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Title: Every Third Ad During the Super Bowl
Every year, I look forward to the Super Bowl, not just for the game, but for the commercials—except this time, I noticed a peculiar trend. It seemed like every third ad was either for a snack that promised instant abs or a flashy car that could apparently parallel park itself into your heart. I found myself thinking, “Do I really need a chip that tastes like a cheeseburger while driving a vehicle that also functions as a coffee maker?”
The absurdity hit me when I realized I was just one pitch away from driving to the store, munching on a “guilt-free” cheeseburger chip, while my car cranked out a cold brew mid-traffic. Beyond the bizarre pitches, I started imagining a world where these products actually existed. Imagine giving directions like, “Take a left at the taco tower, and don’t forget to let your car finish brewing espresso before you hit the road.” The Super Bowl ad team must’ve had too many snacks in the break room—probably of the cheeseburger chip variety!
Y
It has seriously gotten out of hand
P
One thing I’m enjoying about the Olympics are the lack of gambling ads… it’s so nice.
D
I’ll talk to my people and we’ll fix this asap!
L
Seriously though, I think people from countries that have spent decades fighting sports betting would have warned you guys, but it wasn’t exactly clear when you opened the floodgates in America What is clear is that as a country you were a bit of a ‘sweet summer child’ where betting is concerned The gambling companies in the UK for example spent decades in an arms race with society, and the result is highly sophisticated techniques to trigger people into emptying their bank accounts. That was unleashed at full strength in America with no protection. There are not many friends and family members with ‘stories’. And it sounds like the legislation isnt fit for purpose if it even exists
C
What happened was the SCOTUS reversed PASPA (Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act). In the case Murphy vs. The NCAA. It didn’t straight up legalize gambling but it put the power in the hands of the states to decide. And the states that allowed it started raking in taxes from these apps that other states followed.
K
The fact it isn’t considered interstate commerce to bet on games taking place in other states using apps run by corporations in other states is insanity.
F
Even if it was federally regulated, at this point it wouldn’t matter. All it takes is someone from the industry going into the oval office and saying ”Here is 50,000 dollars and some creep shots of my daughters JV cheer squad practicing” And boom, all regulation gone.
M
We all dream of the day when that pervert is no longer occupying the Oval Office.
I
Letting the states decide. Eh? Hows that going for the women folk?
V
In Ohio, gambling was prohibited, but then they got it legalized by saying “we’ll give a portion of the tax money to schools” but when they did, they also axed a bunch of other state money towards education. Politicians are the worst.
D
Sadly, it will take thousands of people offing themselves for Americans to even be slightly considered with legislating regulation.
W
Unless they use guns. Then we’ll never legislate. That’s their right.
R
Floodgates opened a few years ago when SCOTUS ruled gambling is legal.
Z
They are starting to catch some pro athletes who have semi-thrown games. I say semi-thrown because you can still make big money on obscure bets that usually don’t have an outcome on who wins or loses. And by “pro” I also mean our newly-professional college athletes who either deliberately or accidentally leak information to their friends.
M
What? Take advice from inferior countries which struggle under stupid regulations that stifle capitalism and people’s freedom to win large amounts of money? Never! /s The media campaign those companies put on was insane. Honestly the amount of money they spent (and still spend) on advertising should have been a huge giveaway. When they did a public vote for legalization it was basically just “which of the three options, which were clearly written by the gambling industry, do you want?” It was clear from the start that there was going to be no real restrictions and the profits would get shuffled away from the tax districts. In fact, even the old sanctioned gambling in the US is often cited as being profitable for the schools. Reality is that those profits which are supposed to go towards education mostly gets shuffled around so it doesn’t get to the schools that need it most and a lot of it ends up in what is essentially private charity. If you don’t know, private charities are just tax dodges
A
>What is clear is that as a country you were a bit of a ‘sweet summer child’ where betting is concerned We knew, and like anything else that keeps the masses down, conservatives have been pushing it like crazy for decades.
S
I bet 20 bucks this guy doesn’t fix it!
Q
This is how you summon the angry spirit of Jesse Owens.
T
In my market the olympics is flood with them: sportsbooks, prediction markets, and local casinos. It really angers me that they show these adds on programming that young kids watch
P
I’m using a VPN(set to Canada) and going to CBC Gem, literally zero ads.
T
Thank you. That never occured to me. Im paying for Peacock like a chump while my children get inundated with messages from various gambling companies. That will end tonight 🙂
E
If you have a cable subscription (or a friend with a cable subscription) you can log in on NBCOlympics.com/schedule and watch all the events there ad-free, too.
A
There’s constant ads for gambling apps on streaming tv. My kids make fun of them and bitch about how they should be banned.
C
What’s the over/under on how muc ACL is left in Lindsey’s knee?
T
I’m giving 3:1 odds that the next Olympics has gambling ads. Over/under on how long it will take before gambling ads are featured in the Olympics: 3.5 years. Who wants in on this action?
R
Now I have an idea for an SNL skit.
N
Funny, considering Michael Che and Colin Jost literally did a gambling ad.
C
It’s honestly one of the big things turning me off from football (though not the only one). Not just the ads. Every football podcast, youtube channel, companies like ESPN…it’s all about gambling now. And it’s a major turnoff.
B
I get them listening to history podcasts, it’s mental.
S
Yea me too, whats scary is how much fucking money they have to pay for ads on history podcasts this means they are making money hand over fist
B
Absolutely.its not just a couple of ads anymore — it feels like every commercial break is a barrage of gambling promotions.it’s concerning how even during family-friend event like the Super bowl ,they are normalizing something that really need stricter regulation ,especially given how widely these ads are seen
I
Really tells you how those companies are expecting their ROI in that level of advertisement. They expect to generate a lot of users year over year
C
It speaks to how incredibly profitable these companies are. There were so many spots before the game encouraging people to sign up and bet before the game. I wonder how many are customers they got in that 20 minutes….
D
We are currently going through a period in the U.S. where we are experiencing in real time regulations and controls being drained away from nearly everything. Here we see it with gambling safeguards. But it’s also with food and drug additives, power and utilities pricing, environmental protection, scientific and medical progress, investments, monetary policy, and the list goes on and on. Technologically we are still in the 21st century, but in terms of consumer and public protections we are sliding back to the 19th.
M
Don’t forget to drink a radium potion before bed, it keeps the spirits away.
5
And the only regulation is to put a phone number at the end of the commercial, that completely confirms they know how bad of an issue it is while completely refusing any blame or responsibility. “Gambling problem? We dont know how the hell that happened, you should get help.”
D
They should be forced to declare each state where you cannot legally claim your winnings.
G
I can’t see that phone number being nothing more than a legal checkbox ticking requirement for the gaming company. What is that dopey phone number realistically going to do for you?
G
I was driving while the game was on and turned on the radio to hear how it was going, the radio guy was just going on and on about his bets and how it looked good for him to be making money.
R
My “favorite” is when I am watching sportscenter or whatever and they are LITERALLY TALKING ABOUT A GAMBLING SCANDEL and the ad across the bottom of the screen is “$20 bonus bets when you sign up for Draftkings!”
J
Your government doesn’t work for you it works for the highest payer
S
They had QR codes on the back of every seat that took you to one of the gambling apps at the Jacksonville Jaguar’s stadium when I was there two years ago.
A
They even have gambling in the McDonald’s app.
S
Not only that pundits are giving their picks! It’s insane
D
One of my conservative friends told me they found Bad Bunny’s show to be in bad taste because it had too much explicit content for a family audience. I was like, more than the alcohol and gambling content they’re constantly bombarding us with?
S
As if football hasn’t had cheerleaders dancing on the sidelines of games for decades? Your friend is being dishonest. The reason he’s finding some way to criticize the halftime show is because he’s racist. That’s the only reason this has gotten so much attention and outrage – just racism. There is no other explanation.
B
Needs to be banned from advertising, like cigarettes. Which will never happen because money.
M
Oh wow, I forgot I hadn’t seen a Marlboro or camel commercial in years.. I remember you couldn’t go an ad break on any channel without seeing one, unless it was a kids channel.
B
I don’t know where you’re from, but television cigarette ads were banned in the US in 1970. That is indeed, years.
C
It was not funny the second time my 9 year old asked me to bet 5 to win 200 or whatever crap they were saying. Was not ready for that talk but apparently it was overdue.
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