\nLast week, NFL lawyers went to court to obtain a temporary injunction, preventing the State of New Jersey from offering sports gambling at Monmouth Park Racetrack. The court granted the injunction. However, that may be the easiest part in the league\u2019s fight against \u201csports gambling.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe 32 NFL owners now must decide exactly what they oppose \u2014 a task that will be far more challenging than simply filing a lawsuit against the State of New Jersey.<\/p>\n
\tOver the past few years, entrepreneurs from around the country have launched a wide range of online sports gaming contests that seek to blur the line between \u201csports gambling\u201d and fantasy sports \u2014 an activity that the NFL actively endorses.<\/p>\n
\tAmong the newer formats of online sports gaming with some implicit NFL support seem to include \u201cdaily fantasy sports\u201d contests, in which participants pay entry fees and compete for prizes based on their ability to predict player performances over a single day of games.<\/p>\n
\tSome commentators historically have described \u201c daily fantasy sports\u201d contests as akin to traditional sports gambling based on the short duration of the contests and the limited amount of interaction between players. Nevertheless, at least one NFL team, the New England Patriots, already maintains a sponsorship agreement with a \u201cdaily fantasy sports\u201d website of this type.<\/p>\n
\tStraying even further from the traditional notion of \u201cfantasy sports,\u201d the online start-up ScoreStreak recently launched a contest that allows users to predict which NFL players will achieve milestones on a given day in terms of touchdowns, receptions, and yardage. The NFL has not uttered a public word about this contest.<\/p>\n
\tEven further still, the company TradeSports has begun to allow users to compete head-to-head based on their ability to predict a number of \u2018yes or no\u2019 bets based on a single NFL game \u2014 something that sounds similar to head-to-head parlay betting. The NFL has not uttered a public word about this contest either.<\/p>\n
\tIt is ironic that for all the NFL\u2019s efforts to prevent sports gambling in New Jersey, it has ignored the far broader issue of the slow but steady dance by private entrepreneurs toward universal sports gambling on smartphones and handheld devices.<\/p>\n
\tPerhaps the NFL has been foolish in expending so much time and effort to stamp out sports gambling at Monmouth Park Racetrack without articulating any coherent view on the online private sports gaming revolution.<\/p>\n
\tIndeed, the NFL\u2019s efforts to keep sports gambling out of Monmouth Park Racetrack will seem to achieve very little if those interested in online sports gaming can enter very similar contests from their own smartphones.<\/p>\n
\tAs the market for online sports gaming continues to emergence, the NFL is running out of time to define exactly what sort of sports gaming it finds problematic.<\/p>\n
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