The NFLs Dirty Little Secret

[Lumi]

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2012/jul/04/citylights1-nfl-dirty-secret/

Picture a couple cozily cohabitating for more than 90 years but publicly pretending they aren't conjoined. That's the National Football League and the gambling industry (both legal and illegal).

This faux separation is in the news again. Today, Nevada is the only state in which sports gambling is legal, regulated, policed, and taxed, but it only accounts for about 1 percent of sports wagering, according to the American Gaming Association. New Jersey wants sports gambling permitted at its racetracks and in Atlantic City; other revenue-hungry states want in on the action, too.



Read more: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2012/jul/04/citylights1-nfl-dirty-secret/#ixzz2iMkHfI1J

 

[T]

That's so juicy. Don't expect a response from the posters with blinders on...
The ones who crawl out from under the rocks when someone says the word "FIX".
Everyone has the right to believe what they want but KNOWING is another issue.
I KNOW IT GOES ON and more often than I want to believe.

 

[T]

318 views not a single comment but urs and mine....:mj07:

 

[hedgehog]

I hear you loud and clear Lumi

 

[canuckfan77]

Good read :toast:

 

[aztec warrior]

Interesting read forsures.

 

[Dead Money]

Fixes, Vegas Influence, I don't doubt it, just wonder why not over the past decades some disgruntled player or ref has not stepped forward and brought up the possibility.
Much like the NBA ref Tim Donaghy coming out.

 

[T]

Fixes, Vegas Influence, I don't doubt it, just wonder why not over the past decades some disgruntled player or ref has not stepped forward and brought up the possibility.
Much like the NBA ref Tim Donaghy coming out.

Give you one REALLY OBVIOUS guess.

Donaghy took the FALL but there were MANY MORE who cooperated. He was the goat.