LAS VEGAS – Kickoff for the first Sunday games of the NFL season was still hours away when Willie Scott headed to the sports book at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino.
It was 6:30 a.m. and the Dallas postal worker, on his annual football pilgrimage with an old Navy shipmate, was determined to get prime seats in the sports-watching shrine.
He’d spent six hours there watching college football the day before and planned to spend 12 hours watching NFL games from his third-row seat near the aisle, tracking the players on his fantasy team and rooting against the Dallas Cowboys. (He was wearing the jersey of Cowboys Hall of Fame defensive back Mel Renfro but hates team owner Jerry Jones.)
Scott, 60, loves the camaraderie, betting, down-to-earth crowd and wall of TV screens befitting an IMAX theater.
“I think there is no other place in the world to watch football,’’ Scott said. “I look forward to this every year. I’m like a kid in the candy store.’’
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