Today's gambling apparatus that allows people to lose their life savings from apps on their phones on their couch is pure evil. That said anyone who threatens professional athletes based on their gambling losses is pure garbage.
Whatever it is, its pure. I got some snark when I said no one likes NFL who doesn't bet on it in some form. With the entire world as our forum for entertainment, having that extra giveaschitter of gambling is maybe what is needed to keep people engaged (from a marketing standpoint).
All the worlds vices are the same way. Great in moderations and horrendous when not. Imagine if you could masturbate for money/sport? The world would cease to exist in two weeks.
Its called 'Gambling' sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, thats the name of the game.
Oh for sure but I have seen some truely inexplicable decisions made. Not to mention own goals.
Imagine you had money on the Oilers to win it all and Steve Smith scores that own goal. Blame is pretty squarely on his shoulders for a massive screw up and the loss.
Little different from just having a bad game or a depleted roster
Oh for sure but I have seen some truely inexplicable decisions made. Not to mention own goals.
Imagine you had money on the Oilers to win it all and Steve Smith scores that own goal. Blame is pretty squarely on his shoulders for a massive screw up and the loss.
Little different from just having a bad game or a depleted roster
My favourite of all time was in the English FA Cup, some minnow team barely had enough players and so their Goalie Coach was also their backup Goaltender on the bench.
Someone placed a bet that he'd eat a meat-pie on the bench, of course he got wind of that, placed some money and brought a meat-pie with him to the game.
Now...obviously that bet was invalidated and I believe he lost his job, but I thought it was hilarious!
The English will bet on anything.
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Reminds me of when Kristaps Porzingis lost a fan a $76k bet.
$100 bet on a 4-way parlay for the first scorer in NBA games. Somehow got the first 3 correct, then Porzingis got the ball down low and he missed the most basic wide-open layup. Porzingis reached out and sent him a signed jersey with an apology.
They don't have e-transfers in the UK either, you have to send people your "sort code" and they send money to your account that way.
I wonder if people just threaten to Venmo athletes in Instagram DM's or something and the story got twisted, otherwise yeah I don't think you can do it without a proper email.
The Online-Betting Boom Is Ruining Sports—and Lives
In only two years, online betting has changed the face of Canadian sports, lit up gambling addiction hotlines and siphoned billions of dollars from fans to industry and governments. It’s just getting started.
Wait, can other Americans speak to this? That can't be real, can it?
Zelle is probably more popular than venmo. Maybe. And they do not talk to each other. If your bank does venmo, you can't send to someone whose bank is Zelle.
Would be like if RBC was was a different e-transfer format than BMO, so you can't send money from one to the other.
It is strange
