…”Please, no wagering.”
Nine people, including coaches and the president of the South Florida Youth Football League, have been arrested as part of an elaborate gambling operation involving illegal betting on peewee, college and professional sports teams.
Oddly enough, the HouChron has a longer story, which states that “more than $100,000” was bet on the youth football championship.
Coaches routinely met before games and set point spreads, investigators said, but they do not believe the games were thrown or that coaches encouraged players not to complete a touchdown in order to control the outcome. Authorities said they had no evidence that the players were aware of the bets.
Yeah. Wanna bet the players weren’t aware that Daddy was betting on them to cover the spread?
Wait. That was kind of insensitive of me, wasn’t it?
Still. Eight-year-olds, dude.
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