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DENVER (KDVR) — The Denver Broncos might not have made it to the Super Bowl, but that didn’t slow down football action elsewhere.
Colorado’s sport gaming industry hit a new milestone at the end of 2021, with over $5 billion in total wagers made since the state legalized sports betting starting in May 2020.
The gaming industry recovered quickly from the abridged 2020-21 sporting seasons. Largely, it rode on the back of professional football, which represents about a third of the money wagered between September and January.
The total amount wagered in every month of the 2021-22 professional football season dwarfed that of last year. Coloradans wagered $1.8 billion total during the last four months of 2021 alone.
