A recent estimated Americans would gamble $6 bill🎉ion on the Super🍬 Bowl.
It will be the $6 billion elephan𒁏t in the C꧃BS room.
The network has said it is against its policy to discuss gambling and betting line💯s during its coverage, and thus Jim Nantz and Tony Romo will not be catering to those in the audience more into point spreads and prop bets than the final result.
Brent Musburger, the legendary longtime CBS, ESPN and ABC broadcaster turned betting savant, wouldn’t stand for this silence.
“It’s real, it’s happening and you’re sticking your head in the sand if you’re an executive and you don’t at least address it,” Musburger, now with VSiN,
“And there should be part of the pregame show, in fact the last hour should show some of the crowds in New Jersey because it’s coming, it’s coming. It ain’t slowing down. Despite the fact that the leagues are trying to backdoor it federally. Sorry, I’m sorry, but that ship has sailed, and states rights is what it is, and the Supreme Court ruled in favor of New Jersey.”
Indeed, the Supreme Court’s ruling flooded New Jersey with sports betting, and more states followed: It’s also legal in Nevada, Delaware, Mississippi, West Virginia, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Plenty more are moving toward legalization.
“You have to live in the present, and CBS is ignoring it and shame on them,” Musburger said.
CBS Sports cꦑhairman Sean McManus said on a conference call last week that the network is not yet comfortable ve😼ering from the game to indulge gamblers.
“Gambling is legalized in a few states now,” . “It’s not widespread across the entire country, and our policy has been that in our football telecasts, including the SEC on CBS and the NFL, we don’t discuss gambling information, lines, over/unders. We don’t do that. That’s our policy.”