T1B

also known as sports betting. The Gov signed the bill into law yesterday and now the NFL and NCAA are up in arms. Both are going to bring lawsuits against the state saying it is violating its own state laws. Funny thing though the new law has a line that says it supercedes any previous legislation in the state about gambling.

Honestly the NCAA and NFL are going to come out looking like poor sports on this. Why is it ok to gamble in some states and not in others? The NCAA has also said it will not allow any NCAA championship contests to be held in Delaware as long as the state allows gambling. This will basically only affect Delaware football hosting home games in the playoffs. The school said they will counter sue because the NCAA has a bowl game in Vegas and allows gambling on that game.

Where does the board stand on this one?

Left Seater wrote:The school said they will counter sue because the NCAA has a bowl game in Vegas and allows gambling on that game.

The NCAA doesn't "have" a D-1/FBS bowl game in Las Vegas, or anywhere else for that matter.

Bullcrap!

I have heard that arguement, but the NCAA in fact has to approve the game. So they can claim it is outside of their overview all they want, but that is a lie. They want to have it both ways.

I think sports betting should be legal anywhere gambling is legal. (Actually, I think all victimless "crimes" should be legal, but that's a topic for another thread.) I'm a pretty low-stakes guy when it comes to any form of gambling, but I definitely enjoy betting on games quite a bit more than playing cards or just pulling a lever and crossing my fingers.

I know that the standard rap is "protecting the integrity of the game," but I think that's a load of shit. I would imagine that if you're the type of person who has the resources to pay off athletes (or refs) to alter the outcome of games, placing the actual bet isn't going to be too difficult. The only ones who are affected by the current laws are the casual, small-stakes bettors who don't happen to be fortunate enough to live in Vegas. I would love to be able to drive 10 minutes to the Indian casino on a fall Saturday and put 10 or 20 bucks on a couple games, maybe take a flyer on a parlay. It'd sure beat giving my credit card number to some off-shore internet sportsbook of questionable repute.

The NFL is being retarded... since the Supreme Court has already ruled on this matter when Oregon did it about 20 years ago.

Probably gets tossed out of court.

It was called Sports Action, and it was run by the state lottery. Up until a couple of years ago. It was NFL parlays... of course the state was involved, so the payout was criminal by Nevada standards. It was kinda cool to be able to walk into just about any store and buy a ticket, though.

The catch was, it didn't make that much money. It's actually a small slice of the population that's interested in sports betting to begin with, and all of the high-dollar players have some sort of bookie already (who surely paid much better), so you end up with the same batch of low stakes players. I seem to remember the state saying they rarely made more than about $60,000 a week off it, or something like that.

They did away with it -- in exchange for hosting an NCAA Regional this year, and another in a couple of years, with the promise of a Final Four down the road.

The numbers show that the revenue brought to the city and state in those few days eclipsed anything Sports Action did in a season. Additionally, much of that revenue came from out of state sources, as opposed to that of the locals.

Probably different for Delaware, since they're probably not going to be hosting any major NCAA events any time soon.