I can’t remberbif it was NFL or NBA, but one of them are fully allowed to influence games by refs or something.

Like, straight up went the WWE “we’re an entertainment industry” route. And I don’t mean people just think it’s possible, but I’m pretty sure whichever one it was has it explicitly stated in their own regulations that if it ever came out that they told refs who should win, and stopped hiring refs who don’t listen…

That it would be both super cool and super legal.