Monday, November 17, 2008
It's About the Dollars
The main reason we have the BCS and not a playoff in college football is dollars. Too many people would stand to lose to much if the current Bowl system was changed. To hell with what is more fair or fans prefer! It's the dollars, even if Fox decides it cannot afford the BCS games, ESPN is there to shell out to the NCAA. But this post isn't even about college football. It's about the NFL. When bad calls cost games during a regular season, the NFL has the Competition Committee talk about it next year. When gamblers lose millions on the Steelers game , the NFL takes a whole day to announce that it may change replay rules before the playoffs.
The score made a difference in the wallets of a lot of bettors on the Las Vegas Strip. "Anyone who had a bet on the Pittsburgh side and thought they had won weren't too happy," said John Avello, director of the race and sports book at the Wynn resort.
Avello said there might have been $10 million bet on the game statewide and many times more than that in illegal bets around the country and in offshore Internet betting sites. There was more money bet on Pittsburgh, he said, especially in parlay bets.
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