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🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Before the Kansas City Chiefs face off against the San Francisco 49ers, we’ve got a look at the companies sponsoring the game, and a look at gambling history. Mary Long caught up with Motley Fool Senior Analyst Jason Moser for conversation about the publicly traded companies associated with the game, and find out if any are worth an investor’s attention. Plus, Mary interviews Dave Schwartz, Ombuds at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a student of gambling history. Companies discussed: UAL, BA, ALGT, CPB, PEP, PARA, NFLX Host: Mary Long Guests: Jason Moser, Dave Schwartz Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Tim Sparks, Annie Pope Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Traditionally the NFL thought that gambling was terrible Las Vegas was even worse
0:05.4	than gambling and you know not without reason because there had been gambling scandals
0:09.5	and cheating scandals in the past in football and baseball and other sports, professional
0:14.6	and amateur. So it kind of makes sense. They want to keep an alarm's length. But
0:17.8	they continue to have this policy long after gambling had become more mainstream in the United States.
0:24.0	So long after we had casinos all across the country, they continue to have this.
0:28.4	And it's kind of interesting that as the National Prohibition on the spread of sports gambling fell, the league's policy
0:36.6	change.
0:37.6	I'm Mary Long and that's Dave Schwartz, ombuds at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a student of gambling history.
0:48.0	I caught up with Schwartz for a look at the history of sports betting and what it means today.
0:52.0	But first, I talk with Jason Moser about
0:54.6	four publicly traded companies with ties to the Super Bowl to see if any of them are
0:58.8	worth investors attention.
1:09.0	Tomorrow, the Kansas City Chiefs face off against the San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas, Nevada, it's a Super Bowl, and you know what they say.
1:11.0	If you can't go to the Super Bowl, your own Super Bowl so that's what we've done
1:15.5	Jason excited to be here with you happy to be here Mary thanks for the invite so we've got four stocks each representing a different element of Sunday Super Bowl game.
1:24.4	We're going to talk through each of these teams and at the end I'll ask you which stock is the winner in your mind.
1:30.0	Let the games begin. In one corner, repping the San Francisco 49ers, we've got United Airlines.
1:37.0	United is the presenting sponsor of the 49ers. It's also the official airline for both teams, but for our purposes we're going to put
1:44.2	united solely with San Francisco. The airline industry uses some metrics that might be kind of
1:49.2	unfamiliar to investors who are newer to the industry or just kind of exploring it, how do you
1:53.7	grade airline stocks and where on that scale would you put united? Well so in
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