NFL Reacts with Prop Bet Bans Amid MLB Betting Scandal

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00:00For those of you who are unfamiliar Major League Baseball, a couple of players in baseball are

00:04involved in a current scandal surrounding betting on their own props, betting essentially against

00:10themselves, betting to make mistakes, telling people about it, and making a little bit of money.

00:15So the National Football League, Sam, certainly has their own response to this, which is trying

00:20to get ahead of something like this. Naturally, there's a lot of players in football who don't

00:23make the kind of money that they do in Major League Baseball. I mean, there's a lot more

00:27money involved in some of these players and positions. So what exactly does this look

00:31like, this memo? And it seems to be a little bit more than what baseball is doing, which

00:36is having max bets on some things. The NFL wants to get rid of some props entirely.

00:43Yeah, that's certainly what this memo came across as when it first surfaced yesterday.

00:47Like you mentioned, Craig, in light of these recent scandals we've had, not only in Major

00:51League Baseball, but in the NBA as well, where Commissioner Adam Silver has been called to

00:56Congress to notify politicians what the league is doing around sports betting and sports

01:02integrity concerns in light of these now three federal indictments from the FBI over the past

01:08month. The NFL sent out the memo stating that it has specifically banned prop bets on certain

01:15markets. These are markets deemed to be inherently objectionable, things that involve betting on

01:21injuries, player safety, a fan coming in from the stands or anything else kind of inflammatory like

01:27that, officiating related bets as well. So strict prohibition on any bets related to anything referees

01:34are involved in, number of penalties. And then most specifically, this is kind of the one market that

01:40was, you know, newer than the other restrictions was markets determinable by one person on one play.

01:46So those are things like whether a field goal kicker will make or miss the field goal. There's

01:51obviously 22 people on the field, but the kicker has a little more sway over whether it goes between

01:56the uprights or, you know, misses entirely. Things like quarterback, how much they're going to throw

02:01on their first play. Will a player fumble during a game? Things that are easily kind of controllable by

02:07one person, kind of in line with those pitches in question with the two Cleveland Guardian pitchers,

02:11which obviously they were able to manipulate throwing a ball or a certain speed a lot easier

02:19than maybe a shortstop or an outfielder would. And then the last one was predetermined outcomes.

02:24Things that are tied to will a quarterback start this week? Will the team's play be a run or a pass

02:31first to start the game? But interestingly enough, these are actually markets that are pretty much

02:36already banned at every major legal sports book, at least that I know of. All the leagues partnered

02:41sports books, which most of the legal sports books have to be partnered with the league.

02:45They already banned these markets or states already banned these markets in general. So the

02:49memo, the timing of it was, it doesn't really seem like there's anything new here. It seems more like

02:54the NFL just wanted to kind of remind people and maybe seem like it's doing something kind of,

02:59you know, as the scrutiny around sports betting and sports integrity is really at an all time high

03:04right now when you talk about all the scandals and Congress's involvement. Just this past week,

03:08you had the MLB cap $200 limits on individual pitch micro bet wagers. So that was the first time the

03:16league has really come out and done something new. Like you mentioned, years after sports betting has

03:21been legalized and now it seems like the NFL wants to jump on board and remind its teams that it's doing

03:26everything it can to uphold sports integrity, sports betting integrity, as well as reminding them that

03:33it's actively talking to states and lawmakers to make sure it's aware of all this kind of stuff.