But ESPN's Outside the Lines has shown that this goes far beyond college football.
About six months ago, as part of this blog post, I gave you two Floridian high schools who should've been shut the Hell down for ineligibilities and openly lying to investigators on them.
But that apparently has nothing on the youth football scene in Florida, thanks to ESPN's investigation.
Dear God, is this what our ghettos and sports have fallen to?
These fucking gang hoodlums bet tens of thousands of dollars a game on leagues where the kids can be as young as 5!! Though most of the betting appears to be on kids more junior-high and high-school age, these drug dealers (who are often accepted to be the only people who could have the money, in their culture, to bet on these games) have been known to bet up to $75,000 on a league championship game!
And, what's more, they're paying some of the kids!
They're paying parents to recruit them to certain teams (sometimes thousands of dollars). They pay the parents and the kids for good play -- some of the "Superstars" can make upwards of $10,000 over a season.
Small cash for someone who can make three times that gambling on the poor kid.
This is the way many of these families make rent -- which is why it's basically a Mafia-style situation, where the police openly turn their backs on this conduct, even though most anyone has been saying this has been going on for years.
It makes me wonder if Teddy Roosevelt was right, just for the wrong reasons...
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