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Re:How did sports betting become legal in the US? by tombert on Thursday September 25, 2025 @05:10PM (#45379131)
It was a fantasy league, and yes I am sure if you liked football it could be fun to figure out players and the like and having a small amount of money on the line might even make it a bit more exciting.

The problem for me is that I had no idea with regards to anything about football, so my picks weren't radically different than a random number generator, and unsurprisingly I lost. I had absolutely no fun in the process and I would have rather spent that $50 on a video game or something.

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Re:How did sports betting become legal in the US? by matwood on Friday September 26, 2025 @01:52AM (#45383135)
It’s unfortunate you didn’t have fun. We often do leagues at work and it’s great team building. People have won who just used the auto draft feature and a woman won one year who picked all her players based on uniform colors.

You don’t have to know much about football, and it gives some common ground for small talk.

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Re:How did sports betting become legal in the US? by tombert on Friday September 26, 2025 @06:41PM (#45391768)
I think a large part of it was the fact that it was mandatory, and I didn’t like my coworkers very much, but I don’t have fun with the selection process.
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