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Monday Night Football Is Rigged

2001 Season

The 2001 season has many incongruities.  The home team does not win an unusual amount of times, unlike the 2000 season.  You would expect the NY teams to come out on top to lift the spirits of New Yorkers.  But Disney, always the ruthless control freak, decides to make things play out their way.  This season may or may not be entirely rigged, we're not sure (unliked the 2000 season), but we offer some theories for each game if they were rigged.

Notes
For the first time since 1997, there were no changes in the booth.
For the fourth straight year, the Denver Broncos kicked off the season on Monday night.
The Baltimore Ravens made their franchise's first MNF appearance on Nov. 12 against the Titans. The first game in Baltimore was played on Jan. 7, 2002. It was the first MNF game in Baltimore since the Colts hosted Washington on Nov. 6, 1978.

Week 1
NY Giants 20
Denver 31

This was the highest rated game of the season, with 13.2 percent of the viewers. Denver kicks off Monday Night Football's season for the fourth straight season. Anyone who so regularly supports riggery shall be rewarded.

Week 2
Washington 0
Green Bay 37

What Washington did to deserve all of this punishment, we're not really sure. But whatever it was (hired Deion, refused riggery at some point, etc.), it made ABC angry at a ferocious level. They didn't even let the 'Skins score…

Week 3
San Francisco 19
NY Jets 17

It's really tough to ask a team from New York (and from Washington, for that matter) to win a game after what happened in those cities on September 11 of this season.

Week 4
St. Louis 37
Detroit 0

What better way to make things up to the Rams for last year's rigged playoff game than letting them pound the heck out of poor Detroit (who needs a little spending money to get their program out of the gutter)?

Week 5
Washington 7
Dallas 9

The poor, poor Redskins. Even "America's Team" takes you down in front of a national television audience. It's time to get a new coach in Washington. One that will easily accept the riggery. By the way, Washington on MNF this season: 0-2.

Week 6
Philly 10
NY Giants 9

The record for teams from New York to this point: 0-3.

Week 7
Tennessee 7
Pittsburgh 34

Tennessee simply being repaid for the luxurious Monday nights they enjoyed last season.

Week 8
Denver 28
Oakland 38

Denver loses to avoid appearing too much like a "teacher's pet."

Week 9
Baltimore 16
Tennessee 10

Welcome back to Earth, Titans.

Week 10
Giants 16
Minnesota 28

New York teams go 0-4 on the season. Disney has no real intentions of making them work too hard when their city has been through so much.

Week 11
Tampa Bay 24
St. Louis 17

A rematch of last season's extremely rigged contest. MNF may not have had to write a script for this one. People would have probably tuned in regardless, expecting another great game.

Week 12
Green Bay 28
Jacksonville 21

Jags need money. Let Mickey help.

Week 13
Indianapolis 6
Miami 41

MNF making up for the Dolphins taking a dive against Jets last year in one of the most rigged games in history.

Week 14
St. Louis 34
New Orleans 21

This was a repeat of the contest between the Saints and Rams that St. Louis was rigged to lose in last season's playoffs. It's obvious ABC is patching up the relationship. After all, those who rebelled against the riggery a year ago are now out of the league (conveniently)…

Week 15 * Saturday
Tennessee 13
Oakland 10

Saturday Night Football. May not have been rigged

Week 16 * Saturday
Baltimore 10
Tampa Bay 22

Another Saturday night contest. It's tough to say if this game was rigged.

Week 17
Minnesota 3
Baltimore 19

Baltimore's all-time record in January: 2-0. Minnesota in January?: 0-5. Even Disney doesn't mess with history.

Superbowl
New England 20
St. Louis 17

A "Patriotic" end to a difficult season for the teams of New York, who deserved to win to uplift the spirits of the good people of NY after the attacks.  Disney, greedy as usual, gives the green light to the New England Patriots, which encompasses more than just one state.  

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