Do you think
that professional football players
can currently wager
on
the college basketball tournament? Is that permissible
on their DraftKings, a poor FanDuel or whatever? They
points, bet, whatever they have on their phone. Is it
permissible for? And if our players right now
sitting at home, offseason
college, basketball coming to a head, are they allowed to wager
without restriction
on these games? I mean, I if I was playing, I'd be scared to.
I don't think you're I don't think you're allowed to,
in fact, I don't know the exact rule with that.
Now, our guys going to be taken,
you know,
taking part in like, let's let's see, you know, I got
a group of 20 friends and we're all putting twenty dollars or
a hundred dollars in to sue. He has the see you as the best
bracket.
Yes. Yes, but you know again, I don't think that's something
there that I've talking about. I'm talking about,
I'm talking about Kansas minus 5.
Yeah, I don't think so big 12 Champion. I don't. I think
there's very few people like that. I Ali do I will say this
Mike and my eight-year career in the NFL. I came across
I'm going to legit. Like, I'm being totally honest here now,
like two or three guys in my whole career. Whoo,
I know like to gamble
and they would gamble on offseason sports, right?
I don't even know how they went about it, but they were going
to gamble an NBA and college basketball and do some of that.
That was all the guys. I knew throughout my eight years of
career.
There was two or three guys that and they were all on
the same team and together in a We doing it together and you know,
talking about it. I never really saw it in the locker
room. Go on any other time. Other than that.
Okay. Now when you played it wasn't legal. No right, stepped
in Nevada,
right? And and, and I'm going to read
from what the NFL sent me yesterday when I was trying to
get some information. What's the policy? What's the rule?
What's the penalty?
And I didn't even notice this. Yesterday. I didn't notice it
until this morning. I had a DM from Zach Krantz. Who co-host,
Joe roses show on
WQ am in Miami and it was like, holy crap. I missed this
because I just assumed like you did that all. Wagering on
Sports is prohibited. Here's
as it relates to football,
all on a field Personnel are prohibited from placing
soliciting or facilitating any bet. Whether directly or
through a third party on any NFL game practice or other
event. This includes betting on game outcome, statistics core
performance or any individual participant or any other kind
of prop bet.
Okay, fine. That's for football. We know that we're
ready. Not here's
here's the
here's what I missed
all on the field Personnel other than players other than
players all NFL. Personnel other than players
are prohibited from placing soliciting or facilitating bets
on any other. Professional College international or
Olympic sports competition. Such as NBA MLB, NHL PGA USTA.
What the hell is that? MLS NCAA basketball,
World, Baseball, Classic World Cup, Etc. It doesn't
specifically mention college football. But I think college
football is implied in it. So a new STIs tennis just so, you
know,
but here's the wow, very impressive
but Bjorn. Borg the keywords at the start are all NFL Personnel
other than players, right? So
so and I will fully admit, when I screw up. I just missed it
because I assume there's no way they'll let these guys bet on
other sports. It's the gateway drug, right? It's the marijuana
of sports betting, right? Eventually.
Because even if you don't eventually bet on football,
this is the kind of behavior that eventually gets you to have
a problem with the guy. That's the goal.
Old chains in the one eyebrow, right?
Where we gotta you you're dead and you got to provide them
information and it's never about not football.
But but Vinny wants to know messing with Joey with the gold
chains of the the frosted tips. That's right. I'll mess with
him. Vinny. Vinny wants to know whether or not. Tom Brady has
a torn ACL in his knee. Right? So
I'm surprised by this and I've sent the NFL an email. This
morning asked me for some explanation as to why they
allow it and it is funny that it flat out doesn't I meant it
says college. But says, for example NCAA basketball, it
doesn't say NCAA
football. But the way this thing is worded. It doesn't
prohibit
betting on NCAA football.
I'm telling me I'm not comfortable with that because
I think it's fair to expect NFL players and all pro athletes to
not bet on any pro sports.
Any even the one you're involved in because of where it
can lead, if you get yourself into a gambling problem, and
I that's where I mean, I would agree again,
a lot of these. Guys still know people from the college
program, right?
That's where I think you can get in trouble.
A lot of these guys,
this, it's a small world in the Sports World.
No have friends in the NBA that they directly text and whatever
on a daily basis. That's where I would have thought like it's
it would be a little bit trouble. But I guess at
the same time you go. Okay, they're not gambling on the sport.
They're involved. You know, there's it's free enterprise,
I guess to a degree and that's where the
NFL looks at it. But yeah, I think they are playing with
fire to your point. No. Bad,
I'm just stunned. And again, you know, they sent me
the email. I took the language and copy/paste snarky comment.
I miss the opportunity, for some snarky as comments. How dare
you, you're slipping the ability of how many days off
lately wager
on. These other sports. Actually need a few more,
especially everything. Yeah, you know, you never know where
the next curve ball is going to come from and
a month ago, Tom, Brady retires, and we're focused on
that. And then boom. Here comes the Brian Flores litigation.
And then now we're on the
Aaron. Judge, Rogers watch, we're waiting for the
white puffs of smoke from the chimney at the Vatican and and
here comes this Calvin. Ridley thing is just
it's stunning to me what what happened yesterday
and and, you know, I think you're onto something with
the idea that you make in a Monday afternoon, bad news declaration
because it's a warning shot to all of the players because
they know they can't police
all other players that the only guys they're ever going to
easily catch our Calvin Ridley,
but I would say for every Calvin Ridley.
There's there's 20 guys
15 guys. 10 guys. Prepared enough to know
that they'll just work through
a friend just work through a friend, right? All you got to
do. Yeah. Work through a friend. It's like it's like
finding someone to buy you beer when you were 16 years old.
There's always a way to crack the code and get the beer.
If you want to bet on football and you're an NFL player.
There's a way to find a friend who placed the bet for you and
it's going to be very difficult for the NFL to figure it out.
And I'm not sure they're going to put the resources
into it. I have a safety net where they can catch those that
do indeed happen. So
Chris.
Look, I don't know how many guys have gambled over
the years but there's no way in hell. It's only five. There's
no way. It's only five who have bet on football in the history
of the sport that in and of itself is laughable. It's five,
you've caught five. Well, you've had five fall into your
laps
and I don't remember the circumstances.
I wasn't alive for the, for the circumstances of karason
horning. And I've never really researched that to find out how
they got caught slate, sir. Or by all appearances he was, you
know, he was he just had such a positive lives in, right? It
was, it was
impossible to not know it
but now that it's legalized and you've got these apps where
the bets can be placed, and I suspect that's how they got.
Josh Shaw. It's just easy. It falls into your lap. And that's
really the overriding point that we want folks to take away
from this.
Will this same energy be brought
to the violations that will be harder
to detect or will the NFL choose to do the easy thing
the cheaper
A thing and look the other way.