Betting Big on Fantasy Football’s Business
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🗓️ 9 September 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
United Continental’s CEO suddenly resigns, but Wall Street appears unfazed. Dave & Buster’s hits an all-time high, putting the stock in Shake Shack territory. With the NFL season about to begin, we analyze the rising (and seemingly unstoppable) business of fantasy football. Plus, we discuss the prospects for our fantasy team, televised darts, and the unheralded sport of sheep herding.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, September 9th. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Cressil joining me in studio today from Motley Full Funds, Bill Barker. |
| 0:08.7 | Good to see you. |
| 0:09.8 | Good to see you. |
| 0:10.5 | We're both back. |
| 0:11.5 | We're both back. Me from California, you from London. How was London? It was good. Successful. We were just talking before we started taping about things we've seen on TV that we were sort of amazed. |
| 0:24.0 | Darts came up in conversation. |
| 0:26.6 | Our man behind the glass, Dan Boyd, once upon a time, |
| 0:30.0 | something of a shark when it comes to darts. |
| 0:33.0 | Not even once upon a time, I'm betting. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.0 | Still. |
| 0:37.0 | Probably still. |
| 0:38.0 | By US standards, right? |
| 0:39.0 | Because, I mean, you take that to England and you're you're moving into the pro leagues there |
| 0:44.5 | where it's just taken more seriously than here. Well that's the thing that I was |
| 0:48.4 | about to say was that the first I was in Ireland and many years ago and on the television... |
| 0:56.0 | You're from Ireland. |
| 0:57.0 | My people are. |
| 0:59.0 | Turned on the television, came across darts. |
| 1:03.7 | I had never seen that on television before, and I was just, I just sort of stared at it for a while, |
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