Friday’s decision by multiple sports books to remove certain Packers bets from the board based on rumors that quarterback Aaron Rodgers will retire sent shock waves through the media, and it underscored a new reality of the ever-growing industry of legalized wagering on football. Moves made by sports books will definitely make news.
“The bookmakers felt there was credibility to the report, and so they took the Packers number down, and the odds on Green Bay winning the division,” Brent Musburger told Peter King of Football Morning in America.