How deep do your loyalties lie? (1 Viewer)

[gianmarco]

Your best friend likes to bet on games. It's week 17 and your team needs to win to make the playoffs. It turns out your best friend has $5,000 riding on this game. He's had a bad year and could really use the money. The thing is, his bet is on the other team to win.

What do YOU root for? Do you root for your team knowing your buddy loses a big chunk of change or do you prefer he gets paid at the expense of your team missing the playoffs?

Does it change if it's a Super Bowl win? Does it change depending on amount of money involved?

 

[Avery]

Is this for reals?

 

[Jeff Pasquino]

Bet and root with your head, not over it.

Your friend isn't doing either, so be a friend and tell him that he shouldn't be betting the mortgage.

 

[FUBAR]

Your best friend likes to bet on games. It's week 17 and your team needs to win to make the playoffs. It turns out your best friend has $5,000 riding on this game. He's had a bad year and could really use the money. The thing is, his bet is on the other team to win.

What do YOU root for? Do you root for your team knowing your buddy loses a big chunk of change or do you prefer he gets paid at the expense of your team missing the playoffs?

Does it change if it's a Super Bowl win? Does it change depending on amount of money involved?

I, being a real friend, slap the crap out of the idiot until he finds a way to get out of the bet.

 

[urbanhack]

WTH

 

[gianmarco]

Your best friend likes to bet on games. It's week 17 and your team needs to win to make the playoffs. It turns out your best friend has $5,000 riding on this game. He's had a bad year and could really use the money. The thing is, his bet is on the other team to win.

What do YOU root for? Do you root for your team knowing your buddy loses a big chunk of change or do you prefer he gets paid at the expense of your team missing the playoffs?

Does it change if it's a Super Bowl win? Does it change depending on amount of money involved?

I, being a real friend, slap the crap out of the idiot until he finds a way to get out of the bet.

Let's say he did it while he was drunk and can't get out of it.

 

[jwb]

Gotta go with my Jets here.

 

[Angus82]

This is a no brainer. My friend would never put me in this position. Now if you really want some interesting answers ask me if I would pick my friend or his wife. There is some fun to be had there.

 

[gianmarco]

This is a no brainer. My friend would never put me in this position. Now if you really want some interesting answers ask me if I would pick my friend or his wife. There is some fun to be had there.

Again, pretend you and your buddy are visiting Vegas or something and he did it while intoxicated. He wakes up the next morning and realizes he stands to lose 5 grand. Who are you rooting for? What if it's $500? $2000? Does it matter? Does it change if it's making playoffs vs. Super Bowl?

 

[Arodin]

Since I don't think my rooting for my favorite team will have any impact on whether they win or lose, I continue to do so.

I may do so in a less vocal than usual fashion if I'm concerned about my friend's feelings as he watches me cheer for my team's scoring. But I see no reason to give up my enjoyment of the rooting just because the win would cost him cash. My not rooting for the team isn't going to save him any money.

 

[The Man with the Plan]

Sonny Knows Best

 

[Angus82]

All joking aside, I would root against the Bills. If my buddy has a chance at pulling down some cash I would have to support him/her. I have never gotten any money from a pro or college football team so my loyalty dies there. Heck, I'm on the Packers website wearing a Driver jersey at Lambeau. If I would do that for my wife I would damn sure root against the Bills for a drunken night at the strip bar.

 

[gianmarco]

Since I don't think my rooting for my favorite team will have any impact on whether they win or lose, I continue to do so.I may do so in a less vocal than usual fashion if I'm concerned about my friend's feelings as he watches me cheer for my team's scoring. But I see no reason to give up my enjoyment of the rooting just because the win would cost him cash. My not rooting for the team isn't going to save him any money.

I get the point you're making, but at the same time, it doesn't make much sense. Do you root for your fantasy teams every week even though rooting for your players doesn't mean they're going to catch the ball? Rooting for something is done not with the expectation that it will change anything but how you feel inside in terms of what you'd like to see happen. So, essentially, you'd prefer your team to win over your friend winning money. Here's another way to look at this since some are taking the whole "betting" thing as a negative. We all play fantasy football. Your friend is in the subscriber contest here and can win $20,000 for 1st place. He needs Gould to make one more kick and he wins the money. If Gould makes the kick, it knocks your team out of the playoffs. What's more important to you? I found it interesting tonight when someone I know needed a late Minny TD to win a nice chunk of change in a fantasy league. Being a Saints fan, I was obviously rooting against the Vikes tonight. Of course, Saints are in regardless and a Vikings win isn't the worst thing in the world, but still what I would prefer. But, after knowing what he needed, I was hoping he'd win instead. It's just an interesting situation and made me think about how much I'd sacrifice both for myself or others to see my team do well if given the option.

 

[The Man with the Plan]

Maybe he should ask Adrian Peterson for the money.

 

[Steelfan7]

I'm still rooting for my team to win. It's not like me rooting for them is gonna make him lose his bet. My Dad always taught me and my brothers that if you cannot afford to lose the money in a bet then you have no business making the bet in the first place.

 

[Routilla]

I'd tell him he bet on the wrong team.

 

[bills025]

I would have to side with my friend.

My team losing doesn't really hurt me, but my friend losing that kind of money does. I remember how my brother felt as a child when his teams lost and it sucked even though I was rooting against them.

 

[MCguidance]

Are you a player for either team? No? Then you rooting for whichever team has nothing to do with the outcome.

 

[trader jake]

If my friend bets against my team he isn't my friend for about 3 1/2 hours.

 

[The Westin]

If it was a one time drunken mistake. And if he doesn't have that kind of money to throw around. I'm rooting for my friend. I love football and I love the Packers, but it's just a game. I care more about my friends than I do a game, and it's not even close.

Now if he has a bunch of money and $5k isn't a big deal to him. I'm rooting for the Packers.

 

[jwb]

Since I don't think my rooting for my favorite team will have any impact on whether they win or lose, I continue to do so.I may do so in a less vocal than usual fashion if I'm concerned about my friend's feelings as he watches me cheer for my team's scoring. But I see no reason to give up my enjoyment of the rooting just because the win would cost him cash. My not rooting for the team isn't going to save him any money.

I get the point you're making, but at the same time, it doesn't make much sense. Do you root for your fantasy teams every week even though rooting for your players doesn't mean they're going to catch the ball? Rooting for something is done not with the expectation that it will change anything but how you feel inside in terms of what you'd like to see happen. So, essentially, you'd prefer your team to win over your friend winning money. Here's another way to look at this since some are taking the whole "betting" thing as a negative. We all play fantasy football. Your friend is in the subscriber contest here and can win $20,000 for 1st place. He needs Gould to make one more kick and he wins the money. If Gould makes the kick, it knocks your team out of the playoffs. What's more important to you? I found it interesting tonight when someone I know needed a late Minny TD to win a nice chunk of change in a fantasy league. Being a Saints fan, I was obviously rooting against the Vikes tonight. Of course, Saints are in regardless and a Vikings win isn't the worst thing in the world, but still what I would prefer. But, after knowing what he needed, I was hoping he'd win instead. It's just an interesting situation and made me think about how much I'd sacrifice both for myself or others to see my team do well if given the option.

This changes it a little bit. See, for gambling... heck, that's your mistake. I'd rather you didn't lose the money, but someone else gambling really isn't my business.Also, in this changed scenerio, it doesn't really matter - it doesn't knock your team out - they're in regardless. So I perhaps wouldn't mind seeing them lose.But in general terms, I'm not going to root against the Jets making the playoffs. But I said in general terms - if we are both at the bar when said situation comes up, and you tell me right then if this kick gets made (and the Jets miss the playoffs), you win 20k, I'll probably root for the kick to get made. I may even do a "stay out of the gutter" twist that you see in bowling alleys everywhere. I think you're kind of looking for a definitive, be-all, end-all answer to an odd scenerio, and it's not that simple.

 

[The Comedian]

what the hell

 

[Steeler]

Your sig is awesome.

EDIT: That 4 word sentence was a challenge to spell.

 

[ichris]

If my 'friend' is betting against the Rams I hope he loses!

 

[TLEF316]

if you're betting on my team and will be upset about me rooting against you, you shouldnt have told me.

 

[FUBAR]

Here's another way to look at this since some are taking the whole "betting" thing as a negative. We all play fantasy football. Your friend is in the subscriber contest here and can win $20,000 for 1st place. He needs Gould to make one more kick and he wins the money. If Gould makes the kick, it knocks your team out of the playoffs. What's more important to you?

Depends, is he going to take me to a playoff game or host a party with good steaks and beer if he wins? FWIW, when I played in a local $ league (I still do play in the league but it's no longer local), the winner would spend about half of the winnings on a good SB party. There would be times when I'd cheer for one team over another even if it wasn't mine - the dude just made better steaks and bought better beer.

 

[Billy Ball Thorton]

I go for my friend over my team any day of the week.

Anyone that would not pull for a friend over a team that could care less about you (but likes your money) is beyond me.

But some people have REAL best friends and some people have a little less.

 

[FUBAR]

I go for my friend over my team any day of the week.Anyone that would not pull for a friend over a team that could care less about you (but likes your money) is beyond me.But some people have REAL best friends and some people have a little less.

My best friend is my wife and there's zero chance she'd bet against my team.

 

[DropKick]

Bet and root with your head, not over it.Your friend isn't doing either, so be a friend and tell him that he shouldn't be betting the mortgage.

Me... I'm keeping the dog and the Miller Lite.

 

[Silver & Black]

Come on man....

 

[Fragis Frodum]

Your best friend likes to bet on games. It's week 17 and your team needs to win to make the playoffs. It turns out your best friend has $5,000 riding on this game. He's had a bad year and could really use the money. The thing is, his bet is on the other team to win.

What do YOU root for? Do you root for your team knowing your buddy loses a big chunk of change or do you prefer he gets paid at the expense of your team missing the playoffs?

Does it change if it's a Super Bowl win? Does it change depending on amount of money involved?

I, being a real friend, slap the crap out of the idiot until he finds a way to get out of the bet.

Let's say he did it while he was drunk and can't get out of it.

Then lets say he's an idiot and deserves to have his best friend root against him.....

 

[Sheriff66]

Forget my friends, they are on their own.