Fark that!

For the last time Maryland, when you learn how to drive, we'll listen to what you have to say.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: This will go well with my lawsuit against ESPN's Fantasy Football analysts for making me draft Michael Vick with the 5th overall pick.

At least you didn't take Jamaal Charles with the 4th overall pick...after deciding on him over Aaron Rodgers.

Actually sounds like a reasonable request from the lawmaker in response to an existing stupid law about gambling.

My husband's league is at least a dozen people, no money involved. It's more likely than you think! (We're all geeks anyway though, we met these people through WoW)

Fantasy football is just an RPG for washed up jocks.

At least we D&D players are creative nerds...

What do I care? I never farking win any god damn money in it anyway.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: This will go well with my lawsuit against ESPN's Fantasy Football analysts for making me draft Michael Vick with the 5th overall pick.

Won my league this year with Vick as my QB. 1st rounder (but later, like 10th overall).

/And my entire 401K is invested in Taco Corp.

RTFA.
Should have used the HERO tag.

tl;dr version
Federal law does not consider fantasy sports to be gambling. Maryland law is ambiguous. This guy wants Maryland law to clearly state that fantasty sports are not gambling.

RatMaster999: Fantasy football is just an RPG for washed up jocks.

I'm not going to disagree with that entirely, and I prefer the term "aging jock". Washed up implies that I was ever any good.

Driving into bird flock trifecta is in play.

The funny thing is..they try to cloak "gambling" as a moral sin, but it's ok if the state rolls a gambling boat, and gets their cut of the money.

/It's all about the cash..and trying to get more of yours.

LandOfChocolate: For the last time Maryland, when you learn how to drive, we'll listen to what you have to say.

QFT

Is fantasy football the secret desire to give a center a reach-around?

Bit'O'Gristle: The funny thing is..they try to cloak "gambling" as a moral sin, but it's ok if the state rolls a gambling boat, and gets their cut of the money.

/It's all about the cash..and trying to get more of yours.

I love the idea of gambling boats. "Gambling is wrong... unless you do it on water. Then it's totally cool."

James!: GAT_00: James!: It is gambling.

Is it gambling if you don't put any money on it? It's just a game then, isn't it?

I don't know anyone who plays fantasy football without having money on it. You could do it, but I doubt anyone would want to join you.

Now you do! I play at least two leagues a year where the only prize is trash talking and bragiging rights, but oh wait, I suppose you would suggest they have a tangible monetary value, wouldn't ya?

What's the word on Fantasy Bowling ?

RatMaster999: Fantasy football is just an RPG for washed up jocks.

At least we D&D players are creative nerds...

You're a douche.

I play DnD(and DM a game) and a number of sports. I also don't play FF for money, so I'm apparently unusual.

When I die, I want my Yahoo Fantasy Trophy Case filled with miscellaneous fantasy trophies. That little part will be in my obituary and so is the fact I was an "aspiring lesbian literotica writer."

Having solved all other problems in the state

Subby has obviously never been to Maryland.

If they expect the Ravens to win the Superbowl, they're dreaming.

netcentric: What's the word on Fantasy Bowling ?

Nude Fantasy Bowling is only available in Africa.

The opinion said any game that requires decisions, the element of chance and a prize is gambling.

So what is the "element of chance" in Fantasy Football that the state believes makes it fall out of the federal exemption from gambling laws?

I don't play fantasy sports. Do the players flip coins or draw straws or something to decide who gets to pick players first? If that is the case, all you would have to do is introduce some kind of competition in the beginning to decide that and remove the element of chance. Perhaps rock, paper, scissors would be a good idea or a maybe set up a big screen TV with an Xbox and people play Maddon Football games in a single elimination tourny to set seed for everybody. You could call it a "Fantasy Pre-season" if you will.

mitchcumstein1: SHIVA KAMINI SOMA KANDARKRAM!!!!

Ah the Shiva blast...

kronicfeld: No, he wants to clarify that it is legal. It's really not a hard concept.

ps69: Actually sounds like a reasonable request from the lawmaker in response to an existing stupid law about gambling.

I'm glad to see a legislature do something which results in *fewer* people being prosecuted, but it seems like he only cares because he happens to play FF.

I don't play FF so I don't know if this is already prohibited by its rules, but what happens if all my fantasy players happen to play for the Saints? At that point aren't I basically betting on real-life sports, and if so am I no longer exempt under this law?

austin_millbarge: Mr. Coffee Nerves: This will go well with my lawsuit against ESPN's Fantasy Football analysts for making me draft Michael Vick with the 5th overall pick.

At least you didn't take Jamaal Charles with the 4th overall pick...after deciding on him over Aaron Rodgers.

Me too. Me too. (6th overall) And I'm a Packer fan. Brutal.

Did subby even read the article?

Bit'O'Gristle: The funny thing is..they try to cloak "gambling" as a moral sin, but it's ok if the state rolls a gambling boat, and gets their cut of the money.

If you're referring to TFA, you clearly didn't read it. In many cases, though, the veil of decency is cast over what is purely an economic concern, and yes local governments play both sides to their own advantage.

James!: I don't know anyone who plays fantasy football without having money on it. You could do it, but I doubt anyone would want to join you.

In SC you can't even, by law, play for fun any "game of chance." I don't know how our state treats FFLs but knowing our backwards legal system it is most likely completely undefined so as to allow for Good Ol' Boys to get away with it while unconnected folks can still be eligible for punishment.

I'll never understand the appeal to FF. Guys I work with get so worked up over this every year. It almost pits them apart to the point they don't seem to be friends anymore.

RatMaster999: Fantasy football is just an RPG for washed up jocks.

I'll humbly suggest that anyone making this comparison has either never played D&D, never been a jock, or both.

Benjimin_Dover: I don't play fantasy sports.

The draft concept in sports is so universal that it is clearly not regarded as a game of chance.

1 Billion budget shortfall and this is on the to do list

Everyone quits playing halfway through the season with no money on the line, I only did that once. Same league was for money the next year.