I'm back in business and ready to impart my hard earned advice and rants. Sacred cows like the NFL, player egos, the NCAA and the state & direction of sports and sports betting will be covered sometimes irreverently. Some of the good things in sports that deserve recognition will be recognized. What I won't do is tout games. Never.
Ever wonder what makes grown men dress up in a costume, go to a football stadium and get robbed(without a gun in his face), cheer like a frat boy for a bunch of NFL players who don't give a rats ass about him or the city they represent.
Oakland Raiders fans, emphasis on Oakland, are learning what the NFL and the Raiders think of their loyalty. To purchase a season ticket in Las Vegas's Allegiant Stadium you must first buy a Personal Seat License. That PSL gives you the opportunity to then purchase a season ticket which must be renewed each year. Nothing new here other franchises do this but the Raiders found the Holy Grail in Las Vegas. A PSL goes from $500 up to $75,000 a one time fee. You can then park your car for $10 if you are capable of walking an obscene distance or pay $200 to get close to the stadium. There's nothing wrong with making all the money the market will allow but the Raiders didn't earn this landfall on the field. They just moved to Las Vegas. Smart move.
Ever wonder what makes grown men dress up in a costume, go to a football stadium and get robbed(without a gun in his face), cheer like a frat boy for a bunch of NFL players who don't give a rats ass about him or the city they represent.
Oakland Raiders fans, emphasis on Oakland, are learning what the NFL and the Raiders think of their loyalty. To purchase a season ticket in Las Vegas's Allegiant Stadium you must first buy a Personal Seat License. That PSL gives you the opportunity to then purchase a season ticket which must be renewed each year. Nothing new here other franchises do this but the Raiders found the Holy Grail in Las Vegas. A PSL goes from $500 up to $75,000 a one time fee. You can then park your car for $10 if you are capable of walking an obscene distance or pay $200 to get close to the stadium. There's nothing wrong with making all the money the market will allow but the Raiders didn't earn this landfall on the field. They just moved to Las Vegas. Smart move.
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Then there's the On Field Challenges that are decided in a studio in NY so the outcome of your wager might not be decided on your handicapping choices.
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The NFL claims to be worried about the phony integrity of their games with the passage of sports betting legislation. That's laughable when obvious, less than righteous decisions are routine in NFL games. We've all seen them.
They just can't help it. The Patriots filmed(stole) the Bengals, yes those Bengals, coaches signals before they met this season. |
Screw the rules go back and correct an obvious mistake & make it right
The Kentucky Derby got it right in their decision to DQ Maximum Security. A classic bad beat but it was a righteous decision not like so many recent bad and missed calls that turned entire seasons around. Talk about bad beats how about the ignored pass interference in the NFC Championship game that cost the NO Saints their rightful Super Bowl appearance. A blatant no call that will haunt the franchise forever. Then there's the incorrect call that eliminated the LV Golden Knights from the Stanly Cup playoffs. Both the NFL and NHL admitted they were wrong but the calls should have been corrected immediately no matter what the absurd replay rules say. It was that crucial. Then we witness a missed double dribble and resultant three foul shots with .06 on the clock that cost Auburn a place in the Final Four. How can we handicap this crap? We can't.
From The UCLA Daily Bruin 7/21/2019
"The California State Assembly’s Committee on Higher Education voted unanimously with one abstention in favor of SB 206, which would give California collegiate student-athletes the ability to profit off their own likeness, on Tuesday. SB 206 – also known as the Fair Pay to Play Act – passed 31-4 in the California State Senate on May 22 and would go into effect in January 2023 if approved".…...continuing...…. "On the national stage, North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker introduced the Student-Athlete Equity Act in March. His legislation would revoke the NCAA’s tax-exempt status if Emmert(NCAA President) refuses to give student-athletes the right to their own NIL rights".
The NCAA is in a Game Of Chicken they'll lose. Which school will be first to tell the NCAA so long, been nice knowing you but we don't need you anymore? Other's will follow like dominoes. The time is fast approaching when the top 20 or so super programs, the top money producers, will form a Super League without the hypocritical NCAA anchor skimming the cream off the top.
Tired of bad beats and worse calls
But there’s a sport that leaves nothing to blame on bad beats, bad calls/no calls, turnovers, bizarre play calling, annoying players etc. There's a sport that produces true and correct winners almost every time and that sport is high school and college wrestling.
No expanding and contracting strike zones, no safe judgment calls. No crazy bounces from an oblong football, no missed interference calls. No flags on phantom holding and interference calls to kill a drive. No goofy plays or decisions from coaches. No mistaking a charge from a block. No going to the foul line 30 times while their visiting opponent has three trips to the line. No players playing at half speed because of “foul trouble.”
No having to watch some NFL seven watt bulb do a dance after making a “play” they’re supposed to make. Or an aircraft carrier sized basketball player scream at the rafters while grabbing his jersey number because he made a basket.
There's zero time for grandstanding during a wrestling match. No timeouts to get oxygen like in the NFL or ask to be taken out after a 25 yard run. It’s just you and an equally determined opponent on the mat. Rarely, if ever, is the wrong wrestler’s hand held up in victory. Rarely does a ref make a bad call. The winner is the winner without the bad beats to overcome. You can recognize a dedicated, hard working wrestler. He’s the kid with the cauliflower ears and eyebrows and maybe a crooked nose. He’s also refreshingly polite and humble. Wrestlers willingly endure the hardest workout regimens and sacrifice the most to stay in incredible shape.
Wrestling is the perfect sport to handicap and book. The stats and records reflect actual strengths and capabilities of the opponents, be it an individual match or a team result. There’s an array of propositions that are true to the sport without the silliness of Super Bowl props. Wrestling is perfect for money lines, rounds, full outcomes, over and unders, etc. In-progress betting would be hard to accommodate because the action is so fast. There’s a minute at most between the three rounds (3,2,2 minutes) and maybe a minute between matches. If all 10 weight classes go the distance that’s 70 minutes of nonstop action. The whole event is over in 85-90 minutes, including a brief half time. You can count on the correct decisions be it individual or team outcomes and avoid the stench of a bad beat.
Wrestling is the purest Western sport but it doesn't lend itself to fan costumes, boos, booze, showboating players, narcistic coaches, brain dead advertisements, undeserved wins both on the field and at the cashiers window.
From The UCLA Daily Bruin 7/21/2019
"The California State Assembly’s Committee on Higher Education voted unanimously with one abstention in favor of SB 206, which would give California collegiate student-athletes the ability to profit off their own likeness, on Tuesday. SB 206 – also known as the Fair Pay to Play Act – passed 31-4 in the California State Senate on May 22 and would go into effect in January 2023 if approved".…...continuing...…. "On the national stage, North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker introduced the Student-Athlete Equity Act in March. His legislation would revoke the NCAA’s tax-exempt status if Emmert(NCAA President) refuses to give student-athletes the right to their own NIL rights".
The NCAA is in a Game Of Chicken they'll lose. Which school will be first to tell the NCAA so long, been nice knowing you but we don't need you anymore? Other's will follow like dominoes. The time is fast approaching when the top 20 or so super programs, the top money producers, will form a Super League without the hypocritical NCAA anchor skimming the cream off the top.
Tired of bad beats and worse calls
But there’s a sport that leaves nothing to blame on bad beats, bad calls/no calls, turnovers, bizarre play calling, annoying players etc. There's a sport that produces true and correct winners almost every time and that sport is high school and college wrestling.
No expanding and contracting strike zones, no safe judgment calls. No crazy bounces from an oblong football, no missed interference calls. No flags on phantom holding and interference calls to kill a drive. No goofy plays or decisions from coaches. No mistaking a charge from a block. No going to the foul line 30 times while their visiting opponent has three trips to the line. No players playing at half speed because of “foul trouble.”
No having to watch some NFL seven watt bulb do a dance after making a “play” they’re supposed to make. Or an aircraft carrier sized basketball player scream at the rafters while grabbing his jersey number because he made a basket.
There's zero time for grandstanding during a wrestling match. No timeouts to get oxygen like in the NFL or ask to be taken out after a 25 yard run. It’s just you and an equally determined opponent on the mat. Rarely, if ever, is the wrong wrestler’s hand held up in victory. Rarely does a ref make a bad call. The winner is the winner without the bad beats to overcome. You can recognize a dedicated, hard working wrestler. He’s the kid with the cauliflower ears and eyebrows and maybe a crooked nose. He’s also refreshingly polite and humble. Wrestlers willingly endure the hardest workout regimens and sacrifice the most to stay in incredible shape.
Wrestling is the perfect sport to handicap and book. The stats and records reflect actual strengths and capabilities of the opponents, be it an individual match or a team result. There’s an array of propositions that are true to the sport without the silliness of Super Bowl props. Wrestling is perfect for money lines, rounds, full outcomes, over and unders, etc. In-progress betting would be hard to accommodate because the action is so fast. There’s a minute at most between the three rounds (3,2,2 minutes) and maybe a minute between matches. If all 10 weight classes go the distance that’s 70 minutes of nonstop action. The whole event is over in 85-90 minutes, including a brief half time. You can count on the correct decisions be it individual or team outcomes and avoid the stench of a bad beat.
Wrestling is the purest Western sport but it doesn't lend itself to fan costumes, boos, booze, showboating players, narcistic coaches, brain dead advertisements, undeserved wins both on the field and at the cashiers window.