The Continuing Saga Of Lisa Perry’s Playboy Interview

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Yes, we know the web is being inudated with searches for “cheerleader” this past week, however, Gambling911’s racktabulous free pick guru Lisa Perry’s ongoing media blitz thanks to her being featured in Playboy’s “Employee of the Month” section has not slowed. In the interview Perry tells of a story of a “high profile” player hiding in her shower to avoid being caught by Colt’s officials. Speculation about who(Peyton, cough,cough) it could be(Manning, cough) is rampant on many Colts web forums.

It’s amazing that amidst all this hype Perry still has time to pick football games. We’re assuming she outsourced the job to her cans this week.

Former Indianapolis Colts Cheerleader Featured in December Issue of Playboy [PRWeb]
Lisa Perry’s Playboy Interview Suggests Peyton May Actually Dig Chicks—This One In Particular [Oddjack]

Lisa Perry’s Playboy Interview Suggest Peyton May Actually Like Chicks—This One In Particular

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Our good friends at Gambling911 may have their own perfectly timed controversy on their hands in the wake of the whole Carolina Panthers cheerleader lesbo bathroom romp thing as their hot-ass free pick “expert” Lisa Perry, who appears in this month’s Playboy as its “Employee of the Month” feature, has a very interesting interview regarding her former stint as an Indinanapolis Colts cheerleader. In the brief interview, Perry suggests that in some way she left being a cheerleader because she couldn’t/didn’t adhere to the whole “no fraternizing with players” rule—and one high-profile, Chesney-loving quarterback may be the guy. Here is the full transcript of this month’s interview:

PLAYBOY: How long have you been cheering for the Colts?

LISA: I was with the Colts for five years and I was a captain, but I’m no longer a Colts cheerleader. I still root for them to win, but right now, I’m actually a reporter for Gambling911.com.

PLAYBOY: Any reason for the change?

LISA: Most NFL teams have rules about fraternizing with the players.

PLAYBOY: Details, please.

LISA: It’s a good story. We were in Tokyo for a preseason game. Afterward I went to my room to take a shower. Other girls came in, and they were sitting around eating when there was a knock on the door. I figured it was another cheerleader, so I said, “Come in.” The door opened and it was a couple of players. I was like, “Shut my door. What are you guys doing?” I’m in a towel. It looks bad—though I do look good in a towel. Sure enough, I got caught. A high-profile player, who shall remain nameless, was hiding in my shower.

PLAYBOY: Sounds innocent enough.

LISA: It was 100 percent—this time. But my director had it in for me all year. The anti-fraternization rule is the worst. It just happens I’m friends with the players and I’ll stay friends with them.

Gambling911.com’s CEO Chris Costigan confirmed that the story was true and that it was a high-profile player. He joked that it “could be Edgerin James.” We doubt it. The implication in the story that is that it’s Peyton Manning. Now, we know there have been rumors about Peyton’s sexuality being tossed around by our Pete Rose-hating brother site at Deadspin, but this should in some way relieve Peyton of his supposed homo tendencies, no? Peyton Manning hiding in the shower of a hot cheerleader in Tokyo does change our minds about things. A little bit. We just hope his wife is as understanding as we are.

Gambling 911 Not Commenting On Former Indianapolis Colts Cheerleader Lisa Perry posing in Playboy After Carolina Panthers Cheerleader Story [PR Web]
Is Former Indianapolis Colts Cheerleader Lisa Perry Good Enough For Playboy? [Gambling911]
Peyton Manning Going All Brokeback Mountain On Us? [Deadspin]

Chopping Lines: Nick Kaczur Will End Up On the Horse Trailer If The Patriots Win

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9 p.m.

New England Patriots (4-3)

Best Line: PATS +4.5, COLTS -3.5

Well, it’s here. It’s the game that ABC has been waiting for all year. It’s the game that football fans have been waiting for all year. If the Patriots were 2-6, this would still be the game of the year. And how come? As much as the Colts may be awarded some psychological points for winning this game at Foxboro tonight, the bottom line is still that they’re the better team. If they end up the season 15 and 1, they’ll get homefield. And the Patriots(if they get through the first-round of the playoffs) will have to head to Turf World for once and then prove they’re still the team to beat. Not tonight, though. Of all the breakdowns that have been debated this afternoon, the most crucial is the play of Patriots’ rookie tackle Nick Kaczur who will have the unenviable task of keeping Dwight Freeney from decapitating Tom Brady before halftime. Sure, there will be double-teams galore, but it’s pretty obvious at this point that Colts’ defense has a lot of weapons and should be able to disrupt a Weis-less offense for the Patriots. The Colts are the better team and will win this game. And, dammit, we think they’ll cover. Enough of Peyton Manning and his Brokeback Mountain tendencies. We think it’s time for torch passing.

PICK!: INDY -3.5

Free Pick Rundown: And The River Shall Open For The Righteous

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· T-Monye SharpJuice is essentially putting everything he owns on the Patriots and the points and teasing things left and right. He loves this game. Correction: He looooooves this game. [SharpJuice]

· The AGN chap is letting it be known that he loves the Patriots so much, he actually has them giving points tonight. [AGN]

· The Sedge Court Journal chaps finally sober up in time to make some picks before 8 p.m. And they take the Colts because they think the Patriots’ line is one bad hit away from having a stroke. Whoops. [SCJ]

· Gambling 911’s titular little handicapper Lisa Perry loves the Colts to win, but Pats to cover. [G911]

· Of course, Turn Up The Juice is out smoking endo, sippin’ on Gin and…juice?…so they have no picks up at this point. But they will later. We’re betting they’ll take the Patriots because they love home dogs and Cesar once had a fling with Patriots wide out David Givens. [TurnUptheJuice]

NFL Betting: The Colts Are A Team of Destiny. Tonight.

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So, you thought you had it all figured out there Mr. Home Dog-lover, huh? Do you really think a game like this wouldn’t warrant a contrarian viewpoint? One from the same publication, no less? Well, consider Covers list of the five reasons why the Colts will cover the four points reason no. 434 we won’t touch this game:

No. 1 - The law of averages The law of averages states, “The principle holding that probability will influence all occurrences in the long term.”

Huh?

What this says, quite cryptically, is that all these numbers and streaks that football analysts are throwing around have to come to an end sometime. So what if Peyton Manning is 2-9 versus the Pats in his career? Who cares that Indianapolis hasn’t beaten New England since 2000?

Every dog has his day, right?

More vague, uninspired reasoning after the jump.

No. 2 - Dwight Freeney

Dwight Freeney is arguably the most dynamic and dominant defensive player in the game today.

The Indianapolis Colts defensive end is the catalyst of an Indy defense that leads the NFL in points allowed (11 points per game) and is tops in the league in sacks, getting to the quarterback 26 times in seven games.

Freeney has six sacks on the season and that’s going up against the likes of Jonathan Ogden and Orlando Pace. Now the Patriots think they can handle this guy with rookie Nick Kaczur?

Let’s just say I wouldn’t want to be Tom Brady’s blindside Monday night.

No. 3 - Edgerrin James

The Patriots stopped the Buffalo Bills last week, but they didn`t stop Willis McGahee. The Bills running back piled up 136 yards on the ground and another 21 yards receiving in a 21-16 loss.

Now into Foxboro comes Edgerrin James, perhaps the games most dynamic offensive player, playing the best football of his seven-year career.

James has over 800 yards rushing and eight touchdowns through the first seven games and watching him play this season you are witnessing a running back thriving as the feature player on the league’s most lethal offense.

No. 4 – Indy is coming off a bye

Do you know what Indy coach Tony Dungy was doing last week while the Patriots were battling the Buffalo Bills?

He was fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.

And while Dungy was doing that, Manning was off getting his jersey retired at Tennessee and James and Marvin Harrison were off somewhere not getting beat up by a host of NFL linebackers.

I’m sure New England was in the back of the Colts’ minds but the bye week enabled Indianapolis to get away and recharge their batteries before returning to work this week, fresh and focused on the task at hand- beating the New England Patriots.

No. 5 - New England’s injuries

Last but certainly not least, the aforementioned injuries.

We all know there is no one better than Bill Belichick at getting the most out his players and doing the best despite losing starters to injuries. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

But come on, this is ridiculous. Rodney Harrison, Tyrone Poole, Randall Gay, Richard Seymour, do I need to go on?

Couple this with Manning and Co. starting to show their fangs in the passing game and I say if Belichick can pull this one off he should go down in the annals of history with the likes of Einstein and Plato.

Five Reasons The Colts Will Cover [Covers]

NFL Betting: Colts, Pats, Lather, Rinse…Repeat?

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We wouldn’t touch this game if we were wearing Tedy Bruschi’s neck brace, but for those of you who are gluttons for punishment, take into consideration some of these thoughts on tonight’s game between the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts.

· “Hey, if the torch gets passed on Monday night, so be it. I just know this Patriots team will go down swinging. And if I were the guys from NFL Films, I wouldn’t cancel next summer’s trip to the Kraft house just yet.” [Bill Simmons]

· “It’s impossible to like New England tonight, which is why they’ll probably win.” [Peter King]

· In order for the Indianapolis Colts to beat their nemesis New England tonight, they’ll have to neutralize Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi.And they have to do it on two levels: 1.) Prevent him from making game-altering plays; 2.) Muffle his motivational voice. [Fort Wayne News-Sentinel]

· “Conventional wisdom says take the Patriots at home against the Colts, because history says you’ll be right every time. History can only take you so far, because this game is about here and now, and I don’t believe in ghosts.” [Pat Kirwan, NFL.com]

· “Perhaps the Patriots dominance of the Colts isn’t mental, but mystical.” [Miami Herald]

· Tonight’s weather forecast for the Colts-Patriots game in Foxborough, Mass., calls for an evening low of 40 degrees with a 20 percent chance of precipitation. Since 1998, the Colts are 3-6 in games where the temperature at kickoff was 38 degrees or lower.[Indianapolis Star]

Monday Morning Oddsline

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BEST BETS ON TONIGHT’S COLTS/PATS TILT
· Bodog’s Over/Under (48.5) - OVER
· SportsBetting.com’s Edgerrin James Over/Under rushing total (104.5) - UNDER
· SportsBetting’s Adjusted Line - PATS -3.5 (+240)

WHAT WE’VE GOT IN THE OFFICE POOL
· When is that weird guy in the mail room finally going to ditch the day job to fulfill his dream of becoming a real-life pirate? MARCH 2006
· When will Terrell Owens suit up in an Eagles uniform again? WEEK THIRTEEN
· Predicted opening weekend take for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $110M

Chopping Lines: David Carr Is Dead

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Sunday 1:00 p.m.

Houston Texans (0-5)

Best Line: HOU +16, INDY -15.5

Well, we all saw how much last week’s theory about the Texans having to win at somepoint during the season. Yes. And they show up on Sunday night in front of a national audience and just embarrass the crap out of themselves. At one point, ESPN’s Joe Theisman suggested the whole Texans offensive line be stripped naked and beaten with socks filled with pool balls. We’ Two years ago, the Texans may have had a shot at covering this game. Maybe even last year if the Colts were still in that “retooling” phase of their defense. Well, not anymore, Dwight Freeney for President, et al. The Texans face another high-powered offense—maybe not better than the Seahawks on paper, but you know, it’s still the Colts—and have shown absolutely no interest in playing for anything. David Carr is coddling his linemen even though they’re getting him killed. He may be sacked 77 times this weekend. We don’t see any reason how the Colts can cover this thing, even if they had two extra players and three extra downs.

PICK!: INDY -15.5

NFL Props: Battle of the Defeated/Undefeated

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It’s amazing that after Monday night’s overrated bashing of the St. Louis Rams(Seriously: Bulger doesn’t get hurt, that’s a different story) that handicappers decided to shorten the odds on the Indianapolis Colts going undefeated this season. But they did. The Colts, once 10/1 to finsh the season 16-0 are now 7/1. Everybody loves Dwight Freeney. Conversely, the hollowed out shell of a team that is the Houston Texans are now getting 12/1 odds ot remain winless throughout the season. Obviously, the odds for these two teams not succeeding are pretty expensive over at Pinnacle which is giving 1/7 for the Colts and 1/9 odds on the Texans.

Pinnacle Pulse [Pinnacle Sports (via DocSports)]

Oddjack Betting: Cleaning Out Our Pujols

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· We won’t make the mistake of not owning up to our little competition with the king shark over at American Gambling News. We will reluctantly acknowledge the fact that he’s beating us so far in head-to-head competition—for now. Yes, last night’s pick of the Rams at +14 seemed to be working out just fine, until the Indianapolis Colts defense(which is getting as much press as, oh, the ‘85 Bears D right now) started taking over the game. What. The. Fuck. Get Mike Martz off the sidelines and put him in a hermetically-sealed bubble or something. We know that idiot is still tinkering.

· And, ooooh, that must have hurt for all those people who picked the Astros last night. Yow. Worked out for us, actually. Good thing Albert Pujols has a soft spot for dogs.

· The betting public has moved onto the Astros for tomorrow night’s game, however. STL sporting -150 right now. That’s a little too high a number for us against Roy Oswalt—but we could change our minds by the afternoon. Hangover still telling us to pick the Astros.

Chopping Lines: Wearing Martz’s Mangled Heart On Their Sleeve

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9 p.m.
St. Louis Rams (2-3)

Indianapolis Colts (5-0)

Best Line: STL +14, IND -13

All of this talk about the Indianapolis Colts vaunted defense has got us dizzy. Yeah. We know. They’re good. Dwight Freeney for president and all that. But are they forgetting about the original wide open offense that is the St. Louis Rams? And now that Mike Martz isn’t there to eff things up this offense should be even more potent. Oh, and they’ll probably be all inspired playing for their sickly coach and making new interim coach Joe Vitt look good. We think this’ll be a good ol’ fashioned dome-happpy shoot-out. And with the Indy defense stepping up so much, the offense has been lagging behind. The Rams’ offense is ranked second in the league so far this year and can rack up points as well. There just might be touchdowns scored by 15 different recievers this evening. Yeah, we like the over obviously.

PICK!: STL +14

Chopping Lines: Unleash the Colts

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Sun. 1 p.m.

Indianapolis Colts (3-0)

Tennesee Titans (1-2)

Best Line: TEN + 7.5, INDY -7

Yes, the Colts are suddenly defensive monsters, but the offense has been very un-Peyton like. Where are the scoreboard explosions like The Natural? Where’s Reggie Wayne? Where’s Brandon Stokley? Where’s Sean Dawkins? Just seeing if you’re still awake. Anyway, this offense has to break out at some point, right? And this is the perfect team to do it against as the Titans are still trying to rebuild their defense and are used to being torched by their AFC South rivals. We say Peyton goes all Culpepper this week and this is an easy double-digit win.

PICK!: INDY -7