Reply to the NFL Anti-Internet Gaming Letter

[TheEngineer]

www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2007-04-09-conduct-policy_N.htm

NFL will confront discipline issue, unveil new policy within days

By Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY
4-9-2007

There are so many ways not to hack it in the NFL.
Players are cut for being too slow, too weak, too small and too brittle.

A wide receiver with bad hands? Turn in your playbook.

Yet in an image-conscious league continually growing in popularity, questionable off-the-field behavior often isn't enough to cost a player his job.

Sometimes it takes an act of Congress to address opprobrium.

"You can release a player if he's not talented enough and you feel he wasn't going to be good enough to play at that position," New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton says. "But the challenge is if something else happens and you release a player, there's a certain protocol that has to take place."

It has become a hot-button issue. Since the start of 2006, more than 50 NFL players have been arrested, prompting Commissioner Roger Goodell to draft a revised conduct policy that will dictate harsher punishment for disgraceful deportment........

[Adebisi]

I think it is absolutely insane that the NFL is taking strong anti-gambling stances. Gambling is what makes the NFL as successful as it is. If not for sports betting, football would probably be comparable to hockey in its popularity in the U.S.