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Column: NFL owners know a sweet deal when they see it (The Associated Press)

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Nevada lawmakers are going out of their way this week to give a casino owner worth $32 billion a stadium funded on the back of taxpayers.

Soon we will find out if longstanding hypocrisy of the NFL has a price tag, too.

The guess here is that it does, because there's nothing like a $750 million gift to pry NFL owners off their moral high ground. Sure, some may still view Las Vegas as a decadent place teeming with undesirables, but the idea of the city being the new home of the Raiders isn't nearly as far-fetched as it may have been just a year or so ago.