Civil lawsuits would be easy to file against Bengals, NFL over Joe Burrow injury

There are many causes to imagine the NFL is not going to discover that the Bengals concealed a pre-existing wrist injury to quarterback Joe Burrow.

Beyond the P.R. ramifications of admitting to the world that one of many league’s 32 franchises was taking part in quick and free with the injury-reporting guidelines, it would be very easy for anybody who relied on Burrow’s absence from the report in inserting a wager on the Bengals to use the result of the league’s investigation because the gasoline for a fraud lawsuit.

Yes, fraud. You might need heard a factor or two about it within the information just lately. It’s principally mendacity. Lying with a goal.

For the Bengals, the aim would have been to conceal Burrow’s injury from the Ravens, or from anybody else. The impression on gamblers would be to hold them from realizing that Burrow may not have performed at a excessive stage, or may not have completed the sport.

The argument, inside the context of a civil lawsuit, would be that those that guess on the Bengals to win on a cash line wager or to cowl the three.5-point unfold relied on the absence of Burrow from the injury report in believing the Bengals would win and/or cowl. More particularly, that they would not have guess on the Bengals to win and/or to cowl if that they had identified the reality.

It’s potential {that a} class motion may be pursued, with everybody in a given state (or nationally) who positioned a guess on the Bengals wanting to get a refund from the Bengals for hiding the injury.

The NFL may be included within the litigation as effectively, primarily based on the potential argument that the league negligently failed to implement its personal guidelines relating to the injury stories, emboldening groups just like the Bengals to hold Burrow’s injury hidden.

While the NFL and its groups ought to be frightened concerning the risk that Congress (if it ever will get its act collectively) may discover the integrity of sports activities wagering and/or {that a} prosecutor may study the potential of legal expenses, it solely takes on disgruntled gambler and one motivated lawyer to launch a category motion, in any state the place playing is authorized.

Or in each single state the place playing is authorized.

Complain concerning the civil justice system if you need (and people with cash and energy all the time do), however it’s a mechanism for forcing change. For holding the accountable to account. For turning a flawed right into a proper.

And to most one thing appears flawed — or at a minimal fishy — about Burrow carrying a wrap on his hand, concerning the staff posting after which deleting video of it, and about Burrow coincidentally struggling a season-ending injury to that very same hand the subsequent evening.

Why was the video deleted? Get a truthful reply to that query, and also you probably have the gasoline for a large lawsuit against the Bengals and the NFL. The easy actuality is {that a} lawsuit would possibly be the one means to get a truthful reply to that query.