Conspiracy Theory

I'm sure you've seen or heard about the video.
Roger Goodell had it in for the San Francisco 49ers.
Right.
If you believe that then I have a bridge to sell you.  In Iran.
Believe me, there is no way Roger Goodell was happy to hand over the Lombardi Trophy to Pete Carroll on Sunday Night.  Seattle is probably one of the last (maybe Cleveland, Buffalo or Jacksonville behind them) franchises that he wants to see raise Mr. Lombardi's trophy.  The Seahawks are a regional, small market team that has a relatively small but growing and vocal...very vocal, fan base.  Isolated by geography and tucked away in the Pacific Northwest with that crazy stadium that is louder than thunder and a jet fighter combined.

So why is Goodell "giving" this franchise the 49ers title?
Simple.  He wants to make Starbucks or Seattle's Best the new, official drink of the NFL.
Your quirky, tattoo ridden, bicep kissing douchebag of a QB (Kaepernick) shouldn't have turned the ball over 3 times in the 4th quarter.
Get over it.

So now that Goodell has screwed the 9ers out of their quest for 6, he turns his attention to the Broncos.  He probably put this Super Bowl in New York (okay, Jersey fist pump, represent) 4 years ago, just so he could tilt the board in the Seattle's favor, right?  Cause he wants to put the Lombardi Trophy in the Pacific Northwest, and not the Bay.

Get real people.  Goodell was dying to hand that trophy over to Peyton Manning, cementing his status as arguably the best QB in NFL history.  But Sunday kind of took care of that debate.  Some, myself included, are taking him off the Mount Rushmore of QBs altogether.  Montana, Elway, Marino, Brady & Favre.  That's it, that's the list.  Peyton, the GOAT?  Nah.  Not even close.  He's terrific.  One of the best ever.  In the regular season.  He's below average when it counts, in the playoffs.  Insert Jim Mora soundclip here <____>  Losing record in the playoffs, losing record in the Super Bowl.  And he got straight up owned on Sunday.  GOATs don;t get owned, they crush it on the big stage.  Peyton doesn't do that.

The NFL is a multi-billion dollar corporation.  Would Goodell risk the shield by "fixing" results for a puny, small market team like the Seahawks?  Get the heck out of here if you said, "YES!"  Your dumber than I thought.

If he was gonna "give" a championship to a team, I think it would be to one of his big market or historical franchises listed below.
-San Francisco 49ers
-New York Giants
-Dallas Cowboys
-Chicago Bears
-Pittsburgh Steelers
-Heck, even the Oakland Raiders
You could then list about 20 more teams before reaching the Seahawks on the commishes wish list of landing spots for the Lombardi Trophy.  Goodell would be perfectly fine if the teams listed above rotated winning the Lombardi on a 5 year basis.

The Cowboys are my argument against fixing games and outcomes.  There is no reason under gods green earth that the Cowboys shouldn't contend for the trophy every year.  Especially with that monstrosity of a stadium and all the extra revenue that it generates.  Well, maybe one.  Jerry Jones.  God bless the man.  Hope he lives and continues to ruin the Cowboys forever.  If Goodell was going to tilt the board in one of the teams favor, it would be a team like the Cowboys.  Not the Seahawks.  And that's not happening.

Goodell did not "fix" the Super Bowl.  If he was gonna screw anybody, he would have done it to the Seahawks and give it to one of his golden franchises.  Like what happened in Super Bowl XL.  But that's another story.

But if you do believe that Goodell paved the way for the Seahawks to win Super Bowl XLVIII, that's fine.  Had nothing to do with the defense, the Legion of Boom, game preparation, Russell Wilson, Percy Harvin or all the 12s that snatched up tickets in the NYC from panicking New Yorkers selling low on a penny stock gone bad.  Goodell wanted the Seahawks as his champion and made it so.  This is the NFL.  Not the WWE.  If that was true and it got out, the NFL would be next to worthless.  It simply does not make sense.

Crying over spilled milk is so beneath the 49ers and their great fans.  There were some bad calls in that NFC Title Game.  I hope they change the rule on reviewing plays.  Cause they obviously got that fumble down on the goal line wrong.  But that had nothing to do with Roger Goodell wanting the trophy in Seattle.  It happened because Seattle played at home that day and was the better team.  That week and in Jersey 2 weeks later.

So why not work on improving your team.  Make a home field advantage like the hawks?  You got that new stadium that will debut.  I can't imagine a better place to play on the opening night of the 2014 season than a brand spanking new stadium on Thursday Night.  But Roger prefers Seattle over Frisco, right?  Nothing I will say to that.  If you believe it, fine.  Believe the NFL is fixing games.

If you are still convinced, I'm gonna let you go now.  You probably need to go look for aliens, plan your trip to Area 52, watch the entire series of the X-Files on DVD  for the 12th time, hunt for Bigfoot, or look at who killed JFK one last time.  It was a lone gunman, right?  Goodell probably also pulled the plug on the power during last years Super Bowl to GIVE the Ravens that Super Bowl.  Think you guys are right.  Goodell is out to screw the 9ers.

Instead of complaining, give credit where credit is due.  You lost in the big game last year.  You lost the chance to play in the big game this year.  The nouveau riche new kids on the block Seahawks with their 1st Super Bowl Championship, have been the bully in the NFC West since they moved in.  All those titles San Fran won were done in the 80s and 90s.  Before we were in the division.

Here's some advice.  Go polish those trophies you won a billion years ago and figure out how to win at the CLink.  Cause bitching about something that didn't happen is just plain stupid.

I'm done.
Go Hawks!