Redskins offer Betting-focused Preseason Games
[Healing from DRJ]
Redskins to offer gambling-focused preseason telecast:
The Washington Redskins will become the first NFL team to have a gambling-focused telecast of their games, offering cash prizes to viewers who correctly predict in-game outcomes during the preseason.
The telecasts on the regional cable network NBC Sports Washington will follow a formula established by the Redskins’ NBA neighbors, the Washington Wizards. The Wizards, however, offered the free-to-play contests during the regular season, while the Redskins will have them only during the four preseason games, when NBC Sports Washington has TV rights.
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Starting the interactive telecasts now allows the network to be ready when legal online or mobile sports betting becomes available in its viewing area, Phillips said. The network in theory could accept real-time wagers on proposition bets offered during the telecast if it partnered with a sportsbook.
— DRJ
I wonder how Pete Rose feels about this. Or Major League Baseball.
Kevin M (21ca15) — 8/7/2019 @ 12:24 pmI see nothing good coming from this.
Colliente (05736f) — 8/7/2019 @ 12:30 pmI still miss the lottery in Oregon where you could play NFL football cards with the return based on guessing all winners for a certain number of games (vs the spread of course) , the more games the bigger payoff.
I don’t even know if they still do it but I loved it cause it actually requires skill and not scratching off the correct coconut or whatever.
It’s the only lottery I ever played regularly because in my case (came out ahead) it wasn’t what I consider just about every other lottery to be, supplemental taxes on people with poor math skills.
harkin (58d012) — 8/7/2019 @ 1:16 pmSo it’s not bad enough that the NFL is ruining their sport by pandering to the fantasy football crowd, they now have to pander to the degenerate gamblers too. I guess nobody should care any longer about something as old fashioned as the final score.
Looks like I’m going to have Sunday afternoons free this fall.
JVW (54fd0b) — 8/7/2019 @ 1:20 pmFantasy football is fun but it hurt my enjoyment of the game because “fans” quit caring if their team won, only whether certain players did well. Now caring about the team — and whether the players play as a team — seems so old-fashioned.
DRJ (15874d) — 8/7/2019 @ 1:33 pmWorse yet, now people will quit caring about wins and only care about beating the spread. A loss can still be a win. What is the point of that?
DRJ (15874d) — 8/7/2019 @ 1:35 pmAs someone who works in the gaming industry, I resent the word “degenerate”. I don’t deny it, I just resent it.
Carry on.
Chuck Bartowski (bc1c71) — 8/7/2019 @ 1:44 pmHeh.
DRJ (15874d) — 8/7/2019 @ 1:49 pmAs someone who works in the gaming industry, I resent the word “degenerate”. I don’t deny it, I just resent it.
You’ve no doubt heard one of my favorite lines:
JVW (54fd0b) — 8/7/2019 @ 1:55 pmIt not whether you win or lose, its how much you make on the sports book.
rcocean (1a839e) — 8/7/2019 @ 2:02 pmWhy idiot thinks that with all this gambling $$$ floating around, the NFL games are going to be on the up and up? Assuming they still are. Of course what is the point of the NFL? Its just a Bunch of greedheads playing a kids game.
rcocean (1a839e) — 8/7/2019 @ 2:04 pmYup. My take is that there are two ways to make money off gambling. One is to own a casino; that’s really difficult with a huge initial investment, lots of operating costs, and sometimes an unreliable revenue stream. The second is to sell information to gamblers; that’s easy, with no start-up costs, and you can just make stuff up as you go.
Chuck Bartowski (a2c25f) — 8/7/2019 @ 6:46 pm