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/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/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/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.