and the summer is here.
They are talking about legalizing sports betting in Atlantic City again. And I for one think that this would be great! Imagine being able to legally bet on sports in 2 different US cities, not just Las Vegas. If AC gets sports gambling, people on the East Coast will have a great place to go to bet on the Super Bowl, March Madness, whatever.
Of course the major sports will fight to keep sports betting in AC outlawed. Why? Because the NFL likes to live in denial. Denial that most people watch games ONLY because they bet on it in one way or another. People bet the games straight up, with a spread, the total, in office pools, in fantasy football, and lots of other ways. The soul reason that football and the NFL are so popular in because people bet on the games. It is a short season, so each game has a large amounts of money on it.
Monday Night Football – This is the game where people who win or lose over the weekend can place a bet to try to win more or get back to even. That is why this game is sooo popular. Why else would someone on the west coast watch the Eagles vs Miami on a Monday night? No one would… But a lot do in Las Vegas and across the rest of the country because they have a little action on it.
The NFL should wake up and realize that sports betting is good for it. Their is a reason that the Super Bowl is the most heavily bet game every year, and it’s because people love to bet football. If it was impossible to bet on the NFL a lot of people would lose interest, but every office pool and bookie, gets people a little more interested.
Anyway, I would love it if they legalized Atlantic City Sports Betting.
