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waterfield
Well assuming all that is true, do you think the Rams get the short end of it ? If so why the Rams?
I don't really know. Being a long time Rams fan I'm not the optimistic sort, though.
But I don't know what or why the NFL would want one team or another to win but I simply can't believe that they leave their league to simple chance or are above manipulating things. It may not even be a goal of a particular team winning or losing but of just keeping the games competitive. I know the SB blowouts of the '90's were not a good thing for viewership.
My point isn't that the league favors certain teams over others, just that it's just as susceptible to greed and temptation as any other entity run by humans. So, I think they are not inclined to let things just play out naturally. The level and amount of manipulation that they employ is debatable but I don't think that they do it is.