The NFL could have just left the entire sports betting world alone.
For decades the NFL treated Las Vegas and sports betting like a scourge for society. Then it saw the wave coming in after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 2018 allowed states to decide if they would make sports betting legal. The league embraced sports betting in ways that were inconceivable just a few years earlier. If the sports betting boom was inevitable, might as well make some money, right?
The NFL had another betting controversy on Friday.