N.F.L. Suspends Five Players for Gambling

Makes you want to scratch your head in wondering…WHY? Here are five strapping young NFL players who had family and friends and teachers and coaches all supporting and encouraging them over the years. They were outstanding athletes doing the right things for success and being good role models for younger children.

Then they were among the very few who made it to the ultimate high of being drafted by an NFL team. They screamed with unbridled joy, along with family and other supporters, at their good fortune. They did so many of the right things to achieve the honor, not to mention the earning potential to provide well for not just themselves, but for many others as well. They were also now in the position to encourage and inspire countless other young people to do all the right things they had done to also achieve success.

And now they are spoiled goods, tarnished merchandise, with newly defined reputations they will carry with them for the duration.

What happened? What were they thinking? I wonder if they even stopped to consider the consequences of getting caught? Did they think about how disappointed their family and other supporters would be, or the enormous earning power they would be throwing down the drain if they were caught? Did any of that cross their mind?

Too late now! “What Goes Around Comes Around,” as sure as night follows day! It is Karma! It is Cause & Effect! It is “how life REALLY works!”

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NFL suspends five players for violating gambling policy

Natasha Piñon

Five NFL players have been suspended for violating the National Football League’s gambling policy, the league announced today.

The policy bars anyone in the NFL from engaging in any kind of gambling in league facilities or venues, including practice facilities. The league said its review uncovered no evidence that inside information was used.

No games were compromised as a result of the gambling, the NFL added.

Three players — Quintez Cephus and C.J. Moore of the Detroit Lions, and Shaka Toney of the Washington Commanders — will be suspended indefinitely, at least until the end of the 2023 season, for betting on NFL games last season.

Those players will be able to petition for reinstatement at the end of the season.

Two other Lions athletes — Stanley Berryhill and Jameson Williams — are suspended from playing in the first six regular season games. They will be able to participate in offseason and preseason activities.

The NFL’s crackdown comes as 33 states, including Michigan, and Washington, D.C., have launched legal betting markets since a landmark 2018 U.S. Supreme Court case paved the way for states to offer legal sports wagering.

Earlier this week, major pro leagues — the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, WNBA, NASCAR and MLS — announced they were joining media companies NBCUniversal and Fox to form a coalition that aims to regulate sports-betting advertising as it floods television, internet and print media.

Soon after the suspensions were announced, the Detroit Lions said they were releasing Cephus and Moore. According to ESPN, the Lions became aware of the NFL’s investigation “about a month ago.”

“We are disappointed by the decision making demonstrated by Stanley and Jameson and will work with both players to ensure they understand the severity of these violations and have clarity on the league rules moving forward,” Detroit Lions executive vice president and general manager Brad Holmes said in a statement.

The Commanders said the team is aware of Toney’s suspension. “We have cooperated fully with the NFL’s investigation since receiving notice and support the league’s findings and actions,” the team said in a statement.

Toney’s suspension is the latest hit for the Commanders. Last week, the district’s attorney general said the Commanders will pay $625,000 to settle allegations that the organization failed to return fans’ tickets deposits.

Former D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, who sued the Commanders last year, alleged that since 1996 the football team has promised to return fans’ security deposits for premium seating but instead pocketed the money and spent it.

A Commanders spokesperson said in a statement the team hasn’t collected security deposits in more than a decade and has been “actively working to return any remaining deposits since 2014.”

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N.F.L. Suspends Five Players for Gambling

N.F.L. Suspends Five Players for Gambling

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I wonder about when this train actually went off the rail and Balwani and Holmes both knew it. It reminds me somewhat of Bernie Madoff’s $20 Billion deception in that if Bernie had fessed up when his performance first went south and he tried to cover it up, only to make it worse, he might largely have been forgiven and returned to his original trading business. But he just couldn’t do that and as time went on…well we know the result.

Was there a similar trajectory for this pair? A time when they looked at each other and said, “Uh oh!” Not that it matters really. Somewhere along the way they knew what was going down and kept it going for as long as they could. Now have to face the music as eventually, always is the case. It is simply “The Law of Cause and Effect” unfolding. Hopefully for them there will be less tragic endings than Bernie. It depends on how they handle what they have wrought! We’ll see.