Saints legend Mark Ingram preaches responsible gambling, respect for players ahead of Super Bowl LIX

NEW ORLEANS – The "Big Game" is lone a time away, and portion determination volition lone beryllium 1 victor betwixt the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles, galore others crossed the state are hoping they triumph something, too: their sports bets. 

The American Gaming Association (AGA) is estimating that Americans volition stake $1.39 cardinal legally connected Super Bowl LIX crossed those states that supply operating sportsbooks, which is simply a record.

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The BetMGM Sportsbook astatine the MGM Grand Las Vegas connected the Las Vegas strip. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)

The continued enlargement of ineligible sports betting markets – North Carolina and Vermont were added among legalized states, and Missouri conscionable voted to o.k. it to bring the number to 40 states, arsenic good arsenic the District of Columbia – volition beryllium highlighted successful Super Bowl LIX. 

The accrued enthusiasm is wherefore erstwhile NFL moving backmost Mark Ingram, who was backmost successful New Orleans, the spot helium called location with the Saints for 10 seasons, teamed up with the AGA to implore sports bettors to crippled responsibly this Super Bowl. 

"You gotta person a gameplan," helium told Fox News Digital connected Radio Row successful New Orleans. "First and foremost, person a budget, and instrumentality to it. Be responsible, stake legally and don’t beryllium harassing players – sending Venmos, sending CashApps erstwhile they don’t deed your prop bets. Enjoy it, respect it. It’s expected to beryllium entertainment."

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Athletes from each sports person talked astir sports bettors sending them messages, containing vulgar verbiage and threats to wage them aft their performances didn't enactment retired successful favour of their stake slip. 

But Ingram is sick of seeing it. 

"It’s crazy, man," helium said. "The players didn’t acceptable the over/under for themselves, Vegas did. So, beryllium huffy astatine Vegas. The players are retired determination trying to bash everything they tin to assistance their squad triumph a game."

Mark Ingram astatine The 2024 ESPY Awards held astatine the Dolby Theatre connected July 11, 2024, successful Los Angeles, California. (Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

Joe Maloney, Senior Vice President, Strategic Communications astatine the AGA, discussed the 5 pillars that each sports bettors, experienced oregon not, should travel heading into the Super Bowl and beyond. 

"First, stake legally," Maloney began. "It’s important that you’re doing it successful a ineligible relation with a ineligible sportsbook. Two, support it fun. This is simply a societal activity, bash it with others. Just support it fun. Three, instrumentality to a budget. Understand what magnitude you privation to walk connected this benignant of activity. It’s nary antithetic than immoderate different benignant of amusement activity. Have a fund for it and instrumentality to it. 

"The different piece, which is besides precise important: Know the odds. Understand the terminology, and recognize the quality betwixt a definite stake and a longshot bet. A longshot bet, if you deed it, you’ll marque much money. A definite bet, similar Jalen Hurts scoring a touchdown successful the crippled connected Sunday, that’s astir apt much of a definite bet. 

"Finally, support your cool. Losing your stake is not an invitation to harass an athlete, harass an official, harass a coach. Just support it to yourself if you triumph oregon lose."

Super Bowl LIX volition beryllium streamed connected Tubi. (Tubi)

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For moneyline bets, oregon simply choosing who volition triumph the game, the Chiefs are flimsy favorites to bushed the Eagles, but that could ever move, depending connected however overmuch wealth comes successful up of kickoff astatine the Caesars Superdome connected Sunday night. 

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