Great Day To Be a Gambler

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Good morning. Welcome to the start of the NFL season. And with professional football, there comes mountains of money to be won, lost, burned, buried, and snorted up noses. It’s a glorious time of the year. And who better to remind us that football season is really about then USA Today, who at midnight this morning, ran a long-ass story about sports betting, casinos, and Bob Scucci. Yes. Bob Scucci again. It’s a remarkably interesting story for a newspaper read by people in McDonald’s and airports and gets us right in the mood for what lay ahead for us this fall. And it also lets us know that the bookmakers are always in control of the situation:

So goes the parallel world of sports betting in Sin City, where “wise guys” or professional bettors battle “bookies” for supremacy. And everybody makes money off “squares,” the derogatory term for amateur bettors Vegas types use only privately for fear of offending customers. In this parallel universe, real-life victories and losses on the football field mean nothing.

Football Bettors Put Billions on the Line [USA Today]

Gambling 911 Staff Gets, Um, More Well-Rounded

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Who says hot girls don’t know anything about football? Ugly dudes, that’s who. And Gambling 911 unveils its own version of Peter King in former Indianapolis Colts cheerleader Lisa Perry. We hope you just didn’t accidentally get a mental image of Peter King in a cheerleading outfit. Sickos.

Demorrio Williams [G911]