No question, Daddy, I screwed that one up and am out of people who are cool to using their name.
Sometimes shit just happens.
Let me see if I can get this straight in my head...
There are gamblers who seriously believe that an NFL game is fixed somehow by the players, coaches, referees, or some combination thereof. Why? Because there is big money riding on the game between the aforementioned parties or Vegas, and if it's the latter, Vegas somehow influences these parties to fix the game.
Um, yeah. Sure.
Do some of you not understand how many hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars ride on performance clauses in these players' contracts. Nevermind the millions of dollars they have contracted for that would be lost if they were found to participate in such a scandal. I'm talking about number of touchdowns in a season type of incentives. Coaches need to get every point they can, too, because at the end of the season you can bet the owner is going to be looking at point differential over the course of the season.
Now, if we were talking about some obscure college game where the athletes don't necessarily have as much to lose, or a game involving a fix by a lone ref or two (see Dougherty, Tim), then I could understand. But to question the motives of the coach and the players on either side of last night's game, as if they were in collusion to send the game Over or cover the spread is simply ludacris.
It's a lucky cover. I lost, it was a bad beat, but it's a risk that you assume when you bet on the favorite. Back-door covers are a fact of life. Some are more painful than others. On the flip side, I've been betting favorites in hockey on the pucks line and have been winning all season with empty net goals. Here, that's stacked in your favor, and it's up to the linesmaker to make the bet less appealing by taking the empty net into account. Three times last week, the teams laying 1.5 covered with goals in the last 5 seconds. Nothing is fixed. You have to take the good with the bad and be aware of what risks you're assuming.
Sometimes shit just happens.
I'm in Doughboy's corner.
Why not just bet the right side of the fix? Pretty simple really.
Too many point-shaving scandals to make this blanket statement.
this is a great thread I started. I will keep this opened until the end of the season. I am sure there will be more games like the one last night. Just watch the games closely. We all knew the titans, were going to score a touchdown. It is like watching the WWF when you were a kid. You knew the good guy was going to come back at the end and win. Games ARE FIXED. AND I will give you examples each week.
Nowshesmyruca, trying to be funny, your not. So your an assclown. You don't know which game will be fixed until after. This is going to be a great 7 or 8 weeks.
cody
call the book you placed the wager at and demand a refund since the game was fixed.
BD,
Cody didn't bet the game, he just likes to argue about it... go figure. :cheers
Why is it always the people that lose a game that think the NFL is fixed?
Has anybody blamed the defensive coordinator for the Colts yet?
Chris Johnson was handed over 50 yards in receptions during the last 1:30....
Sportsbetting isn't easy; you can get all the plus/minus you want and it is still a crapshoot...
A terrible bet? Colts were covering all game.....
Has anybody blamed the defensive coordinator for the Colts yet?
Chris Johnson was handed over 50 yards in receptions during the last 1:30....
Sportsbetting isn't easy; you can get all the plus/minus you want and it is still a crapshoot...
its called prevent for a reason
took time off the clock with short passes
Hello? Thats what secured the victory for Colts. I cant believe you cant see something that simple.
nfl is not so much a fix, it just most of the games are very bad now and imo a total crap shoot.nfl is just what the nfl gods wanted all teams to be on the same playing level and that what we got now a suck product call the nfl.ck