The NFL handles a variety of legal issues rather poorly, and two that I have found particularly problematic by the NFL are marijuana and sports gambling. Both have been in the news quite a bit in recent years, and both seem to be gaining public support.
Last week, an NFL writer posed an interesting question. He asked which would be legalized first, marijuana or sports betting. I’m not surprised by the results of his poll, with sports betting getting 55 percent of the vote.
The poll question came up in part because of the United States’ Supreme Court’s decision to hear a case involving a New Jersey sports gambling law.