Comment by PlatoIsADisease
17 hours ago
I've been telling people it only takes 2 or 3 people to throw a football game. The person who hires the ref(optional), the ref, and the person who places the bet.
And I was told I was crazy.
Hahahahahahahahahaha. Nope I was right.
Huh? It's pretty obvious that you can influence the outcome of a sports event, if you can influence the ref or if you can get a player on one side to pretend to be less competent than she normally is.
10 years ago we'd be called conspiracy theorists.
Sports Betting Scandals have been a thing for probably almost as long as sports exist, i don't get why you think that this was a thoughtcrime 10 years ago?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_betting#Famous_betting_...
wouldn't surprise me to find out that even cavemen were manipulating outcomes of stone-throwing contests to earn some more meat.
I think the disagreement was over whether it was likely that people threw matches like this, not whether it was possible.