Sam, You're quite welcome, and congratulations.Sam Posten said:Thank yew for your support!And condolences to you guys! Was a hell of a game!
I gambled a lot when I was much younger. I played the football 'cards' (meaning the cards that were distributed back in the 1960s and 1970s) several times with my father when I was a child and a teenager. The object was to pick at least ten games correctly against the spread. You could bet as little as $1.00, and you could win a lot of cash (depending on how much you bet) if you got all of your picks correct. My father would bet more than this, since he wanted his return to be greater if he won. Anyway, a couple of times after I had made my picks, I reversed all of them just for fun right before I turned my card in. (After all, it was only $1.00 I was going to lose.) I can recall doing better when I reversed my picks than when I did not despite very little reasoning being used when I reversed the choices. My father and I used to laugh at this. He would also allow me to bet against him for fun, and he would give me first crack at which games and teams I could pick to win against the spread, and he won almost every time. To this day, I find the NFL to be the most difficult of the four major sports to call correctly against the spread.
I doubt it. The article states the company took out insurance to cover themselves. This is common practice with these sorts of promotions/contests. Similar insurance policies are taken out in the million dollars for a hole-in-one contest promotions held at certain local golf events.Jason Charlton said:
I realize there was insurance... our crack about him getting canned was a joke. At least we thought it was funny that it actually happened.
There were noncalls on both sides of the coin so I don't buy into the asterisk for officiating. Now that power outage....
Christopher, I was going to continue to post outrageous and unsubstantiated remarks relating to the Super Bowl, but I'll just drop it here. Of course I was joking, just in case you didn't know that.ChristopherG said:
You win!
Christopher, I guess that's not too surprising. For the record, I certainly believe that the Baltimore Ravens deserved to win the Super Bowl this year. They defeated the Indianapolis Lucks, and both the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots on their home fields en route to their victory over the San Francisco 49ers. I heard this on the radio this morning. It's more of an anomaly than anything else, but it's still fun to think about. Of the last four Super Bowl winners, each team has been the Philadelphia Eagles' first regular season home game opponent (Baltimore, Green Bay, New Orleans, and the New York Giants). So if you want to win the Super Bowl, be sure to play the Eagles in their regular season home opener.ChristopherG said:
Even though the full 2013 regular season is not yet known, the Eagles will (of course) play home and away games against the other teams in their division (Giants, Cowboys, and Redskins), and they will also be hosting the Bears, Lions, Chiefs, Chargers, and Cardinals. Now I just need to learn which team they will be hosting first next season.
I didn't have a problem with the non-call because the officials for the most part let these two very physical teams play throughout the game. I rather have that than the alternative in which the officals are calling penalties left and right with many of them being questionable ones.
I'll agree with Crawdaddy's sentiment. While a few non-calls ended up being more damaging to the 49ers, that's just luck of the draw, because the officials were extremely consistent throughout the game with the types of calls they made, and the calls they didn't make. Contrast that to the Ravens/Broncos game where there were phantom calls and ticky-tack calls on one end, and at the same time, obvious holds, pass interference, and hands to the face calls that were not made. A game like that has to be nightmare to play in. Overall, a very fun game to watch, other than the painful scramble of the CBS crew to present us with something professional during the power outage.Robert Crawford said:
Well, we now know the Lions will not be playing in the Eagles home opener, because there is no way they are ever getting to the Super Bowl.Ockeghem said:I heard this on the radio this morning. It's more of an anomaly than anything else, but it's still fun to think about. Of the last four Super Bowl winners, each team has been the Philadelphia Eagles' first regular season home game opponent (Baltimore, Green Bay, New Orleans, and the New York Giants). So if you want to win the Super Bowl, be sure to play the Eagles in their regular season home opener.
They are the only NFL team that is a perfect 0-47 in attempts to make it to the big game.
I didn't have a problem with either that no-call or the one in the NFC Championship game. In this case, the 49ers lost because they made too many mistakes and dug themselves too deep a hole to climb out of. Even with that, they had four plays inside the 10 yard line at the end of the game to win and couldn't get it in the end zone. Baltimore did what they needed to in order to win, and San Fran did not.Robert Crawford said:
If you believe the NFL's version of Browns history, they still had a three year hiatus between when the original Browns moved to Baltimore after the '95 season and the new, expansion Browns started playing. If you recognize the truth that the original Browns have won two Super Bowls as the Baltimore Ravens, then the Lions are the only team around from the start of the Super Bowl era not to make it to the game. The other teams to not make it are the expansion Jaguars, Texans and Browns. One other Lions fact of Super Bowl era ineptitude -- they have the fewest playoff wins during the Super Bowl era (if you once again subscribe to the NFL's version of Cleveland Browns history). Detroit has won exactly one playoff game since their last NFL championship in 1957 -- beating Dallas in 1991 before getting trounced by the Redskins in the NFC Championship game. Even the recent expansion teams in Jacksonville, Carolina and Houston can better that. If you believe the new Browns are a separate team, then they have fewer and are the only team to not win a single postseason game during the SB era. And just for the record, there has been a single owner of the team during this amazing run of incompetence -- Williams Clay Ford, Sr. The Ford family bought him the team to give him a plaything and keep his incompetence away from the auto company. Ford, Sr. is living proof that it's impossible for a team to lose money in the NFL. Had the family instead bought him the Tigers, Red Wings, or Pistons, he would have bankrupted the team long ago with his bumbling ineptness. I am 50 years old and have seen one Lions playoff win in my lifetime!Patrick_S said:
I was at that home opener against the Saints in 2009. Right from the start, it was a horrible game to watch, as I did not think the Saints would be good that season. Little did I know, they would end up winning it all.
