Posted on 10/20/2021 9:13:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The NFL is spending $6.2 million to help expand programs to prevent or treat problem gambling across the country.
The league is launching a responsible betting initiative aimed at getting fans to set limits on their wagers, understand the risks of betting, and know where to get help if things get out of hand. It is partnering with the National Council on Problem Gambling to improve the group’s nationwide help line, create new treatment programs and expand existing ones, and educate football fans who gamble on how to do so responsibly.
A three-year effort will include in-game messaging, social media outreach, broadcast, print and in-stadium messaging. Some of it will target people who are too young to legally gamble but may feel tempted to do so.
More than 45 million Americans say they plan to bet on NFL games this year, according to the American Gaming Association, the casino industry’s national trade group. That’s an increase of 36% from last year.
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This stupid game show has been a farce ever since the players started using steroids in the 70s. The Steelers and Raiders were among the first teams to start using. If the Steelers weren’t so into juicing up in the 1970s, the Cowboys would have kicked their asses ... twice ... back then.
It is laughable that the NFL claims that the league is drug free. Even the QBs have log necks these days. Before you know it, kickers with mutant legs will be kicking 90 yard field goals like they’re going out of style.
Roid rage would also explain the beatings the wives/girlfriends/mistresses get from the super-awesome players of the stupidest league known to mankind ... though the NFL seems content to brush these kinds of things under the rug.
Studio wrastlin’ is more of a fair sport than the NFL football anymore. With the rule book the size of an old telephone book these days, a ref can basically call anything against any team on any play anymore. That’s a great tool to have to control the flow of a game should the team that’s supposed to lose gets a bit ornery and dare win the game (like the 2005 Seahawks in Super Bowel XL ... the “Jerome Bettis Memorial Gameshow” ... and no, I am not a “Sore Loserman :-) ... I just hate the frigging Steelers :-) ).
There are a couple of good, patriotic players left ... I hope they jump ship if some new league were to form. Playing for the NFL is like playing for a Soviet state-sponsored sporting team anymore.
Finally, I think we know why governments were all into funding frigging stupid playgrounds for these idiots. Nobody in their right mind would use public funds to build a $250M on up headquarters used no more than 20 times a year for adults playing a kid’s sport unless they wanted something big in return. The economic growth bullshit proponents of those frigging eyesores is so damn laughable that it hurts!
With the proliferation of online gambling sites, you can now lose your home in the comfort of your own home.
Kramer will take that action...
During the Braves game yesterday, mlb was letting Draft King show odds. At least I think that’s what those numbers were.
They should send me a million or I might bet irresponsibly…
Don’t make them send the boys around.
I’m watching the MLB playoffs and find they have “an official betting partner”! They’re running the odds live on the screen! I’m glad they’re steering away from known gamblers. Is Pete Rose banned from using MLB’s official betting partner? What’s the odds that that blown umpire call, dropped fly ball or gopher pitch wasn’t brought to you by another betting partner?
However, both the bookies and the casinos at that time, had their own unique methods of collecting their money.
I was an occasional big winner, but in the long run, the "juice" always won.
A bookie {or today the on line bookies} always collect the juice, which many young bettors are not even aware they are paying.
In the 60s, 70s and into the 80s, real cash traded hands, and you didn't miss a payoff {either way}.
The yutes today don't know {or appreciate} the fact that bet money is real money.
To them, it's bitcoin, or Mastercard or dad, but in the end, the collector cometh.
The gambling bug is lethal but telling a young kid about the realities is wasted breath.
Very good point. Per Roger Goddell in 2012 - “If gambling is permitted freely on sporting events, normal incidents of the game such as bad snaps, dropped passes, turnovers, penalties, and play calling inevitably will fuel speculation, distrust and accusations of point-shaving or game-fixing.”
Guess he’s changed his mind.
How about any Official calling a penalty when it counts?
Either way, offense or defense, and the whole game {point spread} will change.
Given what pro sports salaries are I don’t think there’s an margin it trying to bribe players to throw games. Most of the relatively recent gambling scandals in American sports involve college. Cause college kids are cheap to bribe. 10 grand, maybe 20 and they’ll do whatever. Rookie minimum salary in the NFL is $660,000 you don’t bribe somebody like that with 20 grand, and with what it would cost to bribe somebody at that pay there’s no way to turn the fudged bets profitable without bringing a lot of attention.
The law changed. Might as well make money on it.
I see a lotta know it alls in the sports pages letters who are probably prime suckers.
Sounds like the NFL wants to get in on the action...
I don’t even know where people go online to bet anymore, most stopped taking US customers or were extremely inconvenient to use from the US back during the Bush administration
Besides the obvious Vegas or AC
I’d bet it doesn’t have any impact...
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