@Ticomaya,
With all due respect Tico I think you miss the point. I was simply speculating on the existence of the billion dollar a week unregulated betting market with modern communications facilities and the excessive influence a QB has on a game. When NFL rules were thought up, as opposed to having evolved like cricket and our football did, that vast betting market did not exist and neither did the communication systems.
It's a bigger deal than you might think. One incident, just one, can seriously tarnish the game. Cricket has just been tarnished. A suspicion arises in the public mind that these pro-sportsmen are having us on. That it is a form of ballet dancing. But I will admit that the enthusiasm for the WWW suggests many are not bothered about such things and that the spectacle is what matters, the colour and the movement, and having a highlight of the week/month worth getting out of the house for. Or choosing to watch it on the telly before other things. The type of adverts inserted into the broadcasts being a rough and ready guide to the psychology involved.
The chances are, in this game, that, given our knowledge, we have as much chance of picking the winner of a fixed game as we have the loser so it doesn't matter much. It will even out over the season. And we are only playing for fun anyway. Aren't we?
