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Tuesday 4 February 2020

Super

Rally

NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell poses with the Vince
Lombardi Trophy after a news
conference for the NFL Su-
per Bowl 54 football game
Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, in
Miami.
Associated Press

Super Bowl

betting

brings big

business

to sports

books

By WAYNE PARRY
Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP)
— Business was brisk at
sports books around the
country on Super Bowl Sun-
day, with customers risking
money on everything from
the coin toss at the start of
the game, to the color of
the Gatorade dumped on
the winning coach, Kan-
sas City's Andy Reid, at the
end of it.
The Kansas City Chiefs
beat the San Francisco
49ers 31-20 in a game that
was forecast to be among
the most heavily wagered-
on championship games
ever.
Revenue reports began
trickling in Monday eve-
ning, including the $54.2
million wagered by gam-
blers in New Jersey, the Mahomes, Chiefs win NFL title with late surge
state whose U.S. Supreme
Court victory in 2018
cleared the way for the ex-
pansion of legal sports bet- Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes holds the Vince Lombardi trophy, after his team won the NFL Super Bowl 54 foot-
ting to many parts of the ball game Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020, in Miami Gardens, Fla. The Chiefs' defeated the San Francisco 49ers 31-20.
country. Associated Press
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