Sports writers that I read are bubbling with excitement with the new legalization (a bit more complicated than that, but...) of sports betting.

Everyone says it's going to change the way people watch sports.

I've never been a betting type really. I'm not excited about it at all. Am I an outlier on this?

I like sports but I never bet on it. It never occurs to me to bet.

Really. Hate. Both.

Sports fans are already equal to religion or politics -- now adding money and personal loss to the mix...

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I had a roommate in college who regularly bet sports; he wrote a program in DOS back in the day to keep track of injuries & etc. for basketball. He bet that and did horse racing. He cleared better than his salary some years (and he made a good salary).

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Pfft. As a Cleveland fan and as a person who never wins anything, even the crappy door prizes at the company picnic, I would never attempt sports betting.



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Pfft. As a Cleveland fan and as a person who never wins anything, even the crappy door prizes at the company picnic, I would never attempt sports betting.

That's funny. I bet the Indians are particularly frustrating considering how competitive they generally are.

I don't believe in legalized sports betting. I still use a good old bookie. Bookie Lives Matter!

I learned early on that I should not gamble. I get too weird. Won $50 in Carson City playing poker and decided to quit. That was 1983.

Nothing good will come from this.

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I don't believe in legalized sports betting. I still use a good old bookie. Bookie Lives Matter!

Amen! I find it refreshingly, or dishearteningly, naive that people think sports betting hasn't been a thriving industry all along whether it was legal or not. Sort of like how when gambling first became legal in Nevada, the only thing one very nice restaurant in Reno had to do was move all their gaming tables and slot machines from the already popular illegal casino in the basement to positions of prominence on the main floor for all to see.

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I don't believe in legalized sports betting. I still use a good old bookie. Bookie Lives Matter!

Amen! I find it refreshingly, or dishearteningly, naive that people think sports betting hasn't been a thriving industry all along whether it was legal or not. Sort of like how when gambling first became legal in Nevada, the only thing one very nice restaurant in Reno had to do was move all their gaming tables and slot machines from the already popular illegal casino in the basement to positions of prominence on the main floor for all to see.

Exactly! My father was a bookie which he conducted out of his barber shop.

It's never occurred to me. It has to lots of other people, but I guess that I don't care about sports all that much to bet on it. Either that, or I just don't have enough disposable income to lose.

Not a sports fan and not interested in gambling on it. Have done both in the past but simply don't choose to make the time to either nowadays. Put another way, I'm ignoring far more useful things already and I think I'll get to those first before sports/gambling.

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Nothing good will come from this.

Odds are, I bet you are correct.

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And people wonder why the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The wealthy people I know don't gamble (unless you consider investing the same thing as rolling dice). Some of them don't even drink. The middle class and getting poorer, or those who are already having a hard time making ends meet, do gamble and do drink, among other things.

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I really loathe gambling, including the fantasy sports crap. Can’t see the appeal of going to casinos. I can imagine reasons why some people do it, but they are not reasons that merit admiration.

Gambling on sports seems like a great way to contribute to domestic violence and divorce.

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My life goes smoothly and in regular intervals

I don't gamble.

Of the two or three times I've been with someone who wanted to hit a casino, because of being in one of their hotels, it was a roll or two of quarters in slots.

As there is usually no ROI, that's all they got. Once, on the way out of a little breakfast place, I emptied the dimes from my pockets and got a bit of a decent payoff. Luck of the draw, so to speak.

I can understand people who are good at cards, really good at card, testing their mettle, and getting good money when they're right.

But when they're not... I once worked with a guy who loved lo-ball poker and was very good at it. But he would spend hours playing and then catch a bad streak, and spend more hours coming up with more money to will back is losses. It could have cost him his job if our bosses knew that he gambled that much, though not illegally.

He knew what his problem was- he didn't know when to quit. He'd be way up and then would come an almost inevitable downward spiral. He'd never stop, until he hit bottom and bounced up ahead of where he was before. He was single and had to answer to no one. Then one day he up and quit, and got himself a steady job- as a black jack dealer in Vegas, last I heard.

A co-worker saw him and when a player tipped him, said 'Do you want a tip, or should I place a bet for you? He was said to reply 'I don't gamble'. Not that I needed warning off, but I've never felt interested in 'playing the slots' again.

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I've never had the gambling fever either.

I don't even play the lottery when the prize is half a billion dollars or something.

I like football, but I don't gamble on it. I don't even do the fantasy football. If anything, I think it would lessen my enjoyment of the sport.

I did participate in football pools many years ago, but the closest I've come since then is buying a few blocks on a Super Bowl pool, which is entirely random.