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Sports Contributor Adjust font size Gambling, the disease of the adventurous, begins innocently enough in the pre-teen years. Pitching pennies. Flipping sports cards. Shooting marbles. All for a wager. Eventually, the young gamblers learn about betting lines and bookies, and they become hooked on the weekend action, the National Football League. Never mind that the games can swing wildly like ping-pong balls. Never mind that pro football is the toughest sport to predict except for dog racing. The gambling addict, insatiable in his desire to beat the point spread, will take his chances, today, tomorrow and always. “I started flipping ball cards when I was seven or eight, growing up in Brooklyn,” says Arnie Wexler, an expert on compulsive gambling and former executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey. “Sometimes you’d bet 20 cents to win a dollar. You’d bet three players, like Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams and Stan Musial, to get six hits.” It is all fun and games at this youthful stage. But later, it often becomes a disease. A disease that chews up your paycheck and spits it out when a touchdown pass that would have beaten the spread bounces off some receiver’s hands. “Everybody makes it a big joke,” says Wexler. “Drugs and alcohol are treated like a sickness, a disease. But gambling is all fun and games. Listen, if you put mutual machines in for a Little League game, they’d fill the stadium. Just give the public any kind of gambling, they don’t care.” Wexler, Costa Rica tourism a recovering compulsive gambler, hasn’t placed a bet since 1968. He remembers attending a hearing on sports gambling in Trenton, N.J., with Harry Carson, the New York Giants’ Hall of Fame linebacker. “He told me, ‘you know, I never knew people bet on football. We lost an exhibition game and the fans were cursing me after the game. They said we didn’t cover the spread. I didn’t know what they were talking about.’” Wagering on NFL games is an exercise in futility. It defies form and sometimes logic. If there were no fumbles; no penalties; no injuries; perfect weather and an empty, silent stadium, you might have a chance. But crazy things happen in pro football that can leave you with feeling sick in the stomach, the gambler’s post-game hangover. Sometimes that $200 bet you made on the Broncos (giving 6 ½ points to the Chiefs) is lost in the chaotic finish that is so typical in pro football. The reality is that this is the most violent, unpredictable game of any pro sport. An example: On Jan. 3, 1993, the Houston Oilers were crushing the host Buffalo Bills, 35-3, in the third period. The Bills’ quarterback was Frank Reich, a second-stringer. Reich hadn’t thrown a touchdown pass all year. His counter-part, Warren Moon, had already thrown four touchdown passes in this crazy playoff, silencing an entire stadium. Yet, the Bills rallied in a historic comeback. Reich threw for four touchdowns in 11 minutes, four seconds as the Bills pulled it out in overtime, 41-38. It was the greatest comeback in NFL history. So, what is the betting appeal of this unpredictable sport that Vince Lombardi once called “a game for madmen?” Vince wasn’t talking about gamblers, of course, but he could have been. Jerry Bergman, who worked the sidelines for 30 years as a distinguished NFL head linesman, thinks he knows the answer. “It’s the action, the fast action in the pros,” says Bergman, who lives in Pittsburgh. “That’s what attracts all these young people who gamble. I know some bookies around here who will take action on anything, including the coin toss. As far as I know, it’s very difficult to win on these games. And how they (the bookies) get all their information, I don’t know.” In the 87-year history of the NFL, only a handful of gambling cases have been investigated by the league: -- In 1946, fullback Merle Hapes and quarterback Frankie Filchock were suspended for failing to report a bribe attempt before the New York Giants’ playoff game against the Chicago Bears. Filchock was allowed to play in the game but neither he nor Hapes ever played again for the Giants. -- In 1963, Commissioner Pete Rozelle suspended Green Bay halfback Paul Hornung and Detroit defensive tackle Alex Karras for betting on NFL games. Both were reinstated a year later. During the same period, Rozelle investigated reports that Los Angeles owner Carroll Rosenbloom was placing large bets on NFL games. The case was dropped for “lack of proof.” -- During the week of Super Bowl IV, Kansas City quarterback Len Dawson was linked to an investigation involving Donald (Dice) Dawson (no relation), a Detroit gambler. The rumors proved unfounded, although Dawson admitted he knew Dice Dawson on a casual basis. -- The most notorious gambling case, however, involved a highly rated quarterback named Art Schlichter. The Baltimore Colts knew all about his snappy passing arm and his size and agility. What escaped the Colts, who made Schlichter the fourth pick in the 1982 draft, was his addiction to gambling. Schlichter was suspended for a year because of gambling with Baltimore bookies that left him almost $400,000 in debt. Schlichter rejoined the Colts a year later but continued to gamble even as he was receiving treatment as an addict. He played only 13 games for the Colts and eventually dropped out of the NFL. “Gambling destroyed him,” says Arnie Wexler, who testified in the Schlichter trial. “At one point, he said he’d be better off in jail.” Indeed, according to Wexler, Schlichter was released from jail earlier this year. According to the National Gambling Study Commission, there are at least five million compulsive gamblers and 15 million more “at risk.” About half of them bet on sporting events, a lot of them on pro football. Many are college-age, bright and determined and eager to prove they can win in the tempting world of pro football lines. “I didn’t know there were that many young people doing it,” said Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association. “You have to wonder why these young people gamble on football. There are so many other ways. Lotteries, the internet.” The popular misconception is that newspapers contribute to the problem by carrying the betting lines and ads that scream: “Get Our Lock of the Week Free.” There is also a suspicion of hypocrisy. A young gambler starts taking bets, using the lines from his local paper. He gets arrested and the same paper carries the story of the arrest. “As Bobby Knight once said,” says Wexler, “if they publish the odds in the papers, you might expect them to carry the names of the prostitutes and their prices.’” Yet, if the papers didn’t carry the spreads, or the injuries, the rumors and tips would swirl around the bookie shops. The weekly losers would swear the games were fixed. “We want to protect the integrity of the game,” says Upshaw. “That’s the one thing you try to protect…the fairness of the game. You don’t want the game tainted, or smelling, like boxing used to be.” According to Wexler, the gambler’s biggest holiday comes in early February, the time of the Super Bowl. “Compulsive gamblers are very vulnerable at that time of year because they are looking for the ‘lock bet,’” he says. “The media hype ‘juices’ the gamblers and because of their impulse disorder, many compulsive gamblers will be in on the action.” The NFL does what it can to cope with gambling on its games. Wagering on pro football is legal only in Nevada since passage of the Professional Sports Protection Act in 1992. However, three other states (Delaware, Montana and Oregon) that had once approved sports betting can try again under an exemption from the 1992 law. And with Pennsylvania race tracks (call them racinos) now featuring slot machines, there is talk on the street that Delaware may seek to bring back the old sports lottery game that died in 1976. If that happens, the safest bet of the year will be that the NFL quickly will haul the state of Delaware into court to protect “the fairness of the game,” as Upshaw says. As former NFL counsel Jay Moyer told Out and About, a Delaware magazine, “The NFL’s policy on this has been consistent for decades. Simply put, gambling and sports do not mix.” That’s been Arnie Wexler’s line, and the line of all the other compulsive gambling counselors around the country. They’ve handled cases involving broken homes and failed marriages; lost jobs and criminal acts; health problems and suicide attempts. As former Philadelphia Eagles general manager Jim Murray says, “Even with fantasy football, there’s money involved. And it can become a real addiction that is the exponential growth of compulsive gambling. It ruins families. It ruins individuals.” Murray worked for owner Leonard Tose, who was forced to sell the Eagles in 1985 after losing $25 million at the blackjack tables “I run a hot-line,” says Wexler. “One third of all the calls in the past two years came from kids aged 12 to 25 years old, or parents of these kids. I had three calls as young as 12.” Wexler remembers a younger time when he was heavily into gambling. “Remember the New York Titans?” he said, referring to the old American Football League team owned by Harry Wismer. “I went to a bookie and he told me they didn’t carry their games. But he said I could bet a ‘circle,” a straight $30 bet. He didn’t have any line. Costa Rica tourismSo I made up my own line but still lost the game.” Compulsive gamblers can tell you endless stories like that. But their information and belief is that there is always another game, another bet and another chance. They are the losers in the fast world of pro football. 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Athlon Sports Contributor Adjust font size Gambling, the disease of the adventurous, begins innocently enough in the pre-teen years. Pitching pennies. Flipping sports cards. Shooting marbles. All for a wager. Eventually, the young gamblers learn about betting lines and bookies, and they become hooked on the weekend action, the National Football League. Never mind that the games can swing wildly like ping-pong balls. Never mind that pro football is the toughest sport to predict except for dog racing. The gambling addict, insatiable in his desire to beat the point spread, will take his chances, today,Costa Rica tourism tomorrow and always.
“I started flipping ball cards when I was seven or eight, growing up in Brooklyn,” says Arnie Wexler, an expert on compulsive gambling and former executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey. “Sometimes you’d bet 20 cents to win a dollar. You’d bet three players, like Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams and Stan Musial, to get six hits.” It is all fun and games at this youthful stage. But later, it often becomes a disease. A disease that chews up your paycheck and spits it out when a touchdown pass that would have beaten the spread bounces off some receiver’s hands.
“Everybody makes it a big joke,” says Wexler. “Drugs and alcohol are treated like a sickness, a disease. But gambling is all fun and games. Listen, if you put mutual machines in for a Little League game, they’d fill the stadium. Just give the public any kind of gambling, they don’t care.”
Wexler, a recovering compulsive gambler, hasn’t placed a bet since 1968. He remembers attending a hearing on sports gambling in Trenton, N.J., with Harry Carson, the New York Giants’ Hall of Fame linebacker. “He told me, ‘you know, I never knew people bet on football. We lost an exhibition game and the fans were cursing me after the game. They said we didn’t cover the spread. I didn’t know what they were talking about.’”
Wagering on NFL games is an exercise in futility. It defies form and sometimes logic. If there were no fumbles; no penalties; no injuries; perfect weather and an empty, silent stadium, you might have a chance. But crazy things happen in pro football that can leave you with feeling sick in the stomach, the gambler’s post-game hangover. Sometimes that $200 bet you made on the Broncos (giving 6 ½ points to the Chiefs) is lost in the chaotic finish that is so typical in pro football.
The reality is that this is the most violent, unpredictable game of any pro sport. An example: On Jan. 3, 1993, the Houston Oilers were crushing the host Buffalo Bills, 35-3, in the third period. The Bills’ quarterback was Frank Reich, a second-stringer. Reich hadn’t thrown a touchdown pass all year. His counter-part, Warren Moon, had already thrown four touchdown passes in this crazy playoff, silencing an entire stadium. Yet, the Bills rallied in a historic comeback. Reich threw for four touchdowns in 11 minutes, four seconds as the Bills pulled it out in overtime, 41-38. It was the greatest comeback in NFL history.
So, what is the betting appeal of this unpredictable sport that Vince Lombardi once called “a game for madmen?” Vince wasn’t talking about gamblers, of course, but he could have been. Jerry Bergman, who worked the sidelines for 30 years as a distinguished NFL head linesman, thinks he knows the answer. “It’s the action, the fast action in the pros,” says Bergman, who lives in Pittsburgh. “That’s what attracts all these young people who gamble. I know some bookies around here who will take action on anything, including the coin toss. As far as I know, it’s very difficult to win on these games. And how they (the bookies) get all their information, I don’t know.”
In the 87-year history of the NFL, only a handful of gambling cases have been investigated by the league:
-- In 1946, fullback Merle Hapes and quarterback Frankie Filchock were suspended for failing to report a bribe attempt before the New York Giants’ playoff game against the Chicago Bears. Filchock was allowed to play in the game but neither he nor Hapes ever played again for the Giants.
-- In 1963, Commissioner Pete Rozelle suspended Green Bay halfback Paul Hornung and Detroit defensive tackle Alex Karras for betting on NFL games. Both were reinstated a year later. During the same period, Rozelle investigated reports that Los Angeles owner Carroll Rosenbloom was placing large bets on NFL games. The case was dropped for “lack of proof.”
-- During the week of Super Bowl IV, Kansas City quarterback Len Dawson was linked to an investigation involving Donald (Dice) Dawson (no relation), a Detroit gambler. The rumors proved unfounded, although Dawson admitted he knew Dice Dawson on a casual basis.
-- The most notorious gambling case, however, involved a highly rated quarterback named Art Schlichter. The Baltimore Colts knew all about his snappy passing arm and his size and agility. What escaped the Colts, who made Schlichter the fourth pick in the 1982 draft, was his addiction to gambling. Schlichter was suspended for a year because of gambling with Baltimore bookies that left him almost $400,000 in debt.
Schlichter rejoined the Colts a year later but continued to gamble even as he was receiving treatment as an addict. He played only 13 games for the Colts and eventually dropped out of the NFL. “Gambling destroyed him,” says Arnie Wexler, who testified in the Schlichter trial. “At one point, he said he’d be better off in jail.” Indeed, according to Wexler, Schlichter was released from jail earlier this year. According to the National Gambling Study Commission, there are at least five million compulsive gamblers and 15 million more “at risk.” About half of them bet on sporting events, a lot of them on pro football. Many are college-age, bright and determined and eager to prove they can win in the tempting world of pro football lines.
“I didn’t know there were that many young people doing it,” said Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association. “You have to wonder why these young people gamble on football. There are so many other ways. Lotteries, the internet.”
The popular misconception is that newspapers contribute to the problem by carrying the betting lines and ads that scream: “Get Our Lock of the Week Free.” There is also a suspicion of hypocrisy. A young gambler starts taking bets, using the lines from his local paper. He gets arrested and the same paper carries the story of the arrest.
“As Bobby Knight once said,” says Wexler, “if they publish the odds in the papers, you might expect them to carry the names of the prostitutes and their prices.’”
Yet, if the papers didn’t carry the spreads, or the injuries, the rumors and tips would swirl around the bookie shops. The weekly losers would swear the games were fixed. “We want to protect the integrity of the game,” says Upshaw. “That’s the one thing you try to protect…the fairness of the game. You don’t want the game tainted, or smelling, like boxing used to be.”
According to Wexler, the gambler’s biggest holiday comes in early February, the time of the Super Bowl. “Compulsive gamblers are very vulnerable at that time of year because they are looking for the ‘lock bet,’” he says. “The media hype ‘juices’ the gamblers and because of their impulse disorder, many compulsive gamblers will be in on the action.”
The NFL does what it can to cope with gambling on its games. Wagering on pro football is legal only in Nevada since passage of the Professional Sports Protection Act in 1992. However, three other states (Delaware, Montana and Oregon) that had once approved sports betting can try again under an exemption from the 1992 law. And with Pennsylvania race tracks (call them racinos) now featuring slot machines, there is talk on the street that Delaware may seek to bring back the old sports lottery game that died in 1976. If that happens, the safest bet of the year will be that the NFL quickly will haul the state of Delaware into court to protect “the fairness of the game,” as Upshaw says. As former NFL counsel Jay Moyer told Out and About, a Delaware magazine, “The NFL’s policy on this has been consistent for decades. Simply put, gambling and sports do not mix.”
That’s been Arnie Wexler’s line, and the line of all the other compulsive gambling counselors around the country. They’ve handled cases involving broken homes and failed marriages; lost jobs and criminal acts; health problems and suicide attempts.
As former Philadelphia Eagles general manager Jim Murray says, “Even with fantasy football, there’s money involved.Costa Rica real estate And it can become a real addiction that is the exponential growth of compulsive gambling. It ruins families. It ruins individuals.” Murray worked for owner Leonard Tose, who was forced to sell the Eagles in 1985 after losing $25 million at the blackjack tables
“I run a hot-line,” says Wexler. “One third of all the calls in the past two years came from kids aged 12 to 25 years old, or parents of these kids. I had three calls as young as 12.”
Wexler remembers a younger time when he was heavily into gambling. “Remember the New York Titans?” he said, referring to the old American Football League team owned by Harry Wismer. “I went to a bookie and he told me they didn’t carry their games. But he said I could bet a ‘circle,” a straight $30 bet. He didn’t have any line. So I made up my own line but still lost the game.”
Compulsive gamblers can tell you endless stories like that. But their information and belief is that there is always another game, another bet and another chance. They are the losers in the fast world of pro football. They just won’t admit it until the checks start bouncing.
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Monday, November 13, 2006
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Okay, I’ve defended quarterback Donovan McNabb enough throughout his career (although I have ripped him on occasion). It’s time to take the kid gloves off and get right to the point: McNabb has looked lethargic and has not played with any sense of urgency for the past two games, discounting the Birds’ furious fourth quarter rally against the Bucs.
One play in particular seemed to define everything that is wrong with McNabb right now. On one play, and I can’t even remember in which quarter at this point, McNabb had about 20 seconds in the pocket to either throw the ball, run it, or throw it away, and idiotically held on for a senseless sack that did nothing but hurt his team. I hate to say it, but McNabb’s lack of running the ball is beginning to hurt the Eagles. I saw several opportunities for him to at least gain positive yardage with his feet and he did absolutely nothing.
Personally, I think both McNabb and Reid need to look at tape of Indianapolis Colts, and more specifically, Peyton Manning, to see how a real offense is supposed to be run. And speaking of Manning, how good would the Eagles be if he were at the helm instead of McNabb? the Eagles, who have a hellacious stretch of games in the second half of the season, might as well hang it up. With road games against the Colts, Giants, Cowboys and even Redskins, the Eagles look like they could be in serious trouble. the Eagles, who have a hellacious stretch of games in the second half of the season, the ball is beginning to hurt the Eagles real offense is supposed to be run
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