NFL Won't Block Betting On Las Vegas RaidersLeague Sees Regulatory Environment As 'Beneficial' |
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Though the NFL is still opposed to federal sports betting legislation, the league won’t stop gamblers from placing bets on the upcoming Las Vegas Raiders.
NFL owners late last month approved the relocation, and the team could play its first game at a $1.9 billion domed stadium near the Las Vegas Strip in 2019.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said last week that the league has no plans to ask that Nevada gaming regulators prevent the state’s nearly 200 sports books from taking action on the Raiders. Nevada is the only state in the country with traditional sports betting. Delaware has parlay wagers.
Goodell called Nevada’s regulatory landscape “beneficial.”
Nevada sports books won more than $90 million on football in 2016. That was the second best football year ever for the books, according to research from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The amount wagered on football was about $1.7 billion.
Las Vegas sports books for years have accepted wagers on UNLV games.
According to NFL policy, players can gamble in a casino, like Calais Campbell did when he entered a World Series of Poker event last summer, but they can’t be involved with promoting any casino event. That was the case in 2015, when three Miami Dolphins players were barred from playing in a low-stakes Florida poker tournament because they were used to advertise the game.
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