GuYS WHY DID CRIS SPORTSBOOK take the mnf game betting line down ?

[wayne1218]

I heard Jim Zorn was starting for Seattle. Not sure though!

[weazel079]

Yeah its got to be the weather. I checked and it's snowing in Seattle. Chance of a snow shower tomorrow 1-2 inches.

[Riz]

Guys it is the weather........just found this report on the game.......Cloudy, 70% chance of rain (wind chill 27 degrees); Showers may be mixed rain and snow;

I still think seattle wins by more than 10 for the cover

[Tinman1960]

with a total that high and possible snow coming. they will defin. pull and adjust with the weather if not they can take a beaten with a total of 47 and its snowing.

GOT YA THANKS BUT WHY TAKK THE GAME LINE DOWN

[Tinman1960]

I heard Jim Zorn was starting for Seattle. Not sure though!

I HEARD THAT TOO EARLY BUT DID NOT THINK MUCH OF IT AT THE TIME

[thaikarate1]

line is back up for me

sea-10.5
ov/un 42

[HammerHead33]

ervryone knows favre and hasselbeck are injured. WHY THE FUCK DID THEY TAKE THIS LINE DOWN ?? ps-pinnacle just pulled it also-whos not playing guys ?

there sayin on ESPN that they are both expected to start now...i figured this was the reason....but maybe it is the snow...idk

[ham]

Its because so much money was wager on the seahawks...from covers


Suspicious Seattle betting suspends MNF wagering

By Andrew Folkes
Mon, Nov 27, 2006


An overwhelming volume of Seattle Seahawks wagers has poured into sportsbooks since the conclusion of Sunday’s NFL games, forcing some books to temporarily suspend wagering on tonight’s contest with the Green Bay Packers.

The opening line at some books had the Seahawks as low as 9-point home favorites, but the pointspread has now swollen to as high as -12. Books are at a loss to explain the reasoning behind these bettors’ enthusiasm for Seattle.

“We actually have the line down right now,” Shane Catford, an oddsmaker for BetCRIS.com, told *********** at about 10 a.m. ET.

“We’ve just been flooded with Seattle money. We got hit at -9, - 9 ½, -10, and -10 ½ and they just kept coming and coming. We figured Brett Favre may be out or something like that so we decided to take the line down until we could get some information.”

Favre’s status was in question earlier this week due to an elbow injury he suffered in last week’s loss to New England. However, the NFL’s ironman returned to practice on Friday and is listed as probable to make his 252nd consecutive start.

“If (third-stringer) Todd Bouman or (fourth-stringer) Ingle Martin had to start, that certainly wouldn’t encourage any Green Bay money,” says SportsMemo.com handicapper Jared Klein. “But word out of the Packers camp is that he’s just fine.”

“We haven’t seen anything that indicates he won’t start,” adds Catford.

One point that may be encouraging Seahawks bettors is that quarterback Matt Hasselbeck is returning from a knee injury while running back Shaun Alexander makes a second-straight start after missing six games with a broken bone in his foot.

But considering Hasselbeck still has to wear a knee brace tonight while Alexander had just 37 yards on 17 carries in last week’s loss to San Francisco, it seems unlikely they could inspire this much Seahawks money.

“Who knows how healthy Hasselbeck will be? And he’s been sitting (for four weeks),” says Klein. “And Alexander’s foot doesn’t seem 100 percent either.”

It’s worth noting that betting syndicates sometimes try to influence the odds on a primetime game like this one by betting heavily on the favorite. Once the line reaches a certain point, these same bettors will put even larger wagers on the underdog.

The technique is known as “steaming”, but books don’t think that’s the case here.

”Usually we can tell when they’re doing that because we know the groups that like to do that,” says Catford. “But we’ve got Seattle money coming from groups everywhere all over the world.”

Catford expected that BetCRIS.com would repost its MNF line between noon and 12:30 p.m. ET whether they got any answers or not. Catford anticipated reopening at -10 ½, which would set it within a half-point of most other books that kept wagering open throughout the morning.

“It’s really weird,” says Catford. “Usually when something like this happens it means there’s been a big injury. Bettors are going after Seattle as if Favre and the rest of the Packers all just got in a car accident or something.”