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U.S. Sports Support Online Gambling Ban

All of the lobbying companies in the United States are required to disclose how much money and which companies hired the lobbying firms – and for which political agenda. For the Sports Leagues in the U.S. tops on the list of lobbying issues is the maintenance of the online casinos gambling ban – the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). GambleCraft has previously reported a number of gambling related companies’ lobbying budgets, included were the American Gaming Association (representing the land gambling industry), the PPA (online casinos poker interests), and other interest groups. But this is the first breakdown on the four major U.S. sports leagues and the issues they felt were worth millions.

The four leagues lobbying spending covered the Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, National Football League, and the National Basketball Association. These four organizations spend lobbying monies in the following areas: maintaining the online casinos gambling ban in the U.S., steroids, and cable programming. These were the main focus areas, and collectively the four organizations spent more than $2.6 million in lobbying funds.

The sports organizations largely support the online casinos gambling ban because the ban has carve-outs which benefit Fantasy Sports Leagues and other more niche forms of gambling. The Fantasy Sports Leagues do not currently function as internet gambling, and they organizations would like to keep it that way. The executive vice president of public affairs for the NFL, Joe Browne, remarked at the end of the summit: “We don’t want to be used as a betting vehicle. We don’t want our games to be used that way. And if we can control it, we’ll work hard to do it.”