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US Gamblers Are Ready For Some Football
Message was posted: 11:00 Sep 19th, 2007

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US Gamblers Are Ready For Some Football September 17, 2007 Gamblers love the NFL. When the NBA referee scandal first broke, I heard an oddsmaker from Las Vegas say in a radio interview that 99 percent of all gambling in the United States is illegal. That means bets are not just being taken in government-licensed emporiums but in offices, elevators, taverns, coffee shops, street corners, churches, taxi cabs, schools, even police stations. While it’s impossible to answer whether the chicken or the egg came first, it’s clear that football came before gambling on football did, but only by a hair. The two are intertwined in our society, much to the overt consternation and secret delight of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and his associates. The NFL doesn’t condone gambling, and indeed is terrified of it on a certain level (see David Stern and Tim Donaghy). Yet the NFL also understands the symbiotic relationship between the two forces. Because such a wide cross-section of human beings gambles on pro football, it sustains interest in the product and continues to create more. That’s a sure thing. Eye on Gambling