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/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!