The Surpeme Court struck down a 26-year-old federal ban on sports betting on Monday Jacoby Brissett Jersey , allowing states to decide whether they want to allow legal wagers on football, basketball, baseball, hockey and other games. Here’s a look at what that means:

SO, WHEN CAN I BET ON SPORTS?

Soon, depending on where you live. Officials in three states – Delaware, Mississippi and New Jersey – have pledged to start accepting legal bets within weeks. Three others already had laws on the books authorizing sports betting in the event of a favorable Supreme Court decision, although there likely will be more debate about the specifics. More than a dozen other states either have active legislation to authorize sports gambling or have considered it in the past. Expect those discussions to ramp up, along with more aggressive lobbying in those states by sports book operators and the professional leagues.

WHO WILL ACCEPT BETS?

It will vary from state to state. Some have authorized commercial casinos to open sports books, while some will offer sports betting products through their state lotteries. Aside from the few states that have worked out those details already, lawmakers and regulators will be deciding whether to allow bets to be placed at casinos, horse racing tracks, off-track betting parlors or even stadiums, and whether to allow online and mobile betting.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE LEAGUES?

The four major U.S. professional leagues and the NCAA spent years fighting New Jersey’s challenge to the constitutionality of the federal ban. Nonetheless, the commissioners of the NBA and Major League Baseball have both said they’re open to the prospect of legal gambling – on their terms. The NBA and MLB have been lobbying states to give a small percentage of the amount wagered back to the league offices. They say they deserve a cut because gambling is entirely dependent on their business, and they need to spend more money to guard against potentially devastating game-fixing scandals. Casino interests argue that Nevada does just fine regulating gambling and flagging suspicious behavior without sending money directly to the leagues.

The NFL, the nation’s most popular spectator sport Authentic Derrick Henry Jersey , will have to reckon with its longstanding opposition to gambling, which many critics say is hypocritical because the league encourages fantasy sports, publishes detailed injury reports that help bookies set odds and schedules several games every season in London, where in-stadium betting is legal. League owners also approved the Raiders moving to Las Vegas, gambling’s mecca in the United States. With the fight against expanded gambling lost for now, the NFL could use its powerful lobbying muscle to partner with the NBA and MLB and seek new federal regulations.

Gambling proponents argue that the leagues will benefit through sponsorships and other tie-ins with sports book operators and enhanced fan interest in their games.

”I think everybody who owns top-four professional sports team just basically saw the value of their team double at least,” Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told CNBC on Monday.

HOW WILL THIS CHANGE THE FAN EXPERIENCE?

Once sports betting becomes more widely legal, fans can expect to have the opportunity to bet on their phones during games, a common practice in countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia. Television ratings and subscriptions to streaming services could increase because fans are more interested in games that don’t involve their hometown teams. And discussion of point spreads, over/unders and prop bets could become more common among broadcasters and journalists as they seek to remain relevant to how fans are thinking about sports.

WILL ILLEGAL BOOKIES GO OUT OF BUSINESS?

Probably not, said Kate Lowenhar-Fisher, a Las Vegas-based attorney who chairs the gaming practice at Dickinson Wright. Illegal bookies have longstanding relationships with their customers, some of whom prefer the anonymity of gambling offshore, and they don’t have to pay taxes or fees. Plus, with states legalizing sports betting in a piecemeal fashion, illegal operators will continue to be more convenient for many bettors.

Savvy businesspeople are also likely to create new gambling products that aren’t specifically addressed by state laws, just as daily fantasy sports companies did while the federal ban was in place.

”Americans will continue to be entrepreneurial Noah Hanifin Jersey , especially finding a way to evade all the compliance costs, tax costs, regulatory costs,” Lowenhar-Fisher said. ”That’s exactly what the fantasy sports operators tried to do – offer sports betting without having to deal with all the things a sports book operator has to deal with.”

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Jerry Kramer has basked in the attention on his key block on the winning play in the Ice Bowl for more than half a century.

He sure was uneasy, though, when Vince Lombardi told Bart Starr to run "31 Wedge" from a yard out, the Green Bay Packers' dynasty dangling by a thread with 16 seconds remaining on that 1967 New Year's Eve afternoon so frozen in time.

It was a play Kramer himself had suggested, almost sheepishly, to Lombardi after finding a flaw in Dallas' short-yardage defense during film study 72 hours earlier.

He noticed that while Bob Lilly was so close to the ground "you couldn't move him with a D-9 CAT" bulldozer, fellow Cowboys defensive tackle Jethro Pugh stood too high in his stance, making him vulnerable.

"Coach," Kramer blurted out, "we can wedge Pugh if we have to."

Come again?

"We can wedge Pugh if we have to."

"Run that back," barked Lombardi.

"So, we run the film back about four different times and he watched Pugh and he said: 'That's right. Put in a wedge on Pugh,'" Kramer recalled recently as he prepared for his long-awaited Pro Football Hall of Fame induction on Saturday.

Like the star pupil earning brownie points with his teacher, Kramer was proud of his suggestion. But when the Packers were trailing 17-14 with 16 seconds and no timeouts left Tavon Austin Jersey , he found himself wishing he'd kept his mouth shut.

Starr called his last timeout after halfback Donnie Anderson's second straight slip, trotted over to the sideline and suggested to Lombardi that he run a sneak because of the poor traction.

"Then run it and let's get the hell out of here," Lombardi replied.

Starr called out the play in the huddle.

"31 Wedge."

Kramer's heart sank.

It's one thing to suggest a play. It's another for it to get called in a do-or-die situation with an NFL championship on the line.

"You really wish they'd call something else maybe," Kramer recalled. "Maybe we'd rather run a sweep. Or maybe we ought to run over there."

Lilly kicked the ice away from the goal line. Pugh pondered calling a timeout to have someone from the Cowboys sideline bring out a shovel.

"The other guys were slipping and sliding because it was icy," Kramer recalled.

Not him.

"There was an area almost like a golf divot where my left foot went, it was about an inch deep, three-quarters of an inch deep," Kramer said. "And my left foot just snuggled down into that divot and gave me like a starting block."

Pugh thought Kramer false-started.

Years later, Kramer would admit he moved a split-second before Ken Bowman's snap, taking some of the heat off Pugh, who died in 2015, and was long blamed by Cowboys fans for the loss in the Ice Bowl.

Kramer hit Pugh first and Bowman spun him around as Starr knifed into the end zone behind them, followed by fullback Chuck Mercein holding his hands high, not to signal touchdown but to show the officials he hadn't aided his quarterback into the end zone.

CBS had a monitor in the Packers' locker room afterward and showed Kramer's block in slow motion, sparking whooping and hollering from his teammates and praise from his coach.

"That's a fine block," Lombardi said .

The Cowboys flew home in silence while the Packers prepared for their second Super Bowl, a 33-14 rout of the Raiders in Lombardi's final game as their head coach.

Pugh would go on to win two Super Bowls with the Cowboys.

Kramer played another season and in 1969 was the only guard voted to the NFL's 50th Anniversary Team Jerrell Freeman Jersey , something he expected would be a prelude to a hasty call from the Hall of Fame.

That invitation finally came this year, making him the 14th member of Lombardi's Packers to make it into the hall.

At first he was bitter over his repeated snubs, but he grew to accept that he might not ever make it into Canton.

"I'd been through the emotional package that Terrell is going through," Kramer said of fellow 2018 inductee Terrell Owens , who is skipping Saturday's ceremonies in Canton, Ohio, miffed that he wasn't a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

Kramer can relate.

"I went through a period where I didn't want to hear about the Hall of Fame," Kramer said. "I wanted nothing to do with it. I literally drove by the Hall of Fame three or four times and I wouldn't go in because I was not invited in."

Kramer said he eventually found peace by counting his blessings, which included five titles in his 11 seasons as the anchor of Green Bay's line.

"It just occurred to me that if I was going to be angry over one honor that I didn't get and trash 100 honors that I did get, that would be stupid," Kramer said.

At 82, he finally has pro football's highest honor.

"There was such a range of emotions as deep as you can go into the Earth, and then cloud high," Kramer said. "So, it's been a fascinating journey."

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