I know not all of you buy into my "fixed" theories regarding sports,
but just think about a few things here. EVERY time there is a heralded
white player going head-to-head vs. a heralded black player, for at
least the past 25 years or so, the black player (or his team)
wins. The ending of this game was just too convenient; the balleyhooed
black QB leading his team down the field for the winning TD (with USC
defensive players just not quite able to grasp that this guy was just
going to pack it in and run every time). I told the friends I was
watching the game with, that once USC made the curious decision to go
for it on 4th and 2, they were going to be stopped, and then Texas
would drive down for the winning TD, with nothing on this earth able to
stop Vince Young himself from scoring it. We now know that at least one
other national championship game was fixed, the 1984 match between
Miami and Nebraska. WR Irving Fryar came out publicly, about a decade
later, with the information that he'd been paid off to drop some key
passes. Predictably, no one in the kept press had the least bit of
curiosity about who had paid him off, and no one suggested launching a
full investigation of the NCAA, who should have been tarnished by
Fryar's revelations. Instead, Fryar's comments were quickly forgotten,
as were Bubba Smith's belated claims that Super Bowl III was
fixed.
but just think about a few things here. EVERY time there is a heralded
white player going head-to-head vs. a heralded black player, for at
least the past 25 years or so, the black player (or his team)
wins. The ending of this game was just too convenient; the balleyhooed
black QB leading his team down the field for the winning TD (with USC
defensive players just not quite able to grasp that this guy was just
going to pack it in and run every time). I told the friends I was
watching the game with, that once USC made the curious decision to go
for it on 4th and 2, they were going to be stopped, and then Texas
would drive down for the winning TD, with nothing on this earth able to
stop Vince Young himself from scoring it. We now know that at least one
other national championship game was fixed, the 1984 match between
Miami and Nebraska. WR Irving Fryar came out publicly, about a decade
later, with the information that he'd been paid off to drop some key
passes. Predictably, no one in the kept press had the least bit of
curiosity about who had paid him off, and no one suggested launching a
full investigation of the NCAA, who should have been tarnished by
Fryar's revelations. Instead, Fryar's comments were quickly forgotten,
as were Bubba Smith's belated claims that Super Bowl III was
fixed.
