How many years are we away from sports betting becoming a national epidemic?

WuriderX · Post #1 » by **WuriderX** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:34 pm

This season I am watching the Hawks on Fan Duel. It just dawned on me that they must be doing pretty well to have their own network. How long before this (gambling) becomes a national epidemic? It's damn near being promoted everywhere! I am too cheap to gamble or bet on games! :lol:

jfs1000d · Post #2 » by **jfs1000d** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:35 pm

Already a national epidemic with young people. I swear boomers are determined to rob Gen X, millennials and Gen Z of their wealth before they die.

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Yallbecrazy · Post #3 » by **Yallbecrazy** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:35 pm

Post #4 » by **JDR720** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:36 pm

With the cost of living being so stupid people are going to gamble more in an attempt to make money for food and such.

Calvin Klein · Post #5 » by **Calvin Klein** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:37 pm

It's already there. And happening all over the world. And it will keep getting worse as long as people keep electing grifters and goons as their leaders.

We're in the alternative 1985 timeline

An Unbiased Fan · Post #6 » by **An Unbiased Fan** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:39 pm

Sports betting isn't an issue. Sport rigging IS what has to be prevented.

Infinite Llamas · Post #7 » by **Infinite Llamas** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:39 pm

0 years

Johnny Bball · Post #8 » by **Johnny Bball** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:51 pm

An Unbiased Fan wrote:Sports betting isn't an issue. Sport rigging IS what has to be prevented.

you understand gambling addictions right?

GoBobs · Post #9 » by **GoBobs** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:55 pm

Only a fool would bet on sports. The game is rigged. Organized crime has run gambling for a long time.

An Unbiased Fan · Post #10 » by **An Unbiased Fan** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 2:59 pm

Johnny Bball wrote:
An Unbiased Fan wrote:Sports betting isn't an issue. Sport rigging IS what has to be prevented.

you understand gambling addictions right?

Any addiction is a problem, the vast majority of those who bet aren't addicts. We don't ban alcohol because some are alcoholics.

Blame Rasho · Post #11 » by **Blame Rasho** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 3:19 pm

I personally can’t grasp on betting and gambling, I do have some friends who do it weekly. One of them is basically one step away from being divorced because he is an idiot and gambling is a part of the reason why. Why would you bet 500 bucks a week, when you have kids as an open ended question.

Bad Bart · Post #12 » by **Bad Bart** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 3:30 pm

Blame Rasho wrote:I personally can’t grasp on betting and gambling, I do have some friends who do it weekly. One of them is basically one step away from being divorced because he is an idiot and gambling is a part of the reason why. Why would you bet 500 bucks a week, when you have kids as an open ended question.

Because it's addictive

enigmatics · Post #13 » by **enigmatics** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 3:32 pm

It already is.

enigmatics · Post #14 » by **enigmatics** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 3:36 pm

Gambling is how a lot of these guys get their friends and family money without actually having to give them too much of it directly if at all.

The advent of all this legal online sports betting made it go haywire.

Post #15 » by **jbk1234** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 3:39 pm

My old man yelling at the clouds take is they should outlaw betting apps. If you want to place a sportsbet, get in a car and drive down to the track or casino like a normal degenerate.

Patches Perry · Post #16 » by **Patches Perry** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 3:44 pm

Big problem. Gambling used to be separate and you had to really go out of your way to bet. You needed a bookie or had to go through a KYC ringer online at least.

Now its easy, instant and accessible. So much so that it's even hard for players to separate themselves from it.

I knew a guy a couple years ago who was roommates/living with an NBA player and would constantly bet on his over/unders unbeknownst to that player. Again, even players trying to be diligent in not being involved can end up implicated.

hauntedcomputer · Post #17 » by **hauntedcomputer** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 3:46 pm

Let it rot

PushDaRock · Post #18 » by **PushDaRock** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 3:51 pm

jbk1234 wrote:My old man yelling at the clouds take is they should outlaw betting apps. If you want to place a sportsbet, get in a car and drive down to the track or casino like a normal degenerate.

Out of sight out of mind is a blissful ignorance for some people.

ITYSL · Post #19 » by **ITYSL** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 4:00 pm

I'm going to say minus 5 years, final answer

PushDaRock · Post #20 » by **PushDaRock** » Thu Oct 23, 2025 4:03 pm

Patches Perry wrote:Big problem. Gambling used to be separate and you had to really go out of your way to bet. You needed a bookie or had to go through a KYC ringer online at least.

Now its easy, instant and accessible. So much so that it's even hard for players to separate themselves from it.

I knew a guy a couple years ago who was roommates/living with an NBA player and would constantly bet on his over/unders unbeknownst to that player. Again, even players trying to be diligent in not being involved can end up implicated.

The league benefits from sports betting from a revenue perspective, are the players going to willingly take pay cuts in order to try and ban it?

It's a different world to navigate now than it used to be because of the internet.

One of the more interesting shifts to see is the consumption of alcohol trending down while online gambling/trading/etc is trending up. Previously, it could probably be argued that the consumption of alcohol led to a lot of that "degenerate' activity but now we are seeing them become totally unrelated. There's a real urgency from Gen Z to "get rich quick" that wasn't as prevalent in previous generations. There's numerous reasons we can probably point to that would explain why.