London already hosts three regular in-season NFL games annually and currently expecting a team to relocate there soon. The league may find the daily fantasy sports a cumbersome issue to deal with since it has been under increasing scrutiny with the root issue being sports betting. It is legal in the U.K but there are restrictions in the U.S. The daily fantasy sports such as Draftkings and Fan Duelare causing the problem since in most states they are considered to be games of skill and not gambling and have been left out in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The act exempts the daily fantasy sports from ban in the U.S due to excessive lobbying by the NF|L. the NFL has been against gambling for a long time fearing compromise of the real games as well as the league growing to full potential.

Draftkings is the advertising company for NFL at Wembley and it is considered a gambling company and requires a license under the U.K law. They therefore have to adhere to the warning that they are only allowed to advertise to the fans in the U.K. only the giant screens provided for replays can advertise it. It ensures that the U.S fans watching won’t see the logos and adverts belonging to Draftkings. This means that NFL will be able to create some space between the company and the daily fantasy sports as an industry. Despite this, other leagues such as the Major Leagues baseball have invested in the company openly together with its all time rival, Edinburgh-based Fan Duel. This commotion has proved to be a problem and hampers all the NFL plans to expand into London which they anticipate as the intended growth they see for their company and the industry in terms of the audience and the revenues. The fans that are based in the U.K can freely and openly bet on their favorite teams playing in the U.K but has to be done with a regulator who will enforce the laws the gambling license will hold. The industry has since been unregulated pending the increased scrutiny from the U.S.

Many will wish to see the NFL games being played abroad and especially London fans. Well, their dream may come true as in a short distance future, each NFL team will have a chance to participate in abroad match in a season.

The NFL claimed that it has been accorded the privilege of staging three NFL games in three years as from next year at the London’s Twickenham Stadium. This is the main English rugby union for men stadium. This marks an initial beginning with more matches expected to be staged in the stadium in coming years.

This comes barely two week after NFL claimed that it had acquired a deal that would see two matches being played in Wembley Stadium up to 2020. This is however expected to accrue another five years in the deal.

This means that about 31% of the NFL will be played abroad with a game played at the Twickenham in 2018. Jacksonville Jaguars who are owned by Shahid Khan who also owns Championship side Fulham will see their games being played in London up to 2020.

The aspect of expanding the NFL game is not done yet as next year the league will stage a game in Mexico City. Reports from a Spanish sports newspaper AS claim that 2017 and 2018 will see a NFL game being played in the City each season. Roger Goodell also claimed that there is a possibility that a game will be staged in Germany which was considered the first priority market for the league. Elsewhere, Brazil is believed to host the Pro Bowl in 2017.

Among Basketball, Hockey, Baseball and Football which are considered the top four games in the Americans, its only football which has the least exposure in the international level and this explains why the NFL is so aggressive in staging what it has in store at the international level.

The saturated aspect of NFL has showcased that a foreigner can’t be a diehard fan once in the Americans but the league will have to go an extra mile in forcing itself in the international market to win the loyalty of foreign based fans and staging matches abroad is seen as the best way to oversee this.

The appeal tabled at the Federal appeal court by the US pro sports betting advocates have hit a hard rock as the jury decided not to the uplifting of the sports betting to be held in New Jersey. Us pro advocates rushed to the Third Court of Appeals in Philadelphia with the aim of having a ruling in their favour but were shocked as the court ruling was backed by 2-1 and in turn giving no chance to the State in trying to circumvent the 1992 Professional & Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA).

This appeal by the New Jersey State has been in progress for nearly a year now. And down the line, the state has faced yet another hit in attempt to give a comprehensive continuity of sport betting in USA. It was the decision of Third Court Judges Marjorie Rendell and Maryanne Trump Barry who made their verdict in favour of US Pro League members and hence giving legalization of sports betting in New Jersey a huge blow.

According to the US Pro League representatives from various leagues such as NFL, MLB and NHL, the verdict undertaken by the Third Court was crucial inthe upholding of the honesty portrayed by various sporting games in the USA.

However, all was not done as the Democratic Senator of New Jersey Ray Lesniak claimed that the representatives of this state will not give up and will continue waging the fight for what they think is their right of eradicating the PASPA verdicts.

Commenting on the issue to US news sources, the senator claimed that there will be three games for the NFL to be staged in Wembley Stadium in London where their fans will bet and watch the games. He claimed that their main agenda would be controlling as well as running betting via fantasy sports.

The president of the American Gaming association Geoff Freeman claimed that he would support Lesniak by claiming that they deserve to take full control of betting as the law is not keen with regulation of illegal betting with current statistics indicating that there are over $140 billion indulged in illegal betting.

From here, New Jersey will head for another appeal at the full court.