NFL<\/a> Commissioner Roger Goodell said recently that the league is looking into possible culprits for the decline. One theory is that ongoing national anthem protests are leading to some Americans turning off the tube.<\/p>\nNielsen Sports believes legalizing sports gambling would help increase ratings. In a report published in September, the research agency said Americans who place a financial bet on an NFL game watch 19 more games per year than football fans who don’t.<\/p>\n
Time to Legalize Sports Betting<\/b><\/h2>\n
Americans support repealing the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 and ending sports betting prohibition on the federal level.<\/p>\n
A Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll released this week found 48 percent of US voters support the freeing of sports betting, compared to 39 percent opposed.<\/p>\n
One of those in the minority is Goodell. The commissioner continues to defend his stance that having an NFL team in Vegas could compromise the integrity of games.<\/p>\n
“I think we can do it in Oakland,\u201d Goodell explained at the NFL owners meeting last month.<\/p>\n
Fortunately for Davis and Adelson, the decision isn’t Goodell’s. If 24 of the league’s 32 owners approve Davis’ proposal to move to Las Vegas, there’s nothing the commissioner can do.<\/p>\n
“When I came into the league 23 years ago, I probably wouldn\u2019t have supported a team being in Las Vegas,” New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft told the NFL Network in October. “I think the way things have evolved . . . this would be a positive move.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Las Vegas Raiders are positioned to become the next franchise in the National Football League (NFL), at least according to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Perhaps the most influential owner in the league, Jones said during his weekly radio broadcast that Vegas has everything going in its favor to relocate an NFL team to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":41605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Las Vegas Raiders Move "Pretty Definitive" According to Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n