I'll just leave this here. Seems Gridiron odd behavior are easilly explained:

http://penny-arcade.com/report/artic...kstarter-may-n

And I will add this: If I wanted to scam such a thing, I would not do anything remotly suspicious, and I would certainly not do it right in the middle of it, but wait near the end to see if I actually have to push it up or not. This conspiration mongerings are just silly: when people try to break the system they usually are smart about it, and the last thing they want is to be discovered.