(05-17-2018 06:10 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote: Yea that is the reason why up until the Raiders and Golden Knights EVERY major league sporting league prohibited franchises in communities where sports betting is allowed on that sport. And why until 2001 that Vegas prohibited wagering on Nevada teams.
Are you saying that major leagues were breaking anti-trust laws!?!
Because if you look at the reality, there hasn’t been any major league expansion before the Knights since the Charlotte Hornets (then Bobcats) were created. Before them, the Houston Texans, which competed with Los Angeles for the franchise. Las Vegas has been one of America’s fastest growing cities over the last 50 years, and during the league expansions of the 90s, it wasn’t bigger than Memphis.
The theory is that major leagues wouldn’t let franchise go to Las Vegas, but there was no appropriate arena and no group trying to make it happen. In 2001 when the Grizzlies were considering Vegas, the big difference was Vegas didn’t have a FedEx and a group willing to put millions behind getting the team. That’s really why Heisley was convinced to go to Memphis by Commissioner David Stern.
Quote:Nevada keep close watch over who was making bets and on whom. The traffic flow was focused into a certain area and it is harder to slip things past when you have a highly focused watch dog.
You learn this from Coast to Coast? Or are you a G-man?
Quote:One of the reason the US made it illegal to use credit cards to wager on offshore sites was because it was not possible to monitor these off shore sites and they were used in money laundering.
Gambling was ALWAYS illegal; it’s just the Federal government decided to crackdown on it. Just like a little over a decade ago, every other commercial on Memphis sports talk stations was for online sports books and they got a message from the FCC that directing listeners to offshore sports books was supporting illegal sports gambling and would put their broadcast license at risk.
Quote::ban:That law is still in place and credit cards still CANNOT collect payments for gambling debts.
Is that how you got out of paying off your bookie after you kept putting money on Junior after he went to #88?