We took Penny
the flying basset hound to the vet yesterday for her rabies shot, and Dr. Mark
mentioned that the NFL had suspended Cardinals’ cornerback Josh Shaw for
betting on NFL games. “How are they going to stop
it?” Doc wanted to know. Good question.
Indeed, how can
pro sports embrace gambling without courting scandal? What’s to keep a player’s loved ones or
friends from betting on the action for him, or her? You know what they say—If you lie down with
dogs (present company excepted, Penny), you get up with fleas.
And, for those
curmudgeons of us out there is the question of consistency. It was bad for Paul Hornung; Alex Karras; Art
Schlichter; Shaw; and members of the Black Sox to gamble, but not the fans of any pro
sport, just so long as said sport gets a direct or indirect cut of the action
(and ditto for college sports)? Oh,
Daddy no understand.
It won’t be long
before the various sports’ commissioners are caught scratching themselves in
public. At that point, flea collars will
be all the rage.
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