Gary Cavaletto Serves on Public Board
 

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Gary Cavaletto, the ref from Goleta, CA (near Santa Barbara) who waved off the other ref and emphatically insisted on no call for the helmet to helmet hit and PI that happened right in front of him, appears to serve as VP of this public board. It might be fun to attend a public meeting in a Saints jersey and question whether Cavaletto should be serving on such a board due to his reputation for lack of integrity and his behavior consistent with having taken a bribe.

I wonder how many bribes Cavaletto has taken to influence his votes with this board?

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Gotta have somewhere to launder the kickbacks he gets for messing with games.

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The Rams and their fans know they don't deserve to be in the Superbowl. Kinda like prison raping your dog.

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This dude should be followed and heckled endlessly. His life should never be the same because of what he did.

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Shady mother f-er I tell u he has to live with it

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He also did a few years playing minor league baseball after high school.

Guess which team he played for. Go ahead. Guess...

It was the Atlanta Braves. You can't make this stuff up folks.

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This is silly

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But what does that have to do with giving the Rams the game?

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Nothing.

The conspiracy theories are reaching new lows.

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The only explanation about blowing that call is incompetence.

Now, if you believe he was incompetent, then that's fine. But if he's not simply incompetent, then there must be some other reason why he didn't throw the flag. He can't say he didn't see it. We ALL saw it, and he was less than 5 yards from it.

Why do YOU think he didn't throw the flag?

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Motivation to keep the Saints out of the game? I don't know. Had he played for, say, the Yankees system I'd be less skeptical.

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I don't know, man. I believe that this was an intentional no-call. I really do. At best they would have to be completely incompetent, as you said before, in which case, they don't belong officiating games.

But I don't think it matters where he played minor league ball. I'm a life long Braves fan and I had never heard of him until this debacle. I doubt many, if any, in Atlanta remember him either. He's not from there. So I don't see any way of looking at his brief affiliation with the Braves organization as motivation.

Either the league wanted desperately to get an L.A. team in the Super Bowl, after all the toes they stepped on to move those two teams there (which is what I lean toward), or the refs had some sort of Tim Donaghy situation going on, in my opinion.

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Burn,

I don't want to believe this but damn, it could be true.

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There can be more than one explanation (including bribery). I don’t know how we prove any of them. Look I’ve experienced all the stages of grief with you. Now I’m trying to think objectively how in the world the two closest persons would let it go. Obviously one was ready to make the call. The other was so adamantly opposed, it forced the other not to trust his eyes.

If it’s not nefarious (no proof yet). If it’s not incompetence (no history). Then it must be error. Maybe he didn’t want a close play to change the outcome. Maybe his angle didn’t allow him to see how far the ball was from TLL.

I don’t know man. But it’ll drive me insane if I keep chasing conspiracies

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We don't have proof of bribery, but we certainly have reasonable doubt in their integrity, and thus an investigation is warranted. Because it sure looks like either that, or one or more of the refs had a bet on the game.

There is no way, in my opinion, that this could have been the case of a ref not wanting to make a close call... Because it wasn't close. I mean, we see close calls missed, we see not so close calls missed. But this was obvious to the point that it would take extraordinary incompetence, or truly terrible eye sight to miss the call.

So I believe it is nefarious. I just don't think Gary Cavaletto playing minor league ball for the braves for three years, way back in the 70's, has anything to do with it.

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What it looks like is ANOTHER horribly officiated NFL game. Regardless of reason the league has to take serious action. I’ve said it before - Officiating will drive more fans away than kneeling and CTS combined.

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Investigations only happen when it suits the shield.

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I don't know if officiating will do more damage than those things combined, but I can just about guarantee you that the combination of the three will sink the league if they don't get it under control.

As far as CTE, specifically, the damage is already done, because they tried to hide it for years. Actually preventing the head injuries that lead to this is not realistic. They've got all the helmet to helmet rules (even though these rules seem to be selectively applied), but contact to the head is still going to happen. People have to understand that when they choose football, they choose the risk that goes with it.

This was a horribly officiated game, but it went beyond the norm this time. The feeling is almost unanimous across the country, so it isn't just Saints fan blinders talking. The league needs to be investigated for tampering with the outcome of games, as well as covering up numerous scandals (or attempting to). And you know they won't investigate themselves. It would be nice if some outside entity would step up and do it.

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The NFL is not a sport. It's not football, as a game. It's entertainment, as a business.

I never wanted to think the games could be 'arranged', but unless this issue is addressed in the open I don't know how I could ever come back as an enthusiastic fan.

I will always love and follow the Saints, but with this cloud maybe a little bit, or a lot more, casually.

It wasn't just Cavaletto. There were other men on that field who also didn't see the most blatant PI any of us have ever seen. It doesn't pass the smell test.

Too many talking heads just blowing it off as if it were any other missed call. They're protecting their paychecks by protecting their sources by not pressing the league...because they too know that something with the end of that game just wasn't right.

Maybe the league was involved. Maybe it was just a SO CAL desire to prop up the rams - a task taken on by the 4 men who could have and certainly should have thrown a flag. Either way, it wasn't just a 'he missed it' situation. That much is obvious. Everyone...EVERYONE...who cares about professional football should speculate openly and brazenly until the league steps up, acknowledges it, and takes some action.

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I'm a conspiracy theorist! :popcorn:

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What no one mentioned is the Rams owner possibly being involved in this.

Look at this shady mofos history.

- Moved out of L.A. in 95 or 96? Put a team in the SB in 99 just 3 years later. Last SB they in they lost to the Pats.

- After that entire time in St Louis they never did anything else even as much as make the playoffs and hired morons like our old garbage in Haslett/Venturi, Jeff Fisher, and Linehan.

- Moves back to L.A., within 2 years in a SB.

Anyone seeing a trend here?

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In fairness, that was a different owner in the 90's.

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On April 13, 1995, Stan Kroenke helped Georgia Frontiere move the National Football League's Los Angeles Rams from Anaheim to St. Louis by purchasing a 30% share of the team.

In May 2010, the owners expressed that they hoped the team would be sold to longtime minority owner Stan Kroenke. Then on August 25, 2010, Kroenke received unanimous approval from league owners as the new owner of the Rams.

The rest as they say, is history!

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So he had a share of the team. That's not a controlling share, though. So I'm not sure would sort of dots we're trying to connect here.

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No dots, it states:

Stan Kroenke helped Georgia Frontiere move the National Football League's Los Angeles Rams from Anaheim to St. Louis by purchasing a 30% share of the team.

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He was doing what the league told him to do

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I know what it states, and my question about what sort of dots we're trying to connect was not about what you posted, specifically. It's that I am wondering how it helps in understanding what connection the other person was trying to make.

Stan Kroenke wasn't the owner of the Rams in the 90's, but according to the information you posted, which I was not previously aware of, he purchased a share. But Georgia Frontiere wanted to move. And, apparently, in order to make that happen she needed Kroenke's help, which meant selling a share of the franchise to him.

So then, he didn't really make the decision to move the team the first time, but he did the second time. And he left for the same city he helped the team leave the first time. With that all in mind, I don't know how any of this proves that the Rams winning the Super Bowl in '99 relates to them getting there now. I see nothing nefarious about what happened in '99. This time is different, but I'm still not sure that Kroenke is behind it at all, despite the fact that I don't care for him too much.

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Stan Kronke is married to Ann Walton (Walmart) Kroenke. He has enough $$$$$$$ to do whatever he wants.

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The NFL is beginning to smell like an old pair of moldy cleats!

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Ridiculous wealth.

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So do most owners of NFL franchises.

As much as he wanted to move back to L.A., I think it's possible the NFL might have wanted it more. They have made it clear that they are desperate to succeed in that market. And when the opportunity presented itself, in a close game in the NFC Championship, they just may have made a decision to pull a string to get the Rams over the top. It's only speculation, but it makes as much sense as anything else.

Kroenke, for all I know, may have something to do with it. But I'm not sure the evidence is currently pointing at him.