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Jan 4th
By James Johnson Correspondent
for Wager On Football
Offshore Sportsbetting - Online
Casino Gambling
Risks
of Gambling Online
Did you ever realize that when you watch a pro
football game you aren’t allowed to see any
commercials touting the elegant vacation properties
of Las Vegas? The National Football League has vetoed
all such ads, even though if they don't mention
gambling, because the NFL, whose popularity is bulwarked
and maintained by gambling, wants to pretend that
it simply will have nothing to do with gambling.
The decision is not hypocritical so much as it
is, simply, childish. Really, it's time for the
NFL and the National Basketball Association and
Major League Baseball to grow up and deal with gambling
maturely.
Let's face it: if there are games, people will
bet – always have and always will. We know
from history that here was wagering at the original
Olympics thousands of years ago and there’s
betting on the Olympic Games today. It's idiotic
to run away from that fact.
Indeed, in many countries, national lotteries are
based on soccer results. In an adult country like
England, you can walk into any neighborhood betting
shop and get a wager down on just about any event
-- including, England’s most famous sporting
events like, the British Open and Wimbledon Tennis.
And you know, I haven't heard a single suggestion
that the reason that Tim Henman, a Brit golfer or
even Anna Kournikova haven't won championships is
because gamblers have gotten to them.
But because of a “Temperance League”
morality that prevails in the US, any such maturity
is unlikely to happen.
Think for a minute about the government’s
effective attitude:
1. You can go to a track and bet on four-legged
athletes but not athletes with two legs;
2. No that’s not quite true, you can go to
a fronton and bet on j’ai l’ai a sport
you don’t know and have never played unless
you are a Basque;
3. You can go to one of the casinos that are proliferating
at the rate of both presidential candidates misstatements,
or;
4. You can bet on lotteries -- the biggest sucker
bet of all – but that doesn’t matter
because the government is the “house”.
However, by some twisted logic, betting on two-legged
athletes playing a sport you actually know and may
have played is somehow wrong. Am I the only one
who sees something strange here?
The American sports leagues love to maintain this
fiction that gamblers are a threat to their games.
By making a big fuss about this, the leagues can
then shout about the wonderful job they are doing
in saving their games from fixes.
It's like talking to the mildly demented guy who
is sitting on the street corner of a small mid-Western
town and waving his arms:
“What are you doing?”
“I'm keeping the elephants away.”
“I don't see any elephants. In fact there
are no elephants within 200 miles of here.”
“I know I'm keeping them away.”
The NFL, the NBA and baseball are doing a great
job of keeping those pesky wagering and game-fixing
elephants away.
The last time there was any real evidence of even
an attempted fix in one of our major pro sports
was a half-century ago in the NBA by a rogue player
named Jack Molinas. The last time there was an attempted
fix in the NFL was in 1946 when salaries were less
than $10,000 a year.
It has been more than 80 years since gamblers seriously
tried to fix baseball games. The players in our
professional leagues simply make too much money,
which is why the few attempted fixes there have
been invariably involved poor college kids with
no pro future.
Yet, the leagues still use gambling as a whipping
boy. The NFL denies the existence of Las Vegas.
The NBA wouldn't put a franchise in Toronto until
pro basketball was banned from legal sports books
in Ontario.
Baseball waves Pete Rose like a bloody shirt. Why
don't we react to that the way we would to President
Bush if he regularly talked about the threat to
America from the Bolsheviks, the British Empire
or the Barbary Pirates?
Sorry, back to the subject, Pete Rose mostly speaks
in absolute nonsense, but the one topic on which
he makes perfect sense is the double standard under
which he is punished. Drug offenders or wife beaters
in baseball and other sports get all sorts of second
chances. Remember Steve Howe’s 387 suspensions?
Drugs -- not gambling -- threaten the integrity
of all sports.
But, as BALCO proves, it's easier to scream about
the imaginary dangers of gambling fixes than to
deal with the real problem of drugs. And if the
NFL was honestly concerned about the commercials
it allows and how they might affect the viewer,
the ones it should ban from its games probably would
be food advertisements.
More and more of the leagues players are grotesque
380+ pounders, walking future coronaries, who are
fattened up for games like geese for their liver
paté. Hey, Commissioner Tagliabue: Vegas
gambling ain't the problem but those all you can
eat buffets might be. Heal thyself.
So, may I say to all Americans: go to Las Vegas,
that Xanadu in the desert, now and again. Enjoy
its many splendors. And be sure to visit MySportsbook.com
- VIPSports.com - Bodog.com - and Cybersportsbook.com
your friendly offshore sportsbetting sportsbooks
and bet a game or two. You'll enjoy their games
that much more, and you might just make a few bucks.
Whatever team you wager on, you can be absolutely
assured of an honest game. All of the players and
all of the teams will be playing their hardest to
win. They reason is simple mathematics – the
players make so much today that there ain’t
enough money to get them to risk their future. Shaq
makes $30 million a year, so what would it take
to make him tank a series – a billion?
And, how does the fixer then make any money? Did
you ever try to get down for two billion on an NBA
series? Trust me, it ain’t easy? Even I have
trouble getting much more than $400 million down.
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