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Tuesday’s Hot Clicks: Gambler Wins $100,000 by Betting $250 on Rams’ Offensive Futility
Better than winning the pool at your Super Bowl party
A gambler at a Las Vegas sportsbook might have been the only person enjoying Sunday’s Super Bowl.
According to Tim Fitzgerald (aka Timmy Fitz), the supervisor at the South Point Race and Sports Book, his book took four bets that the Rams would score exactly three points in the Super Bowl. The biggest wager was a person who bet $250 at 400/1 odds, meaning they came away with a cool $100,000 when the Patriots stifled the Rams offense.
How’s that for a gutsy gamble? The Rams were second in the NFL in points per game this season with 32.9. They scored 30 and 26 in their other two playoff games. NFL teams are so convinced Sean McVay’s offensive scheme is the future of the league that they’re hiring anyone who knows him to be a head coach. But this person thought 400/1 was favorable odds on that bet and decided to take a chance.
The odds that this person walked out of the South Point $100,000 richer are pretty slim, I think, though. If they’re crazy enough to bet on the L.A. offense getting shut down, imagine what other longshots they bet and lost on. At least they’re not as far in the hole as the guy who bet $3.8 million on the Rams to win.
Big Baller Brand water is a thing
Almost exactly a year ago, LaVar Ball announced plans to sell Lithuanian mineral water in the U.S., and now that plan has come to fruition. Because this is the company that once sold sneakers for $500, I reached out to the stores carrying the water to see how much a bottle of Big Baller Brand water would cost me. A 500 mL bottle costs just $0.99, which is totally normal. It’ll be available at most of Albertson’s 345 Southern California locations, starting this week.
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