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Rob Parker: “It’s a serious epidemic. You talk about rabid fans because they love their team and they want their team to win... no, they want to win their bets and if you cause them (to lose) by a bad play or with some bad decision as a coach... in football it happens all the time. What are you doing kneel down or they kneel down at the one yard line when you need points and fans now don’t care about the result more than they care about their own pocket.
Rob Parker: “The leagues have to re-examine this and get out of gambling. Nobody wants to hear it. There’s too much money.... is it going to take some crazy irate fan to do something in order to realize that we’ve crossed the line here mixing the two?”
The Odd Couples Rob Parker discusses the negative impact of sports leagues and television networks embracing gambling. Listen to the full story above!