Gambling and the NFL: Permission Granted! Welcome Back, Mike Vick

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Published: August 17, 2009

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... like Delaware, from allowing betting on single NFL games.

In essence, the NFL embraces gambling as long as they control their part of the gambling game and the gambling revenue distribution.

Admitted dog abuser, strangler, electrocutor, and torturer Michael Vick was welcomed and escorted back into the NFL this week by Commissioner Roger Goodell, Vick mentor and former NFL head coach Tony Dungy, and the Philadelphia Eagles' owners. The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback was convicted of financing and abetting an interstate dog fighting ring and served nearly two years in custody, starting in prison and ending in house arrest.

A crucial part of the interstate dog fighting ring Vick financed, supported, participated in and cheered on was the gambling.

Vick not only admits to killing, strangling, hanging, drowning, and violating dogs, he also admits to being the venture capitalist of the whole sorry interstate gambling affair.

Way back in 1963, th...

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