No good comes from Goodell gambling gambit

IN 2009, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell issued a solemn plea for Delaware to reject gambling on NFL games. Goodell declared, “The negative social impact of additional gambling cannot be minimized in a community.”

Now, with the NFL in past its eyes for its cut of sports gambling based on losses incurred by NFL fans betting into bad odds, Goodell apparently now wishes that those communities go to hell.

Last week, the NFL was revealed to be searching for its first VP of gambling — perhaps an unemployed grinning, backslapping casino host, your best pal until you’re tapped out.

But Goodell never has to answer for his duplicity — what my father, and perhaps yours, would punish as “lies.” In announcing the NFL will eventually increase to a 17-game season, Goodell again asked the logical to swallow the preposterous:

“This will provide substantial benefits to all current and retired players, increase jobs, ensure continued progress on player safety, and give our fans more and better football.”

How does more football aid player safety? New jobs? Will they outnumber the players lost to the season, or forever, to injuries? And who is filling those new jobs?

Stars or scrubs? Makes you wonder how better football can be played by lesser players?

But he can say anything (“PSLs are good investments”) that he chooses. Who is going to hold his feet to the fire? The forced-laughter panelists on the NFL pregame shows?

True or False: ESPN will present a six-hour show Sunday on Tom Brady.

False. The show will run seven hours. Seriously.

The sports pages’ view from Boston claim Brady could no longer suffer the dictates of Bill Belichick — not that Belichick has ever been inclined to explain himself.

Brady’s departure for the Buccaneers was described by The Globe as “Bobby Orr finishing his career as a Chicago Blackhawk.”