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Behind the Bets

By Chad Millman

Thursday, May 28, 2009

NFL owners, already life's biggest winners, want to try their luck with the lottery. That was the news out of their meetings last week, where team bosses voted unanimously to allow stamping state and local lottery tickets with franchise logos, if, ahem, any governments wanted to do a deal. A shocker: Within days the Pats announced they'd be sponsoring the Massachusetts state lottery, the Skins said they'd slap their sticker on Virginia scratch-offs and the Ravens admitted they were talki ...

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