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THE FIX APPEARS TO BE IN — IN MORE PLACES THAN ONE!
by Pat Shannan
While many government false flags and inside conpiracies have been uncovered and exposed in recent years, it is a safe bet and a common agreement among those of us who have have been publishing the truth for many decades that far more schemes and false flags went unnoticed and remained in federal cover-up than ever were exposed. But now it is becoming more obvious by the year that this sort of truth-twisting has stretched its ugly hand into more arenas than just the political.
I have been a football fan for more years than most people have lived. While growing up and from the reading of my older brother’s SPORT magazines from the ’40s and ’50s, I developed childhood heroes that I never expected to ever meet. But a few I did. One was Army’s Felix “Doc” Blanchard, “Mr. Inside,” part of the greatest running back coalition ever. Along with his “Mr. Outside,” a speedster named Glenn Davis, the two still remain as the greatest 1-2 offensive punch in the history of college football. Blanchard won the Heisman Trophy in 1945, Davis in 1946. Certainly, no two greater players ever occupied the same backfield in college football history, before or since. Blanchard, as I learned many decades later, also played high school football in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi before he went to West Point and was many years later placed into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. As a near-lifelong Mississippian, I lived in Jackson in 1994, when the induction ceremonies came to town. What a pleasure it was to introduce myself to one who had only been a mythical hero in my memory for some half a century and to enjoy a lengthy conversation during the cocktail hour. Davis I had met at a track meet at the newly opened Los Angeles Sports Arena in 1960 but for not much longer than to say, “Hello.”
And it was the 1954 Cotton Bowl, the first memory I have of seeing a college football game on television, when Rice All-America halfback Dickie Maegle was in the midst of his third breakaway touchdown run, when a much frustrated Alabama fullback and team Captain Tommy Lewis came off the bench and very illegally tackled Maegle at mid-field right in front of the Alabama coaches and field referees. Sitting next to him at the time of his “break and run” from the bench was an offensive lineman named Harry Lee. A decade later, Harry, the lifelong best friend of the famous Hall of Fame quarterback, Bart Starr, later became my close friend while we were both associated with the same life insurance company.
So what am I getting at? In the mid-’60s, talk of mergering the two leagues was becoming louder, but was not yet in the cards because one was still “minor league.” In the first Super Bowl in 1967, Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers blew away the Kansas City Chiefs and in 1968, the Oakland Raiders, by such convincing routs that it was obvious that the fledgling American Football League was simply not ready to merge with the far superior National Football League that had been around for nearly half a century.
But a merger was necessary for all the normal business reasons, especially $Money! But such a giant move just could not be publicly justified until the AFL could prove its worth by beating the NFL champs in a Super Bowl. 1969 would be the (chosen) time. The 1968 season saw the NFL’s Baltimore Colts, maybe the most powerful — both defensively and offensively — team ever up to that time, finally stop the Packers and everybody else; and Joe Namath, the $400,000 bonus baby quarterback from Alabama, lead the New York Jets to the AFL championship and a Super Bowl date against the mightly Colts the following January.
The Colts were invincible. Their offense at the time was so powerful that its current quarterback Earl Morrall was backed up by the greatest quarterback in NFL history, Johnny Unitas, who had minor injuries at the time, but the Colts had blasted the Cleveland Browns 34-0 in the Championship game and their defense was #1 in the league, holding all opponents to an average of only 10.3 points a game. What chance could the “minor league” Jets have against this behemoth? The odds makers said, “little to none” and made the Colts game time favorites at 19.5 points. For the uninitiated at gambling odds, that meant that if you took the Jets, you were already that much ahead before the kickoff. If you played the other side, Baltimore would have to win by 20 points or more in order for you win your bet. Even so, judging from the previous two Super Bowls, the favorite was a “piece of cake,” even after Joe Namath so arrogantly proclaimed on national TV, “We are going to win, I guarantee it!”
For Jets’ fans, the game began as hoped. The Colts seemed sluggish, and the Jets scored first. And surprisingly, throughout the game, not much changed. It was if the two teams had switiched uniforms as the Colts did everything wrong, and the Jets did everything right. Colts QB Earl Morrall once had split end Jimmy Orr wide open in the left endzone with no defender within twenty yards of him but instead threw into triple coverage in the center of the endzone and had the pass intercepted. The Colts remained unimpressive throughout the game and didn’t score a point until the fourth quarter, while the Jets could do almost nothing wrong it seemed.
Final score? New York Jets 16, the “invincible” Baltimore Colts 7! Over the next few months, the merger of the American Football League into the National Football League took place and became the American Conference and the National Conference as opposing groups in the one league known as the NFL. It has so remained.
“So what?” you ask? Well, suspicious as it looked, and the 1969 game can still be seen on the ESPN replays, it took thirty years for the truth to come out when long after the death of Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom, one of his former associates in the Colts’ home office came forward publicly prior to his own death with the scoop that his boss, Rosenbloom, knowing that the “fix” was in, had bet $100,000 (about two million in today’s phony money) on the Jets! The truth was out. Many of the “insiders” had to have known what was going on, and now it was obvious that Carroll Rosenbloom was one of them. Were some of the Jets upper office force in on it too? Maybe. Dunno. But while none of the Jets team members needed to know about the ploy, at least a few players on the Colts offense and Colts defense had to be in on it. Morrall, as the quarterback, was an obvious one. All NFL running back Tom Matte, who had a far below average day, would be another suspect. Certainly, under-the-table payoffs had to have been in store, but we will never know, unless one of the few living recipients has a change of conscience on his deathbed. Earl Morrall died in 2014 and Matte in 2021.
So why muse about something so archaic these days, you ask? See the headline above and know that it is still going on. There have been several blatantly suspect examples in the NFL in recent years. Remember when the Atlanta Falcons blew a three touchdown lead in the last few minutes to the New England Patriots and Tom Brady before losing in overtime? Or the most outrageous ever? That was when the New Orleans Saints were about to score in the last few seconds and defeat the Los Angels Rams and go to the 2019 Super Bowl. From the official reports, we see:
The play began at 1:49, with quarterback Drew Brees taking the ball and dropping back to pass. Brees threw the ball toward the right sideline, intended for receiver Tommylee Lewis. Before Lewis could attempt to catch the ball, he was blindsided by Nickell Robey-Coleman around the 6 yard line, knocking Lewis to the ground. No flag was thrown. Three officials had a clear view of the play: down judge Patrick Turner and side judge Gary Cavaletto, who were stationed 25 yards apart on the right sideline in front of the Saints bench, and back judge Todd Prukop, who was positioned in the middle of the field.
Why was no flag thrown? Because the “script” had already designated that the Rams commanded a much greater TV audience on the west coast than the Saints possibly could in New Orleans and the thinly populated southern states, and the Rams “had to be there in Super Bowl.” Hmmmm. Not a bad ruie-of-thumb to observe in your future Super Bowl plays.
Now we jump a step further to current goings-on (maybe, maybe not, but let’s havalook).
Is Alabama football now in TV demand? Maybe, but surely not as much as a west coast audience. Or is it the popular head coach Nick Saban? Or are we just confused by recent events? This confusion was first provoked by the foreknowledge presented above coupled with the unimpressive Tide’s 59-minute prior performance but last-minute comeback to beat Auburn with a fourth and goal from the 31 for a touchdown. Hmmmm. Then came an unimpressive performance by the #1 college team the past three years, the Georgia Bulldogs, allowing ‘Bama to knock out their SEC record 29-win streak that allowed #8 Bama to enter the playoffs without Georgia as well as the undefeated Florida State team getting in. Is the whole thing just a great scripted production designed for public consumption and entertainment? Once again, Dunno. We are only asking for your observation, and if you wager with your neighbor on the bowl games, suggesting that you consider Alabama first. Not because they are necessarily the best (we don’t think they are), but they just seem to be the “most wanted.”
We are only speculating and don’t know the whole truth, but wonder if you will speculate with us. If you are not a football fan, just calmly ignore us for awhile and come back next month. But if you are a football/truth lover, watch out for more than you normally have been seeing. And if Alabama goes all the way, you should have known to bet on ’em, because we warned you that the “fix” at least, seemed to have been in. If Bama doesn’t make it, feel free to chide me with a “yuk-yuk” note, but, nevertheless, we will hope that we have given you something to think about down the road. Something smells rotten in the woodpile.
We’re only musing out loud, but take a look with me at the upcoming college football playoff games in just a few days — and watch the referees more closely than you usually do.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Pat Shannan
P.S. on Jan. 2nd:
Near the end of the first quarter there was an incident as blatantly obvious as the Saints/Rams occurance mentioned above that also went unnoticed by the officials and made me consider that the “fix” was in alright but maybe in favor of Michigan instead of ‘Bama. Even the TV commentators were perplexed by the “no-call” and showed the replay several times. After Bama’s punter completed his kick, the on-charging Michigan lineman never slowed down in attempt to cease his attack and slammed into the punter at full speed hard enough to leave him injured and writhing on the ground. Instead of ‘Bama getting 15 yards and a new set of downs, no flag was thrown. Hmmmm.
January 11 – AND NOW LOOKEE HERE:
Washington football fans in shambles after getting destroyed by Michigan at CFP title game
Washington football fans aren’t happy after watching the Huskies fall to Michigan.
Naturally Washington football fans are in shambles after coming so close to winning it all in the final year of the Pac-12, only to fall short in the final game.
Clearly, Huskies fans were upset with the officiating in Monday’s game. Washington football was called for a suspect hold on a 32-yard pass completion that ended up being called back, while Michigan allegedly got away with far worse.
No holding here, but they call it on Washington on a critical play? pic.twitter.com/yaWlQ2IS1k
— Uncle Rico (@cowbell_fever_) January 9, 2024
The touchdown after the weakest holding call on Washington’s biggest play that could’ve swung the momentum to Washington when Michigan has been holding all night with zero flags #CFPChampionship #CFBPlayoff pic.twitter.com/53zhNfBCxX
— Jay Henry (@jayhenry79) January 9, 2024