Jerry
Izenberg, sports writer emeritus for The Star-Ledger, sits at the top of his
craft for that publication. Too bad that
he is no longer permanently active but, whenever he comes out of his
well-earned retirement, he sure sets the ink on fire – a master at using words
to get his point across.
On Saturday,
February 3, 2018, he penned a justifiably scathing front-page column about the
hypocrisy of the National Football League; namely, the NFL’s “hypocrisy” in its defensive legal battle
to keep the Garden State from becoming what could be the Las Vegas of the East
Coast for sports gambling.
If New
Jersey wins its case which is now before the U.S. Supreme Court where a
decision is due by early summer, sports gambling will be legit in this state.
Should the
Court’s decision reverse or modify a highly restrictive, out-of-date Federal
law enacted in 1992, the Monmouth Park racetrack and Atlantic City Casinos
could be the first venues to bring sports betting to the Garden State.
Izenberg
writes that, “The commissioner says to
legalize sports betting in New Jersey would be an affront to the integrity of
his game.”
I’m still searching
for the “integrity” underlying some
of Roger Goodell’s decisions in recent years.
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