Five states have already joined Nevada in legalizing full-fledged sports gambling after the Supreme Court’s May repeal of the federal ban, and numerous other jurisdictions are considering sports betting bills. For Florida to join the fray, a citizen would need to write a ballot question, obtain the necessary valid signatures to put the referendum before voters, and then have the measure receive at least 60 percent approval.<\/p>\n
Sports betting leads to higher engagement, with Nielsen Sports reporting that fans who place money on NFL games watch an average of 19 more games during the regular season than those who do not bet.<\/p>\n
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Forbes’\u00a0<\/i>2018 NFL valuations list ranked the Jaguars No. 28 out of 32 teams, with the franchise at $2.08 billion. The financial media outlet said Jacksonville didn’t increase or decrease in value from 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The average NFL team increased in value by two percent over the last 12 months to $2.57 billion.\u00a0Khan, worth an estimated $7 billion, is trying to buy London’s Wembley Stadium where the Jaguars play their annual game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Florida gambling amendment that voters backed this week to take control of casino measures and strip state lawmakers of the power might have the unintended consequence of convincing the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars to relocate the NFL team to London. Shad Khan, the billionaire Pakistani-American owner of the Jaguars, has been considering filing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":92188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,13592,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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