Former NFL star and actor Bubba Smith talking about how Super Bowl III was rigged | SettingBrushFires

➡ SettingBrushFires talks with Big Bob, a former NFL player, believes that Super Bowl III was rigged. He thinks the game was fixed to ensure the New York Jets’ victory, which helped the NFL become more popular and profitable. He suspects that the quarterback was involved in the fix, as there were unusual plays during the game. This belief was reinforced when a cab driver told him that the “smart money” was on the Jets, suggesting that people knew about the fix beforehand.

Big Bob, let me ask you this, man, because I read somewhere where you said that. Super bowl three. Let’s line this up properly. Super bowl three, Baltimore Colts. The power of the NFL taking up the upstart New York jets from the AFL. You guys were the biggest favorite in Super bowl history, right? No way you could lose. You end up losing 16 to seven. What happened? Well, I personally think the game was fixed.

The game was. Why? So Michael and his peers can make the money that they make. You made the league better? Is that what you’re saying? If you guys lost, see, if the jets don’t win that game, then they don’t have the NFL the way it is. Oh, because it was the merger. It was the merger. That was the. How did they fix a game like that? The quarterback.

Yeah. If you remember, we went side to 25 times in the first half and come away with no points. Right. Which is not a characteristic of a cold team. But nobody came to you and said, hey, buba, here’s Zito. No. Well, who did they go to? Sorry, you’re trying to get me killed. But who did? So they went to the quarterback. That’s what you feel? That’s what you feel.

I know he was in on it. Yeah. If you go way back and look at all the Super Bowls, when a Super bowl week now, they run every Super bowl. Right. Right. Now, when you get to three this year, when you just happen to be watching it, you’ll see Jimmy Orr standing down in the end zone like this. Nobody is within 30 yards of him. He’s the primary receiver.

Right. And Earl never looked that way. You’re talking about Earl Morrell, your quarterback there. Was there ever a time during the game you’re really trying hard? Well, we can all look it up. Please, just please don’t punch me. Please do. Did this come to you years later, the day of the game? Because this is kind of serious stuff here that you’re thrown out on the table. No, this was day of the game that you felt.

The night of the night, I went to what was supposed to be a victory party at Carol’s house. Rosenblum. Right. And I don’t drink, so you know that term, knock the poison off? So I had two sips of champagne and I was sitting there and this guy was on the dance floor, and I didn’t understand it. We just lost the biggest. He was celebrating. Yeah. We just lost the biggest game of our life.

How many times do you get in that position? Right. And it just pissed me off and I went up on the dance floor, and I grabbed him and I threw him out on one of those tables. And they asked me to leave. And on the way home, on the way back to the hotel, I’m in a cab. You can look up and you see the cab driver looking at you.

I looked at him about three times before I said anything. And he said, are you Bubba Smith? I said, yeah. He said, man, don’t feel bad. He said, smart money was on the jets. I said, what do you mean? He said, it came down high there. That put your money on the jets. So was Earl Morrell driving the cab, too? That is not nice. No. The lead. Exactly.

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