With Vegas close gamblers may be more tempted
LAS VEGAS - Every Super Bowl comes with a warning label and a gambling story. Here's the short version:
Gambling is a thrill ride. Gambling is dangerous. Gambling can make you temporarily rich. But if the hook gets lodged in your mouth, it will make you broke as a joke, or worse.
Yet as Super Bowl XLII approaches, there are some new twists to an old story.
I've already talked with the directors of most major books in town, and this will be the largest wagered Super Bowl in the history of legal sports gambling," said renowned handicapper Brandon Lang, whose life was portrayed by Matthew McConaughey in the 2005 film, "Two for the Money." "This one is going to be huge."
Welcome to Sin City Giant cranes and construction projects pierce the open sky. Hardhats are almost required when walking the fabled Strip. Recession or not, no one's going broke in the casino business.
One day soon, the NBA might give Las Vegas a basketball team. The NHL might also find a home here, in a place once considered taboo by major professional sports leagues. And this weekend, with the big game just 249 miles down the road, casinos are bracing for unprecedented action.
Not that the locals are all that enthused.
"This place is getting out of control," cab driver Larry Nielson said. "I hate the people here. They're all angry. Being a gambler is like being an alcoholic, only worse. And I should know. I was both."
Given the geographical proximity of the game, casino operators expect a nice slice of stopover business from high rollers and football fans making their way to Glendale, Ariz. The allure of the unbeaten New England Patriots, as well as the big-city New York Giants, brings more juice to the table.
And when they turn out the lights at University of Phoenix Stadium, the state of Nevada - the only state where gambling on sporting events is legal - hopes to surpass the $100 million barrier in Super Bowl wagering, smashing the previous record of $94.5 million set two years ago when the Steelers beat the Seahawks.
Even without the Cinderella tale of Brett Favre and the Packers, the swirl of big money is in the air. Such is America's fixation with gambling.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again. If they didn't have betting on sports, they'd be building bleachers, not stadiums," Lang said.
Point and click As big as Vegas seems, the wagering here is just a ripple in the gambling pool. Even with the huge increase in wagering over Super Bowl week - about $40 million changes hands on a typical NFL weekend compared with the $100 million expected for Sunday's game - it's nothing compared with the staggering amount of overall wagering.
That number, comprised from shadowy street bets to Internet gambling, is estimated at around $6 billion.
"The biggest worry I have is the youth today," said Arnie Wexler, a reformed gambler turned industry consultant. "I run a national hotline, and one-third of the calls coming in are from kids between the ages of 12 and 25, or the parents of these kids. The real problem is the Internet, this poker (stuff)."
Data gathered from his hotline (1-888-LAST-BET) is somewhat chilling: Forty-eight percent of the people who gamble also bet on sports, while 33 percent of the gamblers are under the age of 25.
"I know we've become more accepting of gambling, that legislators have found it easier to put in gambling than raise taxes," Wexler said. "But no one talks about the danger or the addiction that comes with it. One time, I told my wife I was taking my daughter to the park. I went right to the pay phone and bet $10,000 with a bookmaker. And if I lost 10 cents in that phone booth, I couldn't call him back.
"Look, I'm not running around trying to close casinos or shoot lottery commissioners or anything. But we've got to be responsible here."
At last count, the National Gambling Impact Study Commission said there are 5 million compulsive gamblers and 15 million at risk in this country. And the sheer volume of betting raises many uncomfortable questions: How many athletes and referees are betting online, on their own games? How many scandals are out there, waiting to be unearthed? And where are the safeguards?
On a less serious note, what would this game be without gambling? How big would the NFL be if there were no office pools, fantasy teams and the endless buffet of wagers?
"Without gambling in football, you've got soccer," Wexler said.
There is no doubting the huge shift in our society's views and attitudes on gambling. The gambling industry grew "tenfold" from 1975-97, according to the National Gambling Impact Study, while revenue from legal wagering grew 1,600 percent.
League commissioners that once expounded on the dangers of gambling are now embracing Las Vegas. NBA boss David Stern decided to rewrite his rulebook rather than penalize referees for minor gambling offenses. Meanwhile, at this year's Super Bowl, the NFC team is actually staying at a resort that features a casino.
"It's a really delicate dance for the sporting leagues," said David Carter, founder of The Sports Business Group and executive director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California. "But society has embraced gambling much more than we used to. I mean, everybody is in an office pool. And if you're not in an office pool, people think something's wrong with you."
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