Report: Delaware to Offer Betting on Individual NFL Games
The Beast Who Makes the Occasional $10 Wager may have (probably has) missed it in the News-Journal, but USA Today reports that the Delaware Lottery will offer both betting on individual NFL games and parlays.
Followers of this issue may recall that there was initial concern that Delaware’s Constitution might prevent betting on individual games.
Delaware intends to have the NFL betting in place by Sept. 10, “but court challenges from sports leagues could delay the plan.”
BTW, El Somnambulo hopes, really hopes, that the News-Journal covered this story and that it was picked up by Gannett for USA Today. ‘Bulo scoured both the July 14 and 15 papers and didn’t see it.
How embarrassing would it be to be scooped on a local story by your national flagship? It should be the other way around. Especially when the source is Delaware’s Lottery Director. Anon, say it ain’t so! ‘Bulo wants to play with the retraction gizmos on DL 3.0. (And, no, wingnuts, he’s not doing it for Gerald Hocker.)
This is big and all I can say is that I’m glad the Delaware legislature has taken my advice and advanced with dispatch to the bottom of the slippery slope.
Nothing in TNJ archives, according to a search. Truly sad.
Gambling~~can anyone with a concious actually believe the demorats brought gambling to Delaware as a money making proposition. Obviously they did no homework on this one. Joe DiPinto sitting behind the scenes waiting for to be named The Gambling Czar of Delaware. Jack Markell and Matt Denn should be holding their heads in absolute shame on this one. Where were the hearings so documented facts and evidence could be placed in the record, instead of these “behind the scenes” meetings with the gambling establishment who are really connected to many of the legislators. This will prove to be another reason why business’s will not come here. Shame, Shame Shame on the demorats who tied gambling to our economy.