You cannot avoid it.
No matter where you turn, there are ads for fantasy football
schemes. The two largest, Fan Duel and
Draft Kings, spent $32 million on one week of advertising for the first week of
NFL games. There is huge money at stake
here. What is interesting is that all of
the players with a stake in making that huge money are in league with one
another. Jerry Jones, owner of the
Dallas Cowboys, and Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, are
shareholders in Draft Kings. Draft Kings
has also made a commitment to spend $250 million in advertising on Fox Sports
alone. Of course, it comes as no
surprise that Fox is also a shareholder in Draft Kings!
Let’s be clear.
Fantasy football of this sort is nothing more than a sneaky way to
legitimize gambling. And where there is
gambling, there will be cheating. So, it
comes as no surprise that an employee at Draft Kings recently won $350,000
playing fantasy football on Fan Duel.
There is a pretty clear cut evidence trail that suggests that this
employee used insider information to extract money from other players. However, since it is in the interest of
neither fantasy football competitor for this to become common knowledge, they
are both working hard at damage control.
The Gold Rush is on.
During gold rushes in the 1800s, everyone lost money, except for the
folks who were in the business of selling supplies to the miners. These fantasy football sites will die from
their own exhaust fumes. But in the
meantime, don’t play these games. They are trick plays. It
marks you as a fool. It enriches wicked
people. It feeds and expands greed. And I don’t want to see one more of these
idiotic ads.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 He who loves money will not be satisfied
with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds
of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced
themselves with many griefs.
Note to defenders of fantasy football: It is likely that nothing but a consistent streak of losses will dissuade you from your folly. However, here are some websites for you to see proof
of what I have written.
http://recode.net/2015/07/26/another-unicorn-is-born-draftkings-snags-300-million-and-massive-fox-ad-deal/
