So, Goodell Wants the Niners This Year

This is the Niners Year, and Roger Goodell will make it so. This is what we like to call in the SFL as “The Goodell Script”, my own yearly seething tirade on how I feel the NFL is fixed.  Not entirely fixed mind you, but with some direction towards marketing a team toward a championship and further promoting the NFL through inspiration and emotion to cities without teams, because let’s face it–cities with teams don’t need it.  I often feel this way when I see the evolution of a story that envelopes a team and creates a groundswell of support from the media on all fronts.  When I find it hardest to ignore is when it trends along with the same team winning games in dramatic fashion, calling attention to itself (at least to some of us) due to inexplicable officiating.

This is just a conspiracy theory of course, but it’s hard to ignore that the Harbaugh Bowl did come true as everyone hoped or said it would just 20 months before.  I really like the Ravens, so I don’t want to take anything away from them–but/and to their credit, I don’t think the league (Mr. Goodell) had planned the Ravens to actually win the game.  This is where I agree with Ray Lewis; that blackout fiasco wasn’t an accident.  The Ravens were rolling on the Niners, and it had to stop.  This is the example that supports the “not entirely fixed” scenario to my nut-ball thinking. I believe that it cannot be totally orchestrated like a WWF match, but so many elements can be tinkered with just enough that an planned outcome is more likely.  Just hearsay: I’ve heard, as maybe you have, of league officials having discussions with the on-field officials during halftime of higher profile games (thus more important games), to make sure they seek opportunities to avoid an’ ‘early conclusion’ to the game at hand.  I can imagine what this means, but I try to ignore this thinking because I love pro football so much. I only sense it when I see a pattern of crazy comebacks that just don’t add up, and worse when I feel a shift in the officiating during a once one-sided game.

Back to the Niners and Roger Goodell.  Ok, so since I believe the Niners were the planned team last year, this year will be the one to make up for it.  Not that they can do everything by following said script, like say–stop the dreams of a strong Seattle team or an even more talented Falcons team.  It sure feels like they’ve already pencilled in Peyton & the Broncos in the AFC, so the 49ers will have to “do what they can to fit the plan”.  That’s the script for 2013, you heard it here first, but felt it long before.