[sportscurmudgeon]

1. I never meant to imply this was a "secret story". I only meant to say that I had heard this from two people and that I had read nothing about it in the papers or on the Internet at the time.

2. The issue here is not the owners' pleading guilty to bribing legislators. Clearly the players/investors cannot be responsible for what those folks did. However, the NFL has taken a rather dim view of players who are invovled with gambling activities in the past. [Think Alex Karras and Paul Hornung...] And there is an extant NFL Rule barring players from any involvement with casinos other than being a patron.

3. One of my two "sources" gave me Santana Moss' name but the other could not/would not confirm that. So I left out that info here because I could not corroborate it. Neither source would say who is/was the "second Redskin" who drew the attention of NFL Security. [BTW, it might be a coach or a staff member and not a player because those folks are similarly limited regarding what they may do vis-a-vis gambling operations/casinos.]