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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
Bull. How does that equate to someone betting millions of dollars to an illegal bookie? "I know it is illegal, but the league has a sponsorship with fantasy sports so why can't I place a million dollar bet with Lefty?"
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It doesn't. But for the last 100+ years outside the last five, ten years or so, the sports community at least publicly considered any association with gambling by a player as someone betting millions of dollars with an illegal bookie. Not the players, not the teams, not the leagues. It is why there wasn't legal gambling advertising before that time frame even though you could legally gamble in certain places in the country. They did not want to be associate with the negative gambling stigma. If the collective "we" are in a time where we don't look suspiciously at players being linked to legal or illegal gambling, cool. But I do understand why people would be suspicious of the links between leagues, teams and players and gambling again both illegal and legal.
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