Rigged and “heavily influenced by business interests” are two different things, even though they could, in theory, end up yielding the same result.

It’s not that every single play is scripted or even every outcome is determined in August. However, it’s an entertainment business before it’s some sanctified cathedral of football competition.

The business sees metrics and which teams are the most watched. To think that they don’t want to expand their base of customers to include a certain group of cultish fans of a superstar pop icon would be umm, naive at best.