The NFL led a lawsuit that successfully (for now) has stopped Delaware’s plan to offer single game sports betting. They say their concern is to protect “the integrity of the game”.

Yet the owners of the Cleveland Browns and Tampa Bay Buccaneers actively promote betting on the NFL, even on and against their own team. Both the Glazer family (Bucs) and Randy Lerner (Browns) own Premier League soccer clubs that call these bookmaking firms their “betting partners”. And NFL broadcaster Fox Sports is owned by News Corp, which owns 39% of Skybet, an online bookmaking firm that offers a full menu of NFL betting action.

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The way the NFL sues Delaware to stop an activity their owners are actively promoting is curious. Yet if the State of Delaware brought any of this up in defending their plans for single-game sports betting against the NFL it is a well-kept secret.

We’ll have more information on the NFL and Delaware sports betting later this week.