Online bets on NFL games seen surging as season begins

Published September 13, 2021 8:49 am

By WAYNE PARRY
Associated Press

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A company that most of the legal U.S. sports betting industry uses to verify that its customers are where they say they are has reported a record number of transactions over the first weekend of the NFL season. That indicates a big increase in the level of online betting as football season got underway in a nation with many more places to bet. GeoComply Solutions, the Vancouver, Canada-based tech company, recorded over 58 million geolocation transactions across 18 states and Washington, D.C., from Thursday night, when the NFL season began, through Sunday evening. That represents a 126% increase from the same period of the 2020 NFL season.

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