Major League baseball will not let Pete Rose in Cooperstown. We condemn athletes when they bet legally on other sports in Vegas. Professional athletes are encouraged to help in the community. So what do my wonderous eyes see on TV? The Washington Redskins partnering with statewide lotteries to sell lottery tickets with the prizes being Redskins tickets, Super Bowl trips,etc.
That is right the Washington Redskins are endorsing gambling, and taxing the poorest of the poor. They are making money on the very activities that ban ballplayers from career long accolades and cause them to be pariahs in their communities. I do not know if other teams engage in this ultimate of hypocrisy. Let's hope they don't. But when this Nation's Capital sports franchise openly endorses gambling and taxing the poor, it must be condemned and treated as its ballplayers.
We should tell its owner you have lost your tax exemptions, your right to participate in the championship, and you must forfeit your ownership. Perhaps then will the NFL begin to have the social conscience it demands from its players.
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