The headline is an attention-grabber. The story suggests it’s all a big, fat nothingburger.

Via Doug Greenberg of ESPN.com, the NFL sent a memo on Thursday to team officials regarding prohibitions on certain prop bets. However, as the article later explains, the prop bets mentioned in the memo are not generally offered by legal U.S. sportsbooks.

Per Greenberg, the memo lists various prohibited wager categories, from betting on injuries to fan misconduct to penalties to certain predetermined events. (That said, the memo would seem to cover easily-rigged wagers on the color of the Gatorade dumped on the winning coach at the Super Bowl.)

In the memo, the league also explains that it is “actively engaged with both state lawmakers and regulators, as well as with our sports betting partne

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