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PITTSBURGH -- James Harrison, Arthur Moats and Maurkice Pouncey all appeared at the Pro Football Arm Wrestling Championship that is under review by the NFL.
USA Today first reported the league's objection to the event as a potential violation of the NFL's gambling policy. NFL gambling policy prohibits players from making promotional appearances at casinos and at events promoted by or in connection with casinos.
The tournament was hosted at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy confirmed to PennLive that the league was looking into the event. He said, via email, that he did not know which individual players were at the tournament, but that the league recently became aware of the event and would look into it further.
Harrison, Moats and Pouncey were all featured in social media postings on the tournament's accounts. Players can be fined for violations of the NFL gambling policy.
League spokesperson Joe Lockhart told USA Today that the NFL would've informed all players that attending the event would be in direct violation of league policy, had they asked beforehand, but that no one did.
According to USA Today, half of the $100,000 first-prize money from the event will go back to charities in players' names.
Alan Brickman, a promoted for the event, said his company was in contact with the league in January discussing suggestions for the broadcast, set for CBS in late May and June.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters at the league owners meetings in Phoenix that league policy on gambling would not change with the Oakland Raiders' move to Las Vegas.
The NFL gambling policy gives the commissioner broad license to punish violations of the policy and refers to all violations as "conduct detrimental" to the league.
That's the exact language that triggers Article 46 of the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement, concerning commissioner discipline, which allows the commissioner to punish players for behavior he deems "detrimental to the integrity of, or public confidence in, the game of professional football," subject to appeal.
http://www.pennlive.com/steelers/index.ssf/2017/04/nfl_arm_wrestling_steelers.html
USA Today first reported the league's objection to the event as a potential violation of the NFL's gambling policy. NFL gambling policy prohibits players from making promotional appearances at casinos and at events promoted by or in connection with casinos.
The tournament was hosted at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy confirmed to PennLive that the league was looking into the event. He said, via email, that he did not know which individual players were at the tournament, but that the league recently became aware of the event and would look into it further.
Harrison, Moats and Pouncey were all featured in social media postings on the tournament's accounts. Players can be fined for violations of the NFL gambling policy.
League spokesperson Joe Lockhart told USA Today that the NFL would've informed all players that attending the event would be in direct violation of league policy, had they asked beforehand, but that no one did.
According to USA Today, half of the $100,000 first-prize money from the event will go back to charities in players' names.
Alan Brickman, a promoted for the event, said his company was in contact with the league in January discussing suggestions for the broadcast, set for CBS in late May and June.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters at the league owners meetings in Phoenix that league policy on gambling would not change with the Oakland Raiders' move to Las Vegas.
The NFL gambling policy gives the commissioner broad license to punish violations of the policy and refers to all violations as "conduct detrimental" to the league.
That's the exact language that triggers Article 46 of the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement, concerning commissioner discipline, which allows the commissioner to punish players for behavior he deems "detrimental to the integrity of, or public confidence in, the game of professional football," subject to appeal.
http://www.pennlive.com/steelers/index.ssf/2017/04/nfl_arm_wrestling_steelers.html
