How is it...

[coastal]

...that Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft can be invested in companies that are involved in gambling related to the league they own sports teams in?

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/07...?referer=&_r=0

DraftKings and FanDuel seduce men and women into a dream of instant wealth. A handful do achieve instant wealth; for most, this dream only worsens inequality. And should the N.F.L., which draws about $1 billion annually in taxpayers’ money, be encouraging average people to gamble even more — that is, to lose even more?
Now about the corporate backing. Comcast, Fox, Google, Time Warner, the N.B.A., Major League Baseball and the N.F.L. owners Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft have invested in FanDuel and DraftKings. Yahoo is preparing its own entry to the field.

[YardRat]

Because the NFL has become nothing but a huge ****ing joke.

[coastal]

Because the NFL has become nothing but a huge ****ing joke.

Completely agree.

Its a crap product.

[YardRat]

My wife just asked me yesterday "Why are you watching more college football?" "Because the NFL has become a corrupt, **** product."

[GvilleBills]

My wife just asked me yesterday "Why are you watching more college football?" "Because the NFL has become a corrupt, **** product."

True, I'll add
2. College football is awesome
3. Yard work is for summer

[Blondie]

OK .. But this is not just the NFL ..

Draftkings just signed multi million dollar contracts with MBL and NHL for advertising ..

I am not a gambler of sports as I watch it for fun, but this is pretty sick and twisted.

All these professional athletes are nothing more money markers for other people ...

The amount of injuries and abuse they put their bodies through .. Horrible...

No wonder Vick had dog fighting ring .. He related to it..

[SpikedLemonade]

My wife just asked me yesterday "Why are you watching more college football?" "Because the NFL has become a corrupt, **** product."

Kudos for having the discipline for not saying "I don't find you attractive anymore".

[coastal]

Not related to Draft Kings but is related to the disgusting mess that is the NFL...

I love me some Bradshaw. Gonna have a naked fish tank room just like him someday.

[Mr. Miyagi]

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I love me some Bradshaw. Gonna have a naked fish tank room just like him someday.

You know that was just a movie, right?

[trapezeus]

...that Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft can be invested in companies that are involved in gambling related to the league they own sports teams in?

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/07...?referer=&_r=0

DraftKings and FanDuel seduce men and women into a dream of instant wealth. A handful do achieve instant wealth; for most, this dream only worsens inequality. And should the N.F.L., which draws about $1 billion annually in taxpayers’ money, be encouraging average people to gamble even more — that is, to lose even more?
Now about the corporate backing. Comcast, Fox, Google, Time Warner, the N.B.A., Major League Baseball and the N.F.L. owners Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft have invested in FanDuel and DraftKings. Yahoo is preparing its own entry to the field.

it is absurd that you can get bills emails with a code to join one of these sites. and the fact that insiders are using the information to get a leg up makes the stories of the average guy doing well less likely.

i believe the decay in officiating and the rise of these sites with backing from the NFL is directly tied together.

[coastal]

You know that was just a movie, right?

Does it matter? It's worth aspiring to

[Dr. Lecter]

Technically and legally, these sites aren't conisdered gambling.

It's a silly loophole, but it exists.

[DynaPaul]

How is it that they buoy the same teams with sketchy officiating year after year?

[stuckincincy]

it is absurd that you can get bills emails with a code to join one of these sites. and the fact that insiders are using the information to get a leg up makes the stories of the average guy doing well less likely.

i believe the decay in officiating and the rise of these sites with backing from the NFL is directly tied together.

I agree.

[Ingtar33]

Not related to Draft Kings but is related to the disgusting mess that is the NFL...

I love me some Bradshaw. Gonna have a naked fish tank room just like him someday.

bravo terry bradshaw.

wow, thats the first time i saw that, i'm glad someone out there is saying this.

just a quote from the woman's police report

Hardy picked me up and threw me in the tile tub area of his bathroom. I have bruises from head to toe, including head, neck, back, shoulders, arms, legs elbow and feet. Hardy pulled me from the tub by my hair, screaming at me that he was going to kill me, break my arms and other threats that I completely believe. He drug me across the bathroom and out into the bedroom. Hardy choked me with both hands around my throat while I was lying on the floor. Hardy picked me up over his head and threw me onto a couch covered in assault rifles and/or shotguns. I landed on those weapons. Hardy bragged that all the assault rifles were loaded. Landing on those weapons bruised my neck and my back. Hardy screamed for his 'administrative assistant' (Sammy Curtis) to come into the room and hold me down. Curtis came into the room, grabbed me from behind and held me down. Hardy and Curtis then took me into the living room area. I wasn't nearly strong or fast enough to escape. I begged them to let me go & I wouldn't tell anyone what he did. They took me out into the hall, pushed me down & went back inside the apartment. I crawled to the elevator and ran into [Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department].

[psubills62]

Technically and legally, these sites aren't conisdered gambling.

It's a silly loophole, but it exists.

I read that the person/people who wrote the law did not intend it to apply to fantasy sports. Haven't read the law myself to know how true that would appear to be.

However, it appears that the gambling institutions in Vegas are very eager to have it labeled as gambling, and Vegas has deemed it as such. DraftKings apparently already had to obtain a gambling license in UK, and may need to do so here as well soon.

http://www.ibtimes.com/daily-fantasy...siness-2144507

Unfortunately, money talks, and there's a lot of money riding on keeping fantasy sports labeled as "not gambling." Of course, it's "legal loopholes" that govern these instead of common sense, which happens a little too often in this country.

[stuckincincy]

I read that the person/people who wrote the law did not intend it to apply to fantasy sports. Haven't read the law myself to know how true that would appear to be.

However, it appears that the gambling institutions in Vegas are very eager to have it labeled as gambling, and Vegas has deemed it as such. DraftKings apparently already had to obtain a gambling license in UK, and may need to do so here as well soon.

http://www.ibtimes.com/daily-fantasy...siness-2144507



Unfortunately, money talks, and there's a lot of money riding on keeping fantasy sports labeled as "not gambling." Of course, it's "legal loopholes" that govern these instead of common sense, which happens a little too often in this country.

Heh. One of my Senators, Sherrod Brown(D) has a hair up about payday lending and title lending. As does our Ohio AG, a silver spoon named Mike DeWine(R). "We must protect the people", etc. We all know the self-righteous screed.

Neither one utters a peep about the most usurious con game out there - state lotteries. There is no doubt that these fantasy sites are gambling sites. The pols are complaining because it makes a dent in their State's handle.

I remember when NYS started their lottery - 1970? - 50-cent tickets - I think the top prize was 50K. They said it was the way to combat numbers rackets and all that crime and have betting $ go for the public good and help those with a problem, but anyone with at least two brain cells knew that they were itching to get a cut of the action.

[Mace]

My wife just asked me yesterday "Why are you watching more college football?" "Because the NFL has become a corrupt, **** product."

"because you aren't amusing me, you never wear the costumes anymore and I can't fit in mine."

[Historian]

[jamze132]

Technically and legally, these sites aren't conisdered gambling.

It's a silly loophole, but it exists.

For now...