Oliver: Daily Fantasy Sports Burst Onto Scene Like ‘Pack Of Wolves’ (VIDEO)

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Daily fantasy sports sites — like Fan Duel and Draft Kings — arrived on the scene like “a pack of wolves,” according to host John Oliver on Sunday’s episode of “Last Week Tonight.”

“Daily fantasy sports combine everything dudes love: sports, money and a lack of commitment,” Oliver said.

Congress cracked down on online gambling in 2006, but, as Oliver pointed out, the law exempted fantasy sports.

“It was meant to be a very small exceptions, but through that small carve-out, two multiple-billion dollar companies have emerged,” Oliver said. “It’s like those lawmakers built a doggy door for a beloved pooch and then daily fantasy came bursting through like a pack of wolves, saying, ‘We are dogs. It’s a doggy door right? That’s for us. We’re legally dogs. Woof. Right? Tell him. Woof. Step aside. Woof.’ “

Watch the clip, from HBO, below:

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  1. This was a really good report. I’d been wondering why sites likes espn.com and nfl.com had seemingly been taken over by fantasy sports interests; didn’t realize they were so heavily invested in it.

  2. ‘never give a sucker an even break and never smarten up a chump’

    I was listening to Fox Sports last Sunday and the hosts were wondering why it was still necessary to give injury reports…

    they then segued into the commercial for Fantasy Kings and never made the connection… if you’re betting on sports you want to know anything that will give you and edge…

  3. Fantasy sports isn’t gambling! It’s a game of skill, just like figuring out which horse is going to run a race in the shortest time.

    Oh, wait.

  4. John Oliver is sofa king great!

  5. And just like other legal gambling, i.e. casinos, and lotteries, the folks in charge make sure they are the real winners.

    I’m going to get a group of 100 dumb people to all give me a dollar every week and on Saturday pick one of them to win 75 dollars. I’ll even rotate who wins so that everyone wins 1 out of 100 times. I’ll never run out of people that want to play I guarantee it. People just love giving away money in the hope of getting the big win and never look at the reality of how much it cost them.

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