Was that a telling moment? Or a nothing to see here moment?

Tampa driving to possibly go up by 2 scores. Lt Tristan Wilfs is flagged for a phantom face mask. A 15 yd personal foul. Replay shows it was a bad call. Maybe it's a hold? Does replay assist call down & tell them to pickup the flag? Nope. The very next play, another flag for ineligible down field. The booth does call down. The flag is picked up. In any event the sequence results in 2nd & 25 from KC 44 instead of 2nd & 2 from the KC 20. It all equates to TB settling for 3 as a possible TD drive is negated by officiating influence.

Viewed in the light of the way Sam Darnold safety was ? Ignored? .... Ignored is too strong a description. But IDK what else to call the non call & flag retrieval the past 2 Viking games.

Is it a true fix? A thumb on the competition scale? We'll probably never know the actual truth.

It sure does feel like the 1970's " Big Time Wrestling" moment. When it leaked that the "sport" was likely more choreographed violence than actual competition & sport. I remember my friends that were big fans of the league, at first go through varying levels of denial through to the moment the rumor became fact. Denial turned to acceptance & "I don't care, it's Saturday morning fun tv" and finally to all fans losing interest.

IDK what to say. It's right there in plain view. We all see it. It's become impossible to ignore that "something isn't right".

1st the varying stages of denial... Now we're approaching universal acceptance. The NFL is not completely legit. All is not what it seems.
The next stage is on the horizon. The moment every accepts. It's all fixed. And for a brief moment in the grand scheme. Many will say, " I don't care, it's Sunday/ Thursday/ Monday fun."

Are we at that point yet? When it arrives. It means the end is near. The moment "The NFL is King" is just a memory.

It's been sketchy for many years. Long before the infamous league apology letter issued to a hosed Viking squad concerning a sketchily officiated Viking/ packer tilt from the previous century.

Does any of it matter?
I'd say yes, if you live in a county that provides/ provided tax subsidies to build billion dollar stadiums. Not that any meaningful recompense should or could be expected from any fraud litigations against billionaires that hide behind lawyers in such huge possible damage awards.

Kinda like that grisham book, "The Rainmaker". The fraud is proven, a gajillion dollar settlement awarded to the plaintiffs. One that never pays up- as bankruptcy protections of an LLC conquer the justice served moment.

In 2050?
Will SO-FI stadium host football games?
Hunger games? Maybe "death Race 2050" starting/ finishing point?

Lol you're guess is as good as mine.
Maybe? The Gilded age folks have it correct.
Work us peasants to death, BC look how we've spent all the free time we were handed by the era of, " The Great Society". Too much time on our hands didn't erase world hunger, nor save the planet.
It just made us all addicts.

Yeah- Dark & Cynical view. But it smells like teen spirit, don't it.... Eventually. The last lion ate the last Christian as Nero fiddled.