excerpts taken from an article in Sporting News:
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On Monday,three judges in Philaelphia killed Deleware's wishes to
bet on individual football games.
In the NFL's aggressive steps to prevent the expansion of legalized gambling the league claims it's protecting the integrity of the game,
which could be threatened by a proliferation of folks looking for inside information,— and in turn possibly corrupting the men who play, coach or officiate the sport.
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The NFL is against sports betting in Delaware because the NFL and the other leagues want to eventually profit from the inevitable spread of legalized sports betting in America.
If Delaware’s state-run model expands, the NFL and other leagues cannot profit from it. The leagues see this as a tidy profit-making opportunity for the future to go along with $800,000 sky boxes and $90 cheese pizzas. The hypocrisy shown by the NFL and the other leagues which opposed this in Delaware is amazing.
How could the leagues profit from sports betting in the future? Look at the most successful pro sports league in the world, the English Premier Soccer League (remember there is NFL/EPL cross-ownership), those teams actually partner with bookmakers.
In fact, many of the same people blocking the spread of legalized betting in the US already profit from it overseas!!! I guess when you get a piece of the action, suddenly all those concerns about ”fairness” and “integrity” go away, don’t they?
Let’s look at some examples:
Take a look at Liverpool’s web site lists their partnership with the Bookmaker “Paddy Power.”
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/ (lower right – see where is says LFC betting) This club is 50% owned an American who owns the Texas Rangers and the Dallas Stars. Paddy Power takes bets on both MLB and the NHL – funny how this is not a problem over there, when the team takes a piece of the pie? So is this really about the integrity of the game Mr. Selig and Mr. Bettman? Really?
In fact all the famous clubs have these sports betting relationships:
Look at this site: http://www.188bet.com/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fdefault.aspx which lists the famous London Club Chelsea and three other clubs as official partners
the most outrageous example of the NFL’s hypocrisy is Malcolm Glazer.
Malcolm Glazer is the owner of Manchester United and the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Go to the Man U site:
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={63600C0C-B276-4CB1-8FB1-3460BE926722}
Click on the lower left link with the title “Betting and Gaming”
This takes you to Glazer’s gambling partner
(on that side of the pond, at least)
for a special offer from Bet Fair and Man U …
http://promo.betfair.com/sports/uk/football/manu/index1.asp?rfr=8809&SID=2
Want to use your 25 pound Bonus Bet to place it on the Tampa Bay Bucs? Just register and away you go.
I guess there are no “integrity” issues there, huh?
(I can’t wait to hear the NFL’s spin, or should I say, “position” on this!)
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On Monday,three judges in Philaelphia killed Deleware's wishes to
bet on individual football games.
In the NFL's aggressive steps to prevent the expansion of legalized gambling the league claims it's protecting the integrity of the game,
which could be threatened by a proliferation of folks looking for inside information,— and in turn possibly corrupting the men who play, coach or officiate the sport.
....................................................................................................................
The NFL is against sports betting in Delaware because the NFL and the other leagues want to eventually profit from the inevitable spread of legalized sports betting in America.
If Delaware’s state-run model expands, the NFL and other leagues cannot profit from it. The leagues see this as a tidy profit-making opportunity for the future to go along with $800,000 sky boxes and $90 cheese pizzas. The hypocrisy shown by the NFL and the other leagues which opposed this in Delaware is amazing.
How could the leagues profit from sports betting in the future? Look at the most successful pro sports league in the world, the English Premier Soccer League (remember there is NFL/EPL cross-ownership), those teams actually partner with bookmakers.
In fact, many of the same people blocking the spread of legalized betting in the US already profit from it overseas!!! I guess when you get a piece of the action, suddenly all those concerns about ”fairness” and “integrity” go away, don’t they?
Let’s look at some examples:
Take a look at Liverpool’s web site lists their partnership with the Bookmaker “Paddy Power.”
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/ (lower right – see where is says LFC betting) This club is 50% owned an American who owns the Texas Rangers and the Dallas Stars. Paddy Power takes bets on both MLB and the NHL – funny how this is not a problem over there, when the team takes a piece of the pie? So is this really about the integrity of the game Mr. Selig and Mr. Bettman? Really?
In fact all the famous clubs have these sports betting relationships:
Look at this site: http://www.188bet.com/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fdefault.aspx which lists the famous London Club Chelsea and three other clubs as official partners
the most outrageous example of the NFL’s hypocrisy is Malcolm Glazer.
Malcolm Glazer is the owner of Manchester United and the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Go to the Man U site:
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={63600C0C-B276-4CB1-8FB1-3460BE926722}
Click on the lower left link with the title “Betting and Gaming”
This takes you to Glazer’s gambling partner
(on that side of the pond, at least)
for a special offer from Bet Fair and Man U …
http://promo.betfair.com/sports/uk/football/manu/index1.asp?rfr=8809&SID=2
Want to use your 25 pound Bonus Bet to place it on the Tampa Bay Bucs? Just register and away you go.
I guess there are no “integrity” issues there, huh?
(I can’t wait to hear the NFL’s spin, or should I say, “position” on this!)
