r/CFB • u/Master_Jackfruit3591 Texas Longhorns • Georgetown Hoyas • Dec 07 '25

Casual Ohio St fans should be ashamed

Over 5,000 hate filled comments have showed up on Ohio St kicker Jayden Fielding’s social media since last night. Fanbase should be ashamed they’re harassing one of their own, it isn’t good for the player, team, or sport. No excuse for it, touch grass. Hope the fanbase can lift up this young man in time for their next game instead of tearing him down even more.

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u/--RandomInternetGuy Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

Gambling has absolutely ruined sports talk radio

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u/Aioli_Hungry Iowa Hawkeyes Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 07 '25

It’s ruined everything. Podcasts, sports news, sports pregame shows, sports in general, generations of mostly young men, their families, society.

You can’t consume any media without ads for it, every talk show gives the betting lines and odds, it’s in person at games, whole teams are sponsored (soccer). When vices are pushed like this, they become normalized, think smoking. When something is normalized to this extent it becomes cultural. When something is cultural and addictive and built to take all you have, it ruins lives and families and gets passed down and can ruin generations.

Sports gambling and its ease of access is disgusting. I’m no angel, I love craps but I have to go to Vegas to play craps. It’s about ease of access and cultural norms and if we don’t pivot a lot of lives will be destroyed. We will look back on this period of sports gambling the same way we look at cigarette advertising, the heroin and crack epidemics of the past.

Sorry for the rant but I see all this, and I work in the service industry and I hear peoples’ conversations and it’s bad. Real bad. People that would never touch gambling are being looped in by the media that it’s ok and recruited by their friends and even strangers.

Edit: to add, I touched on ease of access. Think of every famous US gambling city, Vegas, Reno, Atlantic City; they’re all shit holes full of fake glamour and real broken dreams. If media and social media are considered digital town squares, they’re digital slums for the public to get their fix, whatever it is, from their phones.

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u/YueAsal Florida State Seminoles Dec 07 '25

Imagine if vape juice was advertised a much as sports betting during sports games.

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u/LiquidLight_ Notre Dame • Purdue Dec 07 '25

There's legislation against advertising tobacco products. It doesn't extend fully to vaping, but it's why you don't see tons of ads per game for cigarettes. 

Heck, even alcohol ads have rules about what they can and can't show, remember the beer commercial with the two dudes talking about not being able to drink during the commercial?

As far as I know the only gambling restriction is that they have to have the help line number and disclaimer on the ad. 

So I guess: contact your legislative representatives.

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u/Aioli_Hungry Iowa Hawkeyes Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 07 '25

Sports betting and advertising is illegal in my state. There’s gray areas allowed by the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which I believe South Park even touched on. The federal government is actively working on further deregulation in this area.

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u/LiquidLight_ Notre Dame • Purdue Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 08 '25

The feds are working on deregulating everything, so that's no surprise. If sports betting is illegal in your state, makes sense ads for the same are. 

Unfortunately if you live in a state where sports betting is legal, I've yet to see any regulations on gambling ads at least as they come in sports media. 

Really there's little regulation on sports betting that I've seen if it's legal in your state. Heck ESPN, with the broadcast rights to the SEC, has a betting platform. 

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u/TheNittanyLionKing Penn State Nittany Lions Dec 07 '25

I don’t care about the over/unders. I miss when that was a confusing concept to me. I just want analysis of who will win the game and how. ESPN nailed this formula in the 2000’s. 

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u/SoylentPudding Georgia • Florida State Dec 07 '25

Shutdown Fullcast dumped almost all their advertisers and started a Patreon specifically so they could avoid any more ad contracts about gambling sites.

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u/SoylentPudding Georgia • Florida State Dec 07 '25

Yup, probably my favorite. With the off-season coming up, I recommend checking out some of their "disasters" episodes. Those are mailbag episodes where they ask readers to submit disaster stories on a theme like Halloween, golf, water, wedding, etc.

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u/ChildhoodShoddy6482 Ohio State Buckeyes • The Game Dec 07 '25

Thanks for the heads up, Puddin. :-*

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u/TurdFerguson614 Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

Our country is run by crypto, gambling, ai tech bro deregulation douchebags. Funnel $ to the top at all costs.

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u/royalbluehen Pittsburgh • Michigan Dec 07 '25

Whats hilarious and sad is my friend who is deep in the tank for barstool content and gambling doesnt see how the gambling aspect could influence the podcasters to push a narrative. Same energy as thinking cigarette companies wouldn’t pay off doctors to promote cigarettes as healthy.

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u/Wise_Rip_1982 Dec 07 '25

Yea. We need a blanket ban on gambling similar to cigarettes. Should probably include alcohol too.

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u/goddamnitwhalen Oregon Ducks • Sickos Dec 07 '25

My most conservative political opinion is that we should bring back Prohibition and I’m not even remotely joking.

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u/Wise_Rip_1982 Dec 07 '25

Nah. That is an incredibly wild take.

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u/goddamnitwhalen Oregon Ducks • Sickos Dec 07 '25

I will die on this hill like an American teenager in Vietnam.

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u/Wise_Rip_1982 Dec 07 '25

Lol damn. Prohibition is clearly one of the worst policy decisions of all time. Just like the current prohibition of recreational drugs.

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u/goddamnitwhalen Oregon Ducks • Sickos Dec 07 '25

I know, and my beloved one-liner aside I’m not actually serious. I am sober- by choice- and I wish we could do something about the impact alcohol has on our society, but I’m not optimistic.

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u/Wise_Rip_1982 Dec 07 '25

Education is the best option. Our country has so many issues that lead to abuse

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u/hooya2007 James Madison Dukes Dec 07 '25

Just ask yourself, what positive does gambling add to society? 

We're slowly reverting back to Roman bread and circuses.

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u/goddamnitwhalen Oregon Ducks • Sickos Dec 07 '25

Oh buddy we’re there already.

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u/TheKerj2 Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

You can’t ban that shit, only drive it underground, which only creates more crime. For an example, see the war on drugs

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u/Wise_Rip_1982 Dec 07 '25

I meant advertising. Probably should have said that but it's clear cigarettes are legal and advertising them is not

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u/62frog TCU Horned Frogs • Verified Player Dec 07 '25

The injection of McAfee on Gameday was disappointing, but when he actually takes it seriously he can add some value. Now they are picking games against the spread.

ESPN’s acceptance of gambling is going to have really bad knock-on effects and that’s already showing up with shit like this.

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u/tsgram UConn Huskies Dec 07 '25

And FOX promoting those losers with a wholly unserious production doesn’t help