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/Simmumah Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl Dec 07 '25

Its just a game, if you send a kid fucking death threats over it you need to re-evaluate yourself.

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u/DynasForever Ohio State Buckeyes • USF Bulls Dec 07 '25

Unfortunately gambling makes it far more than just a game to some people. They stake their livelihoods on that shit. Gambling is ruining sports.

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u/cowboys_r_us Oklahoma State Cowboys Dec 07 '25

Gambling is ruining lives . And yet, you can't watch or listen sports without it being shoved down your throat.

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u/prailock Ohio State • Marquette Dec 07 '25

When I still did private bar divorce cases, gambling addicts were worse than heroin addicts when it came to asset division and escape of the other spouse. It's insanely abusive and not taken as seriously as it needs to be.

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u/FloridaManActual Florida Gators Dec 07 '25

private bar divorce cases

If I ever get divorced, I'm going to have an open bar divorce haha.

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u/prailock Ohio State • Marquette Dec 07 '25

Lol it's just because I'm not private practice anymore. Work at a charity doing family law instead.

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u/CapnChaos2024 Virginia Tech Hokies Dec 07 '25

Can you charitably find a way to save me from crippling child support payments due to imputed income? 😂😂😂

But yes you’re right. The gambling stuff is out of control. They can’t advertise cigarettes on TV but I can’t go 2 seconds without seeing a draft kings of bet mgm ad

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u/philleferg Arkansas Razorbacks • Oklahoma Sooners Dec 07 '25

Hell, ban gambling ads, and anything medically related. There is no reason why prescription drugs are allowed to be advertised in any form. It's insane.

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u/h3rp3r Ohio State • College Football Playoff Dec 07 '25

"You should make this medical decision that will have you bleeding from your taint, talk to your doctor today!"

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u/philleferg Arkansas Razorbacks • Oklahoma Sooners Dec 07 '25

"We can make your dick hard, but you will go bald, and never cum again."

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u/BL00211 Dec 08 '25

Why ban prescription drug ads? Thats how I found this cream that makes my skin less red - but causes frequent butt leaks as the trade off.

Now on a positive note, while the cream hasn’t helped my skin, the constant leaking of butt juice has prevented anyone from paying attention to the slight redness of my skin!

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u/Dumptruck_Johnson Dec 08 '25

Now with 10% less anal leakage!

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u/FranklinRoamingH2 Dec 08 '25

The boner pill ads are too much these days.

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u/FloridaManActual Florida Gators Dec 07 '25

Haha, I knew what you meant, just making a joke :)

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u/Old-School2468 Dec 08 '25

DM me I'll clear my schedule.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

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u/FloridaManActual Florida Gators Dec 07 '25

Depends.

Did she go to FSU? Under 8 years.

Did she go to UF? Also under 8 years.

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u/Laney20 Alabama Crimson Tide • Marching Band Dec 07 '25

For real. I would be willing to work with my spouse through drug issues, if they happened. Gambling? No way. Get the f out, immediately. Or it will consume you and everything you have.

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u/FloridaManActual Florida Gators Dec 07 '25

one of my buddies was out of the country on vacation, and he text me that he need to borrow a few hundred dollars to pay his hotel bill and food.

I immediately facetimed him to tell him someone was using his number and trying to scam people.

... It was a legit text from him. I thought his sports betting was just a fun 5 bucks here or there. Nope. That shit consumed him. He was living for free at home and had an almost 6 figure job, but was so down bad that he needed an emergency cash infusion while OVERSEAS with his girlfriend because he miscalculated when some of his gambling debts were due vs when his winnings paid out...

Long story short, I sent him the money but only if he got help once he got back. He's actually doing much better now... as far as I know. He did end up paying me back a few months later, I thought I was never going to see that money again.

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u/rothbard_anarchist Missouri Tigers • WashU Bears Dec 07 '25

Some friend’s parents divorced but stayed together, just so they could protect the wife’s and the household’s finances from his addiction.

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u/SnepbeckSweg Michigan • Cincinnati Dec 07 '25

Fuck that’s grim, at least they had the self awareness to make a smart decision

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u/aMoose_Bit_My_Sister Stanford Cardinal Dec 08 '25

my brother is a gambling addict.

if you know, you know.

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u/Unrelenting_Salsa LSU Tigers • Georgia Bulldogs Dec 07 '25

A really somber way to put it is that for most other life ruining addictions like drugs and alcohol, you just die. When you're addicted to gambling, you're perpetually in debt, passing all that debt on to loved ones, and still have 40 years of that to deal with.

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u/prailock Ohio State • Marquette Dec 07 '25

And they take out lines of credit in their spouse's name, their kids' names, their employees' names if they own a business, and that's just the ones I've seen myself. It's incredibly destructive and frequently has a co-addiction to a substance either already present or develop the more they get into debt.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

Man, I’d like to hear some stories. Gambling is not my thing, alcohol is. I bet you have some good ones.

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u/prailock Ohio State • Marquette Dec 07 '25

They're all extremely depressing and fuck up kids lives. Not really all that great tbh.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

I live in native area. I detest casinos because I believe they fuck up tribes to cater to…. I’m not sure. All the rich people just go to Vegas. Some allow sports gambling, some do not.

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u/kychleap Indiana Hoosiers Dec 07 '25

In 50 years we’re going to talk about gambling ads the same way we talk about tobacco ads today.

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u/asetniop UConn Huskies Dec 07 '25

We're already having those conversations. Unfortunately we live in a society where money talks, and the casinos have lots of it and are continuously accumulating more.

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u/Intrepid_Zebra_ Penn State Nittany Lions Dec 07 '25

I would bet the tobacco companies had more though comparatively at the time though.

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u/IndyDude11 Texas Longhorns • Indiana Hoosiers Dec 08 '25

I would bet

I know where you can do that.

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u/Intrepid_Zebra_ Penn State Nittany Lions Dec 08 '25

Wouldn't surprise me if Polymarket has this already

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u/beer-football Florida State • San Diego State Dec 07 '25

We had those conversations in the 1920s (the black sox started a crackdown) and the 1960s (federal wire act). And the people have forgotten them....

horse racing and vegas were the compromises.

so when the internet appeared, organized crime and exploitative types decided to do it again. It's a push in EU as well.

Now it's available for addiction in your pocket, anywhere, anytime.

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u/ContinuumGuy St. John Fisher • Syracuse Dec 07 '25

I feel like people underestimate how important the Black Sox scandal was in SPORTS history in America. Not just baseball. There have been fixing scandals and ugly betting incidents since then, but it feels like it left such a scar on the American psyche that it caused such scandals to be far less common than in some other parts of the world. I've read accounts of what sports gambling was like in America before the Black Sox, and it was so pervasive that it makes the current environment seem crazy only because technology has made the current environment easier to do stuff in.

Like, apparently there have been a bunch of match-fixing scandals in Europe in soccer. There have been like four different major betting scandals in Taiwanese baseball in the last thirty years.

Now, though, it's all in the open. And it feels like the scab has been completely pulled off, letting the infection take hold, and it's affecting the gamblers, their families, the players, the coaches... everyone.

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u/Fritzkreig Indiana Hoosiers Dec 07 '25

Sumo wrastling had a big scandal as well!

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u/UnusuallyBadIdeaGuy Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos Dec 07 '25

Not even just Organized Crime. If you look at Vegas these days, the gambling magnates are all corporate. Same with many of these websites - you don't need Mobsters, you just need sufficiently morality free white collar types. They used to steer clear of gambling and such but now it's just another profit sector to be squeezed.

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u/beer-football Florida State • San Diego State Dec 08 '25

Well organized crime has moved into the morality free white collar and political sector and vice versa for a while, but your point stands.

It's "legal-ish" enough and it's making money.

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u/Opulent-tortoise Harvard Crimson Dec 07 '25

Sports betting was already banned for those exact reasons. The courts said no

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u/WooBadger18 Wooster Fighting Scots • Wisconsin Badgers Dec 07 '25

Or like how we talk about the start of the opioid epidemic

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC Texas Longhorns Dec 07 '25

We’re moving the opposite direction. We already had a lot of it worked out until greed took over.

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u/hooya2007 James Madison Dukes Dec 07 '25

Guys, I can't believe I'm saying this, but maybe the moral grandstanding, family values crowd had some things right.

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u/JVDEastEnfield Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion in Murphy vs. NCAA

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u/TheGhostOfBobStoops Oklahoma Sooners Dec 07 '25

Family values speak, but money yells

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u/Sad-Corner-9972 Dec 07 '25

Money don’t talk. It swears. -B.Dylan

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u/seatsfive Dec 07 '25

The sports gambling boom has me seriously rethinking lifelong civil libertarian opinions about how prohibition doesn't work. Like maybe there really is marginal utility in making it more difficult for people to access addictive things

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u/34HoldOn Michigan • Michigan State Dec 07 '25

That was always the point, and it does in fact work. Perfection isn't the enemy of good.

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u/seatsfive Dec 08 '25

I think online gambling is particularly untenable in the era of smart phones. The fact that you can drain your life savings to make prop bets on the portable Skinner box we all carry around is completely insane. That has to be reined in if nothing else. If you want to bet $1,000 on what color shoes Kevin Durant wears tomorrow, you should at a minimum have to go into a building and look another human being in the eye when you do it.

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u/BestJersey_WorstName Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 07 '25

Prohibition doesn't work when sudden withdrawal from the vice risks death, as it does with alcoholism.

Prohibiting porn, gambling, weed, and tobacco are public policy positions with room for debate. And yes, some of the things I listed in that are not like the others. That's why it's a debate.

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u/SportyMcSportsAcct Dec 07 '25

theyre right for the wrong reasons.

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u/Revolutionary_Elk791 Oregon Ducks • Linfield Wildcats Dec 08 '25

A broken clock is right twice a day. The temperance movement and the religious movements that fueled it had (and still have) all sorts of issues, but they weren't wrong about the ills of excessive drinking and gambling.

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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt Wesleyan (CT) Cardinals Dec 07 '25

Wasn't the moral grandstanding family values crowd the ones pushing for legalize gambling? At least that's how it was in the US.

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u/SpaceAngel2001 Dec 07 '25

The reason gambling, including lottery, is only slowing coming to Bible belt states is because is the family values crowd. So I'm not sure why you're saying that.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Dec 07 '25

They're the ones betting while on the toilet.

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u/InnerWrathChild Clemson Tigers Dec 07 '25

I dumped all my sports apps because of the prolific gambling ads and integration of it in general. As with everything else college sports has been enshitified by greed. 

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u/lukin187250 Notre Dame • Army Dec 07 '25

In some pre game shows they're framing the discussion around the prop bets even with visual and logos and everything. It's incredible, not in a good way.

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u/Ok_Television_245 Florida Gators Dec 07 '25

Gambling ruining lives is getting worse. CNN and MSNBC will incorporate Kalashi betting lines into their news reports.

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u/NumNumLobster Cincinnati • Ohio State Dec 08 '25

Its going to be wild watching hurricane coverage and they are putting payoffs for what cat it will be and where it makes landfall

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u/elconquistador1985 Ohio State • Tennessee Dec 07 '25

Gambling is basically the feature presentation on sports shows. The betting like takes precedence over actual scores.

For fucks sake, ESPN had a segment where their talking heads were railing about the travesty of betting on sports with a fucking ESPN BET banner taking up at least 1/3 of the ticker at the bottom. It's pathetic.

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u/iatetoomuchcatnip Texas Longhorns Dec 07 '25

These ads for gambling have seemed to replace the military ads.

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u/Repulsive_Ad7491 Nebraska Cornhuskers Dec 07 '25

As someone who used to be in recruiting, that’s just because the military is finally coming to terms with the fact that no one watches live tv anymore outside of sports and people way too old to join the military. So we are slowly starting to transition to other forms of media.

On the other hand, conveniently sports are a great place for gambling ads because the ad directly relates to what the person is watching.

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u/yearz Alabama Crimson Tide Dec 07 '25

We worship money. Capitalism worked best when it was tempered by a strong social contract. Without it, capitalism becomes an exercise in which the future is sacrificed at the altar of higher revenue this quarter

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u/Puzzleheaded-Link416 Indiana Hoosiers Dec 07 '25

And we are making it EASIER to ruin lives! Back in the day, you had to either go to Vegas (or if you were really pathetic, Atlantic City) to gamble, or took a chance with a bookie. Now you just download an app.

Deregulation is pretty harmful to the customer base when you let the private sector call the shots.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

I watched the SEC championship game on YouTube TV. Instead of ads, they just show the field during commercials with no sound. No Geico or Dr Pepper or halftime shows. Just the field with no sound. I like it.

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u/slanginthangs Georgia Bulldogs Dec 07 '25

r/CFB brought to you by DraftKings

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

I fear it’s only going to get worse. Gambling has seeped itself into literally everything.

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u/br0b1wan Ohio State • Penn State Dec 07 '25

We stopped advertising tobacco for a reason. We need to do the same with gambling

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u/hlfazn Clemson Tigers Dec 07 '25

You are right my guy, but please flair up.

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u/cowboys_r_us Oklahoma State Cowboys Dec 07 '25

I'd never actually looked up how to do it. Should fit right in at Chotchkie's now.

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u/J3dr90 Oregon Ducks Dec 07 '25

Something needs to be done about it. Gambling is destroying sports

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u/HeartSodaFromHEB Michigan Wolverines • Paper Bag Dec 08 '25

The one thing I don't like about Klatt. He claims that he never bets, but talks about the lines all the time. Wish he would just take a stand and not mention it.

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u/RonnieFromTheBlock Georgia Bulldogs Dec 07 '25

I remember Alabama's kicker being flooded with death threats on twitter long before gambling became so pervasive.

It feels like gambling is being used to scapegoat shitty fan behavior that has always existed. I say this as someone who doesn't gamble and lives somewhere where it is illegal.

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u/Bigbysjackingfist Liberty Flames • Harvard Crimson Dec 07 '25

It pours gasoline on that fire

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u/DynasForever Ohio State Buckeyes • USF Bulls Dec 07 '25

Gambling may not have been legal then but that doesn’t mean bets weren’t placed. I’m not excusing shitty fans. Simply saying just because it only recently became “legal” some places doesn’t mean it wasn’t happening before that. Just on a far smaller scale.

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u/RonnieFromTheBlock Georgia Bulldogs Dec 07 '25

No doubt, but thinking back to 2013, when Cade Foster was run off the internet, I don't think that emotion and vitriol was due to lost bets.

That same emotion exists today with or without gambling.

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u/Gleaguepullup LSU Tigers Dec 07 '25

This is what I remember. Gambling obviously amplified things, but I think when you look at social media (team based sports subs, sports forums, twitter, facebook, etc…) the realization I always come to is that a lot of fans are too immature to interact with the sports they enjoy. I think, perhaps a little too optimistically, most IRL fans are chill and healthy, but the online contingent prone to “crashing out” genuinely can’t handle when their ideal outcome doesn’t occur. At least part of it is not forming a healthy detachment from the sports they watch. As much as I love my team it’s just a game when my livelihood isn’t tied to the result lol

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u/weirdbutinagoodway West Virginia Mountaineers • Big 12 Dec 07 '25

You're right and I'd say most problem gamblers were finding bookies to make bets with long before it became legal in most places. I really wish it wasn't everywhere though, "Coffee Shops" are the only places that out number vape shops in West Virginia (seems like it, I don't have actual numbers).

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u/WON95sr Creighton Bluejays Dec 07 '25

There are definitely people who don't gamble but take this all way too seriously though, and that's almost sadder. People build their whole personalities around sports teams and let it dictate their lives. Gambling makes it worse and creates a lot of new problems, but we let entertainment and sports specifically carry so much weight. 

It's like with fall weddings. Some people just joke about it, but anybody that actually has their week ruined because they can't watch their team on TV for that one day because they have to go to a wedding for a loved one is a fucking loser. 

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u/RememberingTiger1 Michigan Wolverines Dec 07 '25

I was just going to post that it's not being driven solely by gambling. I've lived in two college football centric cities (Columbus and Knoxville) and stuff like this has been going on since the 70s. Telephoned and mailed death threats happened in both places. Some fans (fanatics) look at their teams in a completely unhinged manner. It's just ramped up astronomically with the advent of social media.

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u/HelpMePlease420-69 Dec 07 '25

It doesn’t matter, every thread is an opportunity to get upvotes for complaining about gambling whether it’s relevant or not. It’s literally the same chain of comments and replies every time

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 07 '25

I'll put it this way. There were opioid addicts before oxycotin, percs, and Vicodin were commonplace. There are significantly more opioid addicts now because of the opioid meds getting handed out like candy. Are the opioid manufacturers who produced, encouraged, and incentivized to use of their meds being "scapegoated" for an issue that has already existed?

There will always be people making poor decisions. We can't stop that. What companies like FanDuel, MGM, Draft kings, etc. do is popularize and glamourize gambling. They change the way gambling is viewed by the public and the target audience. It's not a "moral hazard", it's "just getting more in to the game". They make betting money on sports just as normal as tailgating with friends. So there's no longer any type of social caution that's used. It's just $5 her,. $20 there. You know, for fun.

So yeah. Fans have been shitty. Especially Ohio-based sports. However, gambling makes it more than entertainment. It allows people to put real-world consequences in to the calculation of a literal game. It allows people to put rent payments, food for their kids, the vacation in 6 weeks, on the line. That will draw out emotions usually reserved for real world shit.

Edit: I'm watching a guy doing the play by play for the Browns/Titans game. Sanders just scored a touchdown, that triggered the guy to do an ad spot for PrizePicks.

"It's the holiday season, it's the best time... While your making decisions everyday, on what to eat, where to go, there's one place where it feels good to be right... I love this app, it's a lot of fun, I make money, and because I watch the browns I know what picks to make."

You see how they turn betting money in to an everyday decision? How they tie "feel good about being right" to gambling? It's "fun". "I make money". "I know I'll win because I'm smart about the sports team I watch". It hits every note a guy watching football would want to hear.

When America gets its head out of its ass, Ill bet $20 that gambling will get banned again.

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u/Inconceivable76 Ohio State • Arizona State Dec 07 '25

Sports betting has always been legal in Vegas. And people were betting illegally long beforehand You just had larger penalties for losing money.

im sure small percentage is unhinged fans Mets the internet (usually with a side of booze). but The vast majority are gamblers.

this game didn’t even matter. We are both going to the playoffs. We are both getting a bye.

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u/RonnieFromTheBlock Georgia Bulldogs Dec 07 '25

If we are looking for something to point fingers at there is no bigger exacerbator than social media.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

Sports betting was pervasive long before Twitter was invented. lol. Ever heard of Vegas?

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u/RonnieFromTheBlock Georgia Bulldogs Dec 07 '25

Did you miss the ‘so’ before the word?

Or is your argument that the level of pervasiveness is unchanged?

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

Shifting the goal posts / motte and bailey rhetoric. How tedious.

Anyway, you’re obviously very young. I would hypothesize there is a large overlap between gambling and raging at sports games. Gambling has been pervasive long before social media. Don’t be a mealy mouth.

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u/RonnieFromTheBlock Georgia Bulldogs Dec 07 '25

Im 38 which im sure is very young to someone in their 70s.

It does sound like you are arguing that pervasion of gambling hasn’t grown in recent years which is very surprising.

Like I said, I live somewhere where it’s illegal. I can count on one hand the amount of people I know who gamble regularly. But I am certainly inundated with gambling adverts and convos like these online which is fairly new.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

Glad you’re at least no longer relying on weasel words for your argument! Neither of us has data. I’m sure some rage at losing money and some rage because they have no sense of self identity apart from their team. We can only speculate on the Venn diagram. Where do you live? I bet in 5 minutes I can figure out how to place a bet for you - illegal or not. 

1879 gambling motivated riot. How many years was that before Twitter? lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Riot_of_1879?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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u/Simmumah Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl Dec 07 '25

100% agreed and I say this as a complete gambling degenerate.

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u/ninospizza Dec 07 '25

I don’t agree with all gambling being shoved in our faces but if I had to guess a lot of the hate comments are coming from losers who don’t even bet

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u/moserftbl88 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Oregon Ducks Dec 07 '25

I know the hot new thing is to complain and blame things on gambling but let’s be real this has been a thing long before gambling has become as widespread as it has. You’d hear years before it became as popular as it has about people getting death threats after a game. This isn’t anything new and is more people taking a game way too serious

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u/Ok_Employee_9612 Dec 07 '25

Gambling has been around as long as there have been sports.

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u/f-this-life100 Dec 07 '25

Their losss are their problem. If the gamblers can’t handle their losses they need to get out of the game

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u/DynasForever Ohio State Buckeyes • USF Bulls Dec 07 '25

Couldn’t agree more. Not justifying anything, just adding some context.

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin Dec 07 '25

Doesn't even take gambling. Lots of people pin their happiness and self worth on the performance of a sports team and take losses very seriously.

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u/DoveFood Oregon Ducks Dec 07 '25

Man, I’m not even a gambler, but the reddit hard-on for blaming every ill of sports on gambling is such an echo chamber/ridiculous. 

This stuff has lasted a long time before legal gambling. Social Media is the bigger escalator to this stuff than gambling. 

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u/Letterkenny-Wayne /r/CFB Dec 07 '25

And those people are pathetic and should probably seek help

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u/robertlanders West Virginia • Backyard Brawl Dec 07 '25

Ya unfortunately I see a shit ton of non fans commenting hate under kids’ posts from gambling. I hate it

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u/jdhutch80 Florida Gators Dec 07 '25

You can say that, but it's been happening on social media since before gambling was legal across the country. It probably happened (albeit less frequently) with letters to players before that, not to mention message boards and sports call in shows.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

When people are betting rent money yes. If you're betting pizza money to make it interesting go for it. It's gonna lead to some divorces I'm sure.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

Some of us also just have nothing else going for us in our lives but vicarious success from the team. I don't send threats to plays or coaches, though.

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u/Bituulzman Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

It didn't even occur to me that this is fueling the unhinged fandom. But you're right.

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u/Vivid-Course-7331 Washington State Cougars Dec 07 '25

The correct way to gamble is $10-$20 bets for fun with friends at a Sportsbook. Not using any of those terrible betting apps.

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u/Zaza1019 Dec 07 '25

Wait an Ohio State fan and a Michigan fan agreeing on something. Isn't this a crime or something?

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u/yearz Alabama Crimson Tide Dec 07 '25

Gambling needs to be banned. Allowing gambling in exchange for more revenue was like injecting yourself with cancer in exchange for a new car

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u/new_jill_city Michigan Wolverines Dec 07 '25

Wait, what was the line on this game?

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u/DynasForever Ohio State Buckeyes • USF Bulls Dec 07 '25

I’m not sure, I don’t gamble. Some people are casual fans and saw Ohio State vs Indiana and just assumed it was a sure thing. The line might not have been huge but at a certain dollar amount, any win is a solid win. Especially if it was a parlay and the final game people needed to secure their wins.

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u/Ok-Region1063 Dec 07 '25

those idiots need to look in the mirror then....

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u/Mail_Order_Lutefisk Alabama Crimson Tide Dec 07 '25

That’s why I don’t gamble on sports. I invest in a diversified portfolio of commodity futures contracts on Robin Hood that just so happen to be tied to the outcome of certain college football games. It’s much more civilized than degenerate gambling, I’m a commodities futures trader, not a gambler. 

Anyway, I talked myself into Alabama at $0.16 at halftime and the trade ran into some difficulties to say the least. I now can’t afford the Christmas present I put on my charge card so I’m going to make a few trades today to get out of the hole. 

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Dec 07 '25

I voted against the casinos in Ohio back in 2009, saying the exact same thing. "This is going to ruin sports as entertainment l, and the lives that get too involved."

Far too many men place "winning sports ball team", "making money", and "I'm smart" as character traits tied together to form a personality. It's pathetic and sick that the rich have taken advantage of that, while feeding and encouraging that behavior.

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u/Educational_Wave_223 Dec 07 '25

This has little to do with gambling. People have been making death threats to players who underperform forever

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

I’m not a gambler, but I got a trifecta at the Derby that bought my first car, a 1994 used Toyota. I haven’t placed a bet in many years, but I’m fine with gambling on college football. A bookie was in my twelfth grade class and offered fair odds.

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u/DigitalBuddhaNC Dec 07 '25

It already has ruined professional sports. They are practically unwatchable at this point.

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u/ptau217 Dec 07 '25

Fuck these celebs for doing ads for gambling sites. The last thing some of these addicts and children need is encouragement from someone they think is cool.

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u/Sufficient-Macaron59 Northern Iowa Panthers • Oregon Ducks Dec 08 '25

Dave Portnoy has entered the chat, dude called for Pete Carrol to be fucking murdered, which is crazy cause Dave’s apparently rich as hell,

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u/sxuthsi Paul Bunyan Trophy • Michigan Dec 08 '25

People were doing shit like this before legalized sports betting but I dont doubt that it has made things worse

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

Buckeye fan has been this way LONG before legalized sports gambling.

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u/TFreshNoLimits Dec 08 '25

Yeah they’re the only fanbase with toxic fans, good call

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u/MD90__ Ohio State Buckeyes • Kentucky Wildcats Dec 07 '25

Yeah addiction brings out the worse in people

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u/YouWereBrained Oklahoma State Cowboys Dec 07 '25

And it’s so much worse now.

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u/slapdashbr Occidental Tigers • Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

commercial gambling should be banned

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u/BRich1990 Appalachian State • Arkansas Dec 07 '25

Shit needs to be made illegal. Want to gamble? Go to Vegas

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u/ThreeLeggedMarmot Michigan Wolverines Dec 07 '25

I mean your fans have been awful for far longer than the gambling surge. 

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u/DynasForever Ohio State Buckeyes • USF Bulls Dec 07 '25

Didn’t you guys have a super fan recently write a manifesto, run a multi-year long cheating scheme, and even go in disguise on the sidelines of a team playing your rival MSU after he was let in by former Michigan players/staffers? The guy ended up earning a ban from the NCAA. He didn’t even go to Michigan.

You sure you want to talk about crazy fans?

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u/outerdrive313 Eastern Michigan • Wayne State… Dec 07 '25

Whoa I never heard about that but I believe it. Imagine if gambling was as pervasive then as it is now.

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u/DistortedAudio Dec 07 '25

And a year later those same fans celebrated those guys. Fickle business.

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u/AntawnSL Ohio State Buckeyes • Centre Colonels Dec 07 '25

One of the few UofM comments I can actually upvote. Anyone sending this kid hate should go fuck themselves and never watch CFB again.

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u/Rbespinosa13 Michigan Wolverines Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 07 '25

People seriously just need to get a life outside of college football. Every fan base has their share of crazies and it’s a massive issue. College kids and their coaches shouldn’t be receiving death threats because of a loss.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

Not only that,  3 PT loss when you're likely still guaranteed a top 4 seed 

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u/Dangerous_Hotel1962 Dec 07 '25

People seriously need to find a way to make a living without offering gambling. .all these guys at draft kings and fam duel, they'd be perfectly wealthy working somewhere else. There was just no need to legalize this.

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u/MurrE1310 Georgia Bulldogs • Cornell Big Red Dec 07 '25

The only reason he had the chance to miss the FG is because the Indiana kicker missed a FG in the first half. They’re humans. It happens. The level of insanity it takes to send a kid death threats is absurd

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u/Express_Roll_8321 Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats Dec 07 '25

Re-evaluate is the nicest thing you could have told people threatening kids over a game lmao. Social media is a cancer and ESPN is a tumor.

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u/ironwolf1 Penn State • NC State Dec 07 '25

That’s the problem with gambling. For many people it’s no longer “just a game”, because they have money on the line. That’s why there has been a marked uptick in the number of death threats getting thrown around after losses like this, because gamblers losing money are unable to regulate themselves.

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u/DemonsWatchOverMe Texas Longhorns • North Texas Mean Green Dec 07 '25

I doubt the vast majority sending the hateful messages even had money on the game.

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u/aronjrsmil22 Michigan Wolverines • Oregon Ducks Dec 07 '25

I think it is technically. But good luck getting the cops to care.

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u/RonnieTLegacy1390 Michigan Wolverines Dec 07 '25

They sent him death threats last year after The Game. Some folks are just scum

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u/Simmumah Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl Dec 07 '25

John OKorn also got tons of death threats after he threw that pick in 2017 or whatever. People suck.

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u/ShortwaveGhost Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

100% agreed, it’s just a game. If you can’t go to bed and just say “well that sucked, oh well on to the next one” then you’re in too deep.

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u/MisterB78 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 07 '25

You need to re-evaluate yourself while serving jail time

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u/ReallyFancyPants Georgia • Clean Old Fashione… Dec 07 '25

You're point is the most valid but also, if you don't want your game to hinge on a field goal, play offense better.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

Or play call better… and you won’t be in that situation.

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u/ReallyFancyPants Georgia • Clean Old Fashione… Dec 07 '25

Exactly

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u/meodd8 Ohio State • Tennessee Dec 07 '25

I dislike that logic because we live in the real world where close games against good opponents often result in wins in the margins, and your kicking efficiency is high on that list.

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u/mikechella Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 07 '25

Agreed. Save the death threats for posters who say bad things about your favorite team.

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u/Skared89 Michigan • Michigan Dec 07 '25

We did the same thing for trouble with the snap.

People are animals

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u/greatwhite8 Vermont Catamounts • Oregon Ducks Dec 07 '25

You also need to be in jail.

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Michigan Wolverines • /r/CFB Booster Dec 07 '25

This happened last year after the Buckeyes lost to Michigan. I can never understand why people let something like a game take over their lives.

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u/rtb001 Tulane Green Wave • Oregon Ducks Dec 07 '25

Not only is it just a game, it isn't even that consequential of a game. Oh no our missed field goal means we ... still get a bye in the playoffs in arguably an EASIER side of the bracket? TF is wrong with these people.

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u/deg0ey Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

Yeah exactly. It is kinda weird that we have this much money and never seem to have a kicker we can rely on in big moments, but if that’s our biggest problem then pretty much every other school in the country would gladly trade places do it’s not worth getting worked up over.

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u/Ok_Understanding1986 Washington Huskies • Pac-12 Dec 07 '25

More than re-evaluate yourself, you need help.

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u/bluecheetos Auburn • Mississippi State Dec 07 '25

It's a game being played by guys young men that 99% of fans will never meet, would not recognize them at the gas station, wouldnt trust enough to let them borrow their car yet some people put their entire happiness on the backs of those guys on Saturdays

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u/a_fool_on_a_hill Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

100% agree. Get a grip people.

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u/Wolv90 Dec 07 '25

A game being played by kids who have to go to class on Monday. Sure they're talented, and sure they have support that most students don't, but let's be real about the situation.

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u/SulkyVirus Wisconsin Badgers • /r/CFB Santa Claus Dec 07 '25

If you send death threats you should have prison time

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u/Mix1009 Ohio State Buckeyes • Miami (OH) RedHawks Dec 07 '25

Introspection is not high on the list of skills people who send messages like that or shitting on high schoolers who de-commit from their school of choice or who cheer for injuries

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u/Trail_Goat Colorado Buffaloes • Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

For real. Not to mention this particular game has almost zero consequence to an Ohio state fan. That shouldn't be why you don't send a college kid death threats, but jfc, at least consider the reality of the situation. At the worst Ohio state might drop to, what, 3?

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u/toxikmasculinity South Carolina Gamecocks Dec 07 '25

Are death threats illegal? Feels like if someone sends a death threat that has moved beyond the protection of free speech.

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u/Ok_Pineapple_Num Stanford Cardinal Dec 07 '25

Idk if this will resonate… but I’ve always felt a very different relationship to my college football team than I do to my NFL team, for example. 

I mean, when I was in undergrad, I had a few friends who were on the football team.  I had classes and hung out with them, as well as other athletes.  So I thought of my school’s athletes much more as peers/friends, than just athletes to watch.  As a result, I always felt reluctant to harshly criticize players — while I felt no such reservations doing that for players on my favorite NFL team. 

I’m a couple years out of undergrad now, but I feel largely the same about the football team now.  Of course it’s frustrating if they play shitty, but these guys aren’t just random grown ass men.  They’re 18-22 year old kids who very well may have been a friend or classmate if I were an undergrad now.  

For that reason, I find it particularly egregious when people are verbally abusive towards their college’s players.  I mean, how can you be an alum of a college and send hate and death threats towards one of your own?  Or even if you aren’t an alum and just a fan, still — sending hate towards an 18-22 yo kid?  Pathetic. 

Sending hate and death threats is never ok to anyone even to NFL players ofc, but it’s a new level of low to do that to a college kid.  Idiots  

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u/LSU2007 LSU Tigers • Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Dec 07 '25

Yep. This and tweeting at recruits is total small dick energy

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u/drhuggables Dec 07 '25

Seriously, the amount of grown ass men losing their shit because a teenager made a mistake and was just one of MANY problems that OSU faced yesterday, is just pathetic.

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u/One_Outcome719 Dec 07 '25

not even an important game

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u/Careless-Gas-7558 Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

Win together, lose together. No single person loses a game, it is a collection of events. Everyone who is threatening the kid, couldn't have handled that pressure. 

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u/grassgravel Dec 07 '25

Im a buckeyes fan. Losing sucks. We made some poor play calling choices that led to this moment but we still got into the playoffs. So theres no reasons to go insane over this, excluding playoff opportunities its never right to go after an athlete for failure.

But I got respect for what cignetti did, he turned out program around with integrity...unlike some programs.

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u/LlistlessLlama Georgia Bulldogs • West Georgia Wolves Dec 07 '25

I don't think the people sending them are capable of such introspection

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u/SissySpacekBedroom USC Trojans • Illinois Fighting Illini Dec 07 '25

Don’t send anyone death threats for any reason.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

Death threats are kind of a sport now, politically.

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u/OLightning Dec 08 '25

No dog in this fight but how close was he?

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u/Simmumah Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl Dec 08 '25

not

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u/Etherion77 Michigan Wolverines Dec 09 '25

A lot of college football fans are just scumbags

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u/Standard-Tension-697 Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

Agreed, while it is fun to good naturedly hate on other teams, and their fans, hating on the players is just silly. I think it is going to get worse though because of NIL money, people are going to to look at these kids and say hey they are getting paid so then need to be perfect, which no one is.

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u/TangoZulu Michigan State Spartans Dec 07 '25

Coming from a fanbase that celebrates their HATE for another team and fans. Maybe everyone needs to tone down the "rivalry" rhetoric.

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u/FSU1ST Florida State Seminoles Dec 07 '25

NIL makes it professional now.

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u/caring-teacher South Carolina Gamecocks Dec 07 '25

The people sending those threats are soft. Like Day. 

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u/JakeSteeleIII Paper Bag • South Carolina Gamecocks Dec 07 '25

Well OSU sends death threats for their RB getting tackled for a loss…so this isn’t surprising

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u/Experiment626b /r/CFB Dec 07 '25

If you send a kid a death threat you need to re-evaluate yourself from behind bars for at least a little while.

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u/cardmanimgur Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

If you send a kid death threats over a game, you need to go to prison. Start locking these dipshits up for a month and they can reevaluate themselves in there.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

Not only is it just a game, it’s typically grown middle aged men who react this way to KIDS playing a game.

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u/pewqokrsf Dec 07 '25

And you should do so while in a cell.

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u/the_nix Florida State Seminoles Dec 07 '25

You need to be out in jail if you do this. Pretty simple

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u/fortysecondave Colorado State Rams Dec 07 '25

Straight to jail, fr.