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The Deals Keep Comin’: New York Jets-MGM Strike Marketing Deal With Eye Toward Sports Betting

Robert Mann by Robert Mann
October 31, 2018
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The New York Jets have joined with MGM Resorts International (MGM) in a first-of-its-kind partnership making MGM Resorts the Jets’ official gaming partner in an arrangement that goes beyond a basic casino sponsorship, the companies announced Wednesday.

The move is the latest in a recent flurry of transactions uniting the casino/sports wagering world with the U.S. professional sports leagues.

The multi-year agreement between the Jets and MGM is described as “the most comprehensive and integrated gaming partnership in the National Football League (NFL) to date.” 

New York Jets and MGM Resorts International Take NFL’s New Rules Permitting Gaming/Casino Relationships One Step Further With Sponsored App

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The deal, initially largely a marketing arrangement, allows Jets fans and followers access to a new free mobile play-along predictive game entitled, “‘I Called It’ presented by Play MGM.”

The “I Called It” game will be hosted exclusively on the Jets own app and is sponsored by MGM’s casino and sports betting app, PlayMGM. The newly minted partners say the game includes what they call “pre-play options, upgraded in-play features, expanded prizing, and deeper leaderboards featuring Jets fans.” The game will be up and running through the official New York Jets app during both home and away Jets games. 

The partnership apparently falls within the NFL’s new rules that permit gaming partnerships for marketing and promotional purposes, rather than for actual gambling, including sports betting. According to ESPN’s Darren Rovell, the PlayMGM app can be freely promoted because it includes both free games and paid games.

But make no mistake: Sports betting is certainly on the mind in this deal.

“We can promote our app and our casino, which is valuable to us because it could lead to a sports betting customer, even though the NFL won’t allow us to have a specific call to action,” Scott Butera, MGM’s president of interactive gaming, told ESPN. “We love the demographic that Jets fans provide. They have high household incomes in an area where sports betting is now legal.”

So far in New Jersey, where sports betting mobile apps are legal, MGM’s gross sports betting revenue via the PlayMGM platform has been distant to what DraftKings, FanDuel and SugarHouse are so far producing. These are the revenue numbers from the September report by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement:

  • Resorts Digital: $8.5M (combination of DraftKings Sportsbook and BetStarsNJ.com)
  • FanDuel Sportsbook: 2.85M
  • SugarHouse: $619,030
  • PlayMGM: $120,938

MGM also owns the Borgata in Atlantic City, which houses a retail sportsbook. 

Jets Fans and MGM Hospitality

Another key element of the deal allows MGM Resorts to target Jets season ticket holders by providing a new and wider range of hospitality for season ticket holders and Jets Rewards members including premium entertainment experiences and luxury hotel rooms at its Borgata property in Atlantic City, and other MGM Resorts properties in the U.S.

MGM will also now integrate its marketing into Jets marketing assets including stadium signage, social and digital sponsorship and advertising in Jets TV shows and radio broadcasts.

The Jets home field, MetLife Stadium, is a neighbor to The Meadowlands, a racetrack that is home to sports wagering rival FanDuel’s sportsbook operation. Mobile betting is now available through a wide variety of legal wagering apps in New Jersey.

The Jets-MGM arrangement is the latest in a recent spate of new marketing deals that include the New Jersey Devils and the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers joining forces with Caesars Entertainment, William Hill US with the Devils, the Dallas Cowboy’s with WinStar World casino in Oklahoma casino and the Baltimore Ravens with Caesars’ Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore.

On Monday, the National Hockey League (NHL) announced a marketing deal with MGM that includes a multi-year sponsorship agreement designating MGM as the official sports betting partner of the league, mirroring MGM’s July deal with the National Basketball Association. Both of these deals include an official league data feed.     


Testing the Limits

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Earlier this week, the New York Post reported another sponsorship deal that also involves the New York Jets: a new relationship with 888 Holdings, based in Gibraltar, which operates an online casino, poker site and as of September, an online sportsbook in New Jersey.

According to the Post, banners with 888.com were displayed on Sunday outside MetLife Stadium (while the Jets were playing the Bears in Chicago), “in the form of several three-story-high, bright-orange banners emblazoned with ‘888.com’ — the gambling site operated by 888 Holdings.”

This comes awfully close to violating currentl NFL policy, which forbids the kinds of relationships discussed above: deals in which sportsbooks and sports betting sites are promoted.

As you can see above, the Jets logo and sponsor status appears on the casino portion of the site, but it does not show on the US-facing 888sport.com sportsbook portal. The NFL has not yet publicly weighed in on the Jets-888 deal.

In effect, both that arrangement and the MGM deal test the limits of what current league rules will allow, and a glimpse at a lucrative new revenue stream for teams and the league.

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Sports Handle contributor Robert Mann has a Northwestern journalism degree and is a former reporter for the Chicago Tribune and National Enquirer. He has worked in news management for CNN and several TV stations and is a 31-year resident of Las Vegas.

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