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[QUOTE="pokercuse08, post: 5285251, member: 6535"]
Yeah and I'm sure that leaked info and bags of money have always been a thing in CFB, but not to the degree that the potential exists for it now. I think it's less of a thing in the NFL actually, because the likelihood of being caught is higher and the penalties for it are so severe. Plus you don't have wide open free agency during the season.

Back when I covered the Eagles, Andy Reid used to leave practices open to the media, even on the day they'd run their scripted plays to start the game. There was a level of trust, and regretfully I had the ethics not to put money on Brent Celek's over on receiving yards when I knew they had a deep shot scripted to him on one of the early plays that would put him over by itself. That would have been a victimless "crime," and I could have made more money putting a couple hundo on stuff like that every week than I was making working ~40 hours a week covering the team. Nowadays nobody has open practices beyond the first 15 minutes or so when players are warming up and doing drills that divulge zero information beyond what will be in the injury report anyway.

Regretfully I also had the ethics not to hold and take a picture with the Lombardi when a Seahawks staffer offered it to me after I took a picture for him. Man that was stupid. That's the one I really regret, I was out of the business a couple years later and the ethical argument against taking the picture with it was flimsy at best. What, I'm going to cover some dude who's name I don't know on a team I never cover outside that one game favorably because I took a picture with the Lombardi?
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