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This year 's Super Bowl is meant for Las Vegas and Las Vegas is for this Super Bowl .
After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a national ban on sports gambling in 2018 , the floodgates opened.
The NFL once scorned the gambling world, famously rejecting a 2003 Super Bowl ad from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority .
And at its worst—well, I don’t need to explain all of the problems with gambling. Those downsides notwithstanding, I’m glad the Super Bowl is in Las Vegas this year . There’s no subtext, no nuance, no subtlety. The NFL —a league with more problems than it can count—isn’t pretending to be too pure for gambling anymore. Viva football. Viva Las Vegas ..
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