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A song whose title is one of the most famous phrases in gambling is to be heard at half-time of tonight's opening game of the NFL--a league which claims to abhor gambling in any form!
The NFL announced today that Travie McCoy, lead singer of the musical group Gym Class Heroes, will perform at half-time of tonight's Dallas Cowboys-New York Giants game in New Jersey and is to sing his new song, called "All In."
That's "all in" as in the game of poker's most famous phrase--going all in--which is the ultimate poker move and means betting every one of your chips on one hand and hoping for the best.
In other words, the ultimate gamble in the most famous gambling game.
In any other context such a song title would be no big deal--Kenny Rogers, for example, fared well with his song "The Gambler" years ago--but the NFL has such a bug in its bonnet over gambling that it seems hypocritical at best and just downright nutty at worst.
Yes, the NFL opposes at every turn any efforts to legalize wagering on NFL games.
That stance, while foolhardy, is nevertheless understandable.
But the NFL isn't just against betting on its games, it's against gambling in general.
A few years back, the NFL wouldn't allow Las Vegas' tourism bureau to buy air time and run a commercial during a Super Bowl telecast that would have promoted visiting Las Vegas.
No matter that the ad wouldn't have shown a casino sportsbook nor mentioned sports wagering.
In fact, the TV commercial would not have even shown any part of any casino or anyone gambling in any form or mentioned any of that--all that would be shown would be alternate Vegas activities such as golf, restaurants, shopping and entertainment--there would be absolutely no mention of gambling at all.
But still the uptight honchos who run the NFL nixed the ad--Vegas is gambling and gambling is bad, they snorted.
So now it seems incredulous that a league that loathes betting more than Prince Harry loathes camera phones would embrace an artist to sing a song with a gambling-themed title.
All in?
Maybe the NFL is just all out of fresh ideas.
By Tom Somach
Gambling911.com Staff Writer
