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LAS VEGAS — The landscape had already shifted in September.
After a slew of player suspensions for violations of the league’s broad gambling policy, the NFL and NFLPA collectively bargained in September to reduce consequences for betting on non-NFL sports in exchange for increased consequences for betting on the NFL.
With the first Super Bowl in Las Vegas this week, the league’s stance on gambling is again an inescapable topic. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday that the integrity of the game is “critical” and “our No. 1 objective.”
“We clarified our policy earlier this year,” he said. “It was to put the importance for our players that betting on NFL games or inside information or anything that would negatively impact the integrity of our game is absolutely off-limits.”
The players’ union saw an opportunity there and leaned in Wednesday at their annual media conference.
“The rules are outdated, right?” NFLPA vice president Calais Campbell said. “With technology the way it is, where you can tell exactly that it has nothing to do with the integrity of the game, why not give us the opportunity to be able to do the things that we’re making money off of as a league?
“I feel like we have too many smart people who are involved in this process. Why can’t we get that fixed?”
Sports betting among NFL players has been a hot topic this week with the Super Bowl in Las Vegas. (Chitose Suzuki/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
The NFLPA scored what it saw as an initial “fix” for players in late September, when the league dropped the penalty for first-time violators betting on non-NFL sports from a six-game suspension to two games. Players are not allowed to bet on any sport while on NFL premises or during road trips.
The loosening came at a cost: Players who bet on their own teams now face a minimum two-year ban, while players who bet on an NFL game that does not include their team draw a one-year…
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Publish date : 2024-02-08 04:05:41
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