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In 1989 an author named Dan Moldea released a book called "Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football" in which he claimed, with evidence, that most owners in the NFL at the time were involved with organized crime, and that games were being regularly rigged to manipulate the betting.

Let's say that more evidence comes to light, though, enough evidence to put it beyond reasonable doubt, that at least one super bowl in recent memory (let's say a Super Bowl from the 80s) was rigged on the part of owners, coaches, and some of the players to manipulate the betting pool to their advantage.

For further discussion, two branching paths on this what if:

1) The league itself is involved in some way, either being involved in the process or discovering it afterwards and attempting to cover it up.

2) The league had no knowledge of it.
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