The Super Bowl is the single most popular sporting event that Americans bet on every year. Projections from the American Gaming Association before last year’s game predicted that well over $6 billion would be wagered.

And thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in 2018 legalizing sports betting, the states that have enacted legislation allowing for gambling will get a nice chunk of the tax revenues for those legal transactions. However, that’s not the top reason why St. Petersburg Republican state Sen. Jeff Brandes wants to legalize sports gambling in the Sunshine State.

“Florida has a variety of different ways to sports bet illegally every day,” he told Spectrum Bay News 9 last week shortly before the Pinellas Legislative delegation heard from the community at St. Petersburg College’s Seminole campus.