I don't think if you made an even cursory look into the circumstances of the Hornung and Karras cases, and then the Rose case............you could see that they were even remotely similar.
Hornung and Karras pretty much outed themselves in the press thinking they were doing something completely innocent, in making friendly wagers among friends.
Karras was probably the more serious case, because he was also associated via business interests with known mobsters and gamblers, but even he was pretty up front about it. Basically said if the NFL wants him to drop his off-season business interests, then the Lions need to start paying him a little better.
They were both suspended for a season and then re-instated the next year...........lesson learned apparently.
Closest correlation in the baseball world would probably be Mantle and Mays being banned from baseball for a bit, for associating with casinos in the early 80's.
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