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Originally Posted by CF84
Spoken like John Bean. What a silly take with no substance at all. Do you seriously believe that hockey would fail without alcohol and gambling ads?
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Remind me, how many years was it that the Saturday night show was called ‘Molson Hockey Night in Canada’?
Breweries have been major sponsors of televised sports pretty much since TV began. No, they wouldn't fail without them, but those ads have paid a lot of players' salaries over the years.
The gambling ads are ridiculous at the moment, as butterfly points out, because the companies are burning through cash trying to grab market share. It's like the dot-com boom: Google and Amazon made fortunes, but dozens of their competitors went bust. (Does anyone remember AskJeeves?) Most of these gambling businesses will end up out of business… but in the meantime we have to put up with the incredible volume of hype.
Or else, you know, not put up with it. I watched very little hockey on TV last season, partly because it got so annoying. As a former blackjack dealer who would not bet $5 that I am alive, I am 100% the wrong target to promote gambling to. Seems I'm not the only one.