NASCAR Fans in Delaware Denied Sports Betting by NFL

NASCAR fans would like to bet this week's race in Delaware, however the NFL spoiled the sports betting party for everyone.

NASCAR is also one of the crucial few US sports leagues to realistically address the problem of sports betting, acknowledging that fans just like the option and that integrity of results is unlikely to suffer. However the lawsuit by the NFL and other sports leagues which prevented Delaware from accepting single-game gambling also keeps NASCAR bets from being played.

NASCAR's race this weekend at Dover Speedway would have featured racing fans betting on their favorite drivers at adjacent Dover Downs, in a great world. But US courts ruled the casino can only take bets at the NFL, under its grandfather clause within the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act.

What's most frustrating to gambling patrons is that everybody involved can be happy to permit the action. The state already tried to legalize sports betting, fans are eager enough to bet that they pump billions into illegal gambling, and NASCAR has no objection.

"I think the sports betting may have had the power to attract new people into NASCAR simply to give them any other reason to watch," Denis McGlynn, president of Dover Motorsports, told USA Today.

So, way to the NFL, an event that doesn't in anyway involve them will attract over 100,000 fans on Sunday, all of whom might be denied the risk to legally bet on their sport. Perhaps the NFL thought that racing fans would switch back to their commercial-engorged telecasts to look at Terrell Owens act like a jerk, if betting weren't permitted.

Published on September 26, 2009 by A.J.Maldonado

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