Roger Goodell’s NFL is completely under a betting spell

According to Fox’s latest outstanding yak, Greg Olsen, the key to the Giants’ victory on Sunday was the Vikings’ failure to establish “rushlane integrity.” Thoughts on food.

Six NFL playoff games since we last met, friends, and we take these truths for granted:

The overwhelming commercial message across telecasts was bet, bet, bet, bet, bet, and bet more. Bet with both fists, every game, every game. Parlays, prop bets and first one’s free bets (read the fine print on the small TV print).

Bet on paid endorsements of wealthy celebrities, from the Fab for Manning football family to Kevin Hart, Wayne Gretzky and Jamie Foxx. All major credit cards are accepted. — In a business that assumes investors will lose money, everything else will fall on them as a result.

As for Roger Goodell, $64 million per first-class fake acting as a financial front for team owners, the NFL’s bogus selective public conscience, and his previous claims on legalized sports gambling. A choice from the lofty beliefs of

“The NFL’s position is to involve our game. [creates] Additional threats to the integrity of our league and the public interest…

“Simply put, we do not want to use the game as bait to sell gambling. It threatens the character of team sports. Our sport embodies our highest traditions and values. stands for clean and healthy competition, they stand for teamwork, and for success through preparation and sincere effort.

“In sports gambling, our games instead represent the desire to get something quick, quick fix, and for free. It changes what it represents and how it is perceived, increasing the risk of corruption and scandal that is always present.”

My favorite: “Our players cannot be expected to be healthy role models for young people if they are made to serve as participants in gambling enterprises. Sends a disappointing message to young people that “anything goes” when it comes to making money…We need to legalize, sponsor and promote every activity so the state can get that “cut”. I have. “

But Goodell & Associates, which as a state desperately relies on the vices of legalized sports gambling, has decided to “profit”, whether through a license. commercials), and now betting kiosks are being added to NFL stadiums.

Roger, do you cry for the children? Cry me a river, you are her four flushing, counting house fakes.

After gambling advertising (and Minnesota’s failure to establish “Rush Lane Integrity”), replay rules were a major theme in the six playoff games.

Five of the six games in the playoffs — excluding the Giants vs. the Bikes — have been stripped of football and TVs have been allowed to cut gambling ads in order to microinspect what happened.

The late George Young, who joined the NFL office after correcting the Giants, filed in the fattening folder he wrote, “Monsters Grow”—additions and corrections to the “instant” replay rules—now make the game Unintentionally long delays and inspections to arrive at a controversial verdict that further stitches together.

Such issues weren’t fan-breaking issues back when many of us became football aficionados. It seems crazy, but we had the football game on to watch the football game. It wasn’t a delay for determining replay rules or a sole come-on to track gambling actions. But we can’t stand in the way of progress.

Coverage of Maher PAT attempt nearly blown away by ESPN

The TV coverage, especially staffed by the network’s top crew, was what we’ve come to expect when it comes to these six playoff games.

There was only one left when the Cowboys defeated the Bucks, 31-14, on Monday night.

If terrorists had broken into ESPN’s truck, they would have either nag or blindfolded the crew to stop first checking if Maher did that kick. Had he cried aloud, both his sister-in-law and Stephen A. Smith would have stopped speaking to see.

ESPN almost missed it.

In the TD’s three replays that took place before the PAT, ESPN nearly missed the ball as it was in the air and going through the uprights.

Then ESPN blew up the disturbing and all-too-familiar coverage — both teams solemnly gathered around a prone, motionless victim — the injury of Bucs WR Russell Gage. ESPN was appearing in a commercial when it was announced.

Had ESPN shown it on tape, it would have been forgiven. Conscious? ESPN showed nothing.

After SF’s Christian McCaffrey beat the long run, Fox’s close-up showed him looking up, apparently on the big video screen inside the stadium, checking out the nearest Seattle defender. It looks like it is. Great shot. Naturally, Darryl “Moose” Johnston was too busy talking to notice.

What’s interesting is that on Saturday’s next telecast, NBC’s Chargers-Jags, the one-game team of Al Michaels and Tony Dungy received radically mixed reviews.

But given that there were three hours of Johnston before that, I’ll side with reader Peter Dowd.

“The biggest thing for the Giants is that they want to be a play-action pass team, not a drop-back pass team,” said Olsen, head of the Giants-Bikes Fox A-Team analyst.

The Giants then beat the Bikes every game via dropback passes, mostly play action. But with Olsen talking so much, how can he remember the “biggest thing”?

Then, Olsen’s assessment of the Giants’ $72 million pass-drop free agent Kenny Goladay’s bust was “a little disappointing.” And Lizzie Borden was “a bit eccentric.”

Fox’s “Next Generation Stats” didn’t bode well for any generation, as Daniel Jones noted that he “exceeded expectations by 23 yards.” Calvin “addition and division” calculator?

After Bengal Sam Hubbard delivered a 98-yard TD fumble return, NBC’s Mike Tillico calmed himself down and gave it a try.

As Ray Goulding of Bob and Ray’s old radio comedy team put it, “George Washington was one of our first presidents.

The network lacks the NFL’s ugliest behavior

As for those six playoff games, well, professionalism is now completely optional, a matter of indiscriminate individual choice, nothing more. Nearly every game had at least one episode of the best/worst player to get thrown out for cheating.

The first half of Dolphins-Bills continued with multiplayer battles against Bills players while donning Goodell-issued “Choose Love” social messaging helmets.

A scene involving multiple players erupted after Seahawks DB Jonathan Abram sprained his previously injured leg following a tackle on Deebo Samuel.

And in another “Thoughts and Prayers,” “This Is All in Sight,” in an homage to Dummer Hamlin’s near-death episode on the field, Niners DB Jimmy Ward threw downed Seahawks QB Just tapping Genno Smith gave the Niners a 14-13 halftime lead. lead. Instead, he tried to decapitate him with his helmet-first, unguided missile shot at him.

And the first half ended with Seattle trailing 16-14, with a clueless 15-yarder scoring a field goal on the final play against the 31-year-old college student. Viewers were left wondering how what they just saw could happen in his game in the pro his football playoffs, even without placing bets.