An N.F.L. Stadium Brings Sports Betting Inside

“They know how important the bets for their sport is and, more importantly, the betting industry knows how important football is,” said Borod, who has worked in the field of sports bets for almost a decade. “In the first days, there was an opinion that you might not be able to be able to be able to show the scene on the stage. But I think that as sports bets have matured, and you realize, well, people are on their phones anyway.”

The sports book, which is open only to the gates of doors of tickets of tickets, does not have a view of the field, so by the start of Sunday’s game with the Arizona cardinals, only five people remained inside the leather and bar sofas. Halfway, there was a constant dripping of fans, some return to bets based on what they had seen in the first half. Others looked for a fresh and dry place to ask for food and drinks.

“Folding in Washington, huh?” A fan who wore Kamren Curl’s shirt, the safe of the commanders, called another better in the next kiosk. Washington followed the cardinals for 3 points halfway, but reasoned that the local team was not likely to give the ball three more times. Another fan of the commanders, standing under a television screen that showed live probabilities for all NFL games early in the afternoon, put money in the cardinals.

Joe D. and Jason B., two childhood friends who attended the game to celebrate their birthdays, already made bets in a mobile application that leads to Sunday’s game. But when they saw the sign outside the sports book that offered a free hat, they decided to venture inside where each left $ 20 more, less than the cost of any hat in the fanatics equipment store below.

“We never put money we don’t have,” said Jason B., who together with his friend refused to give his last name, citing a social stigma around the game. “But not everyone has the ability to control them.”