The NFL’s newest playing suspensions on Thursday has introduced one other spherical of commentary and criticism on the league’s playing coverage for gamers.
A lot of the criticism tends to revolve across the reality the NFL is pulling in truckloads of playing {dollars} from sponsorship agreements, however suspends its gamers for collaborating in stated playing.
New England Patriots cornerback Jonathan Jones took to Twitter on Thursday night and went even additional, deciding to go down the Pete Rose path and asks why he cannot wager on his personal crew to win.
When a fellow Tweeter responded and stated that it might affect the integrity of the sport if gamers wager on their very own crew to lose and determined to throw a recreation. To which Jones responded, “you might restrict bets to be solely to your crew’s profit.”
He additionally went on to say he doesn’t wager on sports activities as a result of the return on funding is not ok, and that he is simply arguing logic.
It isn’t an excellent argument. There are such a lot of layers to playing, from outcomes and level spreads and prop bets, that it will be virtually inconceivable to control, and nonetheless open up a pathway to one thing that would considerably harm the sport.
The NFL’s playing coverage actually just isn’t that ridiculous. It’s mainly a standard sense take a look at.
All of the league is asking its gamers to do just isn’t wager on NFL video games, and in the event that they need to wager on school soccer or different sports activities they’re merely asking them to not do it within the crew facility. This shouldn’t be that controversial or laborious to comply with.
If the counter argument is in regards to the league making a living and nonetheless not permitting gamers to partake in it, take into account this — the NFL makes piles of cash off of beer sponsorships and commercials. However it most likely wouldn’t permit Jonathan Jones or some other participant to indicate up on the sidelines with case of Miller Lite and drink it throughout video games. Simply because the league makes cash off of one thing does not imply the gamers might be concerned with it on firm time.
