The WWE came out as staged, and they took off. The athleticism of what those guys / gals do is still way up there. And now the debate on real or not is gone. It is staged, but the stunts are real and take talent.
I am upset about the game, but the NFL is not rigged. It’s Rules Committee suffers from the same disease that Congress does - they think they HAVE to keep coming up with more and more rules every year to be considered useful and contributing.
Therefore, we now have so many convoluted rules that every play has an infraction. And since they can’t stop every play, by definition, the officiating staff MUST resort to selective enforcement.
How many people believe that someone would devote their life’s work to officiating a game they had no favorite team in? How many people with a favorite team in a sport also have other teams they “like” and others the “dislike” since they results can help their favorite team’s standings in some way?
The system is set up for corruption.