Coming from the UK it is easy lớn forget that not every country has the same legal status for football betting as ours does.
We’ve touched upon it in some of our articles on jackpot soccer tip in specific countries before; for example our look at Ugandan bookmakers or Italian bookmakers. We never covered USA though.
Luckily NJ games put the effort into creating this really useful infographic, which I will summarise below if the image doesn’t load correctly or you need it translated.
October 1992 – Sports betting is prohibited nationwide under PASPA (Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act).
March 2009 – New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak and others suit over PASPA
November 2011 – New Jersey voters pass a referendum supporting legal sports betting at racetracks and casinos.
August 2012 – Lots of sport leagues (NFL, NBA etc) file suit lớn try and block the state implementing sports betting on pro and college games.
September 2013 – The 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals sides with the leagues in a 2-1 decision.
October 2014 – New Jersey passes legislation lớn decriminalise sports betting at racetracks and casinos. The leagues file suit again.
August 2016 – The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals again rules in favour of the sports leagues. New Jersey takes the appeal lớn the US Supreme Court.
May 2018 – The US Supreme Court rules that PASPA is unconstitutional and gives individual states the right to decide on legal sports soccer under tip within their state.
$41.2 Billion is the expected total economic output of folk betting in the US
$4 Billion is the expected direct labour income that sports betting will generate
$7 Billion is the expected indirect labour income that it would generate
Over 200,000 jobs will be created, either directly or indirectly