purchased by a FanDuel VIP host<\/a> for a bettor who had lost enough money to make it money well spent in an effort to lure him back.<\/p>\n\u201cIn November 2024,\u201d Harper wrote in his Instagram story, \u201csomeone identifying themselves as \u2018Bryttanni\u2019 submitted an order through Cameo for a personal \u2018holiday video for Terry.\u2019 Cameo had a separate category for business video requests, and at the time I did not know this video would be used for commercial purposes. The request included a short script. I read it in good faith. FanDuel then put its own logo on the video and used it as a gambling promotion. I did not know FanDuel would do this. I did not consent to it, and FanDuel had no right to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harper said that he wouldn\u2019t have made the video if he had known \u201canything about Terry or his situation, or about any alleged \u2018partnership\u2019 between Cameo and FanDuel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cContrary to the Inquirer\u2019s suggestion, I did not know the Cameo video would be used for a FanDuel VIP promotion, and I have no affiliation with FanDuel whatsoever,\u201d Harper said. \u201cCounsel has directed me not to comment any further at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The last part allows Harper to simply refer to his statement if asked about the situation during the All-Star Game festivities, which are happening this year in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Harper also posted a screenshot of the order, with the text of the \u201cinstructions for Bryce Harper.\u201d The script reads as follows: \u201cHey Terry. Your host Bryttanni (Britt-knee) from FanDuel wanted to make sure your Thanksgiving was extra special, so I just wanted to hop on and wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving. Tell Max (son) I said hello!\u201d<\/p>\n
So what did Harper think the purpose of the video was? At a minimum, he should have at least suspected it was a business video purchased by FanDuel \u2014 and that it was something FanDuel would be using to promote FanDuel to Terry specifically.<\/p>\n
Insert the name of any other company, with the video coming from the person at the company who primarily interacts with a given customer. What other impression could be created than that the company is hoping to enhance the customer relationship?<\/p>\n
While FanDuel shouldn\u2019t have added its logo to the video, Harper should have realized that this wasn\u2019t bought for Terry by a friend or family as a gift. (Hell, who even gives gifts on Thanksgiving, anyway?)<\/p>\n
Basically, Harper\u2019s story isn\u2019t very persuasive. There\u2019s more than enough in the words \u201cyour host . . . from FanDuel\u201d to put anyone with basic intelligence on notice that this was something FanDuel would be using to keep Terry betting (and losing). <\/p>\n
And the fact that Harper has retained counsel for this specific situation suggests that he\u2019s concerned that there could be further complications arising from it beyond bad P.R.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Usually, a summer weekend will reset the sports news cycle, allowing a goldfish-brained collective consciousness to move on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-761265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}