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The NFL landscape is rapidly changing and, yet again, it's the Dallas Cowboys leading the charge.
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Following decades of the league doing all it could to keep professional football untethered to sports gambling, they'd end up finding themselves on the wrong side of that argument once the Supreme Court issued a ruling to legalize sports betting in all states outside of Nevada -- where it was already decriminalized. The 6-3 ruling blew open the doors for NFL teams to get in on the action, and the run on being the first to the table has already begun. Cowboys' owner announced to the media just ahead of the team's season opener against the Carolina Panthers that the team will partner with WinStar World Casino and Resort in Oklahoma, exclusively, breaking the mold to become the first team in the league to have an official casino designation.
Jones is in the Hall of Fame as a contributor because of his history of blazing business trails in the NFL, and this simply adds to his legacy. WinStar Casino is stationed in Thackerville, OK, just under 1.5 hours north of Dallas, making it an ideal choice, proximity-wise.
For his part, Jones couldn't be more thrilled.
“The Dallas Cowboys take great pride in aligning themselves with the best brands in the world,” he said, via press conference. “It is a privilege to stand shoulder to shoulder as partners with such a prominent entertainment brand like WinStar World Casino.”
He also noted how it'd only take him 20 minutes to get there by JerryCopter, for what it's worth.
It's interesting to see such a rapid turn of events following a recent war that occurred right on the Cowboys' front porch, when the NFL shut down two consecutive attempts from former quarterback Tony Romo to launch the National Fantasy Football Convention -- making the point they wanted nothing to do with anything that could be tied to sports gambling. That led to Romo and NFFC filing suit against the league, in litigation that is currently ongoing, despite the NFFC having now debuted and is hot off of a second-consecutive successful outing in Dallas.
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Ironically, during that entire ordeal, the league was also working to get approval for the Raiders' move from Oakland to -- you guessed it -- Las Vegas, NV, home of sports' betting worldwide. From the war against the NFFC to their attempts to distance themselves from other fantasy football outlets like Draft Kings and FanDuel, it would've been difficult to predict the league finally caving to its own double-standard, and it only took a Supreme Court ruling to make it happen.
The Cowboys are no stranger to bucking any of the NFL's displeasure with it, also entering a deal with DraftKings in 2015, that included having a 'DraftKings Lounge' at AT&T Stadium. As is usually the case with Jones, he sets his eyes on something and doesn't relent until it's his.
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That, now, includes shaking hands with WinStar.