Do you want more gambling in New
Jersey? Chris Christie wanted it. Now he is leaving as Governor of the state. He
wanted more of it but traditionally gambling on sports games by players were
unforgivable. Throughout the years the sports leagues have avoided the gambling
capitol of America, Las Vegas. But now that view is all changed. The NFL
recently broke ground on a large stadium on the Las Vegas strip. It will soon
become home to the Oakland Raiders. Soon after the NHL arrived in Vegas. Now
the newest hockey expansion team called the Vegas Golden Knights is in Vegas too.
Now they want every sport
imaginable to have a home in Vegas. Why
all of a sudden pro sports is in Vegas? Because the big leagues want to strike
it rich too and Vegas is helping to foot the bill to create new stadiums there.
Even the sin city aspect of Vegas wants to cash in on the idea. The Bunny Ranch
owner plans to open a Raiders-themed brothel just outside of Las Vegas. Yes,
boys you can go the game at the stadium and then go to the whore house
where she will be waiting for you wearing just a jersey. Then your personal games can begin! Sigh!
New Jersey said they are ready
for legalized sports gambling. Chris Christie wanted it at his stadiums and race
tracks. The Jersey voters approved of Christie' s proposal. Then the sports
leagues sued him and stopped his plan dead in its tracks. So why are they going
to Vegas? There is even a radio station in Vegas called VSIN that is all about
gambling on sports games. People think that legal gambling will make the sports
be more honest and exposed. With legalization comes regulatory agencies as
watch dogs. Now the N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver wants to legalize and
regulate sports betting. The sports leagues don’t trust Christie because they
don’t believe that he will share in the profits and they want a piece of the
action.
The Supreme Court will hear the
case. All we know is that legal betting in Las Vegas is worth about $5 billion
dollars but illegal betting going on everywhere else in America is worth $100
billion dollars. That is going to be a bad habit hard to break. Who can ever
forget all the crap Pete Rose took when he bet on his own baseball games. He
lost his career and he was one of the best players in baseball. The country’s
opinions have changed on sports betting and is more tolerant of the practice. We
should just leave the gambling to Vegas where they are being regulated and
watched all the time. Can we even trust the players to perform an honest game
or will they purposely lose a game because they themselves bet on their loss? We
can’t regulate what is going through the minds of the players who are in
control of a game’s outcome win or lose.
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