{"id":654615,"date":"2026-09-08T03:50:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=845634"},"modified":"2026-09-08T03:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:50:42","slug":"casino-lobby-blames-prediction-markets-for-first-flat-nfl-betting-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/casino-lobby-blames-prediction-markets-for-first-flat-nfl-betting-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Casino Lobby Blames Prediction Markets for First Flat NFL Betting Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/casino-lobby-blames-prediction-markets-for-first-flat-nfl-betting-season-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Casinos, Vegas Strip\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The American Gaming Association expects citizens to wager $29.5 billion with regulated sportsbooks on the 2026 NFL season, the first one without meaningful growth since the Supreme Court struck down the federal betting ban in 2018. The trade body attributes the stall to prediction markets, which it calls &#8220;backdoor sports betting.&#8221; Trade Body Forecast Lands [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Gaming Association expects citizens to wager $29.5 billion with regulated sportsbooks on the 2026 NFL season, the first one without meaningful growth since the Supreme Court struck down the federal betting ban in 2018. The trade body attributes the stall to prediction markets, which it calls &#8220;backdoor sports betting.&#8221; Trade Body Forecast Lands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-654615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}