Gambling Websites Will Bleed Philippine Cockfighting To Its
Death
For true blooded cockers and gamefowl breeders, cockfighting is
a sport and industry in the highest order. What we all try to
profess is that cockfighting is a sport in which breeding
excellence and recognition is the ultimate prize.
In spite of these, it is sad to know that some people and
entities look at cockfighting as a good opportunity to make a
killing and advance their personal financial interests.
They see cockfighting, not as the sport of honorable men, as we
want it to be, but merely a commodity that they can sell or an
event that they can make quick money of.
In their lust to bleed cold cash out of cockfighting, they
actually sacrifices cockfighting itself.
One example is the introduction of cockfighting in the internet.
Nowadays, cockfighting is being used in the same level as other
casino games like baccarat, roulette or blackjack to the
detriment of the sport.
Currently, there is already a website that offers cockers,
especially those overseas, a forum to gamble and bet in
cockfighting right at their houses or offices. Players are
required to put in money via several payment systems like
Western Union, Instadebit, Prepaid ATM or Moneybookers.
Clearly, the website sum up their objective with this: "Our goal
is to provide our customers the best quality viewing of live
cockfights and for the first time place bets against other
viewers in REAL-TIME. A first time experience for anyone
entering the site and the most exciting in Internet Gaming!!!
With this, anyone can watch cockfighting on his desktop computer
which is very good.
Unfortunately, in the same manner, one can gamble and lose money
without living his home or office. We are promoting cockfighting
as an alternative sport and pastime, so as to develop more
cockers, not gamblers.
This venture are the kind of things that will eventually smear
the face of cockfighting to ugliness and strengthen the
contention of moralist groups that cockfighting is nothing more
than gambling in which players look at roosters simply as
playing cards in a poker game. Operators of this website make a
killing by automatically charging a percentage every time a
bettor wins in a particular match.
It is quite unfortunate that, while, such respected entities
like the National Federation of Gamefowl Breeders strive to
promote and propagate cockfighting and gamefowl breeding as a
respectable livelihood, healthy competition and an exciting
spectator sport, unscrupulous businessmen advertises
cockfighting simply as a game of chance and feast on it like
hungry vultures.
Last Monday, another website, Japan-based www.sabongworld.com
owned by Kabu Game Media Corporation, did a test broadcast of
live cockfighting from the Makati Coliseum. What is its ultimate
goal? Of course, it is internet gambling using Philippine
cockfighting as a tool to rake in millions, if not billions of
dollars. The question that should be addressed is does internet
gambling based on cockfighting helping cockfighting? If it is, I
can't see how?
What is clear is that the only things these gambling websites,
masquerading as promoters of cockfighting, do, is destroy the
credibility of the sport by presenting Philippine cockfighting
as plain game of chance and in the process project the Filipino
cocker or the Pinoy sabungero as an irresponsible,
gambling-hungry individual. They sadly put sabong in the same
context as cybersex and treat roosters merely as a tool for lust
and entertainment, in the same manner that cybersex-operators
made used of young Filipina girls who's only fault in life are
being poor.
What we need are people who breeds and raises gamefowls. Those
people who find satisfaction, not in the money they win or the
money they take away from the losers, but in the camaraderie and
brotherhood that are unmatched in the field of cockfighting. The
United Backyard Breeders Association immediately comes to mind.
What we need are young cockers who will adopt cockfighting as an
alternative diversion and pastime, instead of them trying other
vices like drugs and alcohol. Internet gambling websites using
cockfighting will never in any way contribute to the
above-mentioned goals and because of that, they should be
stopped and scrapped.
By encouraging more people to breed and fight gamebirds, there
will be more actual cockfighting events like hackfights and
derbies. The more roosters are bred and fought, the more people
will be able to earn a respectable living like the breeders; the
handlers; the gaffers; the kristos; the cockpit operators and
their employees; the poultry supply stores; the feed millers;
the gamefowl medicine and vitamin producers; the knife-makers;
the cockfight magazine publishers; the cockfight television
programs and the likes. Being a unique Filipino culture,
cockfighting deserves the protection of the Philippine
government and the Filipino against these greedy entrepreneurs
who will not only besmirch the honor of sabong and the Pinoy
sabungero, but also pull down Philippines as a nation. The
various associations; the cockfighting-media; the cockpit
owners; the Philippine government and the millions of Filipinos
who loves cockfighting must act now before cockfighting is bled
to its death.
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