If you buy a sofa

from a specific vendor partly because he has offered to refund your money if the Red Sox win the World Series...

that's called "sports gambling" and I will never understand how it took you so long to figure it out.

I'm all for sports gambling, I'm just not for "they're big so they can gamble, and you can gamble only with them", which of course gives them even more of a competitive advantage.

Anyone who can get insurance should be able to use the same attraction. If they have always been able to, fair enough, but the lack of companies doing so leads me to believe that they can/could not, and for whatever reason, Jordan's got an exemption.