NHL Players getting Venmo requests from fans that lost bets on the players/teams

[Hennessy]

Lost Generation is a good way of putting it. Best way to identify Gen X if one is not sure. We don't put "the" in front of Walmart, Twitter, Kroger, etc. and we don't begin every other sentence with "So" and end it with "right." We're the people in between those things.

There already was a Lost Generation. Early 20th century.

On the larger topic (and not as a reply to you, Murph), complaining about generations is such a grandpa move. Yeah, we can make broad generalizations about Boomers or Millennials, but taking any of it even remotely seriously is a bad look.

 

[ricky0034]

Anyway, more on topic I remember hearing this being a real problem that emerged in basketball last year where it is much easier for fans to be heard by players.

even college sports have people doing this nonsense lately

i'm a very pro gambling person in general but sports gambling has become far too open of a thing and sorely needs things like advertising regulations

 

[Oilslick941611]

I'm not familiar with this, but why are NHL players having their information public?

I have friends who are teachers and they make every account private so no one can find them or reach them because students are crazy...

Why don't NHL players make all their accounts private so no one can message them anything?

First thing I would do if I was famous would be delete all social media.

So it makes it okay to harass players for money on lost bets because they didn’t make their account private?

 

[jbeck5]

So it makes it okay to harass players for money on lost bets because they didn’t make their account private?

I didn't say that.

I asked why don't players make their accounts private so fans cannot reach them?

If anything, this topic proves that my question is a good one.

Also, way to completely misinterpret my question.

 

[Oilslick941611]

I didn't say that.

I asked why don't players make their accounts private so fans cannot reach them?

If anything, this topic proves that my question is a good one.

Also, way to completely misinterpret my question.

0/10 for reading comprehension on your part.

Players shouldn’t have to do that to not be harassed.

 

[ICanMotteBelieveIt]

It blows my mind that fans are really this stupid.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5916434/2024/11/20/nhl-player-poll-sports-betting-harassment/?source=user_shared_article

'Murica.

 

[jbeck5]

Players shouldn’t have to do that to not be harassed.

I never said that either.

You really suck at reading direct words.

Do you always look for hidden messages or is this a straight up strawman troll job?

If you don't have an answer to the question, don't answer...but this hidden messages crap your doing isn't something I'm interested in.

 

[Oilslick941611]

I never said that either.

You really suck at reading direct words.

Do you always look for hidden messages or is this a straight up strawman troll job?

If you don't have an answer to the question, don't answer...but this hidden messages crap your doing isn't something I'm interested in.

“Why don't NHL players make all their accounts private so no one can message them anything?”

Is directly victim blaming. Those are your direct words. What else does this mean? Other than make their account private or get harassed.

 

[BB79]

'Murica.

Too bad we can't have soccer riots complete with murder like some other countries

 

[Score08]

Can I Venmo request the bruins for reimbursement for scamming me out of a competitive hockey team this year?

 

[LuGBuG]

Betting on sports is so stupid anyway. Only idiots do it.

Really parading around on that high horse eh. If I want to put $10 on a Sunday on my account and make a couple football parlays I don’t see how that makes me an idiot. Good for you though at being so intelligent.

 

[BB79]

Can I Venmo request the bruins for reimbursement for scamming me out of a competitive hockey team this year?

Moneybags Swayman can pay us all

 

[Jyrki]

The normalization of it for people like 18-24 years old is pretty insane to me. So many are going to lose so much. Always gotta find a way to get the money out of the pockets of the little people.

Younger, even. My relatives in high school have mentioned how many boys are glued to their phones looking for parlay angles to bet on.

Give it a few more years and fan violence that we think is beneath ice hockey will surface.

 

[Crow]

Players shouldn’t have to do that to not be harassed.

Welcome to the real world.

Who cares what should and never will be.

 

[Sensatauro]

As a resident degenerate gambler, the idea, that on any of the thousands of bets I've lost over the years, I should message said player or team, is absolutely crazy.

Weird society we live in these days. Lies are truth, truth are lies.

Crazy times these are

 

[Charlie Conway]

Gen Z are going to be such massive degenerate gamblers.

It's already bad.

I have a cousin in college now, and he said they're all degenerate gamblers who will bet on anything.

They were doing this going way back to the EA card packs for FIFA and NHL, plus all the Fortnite crap.

 

[BB79]

Looking up venmo led me down the rabbit hole of "wow, the US is weird about money" that I hadn't been down since having to swipe my credit card during my last trip to the US like some kind of medieval peasant

Life is tough man. What if I told you when I grew up, everyone paid in cash and cashiers actually had to know how to do basic math?

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Further proof that the average fan is not very bright.

 

[GrumpyKoala]

Did anyone send them money?

100$ they did not.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

The article mentions one player who purportedly got venmo requests. I'd tthink majority of NHL players/ppl with real money don't use that, at least not publicly. Sensationalism.

Players will always be harrassed on Social Media regardless of sports betting. Just block them

 

[Dolemite]

'Murica.

Pretty much.

 

[12ozPapa]

I find this amusing and not this huge societal issue as some make it out to be. Just like any large group of people, there’s morons. C’est le vie. I’m sure the players are just fine.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Really parading around on that high horse eh. If I want to put $10 on a Sunday on my account and make a couple football parlays I don’t see how that makes me an idiot. Good for you though at being so intelligent.

What can I say. It’s comfortable up here.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

What can I say. It’s comfortable up here.

"Other people's hobbies are terrible. My hobbies are objectively great."

 

[Oilslick941611]

"Other people's hobbies are terrible. My hobbies are objectively great."

you said it, not me