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<blockquote data-quote="jaybadger82" data-source="post: 468804" data-attributes="member: 6211"><p>Please spare me the condescending language about understanding and consider what's being said:</p><p> </p><p>Do people bet on games because the NFL is popular <em>or</em> is the NFL popular because people are betting on games?</p><p> </p><p>You seem to be arguing the latter and I don't think that conforms to the reality.</p><p> </p><p>The NFL's major revenue streams (i.e., tickets, merchandise, television contracts, endorsements/sponsorships) will not be threatened or diminished by a one-time disruption to the relatively small number of folks that placed money on the Green Bay/Seattle game. Those that lost as a result of the bad call would suddenly be holding a winning ticket while many that already collected their winnings on Seattle beating the spread have already received their boon.</p><p> </p><p>It's the casinos that get screwed by such a reversal from the NFL and they're not going to close their sportsbooks out of spite. People bet the sports they watch and that won't change as a result of a single game being reversed. The sportsbooks will modify their policies (e.g., winning tickets cannot be redeemed until 48 hours after a sporting event) and the betting will continue because gambling ranks alongside sex, drugs, and alcohol amongst the most addictive and popular vices known to man.</p><p> </p><p>Is the subset of fans that bet games responsible for the league's current popularity? -Perhaps they contribute to it. But I suspect that most gamblers bet the NFL <em>because</em> it's what they're watching.</p><p> </p><p>Regardless, the "follow the money" axiom doesn't really make sense where the decision to reverse the outcome would have no direct effect on the league's revenues or seriously hurt gambling by any stretch of the imagination.</p><p> </p><p>Sports gambling is the fly on the elephant, not the other way around. -Granted, a large fly, but a fly nonetheless. It isn't threatened when the elephant changes position and the elephant doesn't owe its massive size to the fly.</p><p> </p><p>The NFL wouldn't reverse this one because it didn't want to establish a precedent that was bound to be problematic down the road and because doing so would force the league to correct its replacement officials in a very public manner during collective bargaining negotiations with its regular referees.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jaybadger82, post: 468804, member: 6211"] Please spare me the condescending language about understanding and consider what's being said: Do people bet on games because the NFL is popular [I]or[/I] is the NFL popular because people are betting on games? You seem to be arguing the latter and I don't think that conforms to the reality. The NFL's major revenue streams (i.e., tickets, merchandise, television contracts, endorsements/sponsorships) will not be threatened or diminished by a one-time disruption to the relatively small number of folks that placed money on the Green Bay/Seattle game. Those that lost as a result of the bad call would suddenly be holding a winning ticket while many that already collected their winnings on Seattle beating the spread have already received their boon. It's the casinos that get screwed by such a reversal from the NFL and they're not going to close their sportsbooks out of spite. People bet the sports they watch and that won't change as a result of a single game being reversed. The sportsbooks will modify their policies (e.g., winning tickets cannot be redeemed until 48 hours after a sporting event) and the betting will continue because gambling ranks alongside sex, drugs, and alcohol amongst the most addictive and popular vices known to man. Is the subset of fans that bet games responsible for the league's current popularity? -Perhaps they contribute to it. But I suspect that most gamblers bet the NFL [I]because[/I] it's what they're watching. Regardless, the "follow the money" axiom doesn't really make sense where the decision to reverse the outcome would have no direct effect on the league's revenues or seriously hurt gambling by any stretch of the imagination. Sports gambling is the fly on the elephant, not the other way around. -Granted, a large fly, but a fly nonetheless. It isn't threatened when the elephant changes position and the elephant doesn't owe its massive size to the fly. The NFL wouldn't reverse this one because it didn't want to establish a precedent that was bound to be problematic down the road and because doing so would force the league to correct its replacement officials in a very public manner during collective bargaining negotiations with its regular referees. [/QUOTE]
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