Garbanza
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Does the new casino law allow it at the new casinos, though?
No. I imagine much like every casino outside of Vegas, sports betting is illegal.
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You want the benefits, but not the associated cost? I've never heard that one before.
No, he's not. His point is accurate. These guys can have lives, yes, and they will go out to the clubs or do whatever it is they want to do.
But the point is, when they go out, they go OUT.
Outside of Foxboro, outside of Gillette Stadium. They don't walk across the street.
Boston, Providence, or wherever it is they party is not walking distance from where they work. Access to it is LIMITED. Partying every night of the week and maintaining employment would not be feasible.
With a casino next to Gillette, access would not be limited.
Partying every night of the week would be feasible.
Read that Pearlman book on the Cowboys if you think too much partying amongst an NFL team can't have repercussions.
No, he's not. His point is accurate. These guys can have lives, yes, and they will go out to the clubs or do whatever it is they want to do.
But the point is, when they go out, they go OUT.
Outside of Foxboro, outside of Gillette Stadium. They don't walk across the street.
Boston, Providence, or wherever it is they party is not walking distance from where they work. Access to it is LIMITED. Partying every night of the week and maintaining employment would not be feasible.
With a casino next to Gillette, access would not be limited.
Partying every night of the week would be feasible.
Read that Pearlman book on the Cowboys if you think too much partying amongst an NFL team can't have repercussions.
Of course all you see is old ladies and fat dudes because that's where you go to gamble with the $10 you have in your wallet.
There is a separate VIP portion of the casino for people who have serious money. A lot of what goes on in there isn't privy to people in general.
And of course most of those guys go out at night and live life like a rich young man, that's why 78% of them end up broke or bankrupt within two years of being out of the NFL.
Recession or no recession, many NFL, NBA and Major League - 03.23.09 - SI Vault
This is the most out of touch post I've ever read on these forums, and that's saying something.
Players have a personal life. They can legally go gamble a short drive away in Connecticut already - where is your outrage over there?
Casino gambling today isn't the seedy underbelly it used to be. I've been to Mohegan and Foxwoods dozens of times - it's full of old ladies and fat dudes on scooters playing video slots and southie bros with their chunky girlfriends at the blackjack tables. It's not a mobbed up den of iniquity with someone being thrown through a plate-glass window every 5 minutes.
Look, most of these guys go out at night and live life like you'd expect a rich young man to. If you think there is a significant increase in the amount of trouble they can get into playing slots and drinking vs. going to a club and drinking you're really poorly informed.
That being said, my brother and I drunkenly walked from the Superdome to Harrahs in NO after the Saint put a beatdown on Brady and the boys the Monday after Thanskgiving a few years ago. SO yes, there is already a Casino in walking distance from an NFL stadium. BUT I'm pretty sure that Tom Benson, doesn't have an interst in Harrahs.
I don't think that AC Casinos have sports betting, (or at least I don't remember them having Sportsbooks). I know that in Vegas, they will not put a betting line on any game in Nevada. Everyone wants to put a pro team (of some kind) in Vegas, but it never happens.
Could you imagine the walk up traffic a Casino across the street from the stadium would get on game days? I'm sure the All Pro tailgate party would move right in......
No. I imagine much like every casino outside of Vegas, sports betting is illegal.
the traffic problems will never be fixed..that's the problem with a stadium in the middle of nowhere with one road in and one road out...get use to it..it will never be fixed
My opinion of Kraft will go much lower if it really happens.
This is actually a detriment to the team itself because players go to the facility to study all the time, why put a huge distraction right across the street?
If you thought Edelman getting in trouble all the way up in Boston groping someone, that will be nothing when there's a giant source of trouble right across the street, waiting to suck up a player's cash, providing a huge number of chicks, especially the gold-digging type, and every form of entertainment you can think of, and $1 billion is going to provide plenty.
I don't have to talk about how much this will overwhelm the small town of Foxboro, as far as public service goes.
Looks like Mr. Kraft the businessman has trumped Mr. Kraft, the family man.
Traffic could be greatly alleviated were they to build an I95 interchange right behind the stadium. Using P10 or whatever to build a casino, hotel, etc. without doing something like I proposed will make parking and game exit horrendous.
I can't imagine the NFL letting this happen in a million years, even with the sad attempt at a technicality that Krafy is only "leasing the land."Kraft in negotiations with Wynn for casino near Gillette - The Boston Globe
Bad parking problem will get worse unless Bobby gets the state (yes, you taxpayers) to pay for a new exit onto 95
Kraft would be leasing the land, not running the casino
By federal law, sports betting is not allowed anywhere outside the state of Nevada.Since I don't live there...
Is sports betting permitted in Massachusettes casinos?
If so, that would be interesting.
So are you trying to say the VIP areas are like international waters - unsupervised areas where there are monkey knife fights and Mexican sex-change doctors?
Because if so you're an idiot. The whole reason I brought up the scooter crowd is because of the ridiculous idea asserted in the OP that somehow casino gambling means everything turns into Mos Eisley within 2 weeks.
Amazingly, 78% of them do not have a casino next door, so what you're really pointing out here is a general problem with young men given too much money and lacking the maturity or support network to handle their finances properly. Which is a problem but hardly one you can pin on gambling.
But I can assure you Edelman walking around a surburban casino with a bunch of elderly people cashing in their SS checks (for the 10% bonus of course) wouldn't really push him over the edge.