Just reminds me of Clinton's doomed attempts to pronounce "Yzerman".
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Originally Posted by Philly06Cup
In an ideal world, gambling can be a healthy hobby. With the NFL, fantasy football in particular has made the NFL infinitely more watchable; gambling can also make sports viewing more enjoyable.
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See, I don't get this. Fantasy football or hockey or whatever, sure, but the incremental enjoyment there is that there's a social aspect to it of trash talking with your friends, having a get together to do a draft, trades, and so on. I even get an emotional hedge - if your team is in game 7 and you know it's going to hurt if they lose, betting on the enemy to take the edge off. And of course I get betting on something purely to make money because you like the odds.
But the whole "MAKE EVERY GAME FEEL LIKE A GAME 7" thing they advertise, as if by putting monetary stakes on anything you can make it important to you, that is just so... troubling to me. You're trying to trick yourself into caring about a game you wouldn't otherwise even watch, or trying to force a dopamine hit when something that otherwise would not matter to you pays out 50 bucks or whatever? Yeesh... Find a new hobby; that's just pathetic.