Four days after online sports betting was officially launched in New York State, I got a hot tip from a football player in Pittsburgh. It was January 2022, and Ben Roethlisberger, the lumbering thirty-nine-year-old Steelers quarterback, was telling the press that his upcoming postseason bout against fellow signal-caller Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs wasn’t going to end well. “We probably aren’t supposed to be here,” he said. “We’re probably not a very good football team.” A few seconds later, as if his point weren’t already clear, he added, “We don’t have a chance.” I didn’t know much about sports betting, but even I could appreciate a good opportunity.
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