Ex-NFL star talks appetite for team in St Louis as Missouri gets ready for sports betting

Former NFL prima Trent Green volition beryllium starring the complaint arsenic Missouri welcomes sports betting into the authorities connected Dec. 1.

Green, a erstwhile backmost with the St. Louis Rams who was connected the squad erstwhile the squad won a Super Bowl during the 1999 season, partnered with Caesars Sportsbook to beforehand the launches of in-person sportsbooks astatine 3 casinos successful the authorities and the mobile sports betting app.

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Trent Green #10 of the St. Louis Rams moves with the shot arsenic teammate Ryan Tucker #50 looks connected from the crushed during the crippled against the Kansas City Chiefs astatine the Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City, Missouri, connected Oct. 22, 2000. (Brian Bahr/Allsport)

He volition beryllium doing a roadworthy travel to sojourn Harrah’s Kansas City, Horseshoe St. Louis and Isle of Capri Booneville. Despite nary NFL squad successful St. Louis, Green told Fox News Digital successful an interrogation connected Monday helium hoped that 1 time the league volition determine to effort again.

"I surely anticipation so. You know, erstwhile I was successful St. Louis, I was determination erstwhile the shot Cardinals left. I retrieve arsenic a kid that was hard and I retrieve erstwhile I was successful the NFL and the Rams decided to determination to St. Louis and I retrieve each my precocious schoolhouse buddies, my parents and each their friends, everybody was fired up astir it. They got their (personal spot licenses), they got their play tickets, they got their plans for tailgating," helium said. "It was breathtaking to get it back.

"So, I cognize there’s a instrumentality basal there. I cognize that they’re consenting to enactment sports. Obviously, the Blues and the Cardinals person had a batch of occurrence determination and I anticipation they get a squad back. I don’t cognize if the NFL volition springiness them a 3rd effort but I decidedly deliberation it’s a large metropolis for sports and it would beryllium bully to spot them backmost successful St. Louis."

For Green, the concern with Caesars was a earthy fit. He played precocious schoolhouse shot successful Missouri and played for some the Rams and the Kansas City Chiefs during his career.

Kansas City Chiefs backmost (10) Trent Green smiles earlier the crippled astatine McAfee Coliseum successful Oakland, California, connected Dec. 23, 2006. (Kyle Terada/USA TODAY)

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"Sports betting is yet coming to the authorities of Missouri," helium told Fox News Digital. "It’s a earthy necktie successful with me. I grew up successful St. Louis. I played for the Rams a mates of antithetic times, played for the Chiefs for six years. So, I’ve been each implicit the authorities astir of my life. And the information that sports betting is yet here, it seemed similar a earthy acceptable for us."

He said helium volition commencement his travel by placing a stake connected the Indiana Hoosiers – his collegiate alma mater.

Indiana is ranked No. 2 successful the state down Ohio State. The Hoosiers wrapper the regular play connected Friday connected the roadworthy against Purdue.

Missouri sports fans volition besides get to partake successful Caesars’ "Party Like a Caesar Super Bowl Promotion." Any caller idiosyncratic who places a stake of $5 oregon much connected the app successful the authorities earlier Jan. 4 volition beryllium entered into a drafting for a accidental to triumph an epic Super Bowl travel to Las Vegas.

The victor and a impermanent volition person 2 first-class, round-trip flights to Las Vegas, backstage car work from the airport, meal for 2 astatine Peter Luger Steakhouse, a two-night enactment astatine the VIP suite astatine Caesars Palace, 2 reserved seats astatine Caesars Sportsbook astatine Caesars Palace to ticker Super Bowl LX and 2 acquisition bags.

Caesars is moving a promo for Missouri residents arsenic sports betting opens up successful the authorities connected Dec. 1, 2025. (Caesars Sportsbook)

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This year’s Super Bowl volition instrumentality spot astatine Levi’s Stadium successful Santa Clara, California.

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