Sports and gambling are two independent worlds that basically stand on their own and yet they are connected in more ways than we could imagine. The funny concept of gambling tagged to be something bad or unethical is a thought which had long drown in the sea and it's hard to see the line between sports and gambling. Everything could be gambled on and sports just happens to be among the lots of other things that is been gambled on.
Gambling is legal in almost all part of the world and this really helped foster and given the needed boost to the gambling industry. So many billions of money are been used to set up and finance this operation and it has also helped created numerous jobs all over the world. You might be surprised that gambling has given employment to website designers, programmer, digital marketers, salesperson, students and even agents in charge of daily operations.
Sports, on the other hand, is just as much as broad as gambling. Different sorts of Sports exist and each requires a whole lot of different skills sets, some examples of these sports are football, basketball, baseball, cricket, hockey, golf, etc. All these sports are been played with different rules, apparatus, skill sets and also different approach. The billions of fans all over the world even makes venturing into a sports business an oil-rich industry, its no wonder everyone wants a share of it. Ranging from the cloths maker to boot makers, to businessmen who want to invest by buying a sports team to the sponsors and to the betting/gambling industry also; this is just a few of the class of people who have invested heavily on sports and turn it to a business venture.
So many similarities prevail between Gambling and Sports and one of them is the huge flow of money involved. Starting out Gambling outlets in today world will require a top-notch structure to drive customers in and this usually involves a whole lot of funds. That also goes to sports also, setting up a sports team requires lots and lots of planing and structures coupled with exorbitant funds to fuel the whole operations. Other similarities entail a large fan base. When I say a large fan base, I am basically talking about the large number of people who are involved in them both. Both sports and gambling pull a large number of crowd.
It's true that both sports and gambling are different but their destinies are intertwined. All sporting activities could be gambled on and that's where the link occurs. With how wide sports is, this has also helped broaden Gamble horizon. It can even be said that Sports have even helped fast-forward the adoption of Gambling into so many countries. Here in my country Nigeria, it is a norm to see people openly discussing topics of Sports games to gamble on among their peers without shame or even having to hiding it. That shows how large the impact of Sports is. Assuming it was another stuff been gambled on, it won't be accepted or welcomed.
Being a Nigerian and having no involvement in either sport or gambling could be really hard and rare to find. I for one have been involved in sports and also in gambling as a separate entity, I also have partaken in sports gambling on a large scale during my childhood days and even teenager periods. I happened to love football so much while younger, I always find a way to partake in any football games irrespective of whether I have something more important to do or not while I gambled on dice rolling and wort.
A lot of sports gambling were available back then even though sports betting wasn't in play then, we still had our way of gambling while enjoying the beauty of Football. Most times we gamble on 3 against 3 football games or 4 on 4 just to spice things up. Then as we grew up, a whole lot of sports gambling began to show up due to the introduction and popularity of the sports betting.
Sportsbetting gave a new dimension to how people gamble on sports by offering a wide range of sporting activities to be gambled on right from the comfort of your homes. I for one have involved my times in numerous sports gambling through sports betting up to this day. My favourite still remains to gamble on Football games while other side hustles are basketballs, ice hockey and horse racing.
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