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Has the surge in sports betting legalization and advertising change how you view sports?


Royalfan5

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For me I keep finding it an increasing turnoff. (I had a front row seat for an Uncles horrendous gambling problem, and I’ve never placed sports bets because of that and almost no other gambling) I’ve always been a big sports in general guy, but with gambling stuff seeping into all levels of the coverage and I hear my coworkers keep talking about their increasing bets,(and none them bet two years ago at all) it just makes me feel like something bad is going to evolve out of the spread. 

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19 hours ago, Royalfan5 said:

For me I keep finding it an increasing turnoff. (I had a front row seat for an Uncles horrendous gambling problem, and I’ve never placed sports bets because of that and almost no other gambling) I’ve always been a big sports in general guy, but with gambling stuff seeping into all levels of the coverage and I hear my coworkers keep talking about their increasing bets,(and none them bet two years ago at all) it just makes me feel like something bad is going to evolve out of the spread. 

Pretty much most of the dialogue now at work about sports has to do with gambling. I place some small bets, but I don’t talk about them. Overall I would say that for myself I now have even less interest in pro and college sports than I did before, which was already little to none.

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19 minutes ago, Updawg said:

I rarely bet and do find it annoying. Hasn’t changed my viewing but is annoying. Sports radio is especially bad

Este - ESPN radio now dedicates a bunch of airtime to random sports betting.  It's about as interesting as hearing some blowhard discuss their FFL lineup.  Admittedly, SVP bad beats can be amusing to watch.

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It’s made people more incredibly annoying. During the Super Bowl some dickhead next to me kept going about his bet he had and the guy just did understand that’s how you guarantee you lose and just doesn’t understand etiquette. So of course he lost.

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Betting doesn’t bother me at all.   
 

Fantasy league honks are annoying  

Incessant over analysis before big games and shock jock sports media personalities that Monday morning QB are the biggest turn off to me  

 

 

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No.  The corruption of college football has.  Outright recruiting at the high school level has.

Pro sports is pro sports.  DraftKings is DraftKings.

Is OP Baptist and working on a way to protect me from gambling?😁

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Not really. Kinda funny when some worthless lay up at the end of a 110-97 game came be the difference between the O/U. So I don’t bet on sports. Especially college, can’t let some no name dork make a stupid mistake in a game or go nuclear from 3 and lose my money.

Bracket challenge, bowl challenge on surly and a family fantasy league is the closest I will get to sports gambling

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I find sports fairly unviewable these days anyway. Except for Longhorns football games, I’m cool with only turning on games in the last 15 minutes.

edit: but to the OP’s question, I find the attention on sports gambling during games and pregames to be distracting. It’s also adds to the hypocrisy of sports. Which I don’t care except many sports announcers refuse to acknowledge it.

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There are absolutely people who are going to learn the hard way with gambling - whether it be addiction or huge losses like losing your house etc.— just hope it’s not one of our kids I guess.

When it was confined (for me) to illegal bookie’s and Vegas/New Orleans/Shreveport and cash only, I was able to meter myself as a stupid, impulsive young man.

When it’s a credit card accepting app and targeted to the dopamine-by-swipe addicted gen-z who get high on dating apps, TikTok and gambling, it feels like watching a slow motion train wreck.

I guess I’m just old now and grateful for way it was when I was a ute, as I’ve shared similar sentiment in the fetenyal thread.

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2 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

When it’s a credit card accepting app and targeted to the dopamine-by-swipe addicted gen-z who get high on dating apps, TikTok and gambling, it feels like watching a slow motion train wreck.

I’d bet (lol) the major demographic of sports betters is not Gen Z. 

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I also find it annoying esp the onslaught of advertisements. Apparently -- in states where it's legal or legal-adjacent the gambling companies are using the popularity of sports betting as a hook to other, more profitable, games such as urging those with the apps to play a couple quick hands of blackjack or rolls of the dice.

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4 minutes ago, Js1 said:

I’d bet (lol) the major demographic of sports betters is not Gen Z. 

Interesting hypothesis; I’ll look into it. You might be right.

There was a thread on surly somewhere (I think it was the dad’s thread) where people were discussing their junior high kids asking for money to fund their gambling apps. Seemed like it would be common sense that it’s a bad idea and you’d get 100% consensus on that for young kids and their developing brains and neuron pathways, but surprisingly not. I guess I’m like Principal Skinner and am stubbornly out of touch.

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I used to laugh at people when their team lost and they'd yell about how the game was "rigged". Not anymore. The way the leagues are embracing gambling really bothers me. When Tim Donaghy was caught rigging NBA games it was a big deal at the time but I think a modern day Tim Donaghy would destroy a sport. If the NFL had its own Tim Donaghy controversy would people stop watching professional football? I probably would.

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I'd think it might be a bit different here since the online sportsbooks aren't legal in Texas. Not saying there isn't gambling, but it may not be a pervasive as in other parts of the country.

I think sports betting from your phone on your couch is bad idea jeans in general. 

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It has made me dislike ESPN more.  It has moved them from a sports news and entertainment product to sports betting product.  I think there will be a blow-back on sports betting.  Having facebook style level of data in the hands of draft kings with their app on a phone is not going to end well for a lot of people.  

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25 minutes ago, Chopper said:

I also find it annoying esp the onslaught of advertisements. Apparently -- in states where it's legal or legal-adjacent the gambling companies are using the popularity of sports betting as a hook to other, more profitable, games such as urging those with the apps to play a couple quick hands of blackjack or rolls of the dice.

A lot of people say this is the longterm play.  A casino on your phone.  At some point they have to in order to keep growing.  

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1 hour ago, EastHorn said:

A lot of people say this is the longterm play.  A casino on your phone.  At some point they have to in order to keep growing.  

Sports betting is socially acceptable and therefore easy for online casinos to use as a hook. But has less favorable odds for the 'House' when compared to 'games of chance' like cards or dice.

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I lost $50 on a Titans game in college. Henry could have walked in a TD, but they did the knell down bullshit at the 1 and kicked a field goal as time expired. Spread was -4.

For reference, I lived on $50 a week while in school. I’ve been out ever since, and I couldn’t be happier. 

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I never bet on games and I even stopped playing fantasy football like 10 years ago. The focus on betting and gambling is horrendous and I'm sick of hearing about it. After my Chiefs won the super bowl a kid on the baseball team at my school asked if I bet on the game. So like drugs kids are being advertised to and it is normalized for them to be betting on games now. Like wtf? I'm sure there are just so many gambling addicts now compared to what there were just a few years ago with it being everywhere now.

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2 hours ago, HRSchenker said:

If the NFL had its own Tim Donaghy controversy would people stop watching professional football?

Thankfully Bud Adam’s ensured that I would rarely watch the NFL after 1996, so I don’t know about that, but the commentary during some events can be annoying, especially when a lot of the the actual audience watching said events are probably not gambling on them.

I’ve done the March brackets and fantasy football, and had a lot of fun - yeah the pots were never that big for me, so I didn’t sweat it - the whole process around them was more fun than the final outcomes.  Having the gambling stuff creep into sports broadcasts are very annoying.

I do find it both amusing and irritating that casino interests in Oklahoma and Louisiana work with the Bible Thumpers in Texas to keep the legislature from allowing casinos in Texas under the guise of protecting us from ourselves.  All the while a shitload of Texans are gambling every day  in thousands of grocery stores and gas stations across the state, thanks to the lotteries.  For those worried about gambling and what it can do to people, go hang out at a convenience store in a low-income neighborhood or rural area and have your eyes opened.  It’s here, it’s just so pervasive you don’t realize it.  

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2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

For those worried about gambling and what it can do to people, go hang out at a convenience store in a low-income neighborhood or rural area and have your eyes opened.  It’s here, it’s just so pervasive you don’t realize it.  

I can confirm this also here where I live in East Harlem. I get on the 6 train at 103rd street sometimes when I head to mid-town and right next to it is a bodega that sells lottery tickets. Some of the poorest people in my neighborhood are the ones in there day after day handing over what little money they have hoping to strike it rich. The line is always longer for the lottery than the one to buy something to eat or drink. It is beyond sad to see it honestly. 

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7 hours ago, EastHorn said:

A lot of people say this is the longterm play.  A casino on your phone.  At some point they have to in order to keep growing.  

I agree. And I think gambling is being looked at by corporations as a growth driver in general as a way to get (and keep) eyeballs. Give them an extra motivation to care and watch versus just entertainment.

You are seeing it in other areas of entertainment too. I was reading today that the Oscars, which had viewership fall off a cliff since 2018, is embracing in-app gambling like never before and hoping it drives audiences to care and watch, especially those who are marginal fans and far from cinephiles. Anything to make it relevant again.

I get imagining a single dad in a sad sack apartment drinking bud lights and rooting for his +550 Paul Giamatta bet is funny, but the people who can least afford to have the ability to gamble what little disposable income they have on their cheap android phones are going to be the ones hurt and, like usual, the responsible ones in society will have to bear the burden of the fall out, while casino oligarchs get richer.

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1 hour ago, UpperWestside said:

Some of the poorest people in my neighborhood are the ones in there day after day handing over what little money they have hoping to strike it rich. The line is always longer for the lottery than the one to buy something to eat or drink. It is beyond sad to see it honestly. 

I think the lottery is evil.  State sponsored addiction.  It’s the most regressive of all taxes.

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the fuck have yall been?

i used to send money to managua via western union to some random person to fund my online offshore account i had in college 25 fucking years ago.

made a ton of beer money off that thank you dallas stars especially

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On 3/9/2024 at 11:11 AM, Neonmoon said:

No. 

 

On 3/9/2024 at 11:13 AM, ConferenceRoom said:

Not even a little bit. 

 

On 3/9/2024 at 1:54 PM, Js1 said:

Not even a little. I find the complete lack of accountability in officiating to be a far bigger turnoff. 

 

On 3/10/2024 at 11:21 AM, B00M said:

I’m not a gambler and there aren’t gamblers in my family so, nope. Gambling has always been a part of sports

 

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It's always been part of sports. I don't partake, because I think betting on sports is for suckers, but there's nothing new here.

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