watch, the advertisers will continue to pave the way and these billionaire NFL owners will continue to be happy...

Now to the question at hand... With this kind of money on the line, do you truly believe these 32 billionaires (who agreed a long time ago to equally share in the NFL's net annual revenue) will allow the fate of their huge sports industry to lay with chance?

As a sports fan, isn't the true appeal, or to put it in business terms, isn't the "bottom line" in any sporting event the fact that the winner will be determined on the field, the court, the rink, the course or at the track? If it became common knowledge that forces behind the scenes were manipulating the outcome of sporting events in order to maximize their personal profit, do you think people would still show up to watch the events?

The fact is sporting events have been "fixed" for as long as sporting events have been held. Since gambling has run hand in hand with sporting events there have been unscrupulous people making sure the "competitor" they put their money on actually wins... The Federal Bureau of Investigation has worked long and hard to put an end to organized crime over the years and a big part of that endeavor has concerned catching dirty fingers attempting to tip the scales their direction in sporting events, but that was yesterday and yesterday was small potatoes. Today the stakes are like the size of the Universe as compared to the size of our solar system and today's players all wear only the finest business suits. With big business scandals like Enron, Bernard Madoff and more recently the housing industry collapse and financiers like Bank of America using unethical practices seemingly always in the news, do you honestly believe big time sports is immune?

So along comes Brian Tuohy, the self-proclaimed "Nation's most skeptical fan and #1 sports conspiracist". Brian recently wrote a book entitled:

The Fix Is In: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and NASCAR

(Yes, NASCAR's in it too, imagine that!)

At 4:30 pm EST Brian is going to publish who will win today's Super Bowl based upon insider information... Check out the site "The Fix Is In" and see if he gets it right...
http://www.thefixisin.net/sbpick.html

The Super Bowl is a lot of fun to watch. People throw parties in honor of it and many times the "Event" boils down to nothing more than a distraction as people enjoy each other's company. Before they know it the game is over, its time to go home and the world is good...