Bally's is no more, Now It's FanDuel Sports Network

[Lt Dan]

Isn't online (or otherwise) sports gambling still outlawed in CA? Either way I won't go there, even with a sport I partially have knowledge of with hockey. Just seems like a bad idea and you'll end up like Sandler in Uncut Gems. Gambling just isn't it for me, the house always wins. f*** Bally's btw.

Yes

 

[The Butcher]

I hate that they are involved with sports books.

The constant sports betting ads and content being pushed down everyones throats is going to have disastrous results (it already has for many people). The leagues and teams have to know this, but they just don't care. It's like the bus ad I saw in LA last year that basically said "Having trouble paying your bills, try the lotto". It's disgraceful.

Get ready for ads like this...

"Jim in Long Beach turned $20 into $12k by hitting a 12 team parlay, you want to be the next Jim? Sign up at Fan Duel with promo code GoKingsGo and your first bets on us" They all push the parlays on their social medias and other ads because that is where the Grand Canyon sized margins are.

They went from having their heads buried in the sand and did the whole Casablanca "I'm shocked there is gambling in here", to openly pushing it non-stop.

And Pete Rose had to go to the grave shunned by MLB. The whole thing is crass.

 

[ru4reals]

Damn I'm so out of it. What happened to Fox sports west? Bally and now FanDuel. Lol. Can't keep up.

 

[Buddy The Elf]

They should rename it the AARP Sports Network since every other commercial is for them.

 

[DoktorJeep]

Maybe I’m old fashioned. But I think limiting my degenerate behavior to my time in the city of Vegas is the best way to moderate some sin.

Personally I won’t make any purchasing decision based on any ad I see remotely connected to a Kings game. So I don’t truly care about these sponsorship decisions. We’re too many janky companies deep to worry about the latest fad that has some spare cash laying around.

The issue is that advertisers believe we have a fan base of uneducated people who are easy targets to separate from their money.

 

[Reaper45]

Maybe I’m old fashioned. But I think limiting my degenerate behavior to my time in the city of Vegas is the best way to moderate some sin.

Personally I won’t make any purchasing decision based on any ad I see remotely connected to a Kings game. So I don’t truly care about these sponsorship decisions. We’re too many janky companies deep to worry about the latest fad that has some spare cash laying around.

The issue is that advertisers believe we have a fan base of uneducated people who are easy targets to separate from their money.

Same. I like to gamble once or twice a year. I’ve never made a single bet in the sports book.

 

[DoktorJeep]

Same. I like to gamble once or twice a year. I’ve never made a single bet in the sports book.

I enjoy spending a morning at a sports book at like the MGM and gambling some money. But doing it on my phone while trying to stay awake during your average Kings game just sounds pathetic to me.