If you can’t watch a sport without a wager, then you’re into gambling, not sports.
How exciting is horse racing on its own? (It isn’t)
I fucking love horse racing man, and no i dont gamble (anymore lol)
doing it or watching it?
Watching, or going to the racetrack is awesome, i love going to the stables and seeing the horses before they race, but i watch on TV too.
The horsies are very cool and neat! Love seeing them doing their best
Yup, I fell into the sports gambling world for a few years. I originally just played fantasy football and thought it was fun then quickly started gambling on each fantasy season which then just became gambling each game and then became gambling on sports I didn’t watch like golf.
I was able to break the addiction but I cannot watch any sports anymore do to a fear of falling into that all again. Its actually nice to not to give a fuck about these rich athletes anymore and just enjoying things I can do.
In case you still thought the sports industry isn’t evil…
Practically all sports stars are perfectly happy to advertise and work with scummy companies (like aforementioned gambling companies), and countries like Israel or UAE. As long as they’re paid nice money.
Same for sports events. They’ll all happily take money to advertise billionaire pedophiles’ companies or terror states.
It’s almost impossible to spend any money on sports-related events or merchandise without supporting gambling or contributing towards genocide. Maybe some local ones? Maybe…?
I’d wager the majority of people trying to get into professional sports is because of the money.
also because of sports
All I needed to know was to pay attention to the terminology and optics of NFL drafts and the power dynamics following it. The fact that those in power are a-okay with problematic stuff like that, strongly suggests they have skewed ethics and likely apply that ethos everywhere.
I switched to UK streams of F1 for this exact reason. It’s out of hand.
I just paid for F1TV via an Indian Apple account. Very cheap and better commentary than SkySports. Plus it has extra analysis videos.
I stopped watching F1 2 or 3 races in this year. has it improved? the constant pass and repass is boring and not what F1 is supposed to be in my opinion.
It’s still that sadly, they tried fixing it with new rules mid season and it slightly got better but it’s still the same more or less
that’s a shame, truly. it is what it is. there plenty of more interesting series like WEC and IMSA and WRC I think are more fun to watch at this point.
Sports betting is huge in the UK though.
But its advertising is regulated even if the industry itself is allowed to do whatever they want outside of the advertising restrictions.
So you won’t get constantly blasted for advertisements to bet while watching.
Huh, interesting. I didn’t know that. I thought it was similar to Australia, where the betting services do advertise.
They can advertise, they’re just not so in-your-face and will have links to Gamble Aware as part of the advert.
I think they can only advertise after the watershed which will be in the evenings. So for a live event during the day they can’t advertise.
Let’s all cut cable TV.
Oh wait, I already did.
The only reason I have cable TV is it was literally cheaper to get it packaged with my Internet than just getting the Internet alone.
My internet and cable are provided for free by my complex. I never even plugged the cable box in.
Interesting backwards.
For me it’s literally cheaper to pay for cable than buy the sports subscriptions. I don’t watch sports, thus I don’t have cable.
I’ve never had cable in my entire life. Parents never paid for it, and I got so sick of watching planes crash into buildings 25 years ago that I stopped watching it entirely. It didn’t take long before advertising drove me crazy, and I’ve never been back.
I’ve been arguing with strangers online ever since. I should get back into books.
I’m a straight old dude and I don’t enjoy sports or gambling.
Bit fruity. Happy Pride!
Yea. I never understood why people go insane over it pay stupid prices to go watch.
But I did gamble once, iirc, foot Germany vs Ukraine, i believe i made like 100€
pay stupid prices to go watch
As a non-sports fan, my very first football game was in box seats that we won tickets to. The whole experience was brilliant. It was just a constant party the entire day, and it helps that this stadium is basically in the middle of a residential neighborhood 10/10 would absolutely drive for hours in game day traffic and sit in the open air stadium in January when it’s below zero out for that vibe again
Yes exactly that i dont understand, at all. Watching a game is already boring, but doing so outside in cold? Fuck no lol
I watch only torrents of sporting events and all the commercials are removed.
It’s amazing 99% of the time. 1% of the time I discover the result prematurely.
Which reminds me, time to watch game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals after I hit send, or I’ll blunder across the results.
Meanwhile, Pete Rose is still not in the Hall of Fame.
Yea man I barely see any beer commercials anymore. Won’t anyone think of the alcohol companies??
What sport are you watching? That’s literally the other commercial.
Sports are completely not interesting to me, so gambling would be maybe the only option to get me thrill from this
You just described the 99% of sports fans nowadays, at work a bunch of dudes who hated sports in high school would skip practice and go smoke or something instead, now they spend their entire weekends gambling on football.
I will say, sports are fucking amazing beautiful and great for your health, and you don’t need any tv or screens at all to participate in them. IMHO nothing better than going to a local high school game and cheering on the kids. Some of them are actually pretty good! But it’s like anything else, hollywood doesn’t define what acting is, top chef doesn’t define what cooking is, and NFL doesn’t define what sports are either. Fuck whats on tv go out and experience something for yourself IRL.
I thinks most sports aren’t interesting to anyone if they are honest with themselves.
For me, watching soccer is fun sometimes because I used to play a lot. I get to compare my experience to a professional one. But even then, I’m not an avid fan. I don’t follow any teams or know player names etc.
What’s weird to me is so many people watching sports they’ve never even considered playing.
Have you watched hockey? I struggle to fathom why everyone doesn’t love it!
Right? I love hockey. I played field hockey in most of my school years and it was a lot of fun. Ice hockey is similar, it’s fast paced and exciting to watch.
I also enjoy catching other sports from time to time; rugby, football, soccer, basketball, and cricket. Even if I don’t understand all the rules, it’s fun watching folks play games with skill.
Low effort comic from someone who buys upvotes on Reddit. Keep that pay-to-win shit on Reddit.
I’m far from a pizzacake fan, but this is the stance you take? Like, my dude, it’s a comic, almost in it’s purist form. You’d probably see something almost exactly like this in a 100 year old newspaper archive.
This isn’t Reddit.
Source?
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As usual, what a poignant observation from pizzacake.
As usual, what a intelligent observation from a talking vegetable.
As usual, what a moist observation from a Tremors knock off.
Found it! I knew there would be one.
It’s funny how I don’t need to clarify that it’s sarcasm for people to know that it is.
Sports gambling is so fun though. If I cant catch the fight I can just put $100 on my favorite fighter and its the same satisfaction as if I watched it live. If I dont think my favorite fighter will win I can put $1000 on him losing and it softens the pain of seeing him getting slimed out cold.Plus you basically get paid to gamble.
Haha nice bait
it is bait but I also do gamble and enjoy it
Caught a master baiter in the wild.
I don’t like that comic artist. Can’t we find something better to repost?
What are you even doing here then?
I’m going to continue voicing my disapproval every time I see them in the feed because I believe some of her audience to be progressives which can generally be reasoned with.
As an added bonus it pisses off Tankies, which is something I love doing.
Here we go again. This sub is going to be dead within a year.
TBH the more communities we move off of Lemmy, the better. World admins are moral and financial supporters of Desalines so they’re no better than tankies in my book.
And… never experienced anything like this online. Not a universal experience.
Dude I got gambling ads on YouTube, on videos for kids of all places.
It’s just toxic. I can’t imagine!
Depends on location, platform, and whether or not you have an ad-blocker enabled.
The other day my roommate wanted to show me a video on their phone and got 3 ads before the video played. Alcohol, gambling, then alcohol again.
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