Televised poker will never become a major sport

[Neil Stevens]

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...no poker telecast, live or taped, could ever come close in entertainment value to a good football game.

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Right. A good poker broadcast is so far above and beyond a bunch of 300 hundred pound men (400 with pads) banging in to each other over and over, that it's not even close.

But poker isn't a sport, so your subject is correct.