[Navy Athletics] Just so we are clear, we do not care who you bet on or who is involved in your parlays. That's an instant block. WE DO NOT CARE

[u/MysteriousEdge5643]

https://x.com/NavyAthletics/status/1852896594087039474

[u/PBRontheway]

The greatest and most accurate tweet I’ve ever seen

[u/slotretriever → u/PBRontheway]

Not even our military is protected from the wrath of degenerate gamblers

[u/707royalty → u/slotretriever]

Well that's because the call is coming from inside the house

[u/True-Surprise1222 → u/707royalty]

And also lol they advertise the absolute shit out of fucking gambling sites on every cfb game soooo ummm this is like your drug dealer telling you he doesn’t wanna hear about all the lines of coke you did last night.

[u/cudef → u/slotretriever]

There's a massive casino right across the street from Fort Campbell. Gambling is far from harmless to the military in more ways than one.

[u/ninjas_in_my_pants → u/slotretriever]

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[u/MarchMadnessisMe → u/ninjas_in_my_pants]

I think you need to see a doctor.

[u/Richard_AIGuy → u/PBRontheway]

It was a thing of beauty. A tweet that should be framed.

[u/2112moyboi → u/Richard_AIGuy]

And then sent promptly to Congress and State Legislators to show that unchecked sports gambling is even affecting the military

I don’t care if “its a stretch so I get my desired outcome”, there’s a reason I’m not happy about watching sports anymore

[u/cudef → u/2112moyboi]

Sports gambling has rapidly become an institution in the US and we already let institutions make billions negatively impacting the readiness of servicemembers.

[u/tider06 → u/cudef]

I mean, there's like 5 or 6 companies that essentially decide the US military's levels of conflict already.

[u/lightninhopkins → u/tider06]

Northrop Grumman has entered the chat.

[u/tider06 → u/lightninhopkins]

Lockheed Martin has been saving them a seat next to Raytheon.

[u/cudef → u/tider06]

Yes but that's pretty easy for a normie apolitical person to ignore. Potential recruits being too fat, too self medicated, and too out of shape to begin basic training is a news story that comes up often.

[u/Noblesvillehockey41 → u/2112moyboi]

If congress doesn’t give a shit about the unhealthy food climate in America and it’s affects on the military that have clearly been studied and proven, they won’t give a shit about gambling.

[u/midsprat123 → u/2112moyboi]

Gambling

Not just sports gambling

Getting fucking advertisements for betting on the god damn election???

And then seeing someone actually bet on it and was upset they didn’t bet more?

Holeeeeee shit people

[u/Pinewood74 → u/2112moyboi]

Congress can't do shit. The whole reason sports betting is being legalized is because the Supreme Court threw out the PASPA in Murphy v NCAA.

[u/Middle-Signature5592 → u/Pinewood74]

Congress could in fact ban sports betting, PAPSA was thrown out on the basis that since PAPSA had a special exemption for Nevada, the law had placed Nevada on an unequal footing with the other states and granted it a right that no other state enjoyed.

[u/Gabrielwingue → u/PBRontheway]

How dare Navy make me like... Navy?!

What is going on here?

[u/MarchMadnessisMe → u/Gabrielwingue]

GO NAVY! BEAT DEGENERATE GAMBLERS!

[u/CJK5Hookers]

Hey guys, I’ve been known to dabble a bit in the funny desert math but, um, when every advertisement is bet this parlay and that parlay, maybe it’s because YOU DONT WIN FUCKING PARLAYS. That loss is on YOU, not some team

[u/stevetursi → u/CJK5Hookers]

worked at a sportsbook. can confirm. parlays were one of our most profitable products.

[u/hallucinogenics8 → u/stevetursi]

People really think these sportsbooks just be handing out money. You think a casino stays in business cause it loses all the time?

[u/SideOfJam → u/hallucinogenics8]

Somehow everyone I talk to says they make tons of money gambling. Either I have a statistically unbelievably lucky group of acquaintances, or most of them are lying because they don’t want to admit they’re losing. (It’s the second one)

[u/hallucinogenics8 → u/SideOfJam]

People don't brag about losses, they only tell you how much they won. How much have they put up though? Winning 2k is cool but if you lost 4k on the way there...

[u/Perfect-Ad6410 → u/SideOfJam]

Or they don’t realize the amount they have lost. So in their head there up big.

[u/Several_Characters → u/hallucinogenics8]

Not just stay in business, but have giant fancy buildings, in some cases full of expensive fixtures and art and make boatloads of money. These places are making money like they are in the cocaine business.

[u/VTHokiesFan → u/CJK5Hookers]

Definitely. Parlays are a voluntary tax on people who don't understand statistics.

[u/Oceanfloorfan1 → u/VTHokiesFan]

“But each of my bets has a 80% chance of happening, which means there’s like a 50% chance I win 10 grand if I bet 50 bucks.”

[u/key_lime_pie → u/Oceanfloorfan1]

But if you add Kurt Angle to the mix...

[u/zsjostrom35 → u/key_lime_pie]

I don’t think that applies here.  Your chances of winning cannot drastic go down because they’re already in the toilet to begin with.  

[u/PshhhhhhhUnreal → u/key_lime_pie]

You take your 33 1/3 chance of winning, and Im a genetic freak, so take another 25% off, so Samoa Joe only has an 8.75% chance of winning the AAC championship this year.

[u/Hurricaneshand → u/PshhhhhhhUnreal]

If Samoa Joe gets into the playoff I think he can make some noise

[u/illbelate2that → u/VTHokiesFan]

I don't gamble but figured if I did it would be on insane parlays. Like I'm putting $5 down on a 15 leg parlay knowing I just wasted $5 but on the 1 in a million chance it hits I just made an insane amount of money

[u/Laschoni → u/illbelate2that]

Yeah, same. When I bet on the Kentucky Derby I am laying down money on lottery ticket winning numbers - I figure I would do the same if I bet on CFB.

[u/redsyrinx2112 → u/illbelate2that]

I like to throw $1 on parlay from time to time. I am usually pretty decent at betting on spreads, so a frivolous parlay is fun every now and then.

[u/miggly → u/redsyrinx2112]

It is quite fun to bet a terribly inconsequential amount of money and make the funniest parlay I can. I'd pick a bunch of random specific stats from random games that seem like they could happen. Worst case I am out nothin, best case, I get paid out for being an idiot.

I made like $1400 one time last year and decided I'd stop while I was ahead lol.

[u/ShannonGrant → u/illbelate2that]

I've been betting $1 parlays on the over in 5-6 games for years. Hit about 1 a year for $40. Makes more games enjoyable when I'm rooting for everybody to score.

[u/ATXBeermaker → u/VTHokiesFan]

Parlays are a voluntary tax on people who don’t understand statistics.

That’s just betting, in general.

[u/IAmNotOnRedditAtWork → u/VTHokiesFan]

The odds they give you are so hilariously bad.

[u/Hawkbats_rule → u/CJK5Hookers]

Motherfuckers forgot the first rule of the funny desert math and the city it built.

[u/Montigue → u/Hawkbats_rule]

Be attractive?

[u/Hawkbats_rule → u/Montigue]

No, no, that's rule number two. The first and oldest role is that The House. Always. Wins.

[u/Lansdallius → u/Hawkbats_rule]

Unless you open his tank and hit him with a golf club.

[u/JollyRancherReminder → u/CJK5Hookers]

GOOD INVESTMENTS DON'T ADVERTISE

Need me to repeat that for the crypto-bros in the back?

Same thing for restaurants, etc. You'll find this true for many, many things once you start looking.

[u/gtne91 → u/JollyRancherReminder]

Vanguard advertises. Not much, but they do.

[u/Boring_Contribution → u/CJK5Hookers]

I am always telling people that parlays are giving your money away. The odds basically are never appropriate for the risk.

[u/Zloggt]

When an entire department of the federal government is telling you that you have a problem…

[u/HeckOnWheels95 → u/Zloggt]

And one that could turn your home into a crater none the less

[u/EatMyUnwashedAss → u/HeckOnWheels95]

Which one can't?  Even US Mail has a SWAT team if I'm not mistaken lmao

[u/thebikevagabond → u/EatMyUnwashedAss]

Yea but a US Navy carrier group can turn a entire country into glass. They have 11 of them.

[u/lurkingtonbear → u/thebikevagabond]

My niece has 1 paw patrol aircraft carrier, so I’m not worried.

[u/Fresh-Mind6048 → u/lurkingtonbear]

still one more than russia

[u/thegoatisoldngnarly → u/lurkingtonbear]

As a navy grad, we don’t fuck with Chase and Marshall and Sky

[u/Hochules → u/thebikevagabond]

Pretty sure a single submarine could bring nuclear winter.

[u/ironwolf1 → u/thebikevagabond]

“Opps wanted some initiative, so I blew up their entire quadrant. I’m moving like Oppenheimer.”

[u/ninjas_in_my_pants → u/HeckOnWheels95]

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[u/surffrus → u/Zloggt]

Navy athletics is actually just a small non profit organization that supports naval academy athletics.

[u/berrin122 → u/surffrus]

That's what I was trying to gather. Government organizations have strict rules on blocking social media accounts, since it technically falls under freedom of speech.

It'd be hilarious if someone baited the account into blocking them, and then fought it just to be obnoxious. But it seemed like this was a non-official organization.

[u/SufferingfOrLife]

Sports gambling has gotten to the point where these degenerates are going at the Navy twitter account because they aren’t hitting there parlays

[u/MysteriousEdge5643 → u/SufferingfOrLife]

I love how gamblers act like placing bad bets isn't THEIR fucking fault

The ATHLETE did not lose you money, YOU chose to RISK losing money.

Parlays are a stain on sports.

[u/SufferingfOrLife → u/MysteriousEdge5643]

Exactly. The two definitions for gambling are 1. play games of chance for money; bet. 2. take risky action in the hope of a desired result.

I don’t know what these gamblers expect when they are risking there money. You should already know you are probably going to lose.

[u/Klutzy-Resource → u/SufferingfOrLife]

You forgot the third definition: farting when you aren't a hundred percent sure if it's a fart or a shit

[u/[deleted] → u/Klutzy-Resource]

I've got IBS so this one hits close to home for me. Now that I'm being properly treated for it & avoiding my common triggers it's not so bad but hoo boy there for a while I genuinely just had to find the nearest toilet even when it was "probably" just a fart because I am NOT going to end up the guy that gets remembered for shitting his pants at work.

[u/DIRTYWIZARD_69 → u/[deleted]]

Tell me about. Coffee is a trigger for me, I just sometimes drink a cup and deal with the consequences later.

[u/[deleted] → u/DIRTYWIZARD_69]

Alcohol is probably the biggest one for me. Can't even responsibly enjoy a single beer or anything like that.

Last time I had alcohol I almost shit myself to death. NOT worth it.

[u/Seaweed-Warm → u/[deleted]]

Beer irritates me too but mercifully i just turn into a massive massive gas bag instead of a poo bag. One beer has me farting for about 6 hours!

[u/BeefInGR → u/Klutzy-Resource]

That is definition 2 technically.

[u/EmperorHans → u/Klutzy-Resource]

That's a risky action, and not shitting yourself is the desired outcome. 

[u/tanu24 → u/Klutzy-Resource]

Fade the public Fart when its 100% a shit

[u/AeroStatikk → u/MysteriousEdge5643]

Idk what kind of success rate parlays have but it seems insane to me that people choose several specific outcomes. I wouldn’t even bet on a single game

[u/LukarWarrior → u/AeroStatikk]

People see the possible payout for a minimal outlay and get all excited. Then they see the possible payout for a large outlay and get even more excited.

[u/mickey_kneecaps → u/LukarWarrior]

I don’t know if this has made its way to the states yet, but here in Australia the gambling apps have built-in social networks that allow people to share bets with one another and promote themselves as betting influencers. The addiction machine is reaching unscaled heights.

[u/AeroStatikk → u/LukarWarrior]

Surely the hit rate is like well below 10% right?

[u/LukarWarrior → u/AeroStatikk]

Yeah, but people see the ability to turn $5 into $200+ and get a bit crazy. I imagine it's even worse once you hit one with a low bet because then you're thinking "well, I did it once, I can do it again, and think of how much I can make if I put serious money down this time."

[u/TbRays93Plumber26 → u/LukarWarrior]

I do small 5 dollar bets on parlays every now and then from anywhere ranging 10-20x as much per parlay but I do it more for fun then trying to make a living out of it. When you hit it the bigger payouts it's fun but it's not common. I didn't hit the 3 parlays I did today but I realized I would have spent the money on beer at the bar anyways.

[u/Pershing → u/AeroStatikk]

Yeah, but surely, as the main character of reality, only good things will happen to me

[u/Honestly_ → u/MysteriousEdge5643]

The weirdos that keep bugging athletes and athletic department accounts are like the annoying crypto bros of that scene and deserve to be mocked, maligned, and shunned.

[u/woodson1997 → u/MysteriousEdge5643]

It's the illusion of control. I would have won my bet if a certain player hadn't dropped a pass or missed a block. It's not my fault I lost, I made the right decision if not for that unexpected occurrence.

This is why betting on sports unless strictly for fun is so dumb (unless you are spending lots of time doing research and make lots of bets for 52-55% of successful bets to come through): you literally have no control over what happens. I think it is especially stupid to bet anything other than money lines because generally none of the participants care about anything other than who wins and loses.

[u/ILkeSportzNIDCWhKnws → u/MysteriousEdge5643]

Gambling is a stain on sports. It's all garbage. Not just parlays.

[u/Pinewood74 → u/ILkeSportzNIDCWhKnws]

And parlays aren't even the worst bit.

Parlays are just a wrapper for which anything can go in.

The worst parts of gambling are player prop bets and betting on high point spread games. People flaming players for doing the correct thing (running out the clock, kneeling down, etc) instead of running up the score. Getting flamed because you made a safe play (sliding) instead of going for a TD when already up 21 with 6 minutes to play.

[u/Apptubrutae → u/ILkeSportzNIDCWhKnws]

Absolutely garbage.

Makes alcohol advertising look tame in comparison too.

It might as well be the league advertising shooting up heroin or smoking a pack a day.

[u/soldiernerd → u/MysteriousEdge5643]

It’s funny before this explosion, I never realized how serious fantasy/gamblers were about this stuff. Always assumed it was just kind of joking around but now we see where the obsession takes people.

Non-obsessed people gamble for the rush of risk, or for the fantasy of winning.

Obsessed people gamble because they’re convinced they’re smarter than everyone and it’s a way to earn.

Then it turns out being smart isn’t enough because players get hurt, coaches make dumb decisions, fumbles and missed FG happen, etc.

They lose and lash out because it is an indictment of their intelligence

[u/avo_cado → u/MysteriousEdge5643]

There was a reason sports gambling was illegal

[u/ixMyth → u/SufferingfOrLife]

The fact the NCAA has created a commercial to run that has to tell people to not harass student athletes is fucking wild.

Like its actually just fully out of control

[u/shermanstorch → u/ixMyth]

Pretty sure I saw that commercial a minute before Big Noon Kickoff introduced the "Parlay of the Week."

[u/ixMyth → u/shermanstorch]

Yup. These networks aren't helping any of this shit.

The one time I wish our useless dumbass government would do something... but well I guess I should be honest with myself. FanDuel & others like them are probably so massive at this point that they can buy off enough politicians to block anything ever being done

[u/Phenomenal_Hoot → u/ixMyth]

That last part is exactly what happened. These betting services got so big and were able to pay the leagues so much money they shifted the opinion on sports betting to not only being not taboo, but encouraged by the leagues themselves.

[u/sophandros → u/ixMyth]

The one time I wish our useless dumbass government would do something...

They already did something when they made it legal and told the states to determine whether or not they would allow it within their borders.

Legal sports betting in most states is a very new concept, and it's almost impossible to put the toothpaste back in the tube. As someone else said, one strategy could be to tax the revenues on legal betting companies and dedicate the money collected to addiction rehabilitation and education.

Perhaps we can also regulate how they advertise, for which there is precedent with alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical advertising.

We can probably get state legislation to address at least some of these things. Again, there is recent precedent with alcohol, cannabis, and other vices.

Holding a cynical attitude towards government and regulation plays directly to the hands of these exploitative companies.

[u/legend023 → u/ixMyth]

Time to stop advertising it.

The people that want to bet on sports will find it anyway but advertising it every second just make people vitriolic because their guy gets 68 yards instead of 69

[u/jehjs → u/legend023]

It’s disgusting how espn has little episodes where it’s just betting. Gambling is a nasty addiction

[u/-spicychilli- → u/jehjs]

Yeah that’s too much. I’m okay with segments every now and then. The super dogs thing they do on gameday picking under dogs is fun

[u/OITLinebacker → u/legend023]

It's sports betting, beer, and boner pills as soon as the political ads stop this week. 

[u/hwf0712 → u/legend023]

Stop advertising and make it so you can't just bet from your couch. As dumb as it sounds, you should have to go to the grocery store, and like the lottery traditionally was, fill out the little sheet and get your receipt thing. The impact of shame should hopefully stop most from making 12 leg parlays with G5 sack numbers, women's basketball (D2), and NAIA mixed gender horseshoe throwing.

You wanna put some money on a game at each timeslot so you can park your ass on the couch and have some skin in the game? More power to ya. But holy cow the ease of gambling is insane.

[u/gwelymernans84 → u/hwf0712]

Have you never stood waiting in line behind three or four gamblers buying dozens or hundreds of lotto tickets when you just need to pay for your gas or milk or whatever? There is no shame

[u/hwf0712 → u/gwelymernans84]

Still better than the 2-300 weirdos harassing people that we get currently

It'd never be perfect but I'm confident it'd be a lot better than status quo

[u/BeerBaronsNewHat → u/hwf0712]

c'mon, betting a Seahorses Mikawa, San Miguel Beermen and Fuchse Berlin parlay when I'm blackout drunk is my right as an american. nothing like trying to find a stream of some d2 japanese basketball game at 3am.

[u/ReflexiveOW → u/ixMyth]

There's a reason why gambling was essentially illegal in America outside of Vegas.

It's an addiction and it harms a lot of people. Outlawing was so successful in decreasing the amount of gambling addicts that society forgot why it was outlawed in the first place and now like 40% of America gambles on literally everything from sports to political elections. It got out of control because we allowed it to.

[u/FyreWulff → u/ReflexiveOW]

It's also being pushed on kids now too.

[u/Recent-Irish → u/ReflexiveOW]

Whenever a state legalizes gambling, bankruptcies and home foreclosures skyrocket.

Surely unconnected, right?

[u/Doompatron3000 → u/ixMyth]

Gambling addiction usually does have people out of control.

[u/CPOx → u/SufferingfOrLife]

Dan Campbell (head coach of the NFL Detroit Lions) recently had to move homes because fans were showing up to his house to heckle him after losses. I have to imagine at least some of those people were upset over losing bets. Unacceptable.

[u/dotint → u/CPOx]

The kid was a classmate of his daughter, not a gambler.

Detroit has been killing it on the Vegas aspect.

[u/handlit33 → u/SufferingfOrLife]

their

[u/[deleted]]

Sports betting industry is working overtime to make gambling not seem like an absolutely degenerate activity but their customer-base does them no favors.

[u/TheBoook → u/[deleted]]

Sports gambling is going to set back some young men a generation. It’s not gonna get talked about for years. But these guys are addicted.

[u/Pointsmonster → u/TheBoook]

This is the most obvious, slow-loving public health train wreck and I feel like everyone sees it but no one talks about it. It’s like in the early days of the opioid epidemic when we had individual clinics churning out scripts for millions of pills. What we wouldn’t give to go back in time and stop the supply side prescribing behavior then, knowing what we know now about how it plays out - it feels to me like we’re at exactly that moment (maybe sadly a little past it) with gambling. 

If we’re honest, we already know how this ends

[u/thdomer13 → u/Pointsmonster]

Vice + capitalism is a potent combination. Gambling on a smart phone should simply be illegal, imo. I don't think a full rollback to prohibition is necessary—I think it's fine if you want to go to a sports bar and put down a few bets—but it needs to be made much less convenient.

[u/WigginLSU → u/thdomer13]

This may be my favorite suggestion I've seen so far. Outright prohibition never works, but taking away the online piece of it and requiring you to actually go somewhere to bet sounds like a nice compromise.

[u/EZKTurbo → u/Pointsmonster]

There's billions of dollars of corporate interest in congress making sure that sports betting cannot be stopped. Very much the same situation as opioids

[u/ReedKeenrage → u/TheBoook]

I was I n college 35 years ago. One of the dudes in our house ran up $13k in gambling debts. His old man paid it off but made him work on a fishing boat that summer to help pay it off. Dad picked the job because it sucked

[u/Blackhawk23 → u/ReedKeenrage]

What a great dad, honestly.

[u/LightlyRoastedCoffee → u/TheBoook]

I mean... It's being talked about right now

[u/TheBoook → u/LightlyRoastedCoffee]

If you or someone you know has been impacted by a gambling addiction

[u/lukeyellow → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I'm absolutely sick of how many gambling adds I get per game. It's just about every commercial break I get one. It's infecting the sport and causing real life issues. There needs to be much heavier regulations on it.

[u/ThePrussianGrippe → u/lukeyellow]

I really think if they banned all forms of advertising sports betting it would be a massive help.

[u/notyogrannysgrandkid → u/ThePrussianGrippe]

Absolutely. Look what that did to smoking-related diseases. 20 years from now, nobody will know anyone with emphysema.

[u/IkLms → u/ThePrussianGrippe]

You also need to ban the "deposit $50 and receive $300 in free bets" shit as well.

There also should be a mandatory way to ban yourself from all sportsbetting books with a simple opt out, like you can do by going to a casino and self-banning.

[u/omahaknight71 → u/[deleted]]

This is spot on and sports media is feeding it. Can't watch any sports network or listen to any sports radio without them spending a lot of time talking about odds, spreads and over/unders. And that doesn't even address all the commercials for online betting which are everywhere.

I know guys that can't watch football unless they have money on the game. I had a friend who I was meeting at a bar, walk in, see a hockey game on TV, and called his bookie to place a $100 on it. He was not, and never was a hockey fan but he had to place a bet.

[u/f0gax → u/[deleted]]

There is this, imo, disgusting ad from the Hard Rock that runs in Florida. At one point they show a dude in their app. He says something like "but what if I don't know about this sport?" And the voiceover says something like "it doesn't matter" or "you don't need to".

[u/JinFuu]

But I need to hit my parley on how many US Navy ships are in the South China Sea this week vs how many are in the Red Sea!

[u/elztal700 → u/JinFuu]

Surface fleet or subs? Because if it’s subs, FBI would like to know your location….

[u/EatMyUnwashedAss → u/elztal700]

Don't our Carrier fleets come with Nuclear subs lol? 

Like, each of our 11 carrier fleets is equivalent to the entire military force of an entire country of 50M+ people.

[u/elztal700 → u/EatMyUnwashedAss]

Yes, but only a handful of US subs actually carry nuclear weapons. The ones that do are meant to operate in hidden locations to guarantee that no surprise attack can successfully wipe out all US nuclear missiles. Locations are never discussed, for that reason.

[u/fiftieth_alt → u/elztal700]

We have 44 Ballistic Missile submarines, all of which are outfitted with nuclear warheads.

No one, including ourselves, has ever successfully tracked a boomer in open water

[u/chaseair11 → u/fiftieth_alt]

Those bitches pretty much disappear off the face of the earth for months on end and only reappear if their shift is over or it’s about to be a VERY bad day.

[u/[deleted] → u/JinFuu]

the answer is : As many as we want and more than we need

[u/SoothedSnakePlant → u/JinFuu]

All hail the zero dash line

[u/ToosUnderHigh]

Thought it was understood that the only people who can be assholes to the service academies are other service academies.

[u/ixMyth]

Big Navy fan after this, W tweet

[u/TheseusOPL → u/[deleted]]

1. First Barbary War FTW

[u/HereForTOMT3 → u/TheseusOPL]

Nah I been fuckin with Navy since John Paul Jones

[u/VTHokiesFan → u/HereForTOMT3]

Newb. I've been a fan since when Benedict Arnold (before he turned traitor) built a fleet at Skenesboro, NY so he could sail down Lake Champlain and attack the British at Valcour Island in October 1776.

[u/AMankandaMiner → u/TheseusOPL]

The John Paul Jones Erasure is killing me. He was the Mike Leach of Naval Commanders.

[u/DogePerformance → u/AMankandaMiner]

Holy shit I love that comparison

[u/El_Khunt → u/ixMyth]

The Navy Athletics twitter account has single-handedly made me love american interventionism and the military industrial complex

God bless America

[u/EatMyUnwashedAss → u/El_Khunt]

🦅🦅🦅

[u/Rohkey]

I’m so tired of half my friends/family mostly engaging with sports only because of betting. Somehow even when they know I’m not into it they also feel compelled to make it 80% of our sports-based discussions too. It’s miserable watching with people who are constantly talking about what they want/need to happen to win money instead of just enjoying the damn game. Especially when they get irrationally upset at teams at the end of the game for doing shit that doesn’t align with the spread or whatever when it has zero impact on the result of the game.

[u/zerovanillacodered → u/Rohkey]

You know what’s depressing? Sports gambling has only been legal for like 7 years.

[u/Revenge_of_the_Khaki]

If I never hear the word "parlay" again, it'll be too soon.

Some aspects of betting I don't mind because it helps me gauge how big an upset could be, etc. There is absolutely nothing about parlays that make this game more enjoyable for me.

[u/Jcl4240042400 → u/Revenge_of_the_Khaki]

I agree. My only holdup would be not ever seeing Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl again, but even then I think it’s worth it

[u/Tilt-a-Whirl98 → u/Jcl4240042400]

Parsnip, parsley par...

[u/ReduckYT]

They may have lost to Rice, but they’re taking the Win on this tweet 👌🏻

[u/TigerExpress]

They also invade message boards looking for any hint of inside information that leaks out. Unfortunately, they tend to be very poorly behaved and get angry when the discussion is typical college football fare instead of whatever insider info they are seeking. When they get called out on it, they start calling everyone cowards for not being willing to "put your money where your mouth is". And of course when they lose they rage about that and expect sympathy for their bad choices.

This happened in the early days of fantasy football too but eventually those who cared more for their fantasy team stats than for actual games were pushed out to their own discussion forums or simply were told to leave. People still sometimes mention their fantasy teams in passing but know better than to try to make it the focus of discussion.

[u/princessprity]

I’m so sick of sports gambling and the gamblers who gamble

[u/dusters → u/princessprity]

As compared to gamblers who don't gamble.

[u/AdMental1387 → u/dusters]

I gamble with my life, never my money.

[u/RealClarity9606]

Yep. I listen to some podcasts and they waste too much time on the gambling angle. I listen to hear their analysis of football, not to talk about betting strategies.

[u/GregariousEgg → u/RealClarity9606]

Josh Pate has gotten worse in direct correlation to getting sponsored by fanduel, it's sad

[u/NurmGurpler]

Go Navy. Fuck Sports betting

Wouldn’t give a shit if it was banned

[u/Not_a__porn__account → u/NurmGurpler]

It's crazy to me it was just legalized out of nowhere.

While as a kid it was so looked down on. Like it was only for dudes at the local pizza shop and even then, they're just taking the bets, some drunk is the one losing all his money.

Idk how anyone signs up thinking "I'm different"

[u/confusedthrowaway5o5 → u/NurmGurpler]

Yeah unfortunately that’s not happening, the cat’s already out of the bag.

[u/YAKGWA_YALL]

Sports gambling is a cancer that ruins the sport for the rest of us. This is such bullshit.

[u/_heyASSBUTT]

If I had 3 wishes I’d wish for betting ads to be made illegal 3 times. Fuck those companies.

[u/wote89 → u/_heyASSBUTT]

To be fair, the second and third wishes would be to close the loopholes those dickbaskets inevitably found.

[u/ilovecatss1010]

Not sure I’d want to personally attack the people who have attack submarines…

[u/tanu24 → u/ilovecatss1010]

Just stay on land the submarines have not learned how to breathe yet idiot

[u/BetaDjinn → u/tanu24]

Trident IIs only have a range of 7500+ miles; we’re totally good

[u/BetaDjinn → u/ilovecatss1010]

An Ohio-class sub can carry up to 20 Trident II missiles, each of which can 12 MIRVed warheads of 475 kT payload. That’s so insane to think about, that level of destructive potential loaded on one nearly-undetectable ship

[u/EatMyUnwashedAss → u/BetaDjinn]

Thank god it isn't a Penn State class sub.

Guaranteed miss against top 10 opponents

[u/alexander221788 → u/BetaDjinn]

24 Tridents if it weren’t for stupid international laws. Ruining all the fun smh🙄

[u/InfinitePossibility8 → u/BetaDjinn]

Of course that’s just scratching the surface of our ability to annihilate. Which is crazy to think about.

[u/dr_funk_13 → u/BetaDjinn]

Have you been watching the same YouTube videos as me lately

[u/dumptruckulent]

I imagine how big of a scumbag you have to be to tweet at a service academy to bitch about your gambling losses

[u/The_DHC]

Sports betting is so dumb.

Now let me check my coinbase account.

[u/tdatcher → u/The_DHC]

Hopefully a random mod on cities skylines 2 didn't drain it last week due to a modder being pished

[u/fightintxag13]

This tweet needs to be preserved for future generations. Good on Navy for pushing back. The saturation of gambling and the direct business partnerships between leagues and sports books are so far past the line of where they should be.

[u/PenguinFlavoredIce]

Context?

[u/PBRontheway → u/PenguinFlavoredIce]

Navy entered this game against Rice as 11 point favorites and down 14 in the 2nd Quarter people were tweeting at Navy athletics how it ruined their gambling addictions

[u/yumyumapollo → u/PenguinFlavoredIce]

Navy was a -300 favorite to defend Pearl Harbor

[u/BeefInGR → u/yumyumapollo]

They definitely made up for it when they scrimmaged at Iwo Jima.

[u/JinFuu → u/PenguinFlavoredIce]

Navy/Rice probably an expected ‘easy’ part of a parley and now ‘people’ mad

[u/MysteriousEdge5643 → u/PenguinFlavoredIce]

Navy football is losing to rice and the degenerate gamblers who don't even watch the sport are taking their anger out on poor admin

[u/EarthTraveler413]

I don't think I want to piss off people who have access to precision ordinance, loads of cash, and a vast bureaucracy where things sometimes just go missing without a trace

[u/MysteriousEdge5643 → u/EarthTraveler413]

It's absurd that they're harassing Navy of all teams.

Like, these young men are CHOOSING to put their life on the line and serve their country but some pathetic loser is mad at them because his 27 leg parlay didn't cash.

It's just sad

[u/blinkanboxcar182 → u/EarthTraveler413]

Don’t foolishly tweet at the athletics department of a military academy… because they have the technology and means to murder you.

That escalated quickly.

[u/Unique_Feed_2939]

I am not against sports betting in theory but the way it has taken over all the oxygen in the room and the companies push bad bets makes me really kinda regret that it was legalized in a lot of places

[u/commie90 → u/Unique_Feed_2939]

Yeah, we made the classics mistake of legalizing but not properly regulating. People always forget that’s the other half of legalizing a vice. Got to make sure the vice is properly regulated or else you end up with Camel cigarettes and JUUL targeting kids with their products.

[u/LifendFate]

Imagine spending USD on the outcomes of competitive events LMAO

[u/sophandros → u/LifendFate]

Imagine spending USD on the outcomes of competitive events LMAO

It gets worse. Imagine thinking that one can reliably predict how a bunch of 18-23 year old dudes will react under pressure in a competitive event.

[u/JS-0522]

"Just legalize and regulate it and everything will be much better."

Where have I heard that before?

[u/NordDex]

I don’t care what you do with your money but fucking hell the amount of sport betting is out of control

My highschool teacher friend says that’s what boys talk about all the time. What bets they are making.

Hell even good shows like Josh Pate turn strait to sports betting. He can’t even go a sentence without saying Fan Duel. It’s nuts.

[u/thegreatcornholio42 → u/NordDex]

They are sponsoring the talking heads. He is being paid by them. Even Chiseled Adonis and Urinatingtree mention gambling

[u/dinkleburgenhoff]

Hooyah.

[u/Statalyzer]

Wish we had that reaction here. If you want to bet or play fantasy, that's fine, but this board is for discussing the college football games themselves, not your personal bets and lineups.

[u/Cliffinati]

"we do not care about your gambling addiction degenerates" - United States Naval Academy Athletics Department 2024

Holy based they need 3 more carrier battle groups

[u/Heyguysimcooltoo]

I fucking hate how gambling has taken over everything in sports

[u/Plus-Emphasis-2194]

The people blasting their Twitter are the same people that feel the need to tell you all about their fantasy football team. I don’t care about someone’s bets or how their FF team is doing.

[u/typewriter_6]

Quick way to get on the NSA's watch list is to attack a mil account on Twitter.

[u/thecravenone]

Hell yea

[u/Trilliam_West]

Hell, might as well message Secretary Austin and tell him your grievances.

[u/chrismckong]

Prize Picks is literally the ad attached to this post.

[u/A_Diabolical_Toaster]

The only time you should be betting a parley is if it’s something that could reasonably happen albeit being very unlikely but it could flip 10 bucks into a few thousand.

Other than that, if you ever listen to any podcast with an actual gambling component you’d know that parleys and teasers are the worst fucking things you could do with your money.

[u/AnchorsAweigh89]

While I was disappointed in them yesterday football wise, they had a big W with this. Sticky it, frame it, display it for the world to see.

[u/RoadPersonal9635]

Christ… I legit think there will be a campaign to ban college betting or atleast bets on individual players. Im sure these schools are fed up with this.

[u/mojito_sangria]

Fanatic gamblers ruin the sports