Las Vegas • This was a sight no self-respecting bookie in this gambling town would have ever laid odds on seeing.
There was Roger Goodell, praising Las Vegas with the lights of the glittering Strip shining brightly behind him. In the audience were a trio of NFL owners (though not Jerry Jones) who had to be just a little envious about the rich possibilities that await Mark Davis and his Raiders.
There was no talk about the evils of sports betting, no warnings about players finding their way into casinos. The city they had snubbed for so many years was now one of their own, with the sanctimonious hypocrisy of the past conveniently abandoned before the first ceremonial shovels of dirt were turned.