Just a short little note here before we hit the airwaves.
Personal to National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell.
It is completely preposterous and without merit the idea that you are still toeing the corporate line of the league being against gambling while also touting the city of Las Vegas, Nevada as home of arguably one of its most visible franchises.
You really have only two options here, Rog.
Embrace the idea that sports gambling is legal in Nevada and quit sounding like some worn-out mouthpiece still wanting to hide from the truth.
OR
You can opt to double down on this and put rules and enforcements in place which severely restrict players, team personnel and league officials from having anything to do with profiting from casinos.
That means no endorsement deals with casinos. That means no access to tickets from casinos. That means doing no business with casinos.
At all.
Because you can't have it both ways.
And by the way, London, England? Presumably the next big city for an NFL franchise?
There's been legalized betting there for more than a decade. There are over 1,000 betting parlors inside the city itself.
Good luck with the "we're against gambling" rhetoric.
Because no one is buying it.