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Posted on 08/28/2025 12:13:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
NFL bettors are expected to wager approximately $30 billion on the league this season with legal sportsbooks in the United States, according to an estimate released Thursday by the American Gaming Association.
The $30 billion figure is approximately an 8.5% increase from a revised estimate of $27.5 billion last year and is based on the national growth of wagering in 2025 and statistics from states that report football-specific betting data, according to the AGA, which represents the gaming industry in the U.S. The amount includes money bet on futures wagers, such as the odds to win the Super Bowl, and individual games from the preseason through Super Bowl LX, but only at traditional sportsbooks in the U.S.
Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have legal betting markets with licensed sportsbooks. Americans also stake money on the NFL with daily fantasy sites, sweepstakes operators and prediction markets that allow customers to trade on sports outcomes such as buying and selling stocks. A spokesperson for Kalshi, a popular prediction market site, said $62.5 million has been traded on the NFL already this year.
In 2024, more bets were placed -- and more money was wagered -- on the NFL than any other league at sportsbook DraftKings, despite there being significantly fewer games compared to the NBA and Major League Baseball.
A 2024 survey by the National Council on Problem Gambling found that "risky gambling behaviors" have leveled off after rising significantly from 2018 to 2021 during the coronavirus pandemic and with the rapid expansion of sports betting in the U.S.
Sports leagues and players' unions have reported upticks in threats by bettors made online to athletes, coaches and officials. The NFL says its security team monitors social media and online platforms and conducts background checks on individuals making threats.
The NFL season kicks off Sept. 4, with the Dallas Cowboys visiting the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.
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Money, it’s a hit
It doesn’t Who said it did? The Supreme Court decided to make gambling legal, not Congress.
If you were to stop the nfl players from betting it would only be 20B
A lot of things aren’t good for America, alcohol, cigarettes, legalized marijuana, etc., a lot of people legally gambling now were gambling illegally prior to it becoming legal in their particular area.
The US is one of the few countries that has any limitation on sports gambling, casino gambling outside of Las Vegas and Atlantic City has been widespread for years.
I don’t see any difference in sport gambling versus casino gambling .
Oh, so wtf does this even mean. Zero context, zero numbers, no percentages no info at all.
At this point, I think it’s a safe bet (pun intended) that gambling considerations have affected the NFL on the field of play in almost every game.
“How does this make America better?”
After the next Arnold Rothstein fixes a Stupor Bore not too far in the future, people will stop watching, and that can only be a good thing.
Government and its approved cronies want a cut of the action on all the vices - cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, marijuana
These used to the territory of organized crime, but it seems progressives decided the money is too good to pass up
Next up - Government controlled/taxed/permitted prostitution.
I don’t see it that way, I don’t think blacks are more prone to gambling that whites or any other race.
The fact is, millions of Americans of all races like to have money on sports they watch.
Popularity of the NFL is in a large degree the result of gambling, it’s the easiest sport to understand in gambling terms, plus you have football games on multiple days per week, if you consider college football.
I will say sports gambling is the easiest sport to bet on, you can go to a sports book inside a casino or you can bet online via a website or a lot of people use a phone app to place bets.
The sports books have gotten very creative in coming up with ways to entice people to bet on sports, things like in game parlays, propositional bets, etc., have been very successful to get people to bet on the outcome of something where the odds work totally against the gambler and for the house.
Even if the teams didn't profit directly from the gambling operations.
Likewise college football ever since it became the minor leagues for the NFL.
Absolutely. I used to bet on football 20-30 years ago. I wouldn’t even think of it now. You can see the fix in many games if you know how to look.
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