Preface: The league does not fix games for 1 team to win.
The league is all about parody, getting people to watch, drawing in advertisers, increasing franchise values, and making money as a whole.
Oh yeah and they award the Stanley cup as the plot of the movie.
You don’t need to fix games if your Gary Bettman. You just have to create good tv and plots that advertisers and marketing teams can make money off of.
How do you do it? Manage games to be tight and series to be long. You have an ultimatum at the head of officiating that games need to be close and you always have to give teams a chance to come back. You do that by calling penalties and whistles to keep the game in the direction you want it. A penalty isn’t a penalty there are only game situations.
Owners won’t complain as a collective because the goal is money not banners!
The league doesn’t give a shit who wins or loses they just care how many games they can get on tv and how much at the gates and advertising they can sell throughout the course of the playoffs.
Pro sports isn’t pure competition anymore. It’s overrun with lawyers, gambling, marketing people, sales people, and people making generational wealth. Pretty much the scummiest people in society. The league leverages games as much as they can to extract every penny out of the consumer. There is no fair play!
Whoever wins the cup isn’t the best team. They are the last man standing of rigged games designed to extract every penny out of consumers as possible!
The league is all about parody, getting people to watch, drawing in advertisers, increasing franchise values, and making money as a whole.
Oh yeah and they award the Stanley cup as the plot of the movie.
You don’t need to fix games if your Gary Bettman. You just have to create good tv and plots that advertisers and marketing teams can make money off of.
How do you do it? Manage games to be tight and series to be long. You have an ultimatum at the head of officiating that games need to be close and you always have to give teams a chance to come back. You do that by calling penalties and whistles to keep the game in the direction you want it. A penalty isn’t a penalty there are only game situations.
Owners won’t complain as a collective because the goal is money not banners!
The league doesn’t give a shit who wins or loses they just care how many games they can get on tv and how much at the gates and advertising they can sell throughout the course of the playoffs.
Pro sports isn’t pure competition anymore. It’s overrun with lawyers, gambling, marketing people, sales people, and people making generational wealth. Pretty much the scummiest people in society. The league leverages games as much as they can to extract every penny out of the consumer. There is no fair play!
Whoever wins the cup isn’t the best team. They are the last man standing of rigged games designed to extract every penny out of consumers as possible!
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