You could do this in an ideal world. But you're talking about investigating a multi-billion $ commercial enterprise with EVERYONE involved (Top to Bottom) with their hands in the pot!

Short of finding game fixing for gambling, I doubt if they could turn up something.

Keep in mind also that in order for a conspiracy to work, you have multiple parties collaborating together toward a single action. (Don't know about you, but I can't even get my family to collaborate on a restaurant decision!)
If history tells us anything, conspiracies inevitably fall apart because SOMEONE ALWAYS TALKS!

Interesting idea, but, and you can call me a cynic, I think even if an official came forward and admitted to bias in his calls, the league would call it an isolated incident and move on.

The league doesn't care about public perception of the refs. They care about sponsorships and broadcast revenue.

You would have to have an organized effort by fans across the country to boycott sponsors and not watch games to have an effect. Most fans will look at this, call Saints fans crybabies and move on, even though other teams have been screwed as well.

Just my 2 cents.

I don't think we could actually catch refs fixing games. Its possible but unlikely. But a private investigator can find lots of other things. I think some refs have intergrity and others lack it, and those that lack integrity are more likely the ones following Goodell's unspoken grudge against us from bountygate, and their own ref grudge against us from the no call, and being biased against us. The key it to pressure or remove the refs that lack integrity, and to do that we don't need to catch them fixing games. We can catch them cheating on their wives. We can catch them drinking and driving. We can catch them doing meth. Anything is good that gets a morally questionable ref fired from the NFL, causes them to quit the NFL (wife says no more road trips after they are caught cheating, or divorce leads to a child custody fight where they can't tell the court they are gone every weekend half the year), or causes them to stop making so many bad calls against us for fear of being investigated in their personal lives. The idea is that if refs make our seasons difficult, we try to investigate them fixing games, but in the process we end up making their personal lives much more difficult. Goodell has a lot of power, he has billions, but he can't make a refs wife stay if we get pictures of the ref with a stripper on the road. If we force enough 'sinner' refs out of the league, we will get more 'saint' refs who have a strong sense of personal integrity in how they call games, and the rest of the sinner refs may back off in order to sin in private. The point is not to influence the league, its to influence the refs directly to call a fair game or have their personal life under a lens.

And this is precisely why there is no conspiracy. There are over 120 individual refs calling the games. There are a number of individuals overseeing and supporting those refs. Including the other 3,595 paid NFL employees you have over 3,700 individuals that would have to have their stories completely in sync to keep any level of corruption under wraps for any period of time, not to mention years upon years.

It is logistically impossible to maintain any sort of organized fixing of games. And don't bother pointing out where fixes have been discovered elsewhere. That just proves the point that it cannot be accomplished without getting caught.

What we are seeing is a combination of more and more advanced technology which enables better access to what's happening on the field via enhanced camera quality, increased numbers of those cameras, and advancements in replay. What we are seeing has been going on for decades as part time 50 year old officials do their best (which at times is horrible) to keep pace with some of the greatest athletes in the world.

Are you for real?

Yes I don't think Saints fans should allow referees to abuse us forever with no consequences. I think we should create consequences for them using any legal means.

Okie dokie then. I wish you and yours good luck with those windmills.

And I wish you good luck waiting for those totally unbiased but of course occasionally debatable calls to start breaking our way in the 4th quarter and playoffs. Should be happening any time now right? We are due? But still, might want to invest in a comfy chair while you wait.

I repeat, EVERY fanbase have people that believe the same biases exist against their teams and they all have some instance in which they base that bias. Are you right and all of them wrong? Or are all of you right? Or are all of you wrong?

We, as humans, tend to forget those things that work out in our favor as opposed to those things that cause us pain. Point of view is powerful in the way we see events.