So the NFL won't hold a convention in Vegas because those immoral folk allow sports betting, one of the world's great evils in the eyes of pro football's nabobs.
The NFL redefines the phrase "dripping in hyprocrisy."
Not only that they sponsor fantasy football - or course, the fantasy fans never but never bet on their contests.
But Mexico! Mexico! A regular season NFL game in Mexico, coming our way Sunday nite.
Surely the NFL full well knows that sports betting in legal in Mexico, and like tortillas is all over the place. There are hundreds of sports betting parlors throughout the country.
At these venues one may enjoy a good Mexican beer while cheering on one's chosen team. Chosen at one of the betting windows. The books near the border draw mostly Americans, but in the interior there are a number of Mexian fans knowledgable about the NFL product. And often willing to back up their knowledge with lots of dinero.
(Mexico is a bad place to bet, as the govt takes 1 1/2% of the winning part of every sports bet, and a full 2% of the entire payback of a horse wager.)
I'd be willing to bet a dollar to a peso (worth less than a dime) that within a few blocks of the stadium where the game will be played there is a sports book doing business, taking in the bets of backers of the Niners or the Cards.
In fact, having once lived in Mexico, the land of sombra y sol - shadow and sun - it wouldn't surprise me if there was some legal bookmaking going on INSIDE the stadium. You know, halftime betting.
But the NFL won't see it. They're the modern version of the three famous See No Evil monkeys. A few years ago, head simian Paul Tagliabue, during a Mexico City preseason NFL game, told a halftime interviewer that one day the NFL may place a franchise in Mexico.
Well, that's nice Paul. But why not first put one in Vegas. The Las Vegas Gamblers. Just pretend that sports betting is not happening in the Nevada desert. And when the Gamblers open their season they'll have Pete Rose in to throw out the first bet.
The NFL redefines the phrase "dripping in hyprocrisy."
Not only that they sponsor fantasy football - or course, the fantasy fans never but never bet on their contests.
But Mexico! Mexico! A regular season NFL game in Mexico, coming our way Sunday nite.
Surely the NFL full well knows that sports betting in legal in Mexico, and like tortillas is all over the place. There are hundreds of sports betting parlors throughout the country.
At these venues one may enjoy a good Mexican beer while cheering on one's chosen team. Chosen at one of the betting windows. The books near the border draw mostly Americans, but in the interior there are a number of Mexian fans knowledgable about the NFL product. And often willing to back up their knowledge with lots of dinero.
(Mexico is a bad place to bet, as the govt takes 1 1/2% of the winning part of every sports bet, and a full 2% of the entire payback of a horse wager.)
I'd be willing to bet a dollar to a peso (worth less than a dime) that within a few blocks of the stadium where the game will be played there is a sports book doing business, taking in the bets of backers of the Niners or the Cards.
In fact, having once lived in Mexico, the land of sombra y sol - shadow and sun - it wouldn't surprise me if there was some legal bookmaking going on INSIDE the stadium. You know, halftime betting.
But the NFL won't see it. They're the modern version of the three famous See No Evil monkeys. A few years ago, head simian Paul Tagliabue, during a Mexico City preseason NFL game, told a halftime interviewer that one day the NFL may place a franchise in Mexico.
Well, that's nice Paul. But why not first put one in Vegas. The Las Vegas Gamblers. Just pretend that sports betting is not happening in the Nevada desert. And when the Gamblers open their season they'll have Pete Rose in to throw out the first bet.
