I'm glad to see some people here opening speculating about fixed games. It's easier to see when it's the team you want to win that is on the short end of the script. Usually, that's the team with more white players than the other. Anyone who saw the last play in the Packers- Cardinals game knows the game was fixed. Period. Face mask penalties are just about the easiest ones to detect, and the ones they seldom miss. You mean to tell me that the ref who was standing right there didn't see that? Come on! What "honest" officials would want a game to end on a play like that, because of an overlooked penalty?
I grow more and more convinced that these are scripted events. I don't know the specifics, but certainly the refs can determine outcomes all by themselves. Between holding, pass interference, illegal procedure and illegal blocks in the back, virtually every game can be controlled by the men in stripes. Start noticing how often blatant blocks from behind go uncalled, and then question why it is ever called. In the Ravens-Patriots game, on the play when Flacco ran for a first down (after Harbaugh challenged the spot), you could see a Raven knock down a Patriot from behind, right in front of one of those upstanding officials. The official somehow missed it (much like the refs in wrestling don't see any of those "foreign objects in the ring"), and the "honest" announcers didn't mention it, either. This happens repeatedly, in very game, in every season.
Btw, Mike Tyson is hosting Monday Night Raw tonight. Earlier this season, Ben Roethlesberger hosted it. These "legitimate" sports don't even try to distance thsmselves from scripted entertainment any more. It's so obvious that I honestly think a lot of them wouldn't even deny it if a real journalist even exposed the fix. More importantly, I don't think the majority of drunk white fans would care, either.