Andrew Brandt:
State of New Jersey was trying to implement sports betting over a period of time and they were blocked because of some law that was in the books in 1992 that didn't allow states to implement it.
Chris Christie in New Jersey went to court it lasted seven years and all the leagues including the NFL fought it in court spent tens of millions of dollars of legal fees. And lo and behold on May 14 2018, the league's lost, New Jersey won.
The decision from the Supreme Court didn't legalize sports betting John but what it did was allow states to implement sports betting and as of today, there are 38 states and the District of Columbia that are now legalized sports betting.
The other part of it is the lore of Vegas. Vegas is a town that had everything. It had fun. It had shows, it had concerts, but it didn't have sports. And then the NHL went there. Then the Las Vegas Aces of the WNBA went there. And then of course, the Oakland Raiders became the Las Vegas Raiders. The NFL to me lost all their moral high ground when they place a franchise in Las Vegas.
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