I miss watching sports without being bombarded with betting stuff.

#WhatAreWeDoing

April 12, 2026 - 00:09 UTC

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And N-I-L has killed college sports.
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I like the players getting compensated for their play. But it feels like more pro leagues. Especially CFB and CBB.
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watch rugby instead...
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I got into AFL this year, actually! Lol
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It's like watching the start of the opioid epidemic all over again. A bunch of peddlers getting rich and singing the praises of their product as one life after another is destroyed by their own addiction. The snowball is growing.

Will Kevin Hart and the rest become the next Sackler family?
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I would actually welcome back the old beer and blue pill commercials...
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The beer commercials were mostly fun, sometimes thought-provoking, sometimes brought me to tears or to snorting out loud in glee... but betting ads just say, "Here comes another sucker we can suck dry..."
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It is so over the top digusting actually how pervasive it is. Well said Sully
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I hate all the gambling advertisements.
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How many more do you think you’ll see during this game? I say 5; wanna take the over or the under?
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Hammer the over lol
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And the completely predictable corruption investigations are started, with some charges being filed
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Just ask Jontay Porter!
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Amen!!!!
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Honestly, gambling should be treated like other addictions, especially when it comes to advertising. I’m old enough to remember when they stopped cigarette advertising.
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i miss watching sports without being bombarded with politics stuff.

#WhatAreWeDoing
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Also valid!
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The upcoming problem will be the same but for watching news. The "prediction markets" platforms are embedding themselves more and more with news outlets in a "win-win" partnership, the Business News reported recently.
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Betting ruins sport. Period.
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Same here in Oz…..and our govts are addicted to their revenue so we wait for reform. 🙏🙏❤️💙
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Same with Politics and War news. Everyone wants to bet on everything, 24/7/366. Sick perversion.
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Seriously tho! But it's also always been around it use to be more quiet
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Just as bad as cigarette adverts.
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I’m a bit young (1992) to know too much about cigarette ads but I feel like gambling ads are worse.
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There’s no escaping the ads! Just pushing gambling addiction down our throats!! Bring back the beer commercials!
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I've solved that problem by stopping watching most sports. It's actually been healthy as I have a deep suspicion about their sponsorship.
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I honestly wish I could stop. I just love sports too much.
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It’s EVERYWHERE! So disgraceful and disgusting!
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Ohio may ban it since it led to two cleveland pitchers getting charged for rigging pitches. Almost like it's a problem...
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American greed, personified.
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Agreed wholeheartedly, legalized gambling ruined sports. Now there's possible corruption in various sports making it unapealing
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I’d say the possible corruption had been there from long back. It’s just easier to find now.

So I guess that’s a positive?
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Amen. It makes me feel empty to watch the faux ‘thrill’ of betting. People’s lives are being ruined. Not to mention sport itself.
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Thank israel
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Can’t figure why the addiction cases have increased.
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Right?!? It’s really not a good thing.
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💯
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The same can be said about weight loss drugs.
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Hey, @jcsalterego.bsky.social. Is this what it’s like to be BlueSky famous?
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nice. yes, although there's no one yelling at you (yet)
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Hear That. It’s fkg awful.
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Me too.
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Result, for me... I am watching MUCH LESS SPORT..........
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Same. Especially with kids in the room.
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I get creeped out by the betting ads that show people wrapped up in the betting, and the enjoyment of watching the sport is really secondary now. The ads are smooshed in at every available opportunity. It’s also really disappointing to see some of the celebrities who are shilling for these companies
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Yeah! Trying to get people into sports via betting is disgusting imo
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Gambling is corrosive. This will not end well.
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💯
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Agreed. I'm sick of it.
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Gambling has been around since before sports, so that's not going away. But I wholeheartedly believe that if you want to gamble on sports you should at least have to leave your house, preferably to deal with a man with no neck who will fuck up way more than your credit score if you get outta hand.
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I quit watching. Period.
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Bring back Viagra ads
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Well - I can remember boycotting Neilson products because they pushed infant formula where mothers needed to breastfeed. Loved their Dairy Milk bars.
We may love gambling but if we boycott in game never-ending betting it could cut down the revenue - and you know where that could lead...
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It’s very frustrating. And problematic.
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Me too, I hate it. We'll have a major gambling issue before long & people will wonder why@
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We have that in Australia as well. So much so that it’s now a feature
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ABSOLUTELY! The leagues should ban those ads on any broadcasts of their games. It’s disgraceful.
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I miss not knowing that a majority of the people that play the sports I love are freaking MAGA supporters.
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Next? Use your betting app to pick the pharma med that will generate the most revenue in the next quarter.
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That's called the Stock Market.
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It really is annoying. I mean, even the announcers are getting in on the action. There's probably a hundred bookies who did time wishing they had came along now.
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Loud white men are awful. So much postering.
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Legal sports gambling will be the downfall of this country
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They're banning harmless nicotine pouches everywhere, even though they provenly reduce deadly smoking. But betting, run by crime and designed to ruin millions, gets less regulation by the year.
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Same
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So true..
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I know, right? I truly feel it's ruined sports. They can all be betting on games they have some control over. Makes everything sus.
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Definitely!
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Betting is driving me away from sports.
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I'd rather have beer ads like they used to have.
If alcohol ads are banned because they're +18yo only then why not Betting ads?!
Why not splash porn at us for that matter? 🤔
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Thanks for saying this. The whole presentation of sports is turning toward enticing people to bet on every flipping thing in the game. Way too much discussion of over/under, etc.
It was a bad thing for my state to legalize gambling. Young men especially seem to get sucked in to their detriment.
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Jam alcohol and cigarettes into people and steal their paychecks through legal gambling... keeps everyone poor
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Sports teams are now gambling enterprises. It is revolting.
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How can the sportwriters keep Pete Rose and Joe Jackson out of the Hall of Fame when MLB is all in with the professional gamblers?
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YouTube started pushing gambling ads at me (and I don’t even watch sport) so I went into Google ad settings and turned off gambling ads in the sensitive ads section.
I rarely watch TV any more.
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I miss the days when half of the ads for baseball were for male penile enhancements
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Real
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March Madness was a breath of fresh air. Not one gambling ad. No percentages of a team winning. It was heaven.
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Same
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Sports betting, the down fall of legitimate sports.
Betting site phone calls -
"Hey ref, 3 pi on number xyz for 150k"
"Hey goalie, let in 3 or more for 200k"
"Hey basketball ball player, 4 or less 3 pointers for 100k"
"Hey Ump, call first pitch a strike for 75k"
Who wouldn't want quick easy $$$
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Can’t stop thing about Pete Rose for some reason. You know what this shithole country needs more of? Gambling addiction.
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You too? I’ll lay you 5 to 1 the post won’t get 1,000 likes…
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Counterpoint: give me even one interstitial
betting odds update over all of the narrative-based talking head dribble from the jocks in the booth, because the former is actually useful and informs about the current game state.
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Especially discouraging with baseball. Minor leaguers have been banned for betting on sports other than baseball, yet we're constantly pushed to bet while watching games.
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A world-wide phenomena ...

Money buys you anything!!🤬🤑
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Me too!
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Oh wow, another reason to love skateboarding!
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Part of the perks of going to a game in person
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You betcha!
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Indeed, money ruins sports
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I'll bet you are.
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I miss watching sports not being fixed by betting stuff.
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It drives me nuts. I sigh in disgust at every single commercial. My kids (ages 16 and 19) didn’t even realize that gambling addiction is a thing. As a society, we will pay for this.
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Legalized gambling is late stage capitalism extracting the remaining wealth from lower and middle class. Sadly, it works.
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Fact
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Oh, AMEN!
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And endless ads for other stuff I'll never buy or use.
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This post is brought to you by DraftKings, Bet MGM, PrizePicks, FanDuel, Kashi, and Polymarket.
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And BetRivers, bet365, Caesars Sportsbook!
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You mean because it makes it all seem like the most important thing is money?
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Exactly! It’s no wonder we have a major betting (gambling) problem!!! Anything and Everything for the Money! I’m sick of it too! 😤
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Lutnick has his dirty hands in that, doesn't he?
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Wouldn’t be surprised if he and many others do
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or truck and beer ads too
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It’s a sickness.
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Gambling is mob rule.
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Bryson and the martians … and he missed the cut …
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One thing that I DON'T understand is why they show so many betting site commercials on Sportsnet Pacific (aimed at BC).
BC does NOT allow online betting sites besides Playnow (government run site).
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Yeah. That’s another gripe I have with sports betting in general.

Literal “read the room” situation.
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10- 1 says you don’t 😂😂
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I see what you did there. But my (short and sad) betting history would disagree with you.
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Redsox game MLB recorded...three clicks between batters, 14 clicks between innings, and 12 between pitcher changes eliminates the inane banter. That makes the game shorter and much more enjoyable. Sorry OB and the guy in the Middle. I liked Orsillo and Remy and then others like Youkilis.
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Ditto, recording baseball games are great.
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Same. It needs to be stopped.
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I agree. If we weren’t in the authoritarian takeover of America’s life, I’d say we need to ban together and protest sports until it’s over. But sports is the only thing I’ve got left to enjoy in this timeline.
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You don’t get this over in the UK - just one of the countries that recognized long ago how harmful enabling gambling is
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Lmao wrong. Paddy power and bet 365 are constantly advertised during sports on ad breaks. More than half of the premier league teams have front of shirt gambling sponsors. Are you just making this up?
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I was pretty disappointed when MLB got an official prediction market “partner”. What could possibly go wrong with the ability to bet on every pitch.
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FanDuel has its own network.

There’s only one way they got the money to do that.
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It’s the freaking worst. I hate it. This is wrecking something so many people enjoy and taking advertising money and selling addiction. STOP.
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So, so much.
It’s hideous.
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It's everywhere. Makes me sick. Gambling in sports will breed more cheating and dumb down sports all together.
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Or if not cheating, you wonder if they are cheating
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It’s the drug the billionaires have become the dealer of. Knowing that 95% of bettors on the sites lose
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💯
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Same. And feel really bad for anyone with a gambling addiction. It's non stop.
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Me, too!
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How old is All About the Benjamins?
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It’s atrocious. Little kids watch sports and are being educated in how to be losers. We must change these laws.
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I just watch highlights the next day on YouTube. Amazing that every major play in a 3 hour football game can be watched in under 15 min.
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I’m a sicko so I like watching momentum swings in real time lol
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Thank @albomp.bsky.social for doing sod all to stop it
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We’re betting on sports duh
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