This Sunday in New Orleans, the Philadelphia Eagles will try to block the Kansas City Chiefs from taking home an historic third consecutive Super Bowl title.

There will also be an historic amount of money riding on the game.

The American Gaming Association estimates that nearly $1.4 billion will be legally wagered, As Paul Salman reports, proof of a snowballing and

potentially perilous sports betting craze. I'm doing the Fandul Kick of Destiny 3, live

Super Bowl Sunday. Super Bowl Sunday. Our eyes and ears blitzed by calls to get in on the action.

Now, I know Super Bowl and all, but everyone gets a free back.

Nearly seven years after the Supreme Court struck down the ban on commercial sports betting,

39 states and the District of Columbia have legalized it.

Last year, more than one in three Americans said they'd put money on a game at some point in their life,

up from the year before,

while the American Gaming Association estimates that commercial sports betting revenue

reached more than $14 billion, up 28% from 2023.

And it's gotten to a point where if you're not betting on sports, people are starting to question why you're watching the game.

For 25-year-old Philadelphia resident Rob Minnick, the gambling gateway was fantasy sports, played as a teenager.

The switch to sports betting, which he began on illegal and offshore sites before turning the age of 21 was all too easy.

If I was going to hang out with my friends or a family event was going to be happening,

the center focal point was a professional sport of some kind.

And so this idea that we could do what we were already doing but now make money doing it,

it was like way too good to be true and, and you know it was. Too good because fun with

friends became six to eight hours a day of compulsive gambling. Gambling was my way of expressing

myself to prove I was smart, to prove I could win, to prove that I was worthy. And the money

kind of reflected the scoreboard. After six years of betting, he joined

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