Draftkings and Fanduel need to jump off a bridge
Football commercials are the worst, especially since we get subjected to the damn things at high volume every week, by the end of each season almost every ad campaign we’ve been subjected to has become almost intolerable. Until this year I never thought anything would top Saved By Zeeeeerrrooooooooooooo. I still remember sitting with my friends in college frantically switching the channels every time those ads came on. I skipped most of preseason and have only watched 1 full week of football, and it’s already been surpassed. I don’t know how I’m going to tolerate a full season of this, and I already avoid commercials as much as possible to begin with.
Fanduel and Draftkings are the goddamn worst things ever. The commercials are dry and long and awful and oh my god they are everywhere. It’s been 1 week and if I have to watch those damn bros from draft kings pretend to be real people and “win” on camera again…well I don’t know what I can reasonably do but dear god they are SO BAD. It’s not even about the fantasy football aspect for me, I’ve never been bothered by fantasy commercials, they are just awful commercials played with obnoxious frequency. The worst part is I bet it’s working for the companies too, because people are dumb, and this just means we’ll get more commercials oh my god kill me.
If I kill you… and eat your heart… do I get your powers? Because, if so, I might. Y’know. To help you out without depriving the fan base.
looks like someone needs a hug from snowman andy reid
also, you’ll be pleased to learn that the relentless all-consuming ubiquity of these commercials has caught congress’s attention, and they would now like to investigate whether draftkings and fanduel constitute illegal sports gambling
so lol
Or Congress can stop wasting our time and legalize sports betting nationwide but ehh sure.
Closely followed by the DirecTV one. Why the hell are Eli, Romo and Luck even THERE?!
Dude, I crack up every time I see “arts and craftsy Tony Romo.” Eli is terrible, and Luck isn’t great either.
Oh, so there’s more to it? They actually DO stuff? Being in England, I only get it on the radio, so it makes even less sense for them to be there.
Related, but to me over the top annoying is the GMC commercial, to the soundtrack of Eminence Front by the WHO, where the guy says”….a pitcher who can paint the corners,….is a Rembrandt…”
AAAAGGG, I scramble to find the mute button every time that comes on
Why can’t we have 3am ‘as seen on TV’ paid programing products being advertised instead.
Draftkings put ads in the fucking turnstiles on the NYC subway.
The motherfucking *turnstyles*.
They’re so obsessed with plastering their name everywhere, and I have no intention of playing even though I’m a fantasy nerd, mostly because I suck at drafting and win or lose by my waiver transactions.
I like to think you couldn’t think of the right way to spell turnstiles so you hedged your bets on how to spell turnstyles. (I don’t know how either)
Hey, at least there are no small children singing off-key
I thought I was the only one…
I grew to have a hatred of these specifically because I thought it was some kind of stupid Super Bowl commercial (Two guys wearing Patriots jersey acting all scared and anxious then freaking out when I can only assume Butler picked the ball off), only to see it was some stupid fantasy foo– no wait, they used the exact same clips over the entire offseason to promote Fantasy Baseball, Hockey and even freaking GOLF. I thought it was bad then but this is just ridiculous.
Thank god for Red Zone. 7 hours of commercial-free bliss. The only downside is that you don’t get to watch your as much.
The thing that gets me about those “bros” winning is, that’s not what the main winners on those sites even look like. The main winners don’t even care about the sports.. they put the stats into bespoke models that they made, and out pops a few thousand entries, and they file those entries and make money. They’re more or less stock brokers/high speed traders / day traders.
It’s worse because it’s so oversaturated. It feels like it’s literally every other commercial. I just hope their inevitable superbowl spots are actually good.
Worst part for me is it isn’t even fantasy. There’s no roster, no transactions, no trades, no organized fun. You just pick and pray each week. It’s exactly the same as gambling, just under a different name.
This is our country…
That one still haunts me
There is one I have heard on the radio that says something like, “We have made more new millionaires over howevermany months than anybody else!” or something like that.
I guess they figured that “We charge too much, and most people will lose a lot of money!” probably wouldn’t sell as well?
Charge too much? I’m not defending the sites, but ummm you play the games you want for how much you want, there is no obligation, I mean they say that every damn commercial.
Off topic from the joke, but Dave, is this a look into what the other members of your football watching crew look like? Seems like an oddly specific number of pats jerseys plus the one random Bengals jersey…
Yes and no. This was what my college crew looked like, but my current crew is mostly 49er fans
And why is the Bengals fan STILL wearing the Palmer jersey?
Because a Palmer jersey is still more respectable than a Dalton jersey.
Needs more Peyton Manning commercials tbh
I can’t tell them apart
It’s double worse for me. One, because I hate fantasy football (no one playing cares about the teams, or even who wins the game, just the stats). Two, I live in Louisiana, where it’s not even legal to play those games (read the fine print). So we’re subjected to them for nothing!
For those who don;t know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be5Xy66cwD0