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Drinks on me ‘Cause NFL Canceled My Event

Barry Gipson
3 min readFeb 2, 2024
Did you know the NFL canceled Tony Romo's Fantasy Football Event in 2015? While attending a separate event that June in SIN CITY I learned of the new development and wondered why. Ironically this was 9 years ago with 9 days remaining on our Super Bowl 58 countdown.

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Nine more days until Super Bowl 58. During a trip in June 2015 to Sin City for a Fantasy Football convention at the Wynn Hotel & Casino Tony Romo's news was breaking. His exclusive convention at Caesars Palace of 200+ people was canceled by the NFL due to protocol. Why?

That was 9 years age. In just over a week Super Bowl LIX will be featured in Paradise, NV. That’s a lot of change in less than a decade. Change is inevitable. Remember that. Why is this important to know? Follow the money in fantasy sports with me.

Drinks on me ’Cause NFL Canceled My Event. ~Tony Romo

Fantasy Football was just becoming a thing to many new NFL fans in 2016. Betting on players and games still seemed taboo. Many were just coming online to the idea. The league wanted to make sure they could capitalize first before any one player could. Make sense now? Now look at us.

This was the same year the New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks during Super Bowl 49 at State Farm Stadium in Arizona. I was about to retire from the Navy the following year. I had a dream to open up the first fantasy sports bar in the state of WA. Hello Olympia!

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Barry Gipson
Barry Gipson

Written by Barry Gipson

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