UFL Has Come Out Of The Closet

Contributed by Vegas Sports Informer

There was a very good article in the Las Vegas Review Journal this week about the UFL football league actually embracing sports gambling and the sports books out in Las Vegas. Here is the link if you have some interest.

Now, you would have to be an idiot to think that the NFL would be like the NHL if it weren’t just for gambling. That said, football is like most other major sports and the popularity, to an extent, is driven by the ability to gamble on it. You know that every coach, player, owner and beer guy is at least aware of the spread on any given game. And even if they weren’t out there making NFL football picks or active in NFL football betting they were at least able to admit it was a big part of the draw.

I take my hat off to the UFL for basically laying it out to Vegas and the offshore books and admitting that they need gambling in order to survive. And I, for one, hope that this league succeeds. And if that happens to be the case maybe there are other fringe sports in this country that would embrace gambling as a way to increase popularity and also boost revenue. (Yes, I’m talking to you Arena Football, WNBA, NHL and MLS. Your viewing audience would go up by at least one