{"id":1532,"date":"2008-11-12T10:51:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T15:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/nfl-odds\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T15:51:37","slug":"nfl-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/nfl-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'><\/p>\n<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The National Football League has always had a complicated<br \/>\nrelationship to gambling. Many of us love to bet on football \u2013 it\u2019s both<br \/>\nexciting and fun. The problem is that it\u2019s illegal in most of the <st1:country-region>US<\/st1:country-region><br \/>\nexcept <st1:City><st1:place>Las Vegas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. But with the<br \/>\nconstantly rising popularity of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casinoguide.com\/\">gambling<br \/>\nonline<\/a>, the thrill of betting on NFL games has become available for people<br \/>\nboth in the <st1:country-region><st1:place>US<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><br \/>\nand elsewhere. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The thing is that the NFL doesn\u2019t want to acknowledge this<br \/>\nfact. The NFL has a policy that prohibits gambling related advertisements<br \/>\nduring televised games, completely ignoring the fact that many fans also likes<br \/>\ngambling. This was made really clear when the NFL denied the city of <st1:City><st1:place>Las<br \/>\nVegas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> to run an ad during <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/superbowl43\">Super Bowl<\/a> a few years ago. The ad<br \/>\nwasn\u2019t really about gambling, but about <st1:City><st1:place>Las Vegas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nas a tourist town and had already been broadcasted on several American<br \/>\nnetworks. But the NFL sticks the head in the sand completely ignoring that many<br \/>\npeople are drawn to <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles\">football<\/a> because<br \/>\nthey can bet on the games.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Luckily this is no big issue. Gamblers from all over the<br \/>\nworld bet on football online. There is tons of <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.casinoguide.com\/news-listing.html\">gambling news<\/a> and sports<br \/>\nbetting tips available on the Internet which makes it easy to get solid<br \/>\ninformation before placing a wager. So sure, the NFL stance on gambling can be<br \/>\nsaid to be problematic, but it doesn\u2019t really effect the actual gambling.<br \/>\nPeople in the US who want to gamble, whether it means betting on sports or<br \/>\nplaying online blackjack are, only a click away once they turn on the computer.<br \/>\nThe question isn\u2019t if but when NFL will embrace this fact. The NFL can definitely<br \/>\nthank gambling for much of the interest for the game.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Football League has always had a complicated relationship to gambling. Many of us love to bet on football \u2013 it\u2019s both exciting and fun. The problem is that it\u2019s illegal in most of the US except Las Vegas. But with the constantly rising popularity of gambling online, the thrill of betting on NFL &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/nfl-odds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NFL Odds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}