There’s your make up call.
there’s your make up call to your make up call
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the reason it’s believable when people talk about the refs rigging the games is because you can make a legit claim that a penalty should be called on every single play of the game.
we just all operate under the naïve assumption that the ones they miss every single play are just at random.
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Yes because the league hates parity and meaningful week 18 games, so of course they’re going to rig this game for the Chiefs. O_o
what about the chiefs week 18 game is meaningful?
ftr- i dont really think the nfl actively rigs games. i think it’s silly to think that the refs couldn’t rig them if they wanted to. and they certainly have incentive to massage the outcomes to their advantage.
Chiefs will still be playing for the one seed and the bye if they lose this. If they win they can rest their starters in week 18.
This is why sports betting needs to be reigned in or the perceived integrity will diminish.
Agree on rigging at large, but the no call against the Saints was definitely an f you to Payton.
I try not to think too much about refs and live betting.
i mean sports betting is probably going to wreck the country. college kids and younger are massively addicted already and it isn’t even fully legal everywhere. the transfer of money to these corporations is going to cause havoc on the economy. people are estimating 100s of billions of dollars per year will be lost in the coming years.
there needs to be MASSIVE overhaul on it, and they are going to become too powerful lobbying wise for it to happen if it doesn’t happen soon. we’re likely fucked.
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Fuck off Mahones/Reid.
How is transfer of money of people being stupid giving money to corporations going to wreck the economy when that is the economy?
ie, the worst of the companies that sell random overpriced crap on TV are still doing it.
if anything the argument is backwards, a lot of the offshore money is now spent here.
a transfer upwards of 66billion per year now, likely to double or maybe even triple in coming years isn’t nothing. a 1/3rd of the population of the country doesn’t even have legal access yet. the moneyball/big short writer guy is estimating closer to 3-4 hundred billion per year lost.
young people are going to go bankrupt in droves. there are predatory ads on tv convincing people they don’t even need to know sports to get in on the action. there is an entire streaming service devoted to preying on teenagers and funneling them to online gambling.
trying to compare the scale of this to something like a trumpy bear on tv is silly.
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LOL punting there
Nice that the eye in the sky stepped in and called that chiefs catch a no catch
Oh wait
It tilts me anytime I see celebrities on those ads.
Predatory ads on tv convincing people to spend money on things they don’t need or pay way more is literally every ad on television. I don’t disagree with the point it’s just your point is a long long long long looooong list.
People like gambling on stuff and are going to do it. I like how poker works in Texas: The house is not allowed to take a cut, but can facilitate peer to peer gambling and charge a reasonable fee.
Basically legalize polymarket clones and ban the ads. Allowing gamblers access to ~neutral EV lines is harm reduction. What we have now where punters get destroyed by DraftKings blasting ads for 25%+ rake SGPs and they can ban anyone with a pulse (and that’s the only way to make money after taxes and ad fees) is about the worst way to go about it.
Applying a sin tax to gambling doesn’t even reduce quantity demanded in the same way as with traditional “bads” like alcohol and probably increases the societal harm.
Usage definitely goes down when things are banned and not freely available.
anyway, how bad is PIT when KC easily covered the spread.
I know the NFL would probably do something about it but if you’re Houston, is it worth trying for the 3 seed vs the 4? I’d be firing in backups, merry xmas. Enjoy Davis Mills.
when’s the last time you saw a cigarette ad on tv. solutions are easy.
eta- just ban all gambling advertising. force the companies to be transparent on lines and rake particularly on parlays and prop bets and do what they are doing to porn websites to the gambling websites, require them to run ID databases to verify users ages on signup.
Pretty poor decision to not go for it there for Houston.