Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society. That’s up from 34% in 2022. And 40% of adults now say it’s a bad thing for sports, up from 33%.
Despite these increasingly critical views of legal sports betting, many Americans continue to say it has neither a bad nor good impact on society and on sports. Fewer than one-in-five see positive impacts.
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Duh. Gambling ruins everything it touches, just like the larger obsession with speculation that has ruined every market/industry.
Just because we can do something, doesn’t mean we should.
because it is
How long until a deranged gambler attacks an athlete because the athlete “cost” the degenerate gambler money?
Yeah, well, unfortunately too many of the shittiest people make money off it now and it’s never going to go away.
I think it needs heavier restrictions. If you can’t show someone drinking a beer on tv you shouldn’t be able to show someone placing a bet and celebrating. Or make it like cigarettes, no ads at all.
I’d also be more okay with it if it publicly owned like the lottery and the ‘profits’ actually went back to society instead of wallstreet.
Likely none of these things will happen
Guess California voters were smart when they voted no to allowing sports betting a few years back.
They got ripped for it but looking back, it was smart.
It is a bad thing. Gambling ads need to be banned like cigarette ads.
Is there a way to profit off the coming sports gambling debt crisis?
I think if you complain about your parlays in public you should be fined very heavily.
Gambling addicts ruin everything in their lives. Their relationships. Their children’s education. Their spouses can’t trust them. They corrupt sports.
I hate the commercials for it especially the Underdog AI commercial
I don’t have a problem with sports betting per se, but the ability for people to do it on their phones makes shit way too easy for addicts to get out of hand with it. Barrier for entry needs to be higher.
But but they always have that phone number to call if you have an addiction to gambling? Are people stupid?
It’s the advertising more than the actual gambling. Every sport, every tv show, YouTube channel or anything related to sports is now sponsored by a gambling website. It’s impossible to get away from unless you move away from watching entirely
I’m just waiting on the protest, tired of seeing this bullshit corrupt the youth (also in Hockey)
I don’t give a fuck about people choosing to gamble but the way it’s permeated into every facet of every sport and the UNGODLY amount of ads is aggravating as hell
I enjoy betting on sports and was a big proponent of legalization but it has gone waaay overboard
There is no need to be able to bet on 10,000 different things per game and play by play outcomes
Yep, hate everything about it. I especially hate hearing ads on my favorite youtube channels because I know they need that money to succeed, but it’s ruining the integrity of every league.
[I’ll plug Drew Goodens video ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlMLfxxvKD8)everytime it’s brought up. It highlights how addictive these companies purposely make their products. From algorithmic manipulation to push notifications.
Sports betting as a thing, to me, is whatever. It’s your life, do what you want. My issue lie in the extreme lack of restrictions around the thing. No 10 year old should know what draft kings is, but if they watch ANY kind of sports related content, including the sports themselves, they are intimately familiar with it.
Oh man I shouldn’t have taken the under on this poll result
Cause it is. Every sport is becoming a worse product due to sports betting.
It’s a plague on all our houses tbh
Luckily it’s the owners in society that make these decisions for us.
Yeah it was illegal in most places for a reason
This debate/problem has legit been going on since professional sports became a mainstream leisure entertainment activity in Victorian England.
Gambling ALWAYS fucks up stuff and especially sports. And it’s not even as much about the rigging or whatever, it’s more so just how gambling is almost always a pipeline to some larger form of racketeering.
but amazon says …..hold my beer….you can connect fan duel to live games to show your bets on screen
All of this is very recent when it comes to the national aspect but you’ve already seen multiple stories on families being broken up due to someone losing all their money on Fan Duel or whatever. It will only take what was only able to happen in Vegas to a whole new level and it will be extremely detrimental on a large scale.
I found some newfound respect for Kai-Cenat because apparently he was offered $60M for a gambling sponsorship a few years ago and he turned it down because he didn’t want to represent gambling to his viewers.
It’ll take more like him to help deter the younger crowd from getting involved but this is also very much like smoking. Lot of people say smoking is down but it’s not down, it’s just turned into vaping. All the mobile sports gambling shit is vaping to casinos being cigarettes.
Legalization doesn’t solve the problems of prohibition unless it is backed up with regulation
Their ads cover up like 10-15 seconds of gameplay post commercial break too
Gambling will always be dirty business, unless it’s regulated to absolute shit and back. Not surprised everyone is seeing the negative effects of widespread gambling as it’s proliferated since legalisation across many states.
These gambling sites aren’t doing it for the lols
This culture of greed is so fucked. Can we stop rewarding sociopathic behaviors already
I don’t understand why LeBron, Brady, the Mannings, Gretzky, etc., etc., don’t get more shit for shamelessly advertising for these books. Sports betting is pretty much objectively bad for society.
My biggest grievance with sports betting is it makes talking about the sport so boring and one dimensional. Any time I try to talk basketball with my friend who used to be a hardcore fan of the actual game, all I hear about any more is overs and unders. It’s so annoying.
He used to be a huge Clippers fan and I remember when Kawhi came back, first game last year I messaged him “yoo Kawhi is cooking!” and the first thing he said is “yeah good thing I took the over!” I just didn’t reply
it is absolutely mind blowing to me that the live spread gets advertised in game. that is such a slippery slope for every robe involved