Why is football being referenced with the likes of baseball and basketball concerning corruption?

Blu: Why is football being referenced with the likes of baseball and basketball concerning corruption?
In sporting news across the last couple days, a lot of sports writers refer to professional sports as being corrupted. The long time steroid issue in baseball, Spygate in football and now the officiating scandals in basketball.

Why should football be even in the same category when it was one incident concerning one organization that made the wrong decision. The other two are substantially more significant because they pertain to multiple incidents among various players and officials in multitude of games. The fact is the Patriots have been punished and the incident is over. Whereas in baseball and basketball these incidents their incidents are far conclusion. That and the NFL’s been one of the strictest disciplinary leagues and has one of toughest drug testing policies. So why should football get all the negative publicity deserved with the rest of the professional sports?

Answers and Views:

Answer by m3star
Not close. I think basketball is the WORST. i stopped watching years ago due to the bad calls. It seems as if that has not changed one bit.

NBA sucks!

Answer by Tony E
The fact that the Patriots, the team with the best record in football last year, not only broke league policy on taping, but also by practicing guys on the IR, leads fans to believe that the entire league suffers from the same inflictions. It creates the illusion of a community of corruption. The fact that neither baseball, nor basketball, nor football have stood up as strongly as many fans feel they should to the allegations is why they are referenced together.

Answer by Jeff C
You are right. Fixing a football game would be impossible to conceal-with instant replay, etc., an official would look like an idiot to the world if he tried to impact the outcome of a game.

Answer by Liss C
Football has by far surpassed baseball as America’s favorite sport and the NFL is without a doubt the best run professional sports league. Knowing this, the media realizes that people will listen to them more (and up their ratings) if they can tie-in the NFL with the much more wide spread corruption going on in the other professional leagues.

Steroids and baseball has been around and well known for decades and there’s nothing new with suspicious officiating in the NBA but when you mention the NFL, even if that incident is over and done with (despite Sen. Spector trying to make a bigger deal out of it), the story gets a lot juicier.

And, of course, the juicier the story, the more ratings they get, the more money they make!