Fedex Owner Gambling
Washington owner Daniel Snyder is exploring whether he could get legal approval for sports betting in Maryland, where FedEx Field is located and where Snyder has looked into building a new stadium down the road.
Fedex Owner Casino Story, poker end boss, 12 tribes casino food, four kings poker league. Today FedEx is a 29 billion dollar company. Not a bad payoff, all things considered. First High Stakes Play: $777,000. In the 1980s, casino owner Benny Binion opened up the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, and unlike the other casinos as the time, Benny’s casino would accept a bet no matter how large. Now a $27 billion corporate giant, Federal Express started as a concept in founder Frederick W. Smith’s Yale term paper. Smith envisioned a company that could supply overnight deliveries from start to finish, with its own depots, airplanes, posting stations and delivery vans. In one instance, after a crucial business loan was denied, he took the company's last $5,000 to Las Vegas and won $27,000 gambling on blackjack to cover the company's $24,000 fuel bill. It kept FedEx alive for one more week. In addition to FedEx, Smith is also a minority owner of the Washington Football Team of the National Football League (NFL.
The Washington Post reports that Snyder met with multiple members of the state legislature in Maryland and conditioned keeping the team in Maryland on the ability to offer sports betting at a new stadium. The idea Snyder was floating was to build a new stadium on the FedEx Field site, with gambling on the premises.
One lawmaker told the Post that Snyder suggested that if he doesn’t get his way in Maryland, he’ll move the team to Virginia, although that lawmaker said Snyder’s team isn’t particularly popular in Maryland right now.
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“It wasn’t too high-pressured,” the lawmaker said. “Most of the people in the room were Ravens fans, so it sort of fell on deaf ears.”
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Whatever happens with Snyder’s plans in Maryland, what’s clear is that the NFL has gone from a hands-off attitude toward gambling to an all-out embrace of it. There’s money to be made in betting on sports, and the NFL wants to make it, including at stadiums where NFL games are played.