America’s professional sports athletes want “a seat at the table” if the leagues for which they play continue to embrace legal sports betting.

On Thursday, the associations representing athletes from Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League and the National Hockey League issued a joint statement revealing that they’ve been actively preparing for the legalization of sports betting in the U.S.

The full statement reads as follows (note the misspelling of the acronym for the Protection of Amateur and Professional Sports Act):

“Given the pending Supreme Court decision regarding the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PAPSA), representatives of the MLBPA, NBPA, NFLPA and NHLPA have been working together on the legal, commercial, practical, and human consequences of allowing sports betting to become mainstream. The time has come to address not just who profits from sports gambling, but also the costs. Our unions have been discussing the potential impact of legalized gambling on players’ privacy and publicity rights, the integrity of our games and the volatility on our businesses. Betting on sports may become widely legal, but we cannot allow those who have lobbied the hardest for sports gambling to be the only ones controlling how it would be ushered into our businesses. The athletes must also have a seat at the table to ensure that players’ rights and the integrity of our games are protected.”