NFL Wars: The League Duels Delaware On Gambling

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Published: June 1, 2009

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... in The Godfather, is going to the mattresses with Delaware over sports gambling.

Clemenza used a sawed-off shotgun but the NFL has more wicked weapons with its venal lobbyists and vicious lawyers.

Cranky Clemenza had his faults of course, but unlike the NFL he wasn't a hypocrite; jihading dear old Delaware, the first state, on the same week the league jumped into the lottery ticket market.

Believe me Bubba, a football bet isn't a great investment, then again what is these days, but trying your luck on a lottery ticket win is south of a slots spin. 

The lottery is not far from a fixed faro wheel in the old West, except a smiling Doctor Henry Holliday isn't staring back at ye with a stacked pair of Smith and Wessons.

Still its your choice to roll the dice. Roll those bones with General Motors stock, a slot spin, or the Ravens plus four. Roll, its your right. America used a lottery to fund the revolution and to raise money for a broke Thom...

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