Old saying at the thoroughbred race track, goes something like:
"if you told everybody and proved that each race was fixed, the horse, the jockey, the whole thing... the same people would show up and try and figure out how it was fixed and bet the same amount of money".
NFL wanted good, nice Russell Wilson, who everybody loves for the playoffs, not bad, horrible Cousins, who everybody hates. I swear late in the college season you see an undefeated team get calls to keep them undefeated so they get a crack at the playoffs... Now this.