How We Got Here: How Sports Betting Took Over America
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🗓️ 10 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It’s Week 2 of What a Day’s new series “How We Got Here,” in which Hysteria’s Erin Ryan and Offline’s Max Fisher pose a question about the week’s biggest headlines and comb through history to answer it. This week, they dive into the enemies-to-lovers story of the NFL and sports betting. Why did professional sports leagues disavow gambling for so long? How did the NFL go from hating Vegas to hosting a Super Bowl there? And who cares what color gatorade they dump on the field this Sunday? (Spoiler alert: MANY people!)
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| 0:00.0 | Max, I don't know if you've seen these numbers, but they're saying that Americans will gamble |
| 0:04.4 | $23 billion on the Super Bowl this weekend. |
| 0:07.8 | Whoa! |
| 0:08.8 | 23 billion dollars for one game. |
| 0:11.8 | That is way up from last year, which was up from the year before that. |
| 0:14.6 | Betts on the Super Bowl alone are now worth several billion dollars more than |
| 0:19.6 | the combined revenue of every NFL team for all of 2022. |
| 0:24.2 | What's wild to me about this is that the NFL is so cool with gambling these days |
| 0:28.6 | that they're having the Super Bowl in Las Vegas. |
| 0:31.6 | And it's weird to me because I feel like for my entire life, |
| 0:34.4 | Sin City and the NFL went together like all you can eat crab legs and the 40 yard |
| 0:39.3 | dash and like most sports gambling was illegal. |
| 0:42.9 | I don't really understand what happened. |
| 0:44.5 | Well this week we're going to talk about the story of how that all changed, |
| 0:48.2 | how despite resistance, fate brought the NFL |
| 0:50.6 | in gambling to the altar, |
| 0:52.2 | like the two main characters in a screwball |
| 0:54.2 | romcom. I'm Aaron Ryan this is how we got here a new what a day series |
| 1:01.0 | where Max and I explore a big question behind the week's |
| 1:04.0 | headlines and tell a story that answers that question. I'm Max Fisher and our |
| 1:08.3 | question this week how in just the last few years did the NFL go from hating sports gambling to embracing it so |
| 1:16.2 | fully that the Super Bowl is in Vegas, there are wall-to-wall online gambling ads during every football |
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