00:00National Football League decided not to hold a supplemental draft for him and basically gave him a year, you know,
00:07suspension for him not to play this coming season and made him eligible to go into the 2027 draft.
00:13This is wild and hypocrisy that goes on in the NFL.
00:17Robert Kraft is a major stakeholder in DraftKings.
00:21And do you know that Adam Schefter, the guy that covers the National Football League, has also a major stake
00:28in a company that Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, has a major stake in.
00:33It's called Boom Entertainment.
00:35So you tell me, you're telling the National Football League players that you're not allowed to gamble, but the owner
00:43of the New England Patriots has a major stake in two gambling companies.
00:49They don't have complete control, but they have a major stake in DraftKings.
00:54So the sport that Adam Schefter covers, he's got also a major stake with Robert Kraft, the owner of the
01:02Patriots.
01:03And you're sitting there telling me that players cannot gamble on the National Football League games or college football.
01:10I tweeted this out this past week.
01:13The Patriots owner, Robert Kraft, is a big money investor in DK Sports.
01:19And Brandon Soresby can't enter the NFL supplemental draft.
01:23I asked the commissioner flat out.
01:25I've even sent him emails on this.
01:28How is this possible that you suspended a kid for making $9 bets, and yet you got an owner who's
01:35knee deep in sports gaming?
01:38Make this make sense.
01:39The hypocrisy of the National Football League lives forever.
01:44Again, as the NFL will say to you, hey, don't do as I say, because, again, at the end of
01:51the day, the National Football League is out there making the money that they possibly can when it comes to
01:56gaming.
01:57Sports gambling is now a major part of the revenue stream now in the National Football League.
02:02And yet you're still pushing these parameters around the National Football League players that you can't gamble, you can't do
02:10this, and you can't be involved in any way whatsoever with gambling.
02:14My take, I don't have a problem with athletes gambling.
02:17Actually, I think it would make the games more interesting if they were gambling, and we found out that a
02:23quarterback was basically betting a million dollars on a game.
02:27Why not?
02:29If he was gambling, why not?
02:31It makes it more compelling.
02:34You're worried about the integrity of the officials in the National Football League when all the major decisions go back
02:42to Park Avenue anyway?
02:44That's like trying to tell me that the steroid era was bad for baseball and people weren't watching.
02:49I love how people have this high and mighty moral code about themselves when it comes to sports.
02:57Sports gambling is here, folks.
02:59It's another part where people always are trying to put the genie back into the bottle.
03:05Athletes gambling on sporting events?
03:07So what?
03:08You know, if you look back now at Pete Rose and that stupid situation with him and how they kept
03:14him out of the game,
03:14you think a guy with over 4,200 base hits and all the great things that Rose has done in
03:21his career,
03:22you really think that that guy was doing things to hurt his chances on being considered the greatest baseball player
03:28of all time?
03:30Look at his numbers.
03:31An all-star at every position.
03:34More hits than anybody in the history of the game.
03:37Legendary baseball.
03:39MVP awards.
03:40World Series MVP awards.
03:42You think that guy was doing anything to hurt the integrity of what he wanted to put down on a
03:47resume when it came for him
03:49and how he was perceived as a ball player?
03:52Based on what?
03:54There's no failure on Rose's resume anywhere.
03:59And you're saying, well, he bet on the game of baseball.
04:02Well, he didn't bet on anything to hurt his reputation when it came as a player.
04:08Pete Rose is one of the legendary players of all time.
04:11I like the notion that if an athlete bet on a game, they would be betting for them to lose.
04:16Dude, if you're an athlete and you make it to the National Football League, you're not betting on anything to
04:22lose.
04:23But again, you look at athletes today like they're children.
04:26Oh, gee, if a guy bets, he may throw the game.
04:29Throw what game?
04:30I'm not looking to ruin a legacy.
04:31See, I'm looking to enhance a legacy.
04:34I love the fact that Buster Douglass back in the game, back in the day, bet $250,000 of his
04:40purse, personal purse,
04:42that night before his mom died when he beat Mike Tyson.
04:47He put that kind of money down because he wanted to bet that he would beat Tyson.
04:52And he was 30-1 when he ended up beating Mike Tyson.
04:57Dude, I don't have a problem with athletes gambling.
05:00Not one bit.
05:01As a matter of fact, I don't have a problem with anybody gambling.
05:05We're not children.
05:06Gambling is a part of our society, just like alcohol and tobacco are a part of our society.
05:13Unfortunately, people like to legislate it, and they like to be your parents and tell you,
05:18well, you can't do this, you can't do that because it hurts, some type of integrity.
05:21The National Football League, integrity?
05:25You're kidding, right?
05:27The National Football League talks integrity, and they talk out of both sides of their mouth.
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