Quote:Losing games on purpose is cheating, and probably illegal, and would expose the involved team to a multitude of penalties and legal actions if they were caught.  

 

I understand if a team wants to see younger players, or marginal players, for the purpose of evaluation, and are willing to take losses to do so.   But that's not what we're talking about here.  What we are talking about is losing on purpose with the goal of securing a high draft pick.   If I was an owner, and I thought another team was doing this, I would be extremely angry about it, because it would damage the reputation of the league, probably irreparably, not to mention the fact that the team that finished with the #2 draft pick would have gotten screwed out of the #1 pick by cheating.  

 

As far as the Colts losing games on purpose, so they can get the #1 pick, that would require the coach Jim Caldwell and probably Polian to be in on it, and the fact that they were both fired at the end of the season tells me they were not losing games on purpose.