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"Troy Polamalu scored a touchdown after picking up a loose ball on the last play of the game in the Steelers' 11-10 win over San Diego, but the lateral was incorrectly called an illegal forward pass, so the score did not count. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that the call meant the difference of millions of dollars to gamblers who bet on the Steelers to cover the spread, which was five points. The paper reports that 66 percent of the bets went with Pittsburgh to cover the spread. Unfortunately for them, the erroneous call meant bettors could not collect what would have been a combined $32 million in winnings. "

It was so obvious that this was the wrong call, but damn. That was a $32 million dollar mistake.

TEXA$

11/17/2008 12:28:10 PM

pwnt

11/17/2008 12:28:40 PM

the other thing is that the 7th tiebreaker for a 2 team tie is

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"Best combined ranking among conference teams in points scored and points allowed."

(source)

so not only did it cost a bunch of people betting, it TECHNICALLY could have playoff implications

11/17/2008 12:29:56 PM

their loss is my gain

losing by 1 FTW

11/17/2008 12:40:11 PM

who gives a fuck about gamblers


how about go find a new hobby

11/17/2008 12:43:44 PM

^i tend to agree on the fuck the gamblers line of thinking

gamblers are so goddamn paranoid, that they always cry foul in any loss

11/17/2008 12:46:41 PM

even if you dont gamble, you should realize gambling/vegas makes the sports world churn

11/17/2008 12:49:14 PM

i just want to know how they are always so right about the spread

11/17/2008 1:29:51 PM

^
den/atl = 6.5 point dog wins by 4
mia/oak = 10 point fav wins by 2
bal/nyg = 7 point fav wins by 20
ten/jax = 2 point fav wins by 10
chi/gb = 3.5 point fav wins by 34
phi/cin = 8.5 point fav ties
sf/stl = 7 point fav wins by 19


half the games off by over a td...same story with the week before...only 2 games w/in a td of being right 2 weeks ago

depends on one's definition of close I suppose

11/17/2008 1:45:02 PM

If you gambled

you'd know that the bookmakers don't give a fuck what the actual margin winds up being

so long as they get 50 percent of the action on each side

11/17/2008 1:47:12 PM

thats the chance you take when gambling on sports

bad calls are part of the game

but how did that not get overturned if it was a bad call from instant replay

11/17/2008 3:09:48 PM

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"i just want to know how they are always so right about the spread"

Bookmakers don't try to accurately predict the final score of a game

11/17/2008 3:12:15 PM