Football Betting? NFL owners have joined the crusade to stop Delaware from offering sports betting when they filed a lawsuit late this week. In a related issue, NFL owners have approved sponsorship deals with online gambling sites.

The deal endorsed by owners would allow the online gambling sites to place patches advertising their product on team uniforms. Soccer teams in Europe already partake in this type of advertising, and the NFL now wants a piece of the advertising money.

"We are fully against any form of gambling on our sport," said NFL spokesman Valdez Blue, "but if there is money to be made in promoting other forms of gambling, we are all for it."

The NFL has previously struck deals with state lotteries, tribal casinos, bingo parlors, dog tracks, bars that offer illegal gambling machines, corner craps game operators, and underground poker rooms. The deals with all of those entities are different, the NFL insists, than gambling on a football game.

"People need to understand that we need to protect the integrity of our game," said Blue, "these other forms of gambling can be dangerous, sometimes even deadly, but they do not compare to the horrific crime of betting on a  football game."

The league spokesman went on to say that if they could figure out a way that owners could benefit financially from the football betting, they would consider the option. Up until now the sports books have been too greedy to offer the NFL any of their profits.

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