Should sports betting advertisements be banned from live game broadcasts?

I own a sports bar, and I watch what actually fills seats: regulars who bet ten dollars on their team and stay for wings and three more rounds. Those customers exist because betting ads brought them into a legal, regulated market instead of an offshore site or a bookie. Push the ads off TV and the demand does not vanish; it migrates to the gray market, where nobody checks IDs, nobody funds treatment, and nobody pays state taxes. My state earmarks betting tax revenue for schools and problem-gambling programs. Kill the legal funnel and you starve the very programs the ban's supporters say they care about. And the legal funnel is huge: Nielsen found sportsbooks spent $1.1 billion on ads in 2023, money that flows through regulated channels that generate state tax revenue.