The Worse Sports Bettor of All Time?

[jaudette3]

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Like everyone, I like to call the outcome of a big game ahead of time. And I'm amazingly consistent - I'm always wrong. Really, always. If there had been someone taking the other side all of these years they would have one of Canepa's 959s.

So around rolls this years Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs as 3 point underdogs. The Chiefs, with magician Mahomes? Against Tampa Bay who were 7-5 at one time this year with an obviously aging and fading Brady? Free money. I have to get a bet down on this one. I don't have a bookie so I checked Oregon Sports Betting and there it was. Online betting using a credit card. I don't think that even bookies take credit cards.

It has to be a parlay if you're betting on football with the State of Oregon. Pick the team, in this case the Chiefs were +3.5, and pick the Over/Under, in this case 56. It was all so obvious. The Chiefs with Mahomes get 3.5 and the Over looks good with Mahomes plus the GOAT. So $100.00 on the Chiefs/Over parlay which pays $335.00. I started planning on what I would do with that bit of extra money.

Well... So it turns out exactly the opposite - Bucs/Under. I told you I'm always wrong. But, it turns out that I had checked the wrong box when I placed the bet, choosing the opposite of what I intended. It was either one of my all too frequent senior moments or some part of my brain knows me better than I know myself and took over.

There is one downside to this strategy though. The gloating is a little hard on my wife. But she'll get used to it when the Lakers beat the spread against the Thunder tonight (done deal)...

John,
Regarding solving a problem; one of the top Silicon Valley technologists once told me “work some more on that problem you’re trying to solve and if that doesn’t work then do the opposite.”