Not to be preaching, but I think the glorification of online gambling is a bad thing. Seemed to be better when gambling was left for Vegas and Atlantic City, plus some illegal parlays. My stepson wasn’t a gambler previously, but now he plays weekly. I don’t think it’s out of control, but that can change quickly. It’s just too darn easy to do. While I love many things about the internet, there are just as many negatives. Not just with gambling either. It controls too much of our lives and people aren’t as productive or creative as they once were.
As an addict - It's intentional. The NFL knows it can't sell you meth, so it will bring on board anything it knows has a chance to get someone hooked on dopamine surrounding the league. Some apps have weekly or monthly limits and limits to how much you can put in during a certain time limit. And changing the settings once you put them in makes you wait a week, which is more than enough time to feel guilty and change them back. I use Fanduel personally.
As to your old man shouting at the clouds internet bit - I'm going to totally disagree.
The internet is what you make of it. Look at puppy videos and you get an algorithm of cuteness. Look for vices and you get vices. The problem is the internet makes access to either instantaneously, and people are more likely to think through a negative action if they have to actively get up and go to acquire their vice.
for creativity... My man you just need to look for it. My kid watches the "brain rot" and it's truly someofff the most off the wall nonsense that comes from ridiculously unchecked creativity. I know very little about video making, but from what I doknow is theree are people working hours to make an AI shark with shoes do... Whatever it does.
We might be too old to understand most of it, but there is more access to creativity than ever before. Just off the top of my head - check outa best offAs Harry Mack compilation. Hell, even fricken skibi toilet becomes a kaiju movie after the first handful of shorts.
Really makes this performance by Terry Rozier look fishy in hindsight.
The bar is now set. Anyone who has a real poor showing in a game needs to be investigated. 99% of the time it's probably a bad game, but sports can't afford that 1%.
I know you’re being tongue-in-cheek with your comment, but that second turnover specifically… Rozier was already running back on defense the moment the ball left his hands. FYI the game was from March of earlier this year. I’ve heard Celtics fans ripping him for his poor Game 7 performance against the Cavs in 2018, but that was well before the advent of online sports gambling. It was actually just Rozier being ***. But that clip I shared looked too blatant.
I actually wasn't trying to. Knowing what we know NOW about Rozier, that clip does look fishy. Historically if a person said Rozier was throwing that game, it's brushed off and laughed at as a semi-unrealistic possibility. In today's world that same claim now has some meat to it and could be worth looking into.
Players are still going to have bad games, but now when allegations are made they won't be as easily dismissed.
Hearing the NCAA is going to let college athletes bet on professional sports starting Nov 1st, I worry about what we will see creep into game. While NCAA athletes can't bet on college, it doesn't mean there won't be a situation where their play can't get them out of gambling losses.
I know you're kind of prone to conspiracies and clandestine Oz-behind-the-curtain stuff, but you're not out of place here. I didn't know they were doing this with games when I heard about the scandal. This is becoming a monthly event.
I don't trust these ****ers anymore. Why would I?
I mean, that thing with the smashing of the videotapes by the NFL upthread. It used to be my goodwill and faith was rock solid. This ****? They've given me fiat goodwill in place of my bedrock beliefs. Watch it inflate and totally lose value. And then when that **** loses all belief, it's like the Weimar wheelbarrows of currency, only for sport.
These greedy morons. They're not just killing the golden goose, they're putting their hands up their own asses and trying to pull their taint through it like it's a golden egg.
Totally agree, the NFL doesn't need this. They have a license to print money. Maintaining the integrity of the game should be their focus right now. That probably means cleaning up some of the officiating. Will the NFL actually care enough to do it? Probably not.
In all reality, the NFL has shown it can weather any controversy and still make a profit. Remember the guys who burned their jerseys over Keapernick? How much do you want to bet that most of them have bought another one since?
You can prove that the entire game is rigged and you give the NFL a few years to rebrand as the WWE of professional sports and it'll be bigger than before. The idea of "the NFL is scripted" has been something I've heard for twenty years at least.
@rockaction the phrase "fiat good will" is probably the best thing I've heard this month. I'm going to need to drop that in a conversation.
