Big Brother of NFL ?
Moves are afoot in Delaware to open legal sports books there, after the state's Supreme Court ruled that certain types of bets are constitutional. The state, like many others, sees taxes on gambling as a potential financial savior, but the NFL doesn't care. The league is
threatening to file suit to try and stop the legalization of sports betting in Delaware, part of its long-running efforts to wipe out betting on its games. The league says that legalized gambling "will inevitably lead those gambling fans to question whether an erroneous officiating call or a dropped pass late in the game resulted from an honest mistake or an intentional act by a corrupt player or referee" -- but to suggest that such speculation won't exist otherwise is erroneous. It's really hard to see why the NFL (like other American sports leagues) thinks that keeping most betting (which is going to carry on anyway, regardless of its feelings on the matter) underground will prevent corruption, or even its mere..
2 comments:
Now a days it has become fashion and trend also to do online sports betting. Though it is legal but some peoples are making a joke of it. Online Sports handicappers should look into the matter very seriously and then go for the sport betting.
Betting sometimes become a sort of a gambling activity…As what you have sited in you article, sports activities became a big issue although the government could benefit from it because of the taxes..As we all know a big part of a country’s income comes from the taxes…Yearly our government collects billions of money. This is really a big issue I think.
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