Money has a great way of influencing decisions, doesn’t it? A few million dollars here and there can change longstanding views. That has been the case in the relationship between the NFL and gambling.
The campaign to allow individual US states to make sports betting legal was a long and hard one. Until a US Supreme Court Judge ruling in 2018, it was the federal government who made such decisions.
That ruling changed the US gambling industry forever. States such as New Jersey (long-time campaigners) and New York are among those that have made sports betting legal.