NFL inks sports bet deals with Caesars, FanDuel, DraftKings

[Steve Timko]

I remember when it was a scandal that Jimmy The Greek talked about odds and points. CBS stopped giving them for awhile.

https://apnews.com/article/nfl-football-united-states-sports-betting-e1d99210dd2280374404d6bb27152165 

[PGage]

I remember that both Sunday Morning NFL pregame shows what make point spread predictions. Not sure that was a scandal as much as a hypocrisy, as the NFL pretended it had nothing to do with gambling. They did eventually stop doing that, I think because the hypocrisy got to be too much.

The scandal with Snyder was his racist comments.

On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 6:34 PM Steve Timko <steve...@gmail.com> wrote:

I remember when it was a scandal that Jimmy The Greek talked about odds and points. CBS stopped giving them for awhile.

https://apnews.com/article/nfl-football-united-states-sports-betting-e1d99210dd2280374404d6bb27152165 

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[Steve Timko]

The networks faced criticism for discussing the point spreads and the odds. Living in Nevada, I was aware of a lot of the discussion.

CBS stopped it for a few years after it fired Jimmy the Greek, but brought it back.

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[JW]

> The networks faced criticism for discussing the point spreads and the odds.
> Living in Nevada, I was aware of a lot of the discussion.
> CBS stopped it for a few years after it fired Jimmy the Greek, but brought

> it back.

Wasn't it set up where the Greek would put checkmarks in one team's column or the other in such a way that the viewer could figure out how many points his choice was supposed to win by?

[PGage]

At one point they would give the actual spread and talk about whether a team would cover. Then they just started giving predicted final scores of the game, while stating the spread, but give winks and nods about it. Then they just started predicting who would win, partly from pressure from moralizers, partly because the NFL is conflicted about gambling, which drives interest but risks credibility. More recently they have become less squeamish. Fantasy football was once seen as a way to drive similar interest without gambling, but then that became gambling too, and now we have a franchise in Vegas, which at one time would have been unthinkable. 

I suppose their were people who were scandalized by Snyder, but I would not say his predictions were a scandal per se. He became a scandal, and was fired, for saying that slavery resulted in the biological superiority of Black athletes, and that “the Blacks have everything, coaching is all that’s left for the White man” (quote approximate).

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[Mark Jeffries]

And since the NFL officially banned point spreads from the pre-game shows for years, the "SportsCenter" ESPN used to run at 11:30 a.m. ET before "Game Day" had one main purpose:  Showing the point spreads.

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