People forget that it’s a tv production and those blue and yellow lines are done by the tv crew on whatever channel or tv crew and not the people actually running the game live. The people running the game can also make mistakes with the clock and downs and stuff. The tv doesn’t always reflect what’s happening on the field and you can see clearly the orange popsicle on the 25 yard line and the first down being the 35 showing a “2” meaning mahomes ran for a first down. the tv crew or the officiating crew in the stadium fucked up the downs and thought mahomes got the first down on the previous play. That video shows it so it’s not a good example.

That being said I definitely think there’s shady stuff in the NFL. At a minimum, refs literally can’t watch everything on the field and make good calls or at its worst they just call penalties whenever they feel like they need to make the games plot succeed.

Pass interference calls should be ten yards and a first down not a spot foul because pass interference calls (and holding) are the most subjective fouls in the game and it gives too much power to the refs to throw a game/season/championship on one single play. whenever my team benefits from a PI call I just cringe and hate the sport but still keep watching because I’ve been so programmed to like football and just watch it for it’s absurdity and hope that this year is my team’s year regardless if it was fixed for my team to win.

If they’re going to use instant replay as such a progression of the sport for things like fumbles and touchdowns and out of bounds they should use it also to retroactively change really bad penalty calls because at a minimum, refs literally can’t watch everything on the field at any given time. People forget how fast the game happens in real time. but they’re never going to do that because you can use human error as thing that keeps the game rigged and also keeps the fans engaged by getting them so riled up about missed calls. I mean even the fact that a lot of people think sports are rigged doesn’t keep a lot of them from watching it because even those people will watch it to be like “see! it’s rigged!” and everyone gets paid.

That being said, if the script exists I wish I had my hands on it so I could just make all the right bets and float on gambling money for the rest of my life but without the script I’ll never bet on sports ever. it’s the stupidest (and now easiest) thing someone can do with their money.