Anyone remember the scene in A Bronx Tale, when Sonny made Eddie Mush go stand in the crapper while the kid was rolling the dice in the basement craps game, because Eddie Mush was the most unlucky guy in the world? Or when they were all at the track, their horse was leading at the first turn, the whole crew is excited, then Eddie Mush walks up, rooting for the same horse, and all the gangsters rip up their tickets and walk away before the race ends, because if Eddie Mush has picked the horse, it's a guaranteed loser--and thats exactly what happens--the horse falters on the home stretch and doesn't even show.
Remember that?
Well folks, as far as sports betting goes, I am the new Eddie Mush. I am the reverse Midas. Everything I've touched this week has turned to complete shiat. Or as Sonny might say, I can't even pick my own nose...
Lets start with college football. First of all, Georgia not only couldn't cover against Vanderbilt at home, they lost the game outright! I don't know how many of you follow SEC football and know what a laughingstock Vandy is when it comes to athletics, but there's a reason that Georgia scheduled them for their homecoming game. Of course I bet on the Bulldogs, and they got embarrassed. I think I heard that Vandy had a 53-game losing streak going against ranked teams. Not anymore. What a joke.
And then there is Louisville, a team whose bandwagon I've been riding all year. They've been blowing out everyone, and they were playing a weak Cincy team at home. So they were favored by 25 points--the game should've been a laugher, with a final score along the lines of 49-6 or something like that. Nope, they didn't even score 25 points total in the game, barely escaping with a slim victory--just the thing you should do the day before the first official BCS rankings come out. Morons.
And we can't forget about Iowa, a team that just a few weeks ago was feeling all butt-hurt about being left out of the national championship talk, then promptly got their asses handed to them by Ohio State. Hah. But they rebounded nicely by pounding Purdue by 30 points the next week, trying to salvage their season. So beating a 3-3 Indiana team should be an easy task, right? As Lee Corso would say, not so fast my friend. Of course they lost outright yesterday, forget about even covering the spread.
But that brings us to Sunday. I'm fully aware that the NFL is the hardest sport to bet on. Even with all of the information available, with so much parity in the league, it's almost impossible to consistently bet the NFL with any degree of success. Even so, it's a lot of fun and every now and again you get lucky. After studying the matchups all week long and trying to figure which games I felt most comfortable with, I decided that the following three teams were most likely to win today:
Bills over the Lions
Rams over the Seahawks
Bengals over the Buccaneers
So I bought the appropriate parlay ticket on Saturday night.
As you may know, all three teams lost outright. But it gets even better--most of you know that St. Louis is home to my favorite teams, and after the Rams lost to the Seahawks earlier today, they are now 4-2 on the season. As much as I like the fact that they have a good record, I wasn't convinced that they were that strong, so I've only bet on them twice this year.
Those are the only two games they've lost.
So I guess that means if I don't bet on them again for the rest of the season, they'll go 14-2 and get home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, right?
With that in mind, I have to wrap this up. I've got to hurry up and get down to the sportsbook and get a bet in on the Mets to win the World Series.
Mikey
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