The Sports Grouch's vote for Dumb Idea of the Decade goes to the US Supreme Court.
I must have been napping 2 years ago when they struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act.
This cleared the way to legalize sports betting on everything from high school football to tiddlywinks.
Like me, a lot of sports fans have had doubts about the Supremes under Chief Justice John Roberts.
Bless his little pointed head, the chief justice is a RINO in a judicial robe.
Several state lawmakers are already licking their chops about the revenue this could bring in.
They aim to cash in on this super dumb ruling by taxing casinos that will offer sports betting.
Boy, oh, boy, more graft and corruption.
The Bradley Act
The author of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act the court struck down happens to be an ex-jock himself.
If you’ve been an NBA or college basketball fan as long as I have, you will remember Bill Bradley.
Bill carried Princeton University’s basketball teams to the heights and that takes work. Princeton is hardly Gonzaga or Kentucky.
Before Bradley came along, nobody in the sports world had ever heard of Princeton. Its single claim to fame was physicist Albert Einstein who couldn’t shoot a 3-pointer if his life depended on it.
Bill went on to the New York Knicks, helped power them to 2 NBA championships and won a US Senate seat from New Jersey as a Democrat. Bill was so popular in New Jersey even Republicans vote for him.
To the Supreme Court ruling, Bradley called foul.
“I think the game will be corrupted,” he said. 
“Do you really want to go to your son’s high school basketball or football game and see people in the crowd who are betting, who are not rooting for your child to win or lose, but are betting on a spread? 
“It is destructive. But again, it’s the Supreme Court making a decision on very narrow grounds.”
It’s  money, honey
2 years later, high school sports betting has not become a major problem ... at least not yet.
Offshore bookies do accept bets on Texas high school football games but that’s not a foundation you can build an industry on. 
The big government liberals at USA TODAY argue that if illegal bookies take bets on high school games, why shouldn’t states let official betting houses accept bets, too, and line their coffers with betting tax dollars?
Yep, even your local  school district might get in on the cash flow to help support their expensive sports programs with gamblers’ tax money.
Can you imagine what this could do for girls and minor sports that are always played in the shadows of football and basketball?
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