D'Arcy Waldegrave: The NRL won't get any air to breathe in Nevada

Ok, so the NRL are opening their season in Las Vegas.

Glamourous, brash, glitzy, tasteless.

All show, no substance.

A heaving pit of destitute and broken humans, the odour of loss overcome by the dense and mesmerising stench of money.

Remember, Vegas wasn’t built on winners, it's the epitome of the American nightmare, pipe dreams of wealth and achievement based on blind faith in the devastatingly cruel hand of lady luck.

A mirage of prosperity built on the backs of gangsters, losers, alcohol, drugs and shattered dreams.

What a place to try and gain traction for rugby league.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the All Sport Breakfast podcast with Darcy
Waldgrave from News Talk ZEDBE eight.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is the All Sport Breakfast on news Talk zb
Interesting around the NRLs start there, opening their season in
Las Vegas in case you didn't know, In fact, Michael
Burgess joins us from there in about half an hour's time.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Glamorous, brash, glitzy, tasteless, also no substance. It's a heaving
pit of destute and broken humans that their odor of
loss overcome by the dense and mesmerizing stench of money.
Remember Vegas wasn't built on winners. It's the epitome of
the American nightmare. Pipe dreams of wealth, an achievement based

(00:50):
on blind faith in the devastatingly cruel hand of Lady luck.
It's a mirage of prosperity. It's built on the backs
of gangsters and losers and alcohol and drugs and shattered dreams.
We want a place to crime, try and gain traction
for rugby League. Peter Milani's Anthony Abdo and the like
obviously want to slice of that plantinum pie and possibly

(01:13):
the whole dish. And they believe that the golden payd
boulevards of sidn City are the right route to travel on.
Tapping into the morally corrupt world of sports betting looks
to be the modus operandi aparandi of the NRL, which
sits comfortably with a sport that spends a lot of
its time wading through the morass of the darker side

(01:34):
of humanity. With a clock like clockwork like rhythm, the
NRL provides the media with controversy after controversy, so it
will find a bus shelter to sleep under there. I'm
sure the game won't get any air to breathe in Nevada.
It'll be swallowed whole by the monster of entertainment that

(01:56):
is Vegas. League will be a sideshow and an oddity
of a curious throwback to the more brutal days of
collision sport. The National Rugby League. The National Rugby League
has chosen to launch their season as far away from
Australia as they could go in a place with no
love for the game, attended only by expats, the wealthy

(02:18):
that can afford to fly to and stay in Las Vegas,
the corporate gravy train commuters, and a couple of bemused
and quite probably lost tourists. Vegas isn't the USA. It's
a Charlatan tourist trap designed to drain people of their
money and dignity under the carefully manicured guys of fun.

(02:43):
Bravo to the NRL, I suppose for trying it on,
and good luck to them, luck being the operative word.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
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