Posted on 01/12/2015 8:39:16 AM PST by C19fan
Days before Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers even suited up for a recent game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, an Irishman named Nigel Eccles had collected millions of dollars from people betting on Rodgers’ All-Pro arm. By noon on game day he was raking in $30,000 per minute. By the time Rodgers took his first snap, Eccles had collected $18 million.
The action was happening far from the Vegas Strip or a Costa Rican website out of reach of U.S. law enforcement. Eccles’ company, FanDuel, is situated above a storefront in New York City’s Union Square, and its business is entirely legal. Eccles exploited an exclusion in the 2006 online gambling laws that outlawed Web poker and continued the ban on sports betting, but left fantasy sports alone. Five years after its inception FanDuel has 1.1 million customers and is open for business in 45 states.
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That's 'fantasy sports' for chimps, IMHO.
I think sports betting (like legal grass) is going to spread quickly across the fruited plain. It’s just far too lucrative for state legislatures to pass up.
Other people making money off of Aaron Rodgers’ arm.
FReep mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Step right up folks, everybody’s a winner!
Were they going to break his arm, had we lost?
I have heard their commercials (radio) and that is NOT far from the truth in what they advertise.
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