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Misreading Motown or how Joey Harrington decided to play like Joey Heatherton
Courtesy of: I.M. Bettor
Boston Herald
I.M. BETTOR
BY THE NUMBERS
WEEK 7 WRAP
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2003
Last Friday, in equating life as a Dallas Cowboy and mid-life crisis, I missed two things. The first was my failure to add "The Bootlegger's Boy," Barry Switzer, to the list. You may recall that Coach Switzer in 1997 was arrested for concealing a loaded revolver in his carry-on bag at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
"I wanted to say I've embarrassed (owner) Jerry Jones and the Cowboy organization for an innocent, honest mistake that I made," Switzer said. To this, we can add his giddiness about the infamous "White House," the Cowboys personal pleasure den.
Beyond the Switzer breach, I made a more costly, if less professional gaff- I somehow thought that "Billy Idol" Parcells wouldn't be able to keep the fire burning under his upstart Cowboys for their trip to Motown as road favorites.
Playing $385 on the Lions grabbling three-points, the home side jumped to an early 7-0 lead. Thereafter, Lions quarterback Joey Harrington, decided to play like Joey Heatherthon, the former Mrs. Lance Rentzel, and faster than you can say, "Didn't Quincy Carter smoke a lot of weed back in college?" his Cowboys put up 38 unanswered points and we laid out $385 for this misread of the situation.
Looking back to the big line moves, the Dolphins jumped to 6.5 around the world (but only to 6 with the local Boston sports accountants), the Ravens dropped from 1.5 to pick at Cincinnati and the Bucs went from 3.5 to 5.5 point favorites for their visit to Baghdad by the Bay. As it's done all season, the late moves shelled out more losers than winners.
For this atoll in the vast gambling ocean, seven weeks of playing by the numbers finds the mark at 6-3 vs. the gambling line. When that's turned into cold hard cash, the envelope under the mattress holds $510, a figure we look to add to on Friday.
Misreading Motown or how Joey Harrington decided to play like Joey Heatherton
Courtesy of: I.M. Bettor
Boston Herald
I.M. BETTOR
BY THE NUMBERS
WEEK 7 WRAP
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2003
Last Friday, in equating life as a Dallas Cowboy and mid-life crisis, I missed two things. The first was my failure to add "The Bootlegger's Boy," Barry Switzer, to the list. You may recall that Coach Switzer in 1997 was arrested for concealing a loaded revolver in his carry-on bag at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
"I wanted to say I've embarrassed (owner) Jerry Jones and the Cowboy organization for an innocent, honest mistake that I made," Switzer said. To this, we can add his giddiness about the infamous "White House," the Cowboys personal pleasure den.
Beyond the Switzer breach, I made a more costly, if less professional gaff- I somehow thought that "Billy Idol" Parcells wouldn't be able to keep the fire burning under his upstart Cowboys for their trip to Motown as road favorites.
Playing $385 on the Lions grabbling three-points, the home side jumped to an early 7-0 lead. Thereafter, Lions quarterback Joey Harrington, decided to play like Joey Heatherthon, the former Mrs. Lance Rentzel, and faster than you can say, "Didn't Quincy Carter smoke a lot of weed back in college?" his Cowboys put up 38 unanswered points and we laid out $385 for this misread of the situation.
Looking back to the big line moves, the Dolphins jumped to 6.5 around the world (but only to 6 with the local Boston sports accountants), the Ravens dropped from 1.5 to pick at Cincinnati and the Bucs went from 3.5 to 5.5 point favorites for their visit to Baghdad by the Bay. As it's done all season, the late moves shelled out more losers than winners.
For this atoll in the vast gambling ocean, seven weeks of playing by the numbers finds the mark at 6-3 vs. the gambling line. When that's turned into cold hard cash, the envelope under the mattress holds $510, a figure we look to add to on Friday.