NFL is going to rue the day they started catering to organized gambling.
:: NFL is going to rue the day they started catering to organized gambling. ::
uhhhh, gator? weren’t you watching Super Bowl XLVII?
And, I solved the mystery!
It was Guido outside the electrical truck with an axe.
“NFL is going to rue the day they started catering to organized gambling.”
I suppose MLB bowed to organized gambling when they let Pete in the sportscasters’ booth.
Am wondering when the ACC will rue professional college players on scholarsips.
Legal gambling will destroy sports further.
“NFL is going to rue the day they started catering to organized gambling.”
The NFL has been catering to gambling since they instituted mandatory injury lists for each game. That started in 1947.
https://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/7264/why-does-the-nfl-enforce-injury-report-rules
“The injury report dates back to 1947, after a player unexpectedly did not play in a game, which ended up having significant impacts to wagering over the game. As such, the injury report serves the purpose of ensuring no funny business occurs related to injured players (not only that players who are expected to play do, and who are expected not to do not; but that all parties have equal knowledge, or at least as much as feasible. Otherwise insider information could give some parties a significant edge - not that the NFL directly cares about this, but they do care about their image not being tarnished by accusations of teams hiding information to alter the betting line.
As far as player safety, targeting an injured player is never legal. I doubt injury reports help in this manner; if a player is sufficiently injured such that additional hits may injure him further, it likely will become obvious to players on the field based on how he comports himself and how he reacts to hits.
The USA today piece linked above has more information on the subject and is quite thorough.”
USA TODAY article...
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2007-11-22-injury-report-cover_N.htm