NFL asks prediction markets to not offer certain types of wagers
The NFL didn't like the prediction markets, until it did. Now, the league seems to be clearing out the weeds in advance of turning the industry into yet another revenue stream. Via David Purdum of ESPN, the NFL sent letters to Kalshi and Polymarket on Sunday, asking them to not offer trades on outcomes that can be easily manipulated or determined in advance.
Objectionable topics include the things announcers say during NFL broadcasts, celebrities that will or won't be attending games, and the draft. As Purdum explains it, the letters are "similar to what [the league] asks traditional sportsbooks to prohibit, with extra terms unique to the prediction markets. " "Some people are going to have that information .
. . that they can then share," NFL executive V.
P. Jeff Miller told Purdum. "We're trying to stay as far as we can from some of those sorts of inside information wagers that could exist in this space.
" For Super Bowl LX, $24 million was bet at Kalshi on whether Mark Wahlberg would attend the game. (The "market" — i. e.