Does Fantasy Football Count as Gambling?
While scouring the news for interesting gambling stories we came across the story of a former Fidelity Investments account representative who was fired for participating in a fantasy football league. According to Fidelity, Cameron Pettigrew was in “violation of company gambling policy involving fantasy football.” This interesting article written by the Wall Street Journal’s Nano Di Fino discusses Pettigrew’s situation and fantasy football’s potential to be a “gateway” to other harder forms of gambling (similar to the drug war rhetoric that claimed smoking pot would lead people to do harder drugs such as heroin and cocaine). Unfortunately for Pettigrew, his previous two years of exemplary behavior counted for nothing once the Fidelity federales caught wind that he was managing his team on company time. According to the article, Fidelity claims that fantasy football is a form of gambling (hence against company policy) and therefore it is not allowed during working hours. There may be som
