That’s a major reason why I don’t watch sports. I couldn’t imagine watching it with my kid, either.
For those who watch the PWHL (Professional Women’s Hockey League), they don’t advertise when you watch live stream games through their official YouTube channel. But if they decide to put gambling ads there, I’m out.
Yep it’s the same for me. I absolutely loathe the gambling ads and it was the last straw for me to tune out of watching most sports. I still watch baseball, but it doesn’t seem to be quite as prevalent in those broadcasts for some reason
When I was a boy scout when of my troop leaders (and father of one of the other scouts) killed himself after gambling away his house, leaving his wife and kid(s?) homeless and penniless.
I don’t really know the details because I was a kid, I’m not traumatized by it or anything but it puts it into pretty stark relief for me.
I know more people whose lives have been ruined by gambling than by drunk driving, drug use and STDs put together. It’s about education and anti-normalization.
Gambling houses abuse the risk/reward/ pleasure dynamics of the human brain. They should not be advertised or normalized at all.
