Written by John Breech at CBS Sports.com
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has emphasized on multiple occasions that the NFL wants nothing to do with legalized gambling.
Apparently, Richard Sherman doesn’t believe him, because the Seahawks corner blasted the NFL on Wednesday over the league’s injury report system.
The way Sherman sees it, the NFL injury report system only benefits gamblers.
“From what I understand, the rules are for gamblers, for Vegas to make sure the odds and everything are what they are supposed to be, which is apparently what the league is concerned about when talking about injuries and things like that,” Sherman said, via the Seattle Times. “So maybe someone should look into that, because, I thought we weren’t a gambling league or were against all of those things. But our injury report is specifically to make sure the gamblers get their odds right.”
Richard Sherman rips the NFL on injury reporting rules: “Our injury report is specifically to make sure the gamblers get their odds right.” pic.twitter.com/bTDlS5ZdeP
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Although the NFL is allowing one of its teams (the Raiders) to move to Las Vegas, which is a little weird for a league that’s so opposed to gambling, Goodell has insisted that the move won’t result in any change to the NFL’s gambling policy, which currently prohibits all players from gambling on the NFL.
“We don’t see changing our current policies,” Goodell said at the league meetings in March. “We still strongly oppose [among owners] legalized sports gambling. The integrity of our game is number one. We will not compromise on that.”
Goodell also said he wants to make sure fans have full confidence in the product they see on the field.
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