EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The legalization of sports betting was heralded as the dawn of a new era months ago, as gamblers crowded Monmouth Park Racetrack and Atlantic City to place bets on baseball and the World Cup.
But the Meadowlands Racetrack, which houses FanDuel Sportsbook, had been even more focused on Sunday’s start of the National Football League season, when its status as the only legal sports-betting venue in the country to share a parking lot with a professional sports stadium was on full display.
“This is the best day of my whole life,” said Joe Esposito, 52, who came from Springfield, N.