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Speaker 1: Final day of the decade, Happy New Year to you.
Speaker 1: Something special on today's show in between Megapods Wild Card
Speaker 1: Megapod coming up later this week. This is a look
Speaker 1: back at the decade, the year's and the best sports
Speaker 1: betting teams per sport of that decade, not just teams,
Speaker 1: but individuals and individual sports horses in horse racing will
Speaker 1: do horse racing, golf, tennis, Premier League, soccer, college hoops,
Speaker 1: college football, and then the four major North American sports hockey, baseball,
Speaker 1: the NBA, and the NFL, defined by not the most
Speaker 1: powerful team of the decade, as a mainstream media show
Speaker 1: would do, but by the team that came back from
Speaker 1: the longest odds, either before the season started, mid season,
Speaker 1: or maybe even before the postseason, to win its respective
Speaker 1: sports championship. We'll do it with Blake Mahoney of Sports
Speaker 1: Odds History dot Com a special Beating the Book podcast,
Speaker 1: a look back at the best sports teams and stories
Speaker 1: of the decade. Enjoy It's on numbers game with your
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Speaker 1: It's Gill Alexander, it's producing number five. Jeff Parlay in
Speaker 1: the house. Jeff, your dad is here? You nervous? Are
Speaker 1: you nervous? No? They my my parents and my girlfriend
Speaker 1: came in and watched the Marco Lot Show on Friday,
Speaker 1: So I'm good. Yeah, but you're nervous. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm very excited about this. It's a two days special
Speaker 1: here on a numbers game, on a very special episode
Speaker 1: of a numbers game at Visa. UH Sports Betting. We'll
Speaker 1: call it Teams of the Decade. But there are horses
Speaker 1: and individuals involved here. Uh, it's a two day thing.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we will do NHL, Major League Baseball, Pro football,
Speaker 1: and pro basketball. Today we'll do all the rest. We'll
Speaker 1: even through college football in a day about that. So
Speaker 1: today we're gonna do horses, golf, Tennis, Premier League. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know what that was gonna be college basketball, college football.
Speaker 1: And to help us along, ladies and gentlemen, we couldn't
Speaker 1: do without him, it's our old friend from Sports Odds
Speaker 1: History dot Com, Blake Mahoney. Good morning to you, Blake. Morning.
Speaker 1: How you done. I'm doing very well? All right, Blake,
Speaker 1: Let's define this. This is not you know, you're not
Speaker 1: your average sports show teams of the decade. Right. We're
Speaker 1: not going to talk about the seventy three win Warriors,
Speaker 1: as they might. We're gonna talk about the teams that
Speaker 1: came back from the longest odds, either pre flop or
Speaker 1: mid season or just before the playoffs or whenever, that
Speaker 1: ended up winning their sports championship in that year. Is
Speaker 1: that correct, sir, that's right. Yeah. We're looking at, uh,
Speaker 1: sort of the the biggest bang for your buck long shots. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's start with horses. I think I think everybody knows
Speaker 1: where this one's gonna go, right. Yeah. So with the
Speaker 1: Triple Crown races, there really weren't too many long shots.
Speaker 1: There was actually only one that was one or greater
Speaker 1: during the decade than that was this year at the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby with Country House, who was one named the
Speaker 1: winner of the race in the most controversial of fashions,
Speaker 1: with Maximum Security, who went under the wire first, was
Speaker 1: disqualified by Stewards sixty five to one. Uh, only the
Speaker 1: second time a winner had been disqualified in the derby's
Speaker 1: forty five year history. First time though that had happened
Speaker 1: because of a foul claim during the race. I think
Speaker 1: in the Dancers image was disqualified days after the race
Speaker 1: because of a drug violation. But this sick st five
Speaker 1: to one. When maximum security was taken down to an
Speaker 1: incident coming around the turn, he veered out slightly squeezed
Speaker 1: War of Will for those who remember, it caused long
Speaker 1: Rage Totty to go back very controversial sixty to one,
Speaker 1: something probably Blake will never see again. I would imagine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, considering that it's happened so few times, and
Speaker 1: then for the long shot to be sort of the one,
Speaker 1: to be sort of the unofficial runner up and then
Speaker 1: being declared the winner. Yeah, it's it's going to be
Speaker 1: a while before we see that again. And I would
Speaker 1: like to speak for all sports betting aficionados who don't
Speaker 1: bet horses when I say here was my reaction at
Speaker 1: the time, Could someone please explain to me what's going on.
Speaker 1: I had no clue what, so I was like, can
Speaker 1: some of these are saying, what the rule is what
Speaker 1: you horse. People over there, tell me what tell me
Speaker 1: what the rule is. Blake by the way, could be
Speaker 1: followed on Twitter at s O history Uh on Twitter
Speaker 1: once again Sports Odds History. All right, so maximum security,
Speaker 1: without question, the horse in terms of betting through the
Speaker 1: through the prism of bets, the horse of the decade.
Speaker 1: Let's do a little Let's go golf next, syall we right?
Speaker 1: So uh, during the decade there are five players that
Speaker 1: were a hundred one or higher that before the start
Speaker 1: of the manager that went on to win, and only
Speaker 1: one of those came since two thousand eleven, so it's
Speaker 1: it's been kind of mostly chalk, uh, you know, in
Speaker 1: the last eight years. So just kind of running down
Speaker 1: the list. We had two thousand eleven Masters with Charles
Speaker 1: Schwartzel was one. Let me jump in he he won
Speaker 1: that by two strokes over Jason Day at Adams Scott
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven Masters. All right, what's next next? Is
Speaker 1: the one that's the only one that's happened the last
Speaker 1: eight years was the two thousand sixteen p g A
Speaker 1: where Jimmy Walker was one to one, five to one,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Walker beating Jason Day again by one stroke. That
Speaker 1: was that period where Jason Day was runner up at
Speaker 1: a lot of things. Mm hmm yeah. Uh. Next is
Speaker 1: another p g A two thousand eleven Keegan Bradley was
Speaker 1: one fifty to one and that was a playoff, wasn't
Speaker 1: it against Jason Duffner. If I'm not mistaken, I believe correct? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: m h Next one was also came in two thousand
Speaker 1: eleven at the British where Darren Clark was a hunt
Speaker 1: fifty to one as well three stroke lead over both
Speaker 1: Phil a three stroke win rather thorough for both Phil
Speaker 1: Mickelson and Dustin Johnson in that event. And then the
Speaker 1: British again in two thousand ten were Louis oost thousand
Speaker 1: was two hundred and one. So we are declaring Louis
Speaker 1: oost Heisen the golfer from through the betting prison, the
Speaker 1: golfer of the decade? Is that correct? Yeah? We can
Speaker 1: go with that, you know, I mean, looking back, you know,
Speaker 1: he's obviously had a little bit um you know, maybe
Speaker 1: looking back it's not quite as much of a shock
Speaker 1: considering how well he's done since then. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: at the time, we can go with that. As as
Speaker 1: the uh, as the golfer of the of the decade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with with individual sports is a little harder because we're
Speaker 1: just we have to pick a major specifically, so it's
Speaker 1: a little more polluted. It's not quite like the teams
Speaker 1: of the decade. But ushis in one ouzhis in won
Speaker 1: that particular event, the one thirty nine Open Championship back
Speaker 1: into by seven strokes over Lee Westwood. I didn't remember
Speaker 1: it being that big of a win, but he destroyed
Speaker 1: it the field and that. Yeah. Yeah, so now those
Speaker 1: are all pre flopping golf. Now, there were many situations
Speaker 1: mid tournament, and we don't have to look far back.
Speaker 1: Mark Leishman. My buddy reminds me that in the Open
Speaker 1: Mark Leshman was one seventy five to one at one
Speaker 1: point he led on the seventeenth whole Sunday than he
Speaker 1: made bogey loss in the playoffs. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of near misses that occur with with guys you know
Speaker 1: mid stream. But those in terms of pre flop, those
Speaker 1: are your golfers of the decade, with Louis use Tis
Speaker 1: in a two one the Open Championship emerging as the
Speaker 1: longest odds champion name of golf's majors. Let's talk tennis again.
Speaker 1: Talking to Blake Mahoney here sports odds history, let's do uh,
Speaker 1: let's do the men's side first, right, So on the
Speaker 1: men's side, you know, I mean obviously that the decade
Speaker 1: was dominated by Djokovic, Nadal, Federer, so there really wasn't
Speaker 1: much opportunity for for other you know, for these long
Speaker 1: shots to come in. There were They're only five players
Speaker 1: overall that were greater than ten to one that went
Speaker 1: on to win. Um. But the largest was Marin Chileich
Speaker 1: at the two thousand and fourteen US Open, where he
Speaker 1: was seventy five and one. Wow, chill who's still playing,
Speaker 1: still playing somewhat competitively. Uh, who's thirty one years of
Speaker 1: age now? And first of all, should be mentioned that
Speaker 1: since Chile one the US Open at those odds seventy
Speaker 1: five to one pre flop, only Stan Varenka, well, Stan
Speaker 1: Marinka's one, So there's been twenty majors since then. Excuse
Speaker 1: me thirty Uh, No, check that there's been twenty twenty
Speaker 1: major since then. Varenka's won to Andy Murray's one one,
Speaker 1: So seventeen have have been won by the Big three
Speaker 1: since then Djokovic, as you point out, Djokovic, feder and Nadal.
Speaker 1: But to give you an idea how those three guys
Speaker 1: have dominated the tour, Chilich is the youngest guy, the
Speaker 1: youngest man on planet Earth to currently say I have
Speaker 1: a Grand Slam Men's singles title at the age of
Speaker 1: thirty one. He and del Potro. Del Potro's like five
Speaker 1: days older than him thirty one, which means that Federal
Speaker 1: and Nadal and Djokovic have wiped out a generation of
Speaker 1: tennis players. Basically, it's amazing. But Marini, yeah, we're yeah,
Speaker 1: we're still kind of waiting for the next generation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: finally take over. That's amazing to me, thirty one years old.
Speaker 1: So that was the US Open, the last major, seventy
Speaker 1: five to one pre flop. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: the ladies side. Uh So there are a couple, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit more common for some long shots
Speaker 1: to come in. But the two biggest were Marion bart
Speaker 1: totally uh frenchwoman who was one one uh in two
Speaker 1: thousand thirteen Wimbledon. And then the biggest was Flavia Panetta
Speaker 1: was on one I'm sorry, hundred fifty to one to
Speaker 1: win the two thousand fifteen US Open. I promise you
Speaker 1: were getting to college basketball, college football, and obviously the
Speaker 1: pro sports, and people are gonna be like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: I understand. But it occurs to me that the two
Speaker 1: names you just mentioned, there's some people are gonna be like, wait,
Speaker 1: I don't even know who he's talking about. This is
Speaker 1: actually this actually happened, right Like, so, Mary Bart totally,
Speaker 1: she wins Wimbledon in she had she had played like
Speaker 1: forty seven or she had one. She she had the
Speaker 1: record for the most wins without ever winning a Grand Am.
Speaker 1: I think, most tournament wins without ever winning a Grand Slam.
Speaker 1: She didn't drop a set in that entire tournament. She
Speaker 1: like avoided Serena Williams. That year she got all the
Speaker 1: breaks and she became the first female player, um who participate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not the first one, but that she had participated in
Speaker 1: the most Grand Slam tournaments without every having won one.
Speaker 1: Her seven such Grand Slam tournament, I'm sorry, not the
Speaker 1: most wins, but the most Grand Slam tournament participating before
Speaker 1: ever winning one. And she immediately the next tournament retired
Speaker 1: for good. She's like, that's it, got my one, and
Speaker 1: by the way Flavia, Uh, Flavia Panetta, who who did
Speaker 1: it again? What did she win again? She won the
Speaker 1: UH two thousand fifteen US Open, and Serena had won
Speaker 1: all three majors that year. Serena would an effective won
Speaker 1: the Grand Slam. Flavia Panetta did the same thing. She
Speaker 1: won the US Open, and she was like, I'm out,
Speaker 1: I'm done. That's my career. Because when you wrote those
Speaker 1: two names down, I was like, I barely remember these people.
Speaker 1: I would imagine listeners wouldn't. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: something that people remember in a bit way. So so
Speaker 1: one fifty to one for Pinetta, one hundred to one
Speaker 1: for bar Totally, they would be the women's tennis sports
Speaker 1: betting long shots of their sport. Let's do Premier League,
Speaker 1: and I think where everybody knows where this is going? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Nlesster City two fifteen two sixteen, season five thousand one. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of changed the the story of the
Speaker 1: way the odds are made. They don't make them that
Speaker 1: large anymore because, uh, you know, it can happen. You
Speaker 1: know that they were the year before they barely avoid
Speaker 1: relegation and then they just caught lining in a bottle.
Speaker 1: And and and won the whole thing the next year.
Speaker 1: Now think about what you just said. Leicester City won
Speaker 1: the Premierly get five thousand to one odds the year
Speaker 1: before again almost relegated. They needed to flurry at the
Speaker 1: end of the year not to be And we were
Speaker 1: just talking about all these other sports golf, tennis. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're talking about horses and those peaked at like two
Speaker 1: hundred to one in the odds. We just mentioned Oshisen
Speaker 1: in the Open Championship with twenty ten. This is five
Speaker 1: thousand to one. Uh. Cost will Hill UK, I think
Speaker 1: upwards of three million estimated to cost bookmakers across the
Speaker 1: UK over fifteen million. And as you said, yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember then that they're trying to pay people out before
Speaker 1: night season was even though we're to negotiate, you know,
Speaker 1: cheaper prices, so they there they weren't gonna lose so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: cash out options available throughout all formulaic. And you're right,
Speaker 1: William Hill u k S at the time I said,
Speaker 1: will never post odds higher than one longer than one
Speaker 1: thousand and one in anything. Ever. Again, after Leicester City
Speaker 1: cashed five thousand one and just to give you a
Speaker 1: comp like what else do UK bookmakers what did they
Speaker 1: put up at five thousand and one odds? Elvis Presley
Speaker 1: being found alive? That's what happened with Leicester City at
Speaker 1: five thousand and one odds. That might be, by the way, Blake,
Speaker 1: that might actually be the sports betting team period of
Speaker 1: the decade. Once we're all setting done with this and
Speaker 1: we pick one, Yeah, our entire lives, I can't see
Speaker 1: anything of our top in that. I think it might
Speaker 1: be right on that count. Uh, let's come back. Let's
Speaker 1: do college basketball and college football sports betting teams of
Speaker 1: the decade. We'll do a couple honorable mentions in each sport,
Speaker 1: and then we'll give the sports betting team of the decade,
Speaker 1: the one that came back from the longest odds, not
Speaker 1: necessarily pre flop, but at any point in the season
Speaker 1: in both college hoops and college UH football. Will do
Speaker 1: that next with Blake Mahoney. Sports Betting odds Sports betting
Speaker 1: Teams of the decade on a numbers game right here
Speaker 1: at the Sports Betting Network. Welcome back to a numbers
Speaker 1: game with Kill Alexander. It is a numbers game right
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Speaker 1: Decem just thought to myself, you know, let's do a
Speaker 1: little decade review, because well, you know, you don't get
Speaker 1: this chance but once every ten years, and we've never
Speaker 1: been able to do it, obviously on this network. I've
Speaker 1: never even been able to do it on the podcast.
Speaker 1: So we brought in our buddy from Sports Odds History
Speaker 1: Dot Tom Blake. Mahoney, We've gone through horses, golf, tennis,
Speaker 1: and Premier League so far, the individuals, the horse, the
Speaker 1: team of the decade in terms of what of those
Speaker 1: came back from the longest odds either before a season started,
Speaker 1: before a race started, before a tournament started, to get
Speaker 1: the prize in what it was a golf major, a
Speaker 1: tennis major, or in the case of a horse racing,
Speaker 1: a triple Crown races. Obviously Premier League, the entire Premier
Speaker 1: League title. By the way, Lester City one that year
Speaker 1: with eighty one points, ten point win over Arsenal who
Speaker 1: was in second place. Just just an aberration five thousand
Speaker 1: and one. As we discussed, we'll never see that again.
Speaker 1: Maybe the sports team of the decade. Let's get to
Speaker 1: the more familiar sports, though, Blake, let's go to this
Speaker 1: side of the pond. We'll do college basketball first. How
Speaker 1: about some honorable mentions? Right, So first we'll go with
Speaker 1: two Villa Nova. They were to one during the preseason
Speaker 1: and and they never really dip below ten to one,
Speaker 1: uh until they until the late eighth round. And that
Speaker 1: was for those who are like, which Villanova team was that?
Speaker 1: That was? Uh? That was Chris Jenkins with a three
Speaker 1: pointer against North Carolina. And I was thinking about this
Speaker 1: about this, Jeff, I was like, where you know, you
Speaker 1: remember where you were when you watch all these championship games.
Speaker 1: And I was like, wow, that's seems ages ago to me.
Speaker 1: But that was obviously Chris Jenkins, who went to Gazaga
Speaker 1: High in DC. As a matter of fact, playing UH
Speaker 1: in Europe these days. That that Villanova team was really
Speaker 1: good during the regular season. I would imagine those odds
Speaker 1: never really moved because no one, no one bet them,
Speaker 1: because they had years of just anguish in the tournament
Speaker 1: before they finally broke through and wanted twenty five to one.
Speaker 1: That went their peak. As Blake was just saying, during
Speaker 1: the preseason, what's another honorable mention? Right? So, quickly. The
Speaker 1: other Villaneova team that won, they were actually twenty seven
Speaker 1: to one during the during the seasons, a little bit higher,
Speaker 1: but they were the betting favorite by the time they
Speaker 1: entered the tournament. So that's why I put the the
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen version a little bit higher. Okay, So
Speaker 1: so Villanova team seven to one, uh, and that was
Speaker 1: the team that crushed everybody in the tournament, right, they
Speaker 1: just destroyed everybody by double digits. They had no scares
Speaker 1: in that entire tournament. But and you put them second
Speaker 1: just because why again explain? Oh? Just because? Uh, you
Speaker 1: know that the two thousand sixteen term team was h
Speaker 1: you know, they kind of flew under the radar, and
Speaker 1: and they were fifteen to one entering the tournament. Okay,
Speaker 1: while you know the two thousand eighteen team was was
Speaker 1: the betting favorite to win it all during entering the tournament.
Speaker 1: Makes sense? Alright, one more honorable mention before we name
Speaker 1: the team of the decade, right, So two thousand or
Speaker 1: two thousand ten, two thousand eleven Yukon they were forty
Speaker 1: two one during the season. Uh. They went twenty six
Speaker 1: nine during the regular season, and then we're to one
Speaker 1: entering the tournament as the three seed, and that was
Speaker 1: the Kemba Walker Yukon team, which I'm not mistaken. Weren't
Speaker 1: they like, Jeff, You'll tell me, weren't they like five
Speaker 1: hundred During the Big East season, they were like nine
Speaker 1: and nine or something like that, and then they went
Speaker 1: on this Keimba just went on this unbelievable run in
Speaker 1: the Big East Tournament and then obviously in the March
Speaker 1: Madness Big Dance as well, nine and nine Big East
Speaker 1: regular season, five wins and five days. Remember that was
Speaker 1: the sixteen team Big East Nominal. They were in the
Speaker 1: nine seed in that tournament. Uh. That obviously the Big
Speaker 1: East Tournament known for when Kemba Walker ended Gary McGee's
Speaker 1: life on that crossover and at the end of the
Speaker 1: third game that one versus nine and the Big East
Speaker 1: Final between Yukon and Louisville, Yukon won despite Kemba getting
Speaker 1: an early foul trouble. That game really flipped the entire
Speaker 1: n c A tournament because Yukon got the three seed.
Speaker 1: They made they win at all. Louisville, if you remember,
Speaker 1: lost the Kenneth for eden Morehead State that year in
Speaker 1: the first round. Yeah, and Yukon the Kemba version of
Speaker 1: Yukon that year again, because I think I know what's
Speaker 1: coming with the with the college basketball team of the decade,
Speaker 1: but the Kemba version Kentucky. That's so they've been in
Speaker 1: the semis by a point fifty five. Then they'd be
Speaker 1: Butler by a dozen in the finals. Horrible game, horrible game, horrible?
Speaker 1: What is your like? I can't even think of a
Speaker 1: memory from that game. It would Butler. Butler shot in
Speaker 1: that game. It was alright, Blake, college basketball team of
Speaker 1: the decade will be I know what's coming, right, so
Speaker 1: you already call it two fourteen Yukon was one in
Speaker 1: the preseason and actually higher uh they were one entering
Speaker 1: the tournament to win at all. And that was the
Speaker 1: ship As Napier version, as I like to call it,
Speaker 1: a Yukon now whenever before March man is every year.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've been with me, Jeff
Speaker 1: when I do this, but I do a I do
Speaker 1: a college basketball March Madness four mila. People who listen
Speaker 1: to a Numbers game and have listened to the podcast
Speaker 1: that beating the book before and know that I do this,
Speaker 1: and you basically what it is I go through. Here
Speaker 1: are the six criteria that every eventual national champion in
Speaker 1: college basketball has to their name, and it's like, you know, oh,
Speaker 1: they ranked twenty and offensive adjusted efficiency in ken baumb
Speaker 1: offense top twenty, defensive efficiency. There's all these different stats
Speaker 1: they put into it, and it has called up. Every
Speaker 1: champion has had all these characteristics except one. Every exception
Speaker 1: is this team that Blake's talking about, the Shabazz Napier
Speaker 1: version of of you not to contrast them with the
Speaker 1: Kemba Walker Yukon champion. The Shabaz Napier Yukon champs. Remember
Speaker 1: they were at and were they an eight seeds? They
Speaker 1: were seven? They beat eight seed Kentucky in the finals,
Speaker 1: which was the Julius Randall Kentucky team. But like they
Speaker 1: were the exception of everything, right, so is the Kevin
Speaker 1: Ali coached Yukon team. It wasn't even uh um it
Speaker 1: was it was a different version of Yukon. They you know,
Speaker 1: they didn't have Sweet sixteen experience. That was one of
Speaker 1: the criterion for all champions. They weren't um, you know,
Speaker 1: they weren't They didn't have at least three wins versus
Speaker 1: teams in the top ten percent of strength of schedule.
Speaker 1: Excuse me of r P I that was another exception
Speaker 1: of that team. Um, they weren't into, as I said,
Speaker 1: top twenty adjusted offensive or top twenty adjusted defensive efficiency.
Speaker 1: So that team was clearly the outlier of all outliers,
Speaker 1: and that team should have lost in the round of
Speaker 1: sixty four to St. Joseph's Amida Brima had a three
Speaker 1: point play in the last minute. The regulation of that
Speaker 1: game made the free throws a fifty two percent free
Speaker 1: throw shooter. Yukon won the game and overtime, and then
Speaker 1: I think it was Villanova, Iowa State, Michigan State, UM,
Speaker 1: I don't remember who they beat out Florida, number one
Speaker 1: overall seed Florida, who they destroyed after falling down double
Speaker 1: digits in the first half. And then that game against Kentuck. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nine seed versus eight seed in the finals versus still
Speaker 1: still pretty good, it's still amazing. I mean this doesn't
Speaker 1: have still pretty good. But that game against St. Joseph
Speaker 1: one in overtime, they were they were done, they were down.
Speaker 1: They were downe five in the last minute of regulation,
Speaker 1: and the NC State and eighty three the Jim Valvano
Speaker 1: team that won, and all they two had a near miss.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of near misses along the way. Blank,
Speaker 1: you were about to say something. I'm sorry, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Yukon was only saying the two of the they're turning
Speaker 1: the games. I mean they just and then ended up
Speaker 1: winning each game by five or more points. So it was, um,
Speaker 1: you know, just kinda unlikely path to the championship. Yukon Huskies,
Speaker 1: your sports betting college basketball team of the decade. By
Speaker 1: the way, that is, that doesn't mean they're the team
Speaker 1: of destiny like Virginia was last year, because I'll still
Speaker 1: contend that the way uv A won those games last
Speaker 1: year in the tournament still made them the team of
Speaker 1: the decade, especially after not not team in the decade,
Speaker 1: but the team of destiny, especially after how they lost
Speaker 1: to U NBC UH sixteen ced U NBC the previous
Speaker 1: year team of destiny, but not sports betting team of
Speaker 1: the decade, that would Yukon. Let's do college football to
Speaker 1: wrap it up today. We'll save all the four professional
Speaker 1: major sports for tomorrow. Blake, what do you got honorable
Speaker 1: mentioned in college football? Right? So, Donna, we'll have ourselves.
Speaker 1: But this year's LSU team closed at five to one
Speaker 1: to win the national championship. H But obviously a little
Speaker 1: too early to h put them on the list, but
Speaker 1: they'd but they'd be in the conversation and people have
Speaker 1: them at higher than twenty five to one. I'm sure
Speaker 1: in many spots maybe I think they Yeah, they opened
Speaker 1: at fifty to one, but they closed it. Honorable mention. Right,
Speaker 1: two thousand thirteen, Florida State. They were sixteen, the one
Speaker 1: to win it all before the start of the season,
Speaker 1: and they were ranked number eleven in the preseason poll.
Speaker 1: And that's the Jamis Winston Florida State Seminars of twenty
Speaker 1: who beat Auburn by a few goal in the championship,
Speaker 1: the BCS Championship, right, Jeff, you remember that that was
Speaker 1: Winston to Kelvin Benjamin the winning game at the end
Speaker 1: of the Rose Bowl. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 1: a crazy five minutes. There were four lead changes in
Speaker 1: the final five minutes of the game. Yeah, what's it's
Speaker 1: really that game was unbelievable. At the end um Seminals
Speaker 1: win at thirty four to thirty one over Auburn. In uh,
Speaker 1: Florida State got a field goal on their for it
Speaker 1: was I want to get the last sequence of that game, um,
Speaker 1: because in the fourth quarter, Florida States scored a touchdown
Speaker 1: early to make it a one point game. After Auburn
Speaker 1: made a field goal. Uh. Kermit Whitfield returned the following
Speaker 1: kickoff a hundred yards you remember that to give the
Speaker 1: Seminals the three point lead. Auburn answers with a touchdown
Speaker 1: to go up by four with just over a minute remaining,
Speaker 1: and then on their final drive seven plays Florida State,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, with thirteen seconds remaining, forty nine yards
Speaker 1: completion to shod Green from Jamis and then Jamis to
Speaker 1: Kelvin Benjamin for the game winner. Seminoles, what was their
Speaker 1: peak again in the odds that year? Uh? One? Uh?
Speaker 1: That was the preseason and they kind of felt throughout
Speaker 1: the season they didn't go up any higher than that. Okay,
Speaker 1: two yard touchdown best Kelvin Benjamin, excuse me? With thirteen
Speaker 1: seconds left? All right? There? One honorable mention? What's the
Speaker 1: other honorable mention? You got? Two thousand ten Auburn? They
Speaker 1: were one in the preseason. That was the Cam Newton um.
Speaker 1: He was the junior transfer and they were. They had
Speaker 1: a preseason rank of number twenty two. And what I
Speaker 1: recall most from that is we just didn't blake. We
Speaker 1: just didn't get how good Cam Newton would be, right Like,
Speaker 1: we just didn't know. We heard about Cam Newton, but
Speaker 1: we had no clue that he would be that dominant.
Speaker 1: And that championship game against Oregon, which they won by
Speaker 1: a field goal, in contrast to Florida State, because Florida
Speaker 1: State before that championship game, they murdered everybody that year, right,
Speaker 1: they crushed everybody whereas Auburn had like and yeah, four
Speaker 1: field goal were like four games of a field goal
Speaker 1: or less that they won, right, Yeah, including the national championship,
Speaker 1: five of their games were won by three points of less. Alright,
Speaker 1: Florida State ten Auburn, who is the college football betting
Speaker 1: team of the decade, sir, So I'm giving this one
Speaker 1: to two thousand fourteen Ohio State. UH. They initially opened
Speaker 1: up at ten to one, but senior QB. Braxon Miller,
Speaker 1: who was Heisman UH contender, he injured his shoulder in
Speaker 1: training camp, so they had to go with retirt freshman J. T. Barrett,
Speaker 1: and they moved all the way at forty one before
Speaker 1: the start of the season, um, before the start of
Speaker 1: the the playoffs or no during before the start of
Speaker 1: the season, they were forty two one at their peak.
Speaker 1: What were they before mid Yeah? Okay, so wait, but
Speaker 1: you said Auburn was fifty to one, So why do
Speaker 1: you give it to Ohio State? Right? So I'm given
Speaker 1: to tell house stages because even throughout the year or
Speaker 1: they were, they were never below ten to one, and
Speaker 1: even entering the the College Football Playoffs they were fifteen
Speaker 1: to one. They were an underdog even entering the conference
Speaker 1: championship to Wisconsin. Uh, and they ended up waining that
Speaker 1: fifty nine to zero. I think you're right, and I'm
Speaker 1: just give it to them just because they were They
Speaker 1: were never really uh considered the favorite, where Auburn, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of moved up the ranks. I love it. No,
Speaker 1: you could vote had Ohio State and Ohio State also
Speaker 1: lost in Week two to Virginia Tech, and they moved
Speaker 1: They were still forty two one at that point they
Speaker 1: lost by two touchdowns of vote, and then, of course
Speaker 1: the person were not mentioning here is Cardale Jones. Cardale Jones,
Speaker 1: who had the three games spectacular that remember, led people
Speaker 1: to say after that, hey, like he could be a
Speaker 1: top three pick in the Driver. Remember how people were like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, he could be drafted right at the
Speaker 1: top of the day. He elected to stay at the
Speaker 1: leave ended up where the Bills camp in the Chargers
Speaker 1: camp for a while. But they beat Wisconsin in the
Speaker 1: Big Ted Championship fifty nine to nothing, and then they
Speaker 1: were dogs against Bama. Beat Bama by a touchdown in
Speaker 1: a game that wasn't really as closed. I mean, they
Speaker 1: were up by more than that. Zeke just ran all
Speaker 1: over Alabama in that game. And then they beat Oregon
Speaker 1: in the finals. That was more comfortable forty two to
Speaker 1: twenty um. Right, but even then there were still five
Speaker 1: and a half point under dog in that game. Right,
Speaker 1: still a dog all the way through the end. I
Speaker 1: think you're right. That is the college football sports betting
Speaker 1: team of the decade. That's great stuff, Blake. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: How about we take a break here, we'll come back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll do the four major professional sports, will do hockey,
Speaker 1: will do baseball, will do the NBA and the NFL. Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We're good. We lost. We lost, Blake, there, I think
Speaker 1: we lost in a second. We heard his one. Oh right,
Speaker 1: there is Blake Mahoney from Sports Odds History at s
Speaker 1: O History. Talk to you tomorrow, Blake. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: sounds good? All right, man? Than so much interesting. We'll
Speaker 1: come back, will uh put a little more stuff in
Speaker 1: perspective beyond that with the sports betting teams in the decade,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about today's college football games. I guess
Speaker 1: we're contractually obligated to talk about this drek. Jeff coming
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Speaker 1: games today, we'll get to those momentarily. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to comment before we get off the sports betting teams
Speaker 1: of the decade there and nice job from Blake Mahoney
Speaker 1: going through all those all those sports. But there's other
Speaker 1: things to talk about clearly that happened sports betting wise
Speaker 1: this decade, and maybe the single most important day of
Speaker 1: all of them. Jeff was May fo Um. I was
Speaker 1: sitting here with producer number three, Jorge Mondacca. May you
Speaker 1: rest in peace, by the way, Um, Jorge and I
Speaker 1: were here, and we had this thing every morning because
Speaker 1: we get on the air at seven am Pacific ten
Speaker 1: am Eastern, and because we happened to be on air
Speaker 1: at that time. That's when the Supreme Court decides to
Speaker 1: announce decisions on cases that have gotten all the way
Speaker 1: up to the highest court of this land. And so
Speaker 1: there are certain days that they have signed on the calendar,
Speaker 1: and we knew that the sports betting case was on
Speaker 1: the docket, or really the case about PASPA UM and
Speaker 1: so there were several dates during January and February and
Speaker 1: March and April, and we basically had to prepare for
Speaker 1: two shows that morning, the show we were going to
Speaker 1: do on a normal day, and then the show that
Speaker 1: we would have to do if, in fact, the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court decided, Hey, we're ready to announce our decision on this.
Speaker 1: In May fighteen was that day where the Supreme Court ruled,
Speaker 1: in a six to three decision which did not really
Speaker 1: fall on partisan lines by the way, that the Professional
Speaker 1: and Amateur Sports Protection Act PASPA was unconstitutional. PASPA had
Speaker 1: been passed in had served as a blanket prohibition on
Speaker 1: state sponsored sports betting, say for a few states, obviously
Speaker 1: Nevada being one of them. Him uh, that we're grandfathered
Speaker 1: in under the previous previous allowances of that, but that
Speaker 1: was made and that has changed the way that we
Speaker 1: do our shows, the way that we talk about things,
Speaker 1: because obviously now twenty plus states have some form of
Speaker 1: sports betting going on. There will only be more added. California,
Speaker 1: for instance, a big one to drop at some point
Speaker 1: in the future, but a jurisdiction by jurisdiction sports betting
Speaker 1: all over the land. And so when we're here, we're
Speaker 1: talking about things in New Jersey, we're talking about things
Speaker 1: and Mississippi all over the country. Um, So that was
Speaker 1: that was obviously maybe the single biggest day when it
Speaker 1: comes to sports betting this decade. I think Leicester City,
Speaker 1: which we talked about with the Premier League, I think
Speaker 1: that would have all the teams in any sport. That's
Speaker 1: probably the biggest sports betting story of any team, Leicester
Speaker 1: City Premier League globally speaking. And there's some other I
Speaker 1: mean then then the obvious other one here I think
Speaker 1: in this country, and really the thing we got the
Speaker 1: most Miley Edge out of at any stretch of time
Speaker 1: here on visa was obviously Floyd Mayweather and Connor McGregor.
Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather and Connor McGregor. The odds opened for that fight. Uh,
Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather was I think it was a minus twenty
Speaker 1: five hundred favorite um at the super book, I want
Speaker 1: to say was minus twenty seven hundred here at the
Speaker 1: south Point, and Connor McGregor was plus eleven hundred coming back.
Speaker 1: In both cases, that was at the beginning. And it
Speaker 1: kept crashing and crashing and crashing. And this is over
Speaker 1: weeks and months even, and the closer the fight got,
Speaker 1: we couldn't believe that it kept going down. And I
Speaker 1: remember having Jimmy McCarroll on the show and saying to him,
Speaker 1: He's like, what are you waiting for, a kid? What
Speaker 1: are you getting in? I said, I'm waiting for Mayweather
Speaker 1: to get to minus five hundred. If he gets to
Speaker 1: minus five hundred, am in. I remember dipped to minus
Speaker 1: five fifty there for a second and jumped back up
Speaker 1: to minus six and I was like, ah, maybe I
Speaker 1: got too greedy. Nope, didn't get too greedy. Got to
Speaker 1: minus five hundred, even gotten to the minus four hundreds
Speaker 1: here around town and off shore, even south of minus
Speaker 1: four hundred Pinnacle I believe closed at minus three seventy
Speaker 1: five on Floyd Mayweather. And it remains to this day.
Speaker 1: I said Saturday, being very honest, Saturday was the biggest
Speaker 1: single betting day of my life this past Saturday for
Speaker 1: clemps even talking about it. But as far as one
Speaker 1: single event was the most money I've ever been on
Speaker 1: one single event, it will always probably remain Floyd Way,
Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather and Connor McGregor, and I remember it was
Speaker 1: one of those things where you were a lot of
Speaker 1: people in town go to a bank and withdraw money,
Speaker 1: and the teller would say to you would be like,
Speaker 1: You're like and you would say that. You'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll have this money back on Monday. Why are you
Speaker 1: taking out this I'll have it back on Monday, don't worry.
Speaker 1: And then when the night of the fight actually got
Speaker 1: here and people who were uh, I was at I
Speaker 1: was at Teddy Cover's house. Teddy Covers had a viewing
Speaker 1: party that night. Shout out to Teddy and his son,
Speaker 1: the great basketball playing Isaiah. But we're at Teddy Cover's house.
Speaker 1: And when you have that much going on an event,
Speaker 1: and it speaks for so many of us. Then when
Speaker 1: it starts, you start you're like, Okay, this is boxing.
Speaker 1: What have I done? What have I gotten myself into?
Speaker 1: And Connor McGregor for the first three rounds kind of
Speaker 1: wins all three of those rounds, and even though you
Speaker 1: know Floyd could probably figure this out, you got it.
Speaker 1: There's a little bit of you was like, what's happening here?
Speaker 1: And then once Floyd figured you know, once Floyd decided
Speaker 1: to do his thing, it was over and in a
Speaker 1: dominant fashion. But that I mean, if you talk about
Speaker 1: Lester City Team of the decade passed by that day
Speaker 1: being the single biggest impactful day. But there will never
Speaker 1: be anything like Maywether McGregor again, because it was this
Speaker 1: unbelievable m m A money, the mm A people banking
Speaker 1: on Connor and all this Irish money in town. It
Speaker 1: was an amazing weekend. Jeff, you were leaning and you
Speaker 1: want to say something, No, I've had nothing to add
Speaker 1: other than other than that was that that in the
Speaker 1: Nationals this year probably were the two biggest sesses in
Speaker 1: a way, A line came to a position that I
Speaker 1: liked as well well. The Nationals. Here on the numbers game,
Speaker 1: we said it, I said repeatedly, and I'd never said
Speaker 1: this about anything else. It was your obligation to bet
Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals. If you are doing this correctly, check
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Speaker 1: That Ben Book Podcast, Kill Alexander, Final Day of the year,
Speaker 1: Final day of the decade, Happy New Year to you.
Speaker 1: Something special on today's show. In between Megapods Wild Card
Speaker 1: Megapod coming up later this week. This is a look
Speaker 1: back at the decade, the years, and the best sports
Speaker 1: betting teams per sport of that decade, not just teams,
Speaker 1: but individuals and individual sports horses in horse racing, will
Speaker 1: do horse racing, golf, tennis, Premier League, soccer, college hoops,
Speaker 1: college football, and then the four major North American sports hockey, baseball,
Speaker 1: the NBA, and the NFL, defined by not the most
Speaker 1: powerful team of the decade, as a mainstream media show
Speaker 1: would do, but by the team that came back from
Speaker 1: the longest odds, either before the season started, mid season,
Speaker 1: or maybe even before the postseason, to win its respective
Speaker 1: sports championship. We'll do it with Blake Mahoney of Sports
Speaker 1: Odds History dot Com a special Beating the Book podcast
Speaker 1: a look back at the best sports teams and stories
Speaker 1: of the decade. Enjoy It's on numbers game with your host,
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Speaker 1: Parlay in the house. Jeff, your dad is here. You nervous?
Speaker 1: Are you nervous? No? They my my parents and my
Speaker 1: girlfriend came in and watched the Mark at Lot show
Speaker 1: on Friday, So I'm good. Yeah, but are you nervous? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm very excited about this. It's a two
Speaker 1: day special here on a numbers game, on a very
Speaker 1: special episode of a numbers game at Visa UH Sports Betting.
Speaker 1: We'll call it Teams of the Decade, but there are
Speaker 1: horses and individuals involved here. Uh. It's a two day thing.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we will do NHL, Major League Baseball, Pro football,
Speaker 1: and pro basketball. Today we'll do all the rest. We'll
Speaker 1: even through college football and to day about that. So
Speaker 1: today we're gonna do horses, golf, tennis, Premier League. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know what that was gonna be, college basketball, college football.
Speaker 1: And to help us along, ladies and gentlemen, we couldn't
Speaker 1: do without him. It's our old friend from Sports Odds
Speaker 1: History dot Com, Blake Mahoney. Good morning to you, Blaked morning.
Speaker 1: How you doing. I'm doing very well? All right, Blake,
Speaker 1: Let's define this. This is not you know, you're not
Speaker 1: your average sports show teams of the decade. Right. We're
Speaker 1: not going to talk about the seventy three win Warriors,
Speaker 1: as they might. We're gonna talk about the teams that
Speaker 1: came back from the longest odds, either pre flop or
Speaker 1: mid season or just before the playoffs or whatever, that
Speaker 1: ended up winning their sports championship in that years. That
Speaker 1: correct sir, that's right. Yeah, we're looking at, uh, sort
Speaker 1: of the the biggest bang for your buck long shots. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's start with horses. I think I think everybody knows
Speaker 1: where this one's gonna go. Right. Yeah, So with the
Speaker 1: Triple Crown races, there really weren't too many long shots.
Speaker 1: There was actually only one that was one or greater
Speaker 1: during the decade than that was this year at the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby with Country House, who was one named the
Speaker 1: winner of the race in the most controversial of fashions,
Speaker 1: with Maximum Security who went under the wire first, was
Speaker 1: disqualified by stewards sixty five to one. Uh only the
Speaker 1: second time a winner had been disqualified in the Derby's
Speaker 1: forty five year history. First time though that had happened
Speaker 1: because of a foul claim during the race. I think
Speaker 1: in Night Dancers, Image was disqualified days after the race
Speaker 1: because of a drug violation. But this sixty five to one,
Speaker 1: when Maximum Security was taken down to an incident coming
Speaker 1: around the turn, he veered out slightly squeezed war of
Speaker 1: will for those who remember, it caused long Rage Totty
Speaker 1: to go back, very controversial sixty five to one, something
Speaker 1: probably Blake will never see again, I would imagine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, considering that it's happened so few times, and
Speaker 1: then for the long shot to be sort of the one,
Speaker 1: to be sort of the unofficial runner up and then
Speaker 1: be declared the winner. Yeah, it's it's going to be
Speaker 1: a while before we see that again. And I would
Speaker 1: like to speak for all sports betting aficionados who don't
Speaker 1: bet horses when I say here was my reaction at
Speaker 1: the time. Could someone please explain to me what's going on?
Speaker 1: I had no clue what's it's like because some of
Speaker 1: these are the saying what the rulest what you horse?
Speaker 1: People over there? Tell me what? Tell me what the rulest. Blake,
Speaker 1: by the way, could be followed on Twitter at s
Speaker 1: O history on Twitter once again Sports Odds History. All right,
Speaker 1: so maximum security, without question, the horse in terms of
Speaker 1: betting through the through the prism of bets, the horse
Speaker 1: of the decade. Let's do a little Let's go golf next,
Speaker 1: youall we Right, So during the decade there are five
Speaker 1: players that were ADD one or higher that before the
Speaker 1: start of the manager that went on to win, and
Speaker 1: only one of those came since two thousand eleven, so
Speaker 1: it's it's been kind of mostly chalk uh, you know,
Speaker 1: in the last eight years. So just kind of running
Speaker 1: down the list. We had two thousand eleven Masters with
Speaker 1: Charles Schwartzel was one. Let me jump in he when
Speaker 1: he won that by two strokes over Jason Day and
Speaker 1: Adam Scott. Two thousand Evan Masters. All right, what's next next?
Speaker 1: Is the one that's the only one that's happened the
Speaker 1: last eight years. Was the two thousand sixteen p g
Speaker 1: A where Jimmy Walker was one to one, five to one,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Walker beating Jason Day again by one stroke. That
Speaker 1: was that period where Jason Day was runner up at
Speaker 1: a lot of things. Mm hmm yeah. Uh. Next is
Speaker 1: another p G A two thousand eleven Keegan Bradley was
Speaker 1: oneift one and that was a playoff, wasn't it against
Speaker 1: Jason Duffner. If I'm not mistaken, I believe correct? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: m hm. Next one was also came in two thousand
Speaker 1: eleven at the British where Darren Clark was a hunt
Speaker 1: fifty one as well, three stroke lead over both Phil
Speaker 1: a three stroke win rather over both Phil Nicholson and
Speaker 1: Dustin Johnson in that event. And then the British again
Speaker 1: in two thousand ten were Louis whose thousand was two
Speaker 1: hundred to one. So we are to clearing Louis Oustis
Speaker 1: in the golfer from through the betting prison the golfer
Speaker 1: of the decade, is that? Correct? Yeah, we can go
Speaker 1: with that. You know, I mean, looking back, you know,
Speaker 1: he's obviously had a little bit um you know, maybe
Speaker 1: looking back, it's not quite as much of a shock
Speaker 1: considering how well he's done since then. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: at the time, we can go with that as as
Speaker 1: the uh as the golfer of the of the decade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with with individual sports is a little harder because we're
Speaker 1: just we have to pick a major specifically, so it's
Speaker 1: a little more polluted. It's not quite like the teams
Speaker 1: of the decade. But ushis In one OUs. HAIs In
Speaker 1: won that particular event, the one thirty nine Open Championship
Speaker 1: back into by seven strokes over Lee Westwood. I didn't
Speaker 1: remember it being that big of a win, but he
Speaker 1: destroyed it the field and that yeah, yeah today, So
Speaker 1: now those are all pre flopping golf. Now, there were
Speaker 1: many situations mid tournament and we don't have to look
Speaker 1: far back. Mark leash In. My buddy reminds me that
Speaker 1: in the Open Mark Leashman was one seventy five to
Speaker 1: one at one point he led on the seventeenth whole
Speaker 1: Sunday that he made bogey loss in the playoffs. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of near misses that occur with with
Speaker 1: guys you know mid stream, but those in terms of
Speaker 1: pre flop, those are your golfers of the decade, with
Speaker 1: Louis use Tis in a two one the Open Championship, uh,
Speaker 1: emerging as the longest Dodds champion name of golf's majors.
Speaker 1: Let's talk tennis again, talking to Blake Mahoney here sports
Speaker 1: Odds history, let's do uh, let's do the men's side first, right.
Speaker 1: So on the men's side, you know, I mean obviously
Speaker 1: that the decade was dominated by Djokovic and Nadal fu
Speaker 1: so there really wasn't much opportunity for for other you know,
Speaker 1: for these long shots to come in. There were they're
Speaker 1: only five players overall that were greater than ten to
Speaker 1: one that went on the win. Um. But the largest
Speaker 1: was Marin Chilich at the of housing fourteen US Open,
Speaker 1: where he was seventy one. Wow chill who was still playing,
Speaker 1: still playing somewhat competitively. Uh, who's thirty one years of
Speaker 1: age now. And first of all should be mentioned that
Speaker 1: since Chilling one the US Open at those odds seventy
Speaker 1: five to one pre flop, only Stan Varenka will stand
Speaker 1: Marinka's one. So there's been twenty majors since then. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: thirty Uh, No, check that there's been twenty twenty majors
Speaker 1: since then, Varenka's won to Andy Murray's one one, So
Speaker 1: seventeen have have been won by the Big three since then, Djokovic,
Speaker 1: as you point out, Djokovic, Federan Nadal. But to give
Speaker 1: you an idea how those three guys have dominated the tour,
Speaker 1: Chilli is the youngest guy, the youngest man on planet
Speaker 1: Earth to currently say I have a Grand Slam Men's
Speaker 1: singles title at the age of thirty one. He and
Speaker 1: del Potro. Del Potro's like five days older than him
Speaker 1: thirty one, which means that Federal and Nadal and Djokovic
Speaker 1: have wiped out a generation of tennis players. Basically, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: But Marine Chili, yeah, we're yeah, we're still kind of
Speaker 1: waiting for the next generation. Yeah, finally take over. That's
Speaker 1: amazing to me thirty one years old. So that was
Speaker 1: the US Open, the last major. Let's seventy five to
Speaker 1: one pre flap. All right, let's go to the ladies side.
Speaker 1: Uh So there are a couple, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: little bit more common for some long shots to come in,
Speaker 1: but the two biggest were Marion Bart, totally h frenchwoman
Speaker 1: who was one one, uh in two thousand thirteen Wimbledon,
Speaker 1: and then the biggest was Flavia Panetta was one fifty
Speaker 1: one I'm sorry, hundred fifty to one to win the
Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen US Open. I promise you were
Speaker 1: getting the college basketball, college football, and obviously the pro sports,
Speaker 1: and people are gonna be like, Okay, this I understand,
Speaker 1: But it occurs to me that the two names you
Speaker 1: just mentioned, there's some people are gonna be like, wait,
Speaker 1: I don't even know who he's talking about. This is
Speaker 1: actually this actually happened right like, so Mary Bart totally
Speaker 1: she wins Wimbledon in she had she had played like
Speaker 1: forty seven or she had won. She she had the
Speaker 1: record for the most wins without ever winning a Grand Slam,
Speaker 1: I think, most tournament wins without ever winning a Grand Slam.
Speaker 1: She didn't drop a set in that entire tournament. She
Speaker 1: like avoided Serena Williams. That year she got all the
Speaker 1: breaks and she became the first female player, um who
Speaker 1: participate Yeah, not the first one, but she had participated
Speaker 1: in the most Grand Slam tournaments without every having won one.
Speaker 1: Her forty seven such Grand Slam tournament. I'm sorry not
Speaker 1: the most wins, but the most Grand Slam tournament participating
Speaker 1: before ever winning one, and she immediately the next tournament
Speaker 1: retired for good. She's like, that's it, got my one.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Flavia, uh, Flavia Panetta, who who
Speaker 1: did it again? What did she win again? She won
Speaker 1: the UH two thousand fifty in US Open, and Serena
Speaker 1: had won all three majors that year. Serena would an
Speaker 1: effective won the and Slam. Flavia Pinetta did the same thing.
Speaker 1: She won the US Open, and she was like, I'm out,
Speaker 1: I'm done. That's my career. Because when you wrote those
Speaker 1: two names down, I was like, I barely remember these people.
Speaker 1: I would imagine if listeners wouldn't. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: to something that people remember in a better way. So
Speaker 1: so one fifty to one for Pinetta, one hundred to
Speaker 1: one for Bartoli, they would be the women's tennis sports
Speaker 1: betting long shots of their sport. Let's do Premier League,
Speaker 1: and I think where everybody knows where this is going? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Nlesster City two sixteen season five thousand one. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of changed the the story of the way the
Speaker 1: odds are made. They don't make them that large anymore
Speaker 1: because uh, you know it can happen. You know that
Speaker 1: they were the year before they barely avoid relegation and
Speaker 1: then they just I'm caught lightning in a bottle and
Speaker 1: and and won the whole thing the next year. Now
Speaker 1: think about what you just said. Leicester City won the
Speaker 1: Premierly get five thousand to one odds the year before,
Speaker 1: again almost relegated. They needed to flurry at the end
Speaker 1: of the year not to be and we were just
Speaker 1: talking about all these other sports golf, tennis, Uh, we're
Speaker 1: talking about horses and those peaked at like two hundred
Speaker 1: to one in the odds. We just mentioned Oshisen in
Speaker 1: the Open Championship with twenty ten. This is five thousand
Speaker 1: to one. Uh. Cost will hill UK I think upwards
Speaker 1: of three million estimated to cost bookmakers across the UK
Speaker 1: over fifteen million. And as you said, yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: then that they're trying to pay people out before night
Speaker 1: season was even though we're to negotiate you know, cheaper prices,
Speaker 1: so they there they weren't gonna lose so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: cash out options available throughout all formulaic And you're right,
Speaker 1: William Hill u k s at the time said, will
Speaker 1: never post odds higher than one longer than one thousand
Speaker 1: and one in anything ever Again, after Leicester City cashed
Speaker 1: five thousand one and just to give you a comp like,
Speaker 1: what else do UK bookmakers? What did they put up
Speaker 1: at five US into one odds? Elvis Presley being found alive?
Speaker 1: That's what happened with Leicester City at five thousand and
Speaker 1: one odds. That might be, by the way, Blake, that
Speaker 1: might actually be the sports betting team period of the decade.
Speaker 1: Once we're all setting done with this and we have
Speaker 1: to pick one. Yeah, our entire lives, I can't see
Speaker 1: anything ever toping that. I think it might be right
Speaker 1: on that count. Uh, let's come back, Let's do college
Speaker 1: basketball and college football sports betting teams of the decade.
Speaker 1: Will do a couple honorable mentions in each sport, and
Speaker 1: then we'll give the sports betting team of the decade,
Speaker 1: the one that came back from the longest odds, not
Speaker 1: necessarily pre flop, but at any point in the season
Speaker 1: in both college hoops and college UH football will do
Speaker 1: that next with Blake Mahoney. Sports Betting odds Sports betting
Speaker 1: Teams of the decade on a numbers game right here
Speaker 1: at VIC the Sports Betting Network. Welcome back to a
Speaker 1: numbers game with Jill Alexander. It is a numbers game
Speaker 1: right here at these Sports Betting Nowork Numbers Game or
Speaker 1: Sports Betting Analytics, Live actionable sports betting information. That it
Speaker 1: is December, just thought to myself, you know, let's do
Speaker 1: a little decade review, because well, you know, you don't
Speaker 1: get this chance but once every ten years, and we've
Speaker 1: never been able to do it obviously on this network.
Speaker 1: I've never even been able to do it on the podcast.
Speaker 1: So we brought in our buddy from Sports Arts History
Speaker 1: dot Com, Blake Mahoney. We've gone through horses, golf, tennis,
Speaker 1: and Premier League so far the individuals, the horse, the
Speaker 1: team of the decade in terms of what of those
Speaker 1: came back from the longest odds, either before a season started,
Speaker 1: before a race started, before a tournament started to get
Speaker 1: the prize in what it was a golf major, a
Speaker 1: tennis major, or in the case of a horse racing,
Speaker 1: a triple Crown races. Obviously Premier League. The entire Premier
Speaker 1: League title by the way, Lester City one that year
Speaker 1: with eighty one points ten point win over Arsenal who
Speaker 1: was in second place. Just just an aberration five thousand
Speaker 1: and one. As we discussed, we'll never see that again.
Speaker 1: Maybe the sports team of the decade. Let's get to
Speaker 1: the more familiar sports, though, Blake, Let's go to this
Speaker 1: side of the pond. We'll do college basketball first. How
Speaker 1: about some honorable mentions. So first we'll go with two
Speaker 1: sixteen Villanova. They were the one during the preseason and
Speaker 1: they never really dip below ten to one UH until
Speaker 1: they until the late eight round. And that was for
Speaker 1: those who are like, which Villanova team was that? That was?
Speaker 1: That was Chris Jenkins with a three pointer against North Carolina.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking about this about this, Jeff, I
Speaker 1: was like, where you know, you remember where you were
Speaker 1: when you watch all these championship games, And I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's seems ages ago to me. But that was obviously
Speaker 1: Chris Jenkins, who went to Gazaga High in DC. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, playing UH in Europe these days.
Speaker 1: That that Villanova team was really good during the regular season,
Speaker 1: I would imagine those odds never really moved because no one,
Speaker 1: no one bet them, because they had years of just
Speaker 1: anguish in the tournament before they find broke through and
Speaker 1: wanted five to one. That went their peak. As Blake
Speaker 1: was just saying during the preseason, what's another honorable mention? Right?
Speaker 1: So quickly, the other Villaneova team that won, they were
Speaker 1: actually twenty seven to one during the during the preseasons,
Speaker 1: a little bit higher, but they were the betting favorite
Speaker 1: by the time they entered the tournament. So that's why
Speaker 1: I put the the two thousand sixteen version a little
Speaker 1: bit higher. Okay, So so Villanova team seven to one, uh,
Speaker 1: and that was the team that crushed everybody in the tournament, right,
Speaker 1: They just destroyed everybody by double digits. They had no
Speaker 1: scares in that entire tournament. But and you put them
Speaker 1: second just because why again explain? Oh, just because, uh,
Speaker 1: you know that the two thousand sixteen term team was
Speaker 1: uh you know, they kind of flew under the radar
Speaker 1: and and they were fifteen to one entering the tournament. Okay,
Speaker 1: while you know the two thousand eighteen team was was
Speaker 1: the betting favorite to win it all during entering the tournament.
Speaker 1: Makes sense? Alright, one more honorable mention before we name
Speaker 1: the team of the decade, right, So two thousand or
Speaker 1: two thousand two thousand eleven Yukon. They were forty two
Speaker 1: one during the preseason. Uh, they went twenty six and
Speaker 1: nine during the regular season and then we're five to
Speaker 1: one entering the tournament as the three seed. And that
Speaker 1: was the Kemba Walker Yukon team, which I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: Weren't they like, Jeff, You'll tell me, weren't they like
Speaker 1: five hundred During the Big East season, they were like
Speaker 1: nine and nine or something like that, and then they
Speaker 1: went on this Kimba just went on this unbelievable run
Speaker 1: in the Big East Tournament and then obviously in the
Speaker 1: March Madness Big Dance as well. Nine and nine Big
Speaker 1: East regular season, five wins and five days. Remember that
Speaker 1: was the sixteen team Big East Nominal. They were in
Speaker 1: the nine seed in that tournament. Uh. That obviously the
Speaker 1: Big East Tournament known for when Kemba Walker ended Gary
Speaker 1: McGee's life on that crossover and he did at the
Speaker 1: end of the third game that one versus nine and
Speaker 1: the Big East Final between Yukon and Louisville. Yukon won
Speaker 1: despite Kemba getting an early foul trouble. That game really
Speaker 1: flipped the entire n c A tournament because Yukon got
Speaker 1: the three seed they made. They win at All Louisville
Speaker 1: if you remember, lost the Kenneth for eden Morehead State
Speaker 1: that year in the first round. Yeah, and Yukon the
Speaker 1: Kemba version of Yukon that year again, because I think
Speaker 1: I know what's coming with the with the college basketball
Speaker 1: team of the decade, but the Kemba version Kentucky. That's
Speaker 1: whe they've be in the semis by a point fifty five.
Speaker 1: Then they'd be Butler by a dozen in the finals.
Speaker 1: Horrible game. Horrible game, horrible game. What is your like?
Speaker 1: I can't even think of a memory from that game.
Speaker 1: It would Butler. Butler shot in that game. It was alright, Blake,
Speaker 1: college basketball team of the decade will be I know
Speaker 1: what's coming, right, so you already call it two fourteen.
Speaker 1: Yukon was one in the preseason and actually higher. Uh
Speaker 1: they were in entering the tournament to win at all.
Speaker 1: And that was the Chapez Napier version, as I like
Speaker 1: to call it, a Yukon now whenever before March Madness
Speaker 1: every year. And I don't know if you've been with me,
Speaker 1: Jeff when I do this, but I do a I
Speaker 1: do a college basketball March Madness formula. People who listen
Speaker 1: to a numbers game and have listened to the podcast
Speaker 1: that beating the book before and know that I do this,
Speaker 1: and you basically what it is. I go through. Here
Speaker 1: are the six criteria that every eventual national champion in
Speaker 1: college basketball has to their name. And it's like, you know, oh,
Speaker 1: they ranked twenty and offensive adjusted efficiency in kem baumb
Speaker 1: offense top twenty defensive efficiency. There's all these different stats
Speaker 1: they put into it, and it has called up. Every
Speaker 1: champion has had all these characteristics except one. Every exception.
Speaker 1: Is this team that Blake's talking about, the Shabazz Napier
Speaker 1: version of of you not to contrast them with the
Speaker 1: Kemba Walker Yukon champion. The Shabazz Napier Yukon champs. Remember
Speaker 1: they were at an were they an eight seeds? They
Speaker 1: were they were seven, they were seven. They beat eight
Speaker 1: seed Kentucky in the finals, which was the Julius Randall
Speaker 1: Kentucky team. But like they were the exception of everything, right,
Speaker 1: So it was the Kevin Ali coached Yukon team. It
Speaker 1: wasn't even um it was it was a different version
Speaker 1: of Yukon they you know, they didn't have Sweet sixteen experience.
Speaker 1: That was one of the criterion for all champions. They weren't. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, they weren't. They didn't have at least three
Speaker 1: wins versus teams in the top ten percent of strength
Speaker 1: of schedule excuse me of r p I that was
Speaker 1: another exception of that team. Um, they weren't into as
Speaker 1: I said, top twenty adjusted offensive or top twenty adjusted
Speaker 1: defensive efficiency. So that team was clearly the outlier of
Speaker 1: all outliers. And that team should have lost in the
Speaker 1: round of sixty four to St. Joseph's Amida Brima had
Speaker 1: a three point play in the last minute. The regulation
Speaker 1: of that game made the free throws a fifty two
Speaker 1: percent free throws shooter, you can won the game and overtime,
Speaker 1: and then I think it was Villanova, Iowa State, Michigan State, UM,
Speaker 1: I don't remember who they beat out Florida, number one
Speaker 1: overall seed Florida, who they destroyed after falling down double
Speaker 1: digits in the first half. And then that game against Kentucky. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nine seed versus eight seed in the finals versus still
Speaker 1: still pretty good. It's still amazing. I mean, it doesn't
Speaker 1: have still pretty good. But that game against St. Joseph
Speaker 1: one in overtime, they were they were done, they were down.
Speaker 1: They were done five in the last minute of regulation
Speaker 1: and a NC State and eighty three the Jim Valvano
Speaker 1: team that won. In all, they two had a near miss.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of near misses along the way. Blank,
Speaker 1: you were about to say something, I'm sorry, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Yukon was only saying the two of the they're turning
Speaker 1: the games. I mean they just and then ended up
Speaker 1: winning each game by five or more points. So it was, um,
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of geez, unlikely path to the championship.
Speaker 1: Yukon Huskies, your sports betting college basketball team him of
Speaker 1: the decade. By the way, that is, that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: they're the team of destiny like Virginia was last year,
Speaker 1: because I'll still contend that the way uv A won
Speaker 1: those games last year in the tournament still made them
Speaker 1: the team of the decade, especially after not not Team
Speaker 1: the decade, but the team of destiny, especially after how
Speaker 1: they lost the UNBC UH sixteen ced U NBC the
Speaker 1: previous year team of destiny, but not sports betting team
Speaker 1: of the decade. That would Yukon. Let's do college football
Speaker 1: to wrap it up today. We'll save all the four
Speaker 1: professional major sports for tomorrow. Blake, what do you got
Speaker 1: honorable mentioned in college football? Right, Sonna, we'll have ourselves.
Speaker 1: But this year's LSU team closed at five to one
Speaker 1: to win the national championship. But obviously a little too
Speaker 1: early to put them on the list, but they but
Speaker 1: they'd be in the conversation and people have them at
Speaker 1: higher than twenty five to one. I'm sure in many
Speaker 1: spots maybe I think they Yeah, they opened at one,
Speaker 1: but they closed it honorable right. Two thousand thirteen, Florida State.
Speaker 1: They were sixteen, the one to win it all before
Speaker 1: the start of the season, and they were ranked number
Speaker 1: eleven in the preseason poll. And that's the Jamis Winston
Speaker 1: Florida State Seminals of twenty who beat Auburn by a
Speaker 1: field goal in the championship, the BCS Championship, right, Jeff,
Speaker 1: you remember that? Yeah? That was Winston to Kelvin Benjamin
Speaker 1: the winning game at the end of the Rose Bowl. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a crazy five minutes. They were
Speaker 1: four lead changes in the final five minutes of the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's It's really that game was unbelievable at the end, UM.
Speaker 1: Seminals win at thirty four to thirty one over Auburn. Uh.
Speaker 1: Florida State got a field goal on their for it
Speaker 1: was I want to get the last sequence of that game, UM,
Speaker 1: because in the fourth quarter, Florida States scored a touchdown
Speaker 1: early to make it a one point game. After Auburn
Speaker 1: made a field goal. UH. Kermit Whitfield returned the following
Speaker 1: kickoff a hundred yards you remember that to give the
Speaker 1: Seminals the three point lead. Auburn answers with a touchdown
Speaker 1: to go up by four with just over a minute remaining,
Speaker 1: and then on their final drive seven plays Florida State,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, with thirteen seconds remaining, forty nine yards
Speaker 1: completion to Shod Green from Jamis and then Jamis to
Speaker 1: Kelvin Benjamin for the game winner. Seminoles, what was their
Speaker 1: peak again in the odds that year? Uh? Sixteen one?
Speaker 1: Uh that was the preseason and they kind of felt
Speaker 1: throughout the season they didn't go up any higher than that. Okay,
Speaker 1: two yard touchdown best Kelvin Benjamin, excuse me? With thirteen
Speaker 1: seconds left? All right? There? One honorable mention. What's the
Speaker 1: other honorable mention? You got? Two thousand ten Auburn, they
Speaker 1: were fifty one in the preseason. That was the Cam Newton. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was the junior transfer and they were They had
Speaker 1: a preseason rank of number twenty two. And what I
Speaker 1: recall most from that is we just didn't blake. We
Speaker 1: just didn't get how good Cam Newton would be, right Like,
Speaker 1: we just didn't know. We heard about Cam Newton, but
Speaker 1: we had no clue that he would be that dominant.
Speaker 1: And that championship game against again which they won by
Speaker 1: a field goal in contrast to Florida State, because Florida
Speaker 1: State before that championship game, they murdered everybody that year, Right,
Speaker 1: they crushed everybody, whereas Auburn had like and yeah, four
Speaker 1: field goals over like four games of a field goal
Speaker 1: or less that they won, right yeah, including the national championship,
Speaker 1: five of their games were won by three points or less. Alright,
Speaker 1: Florida State ten Auburn. Who is the college football betting
Speaker 1: team of the decade? Sir, So, I'm giving this one
Speaker 1: to two thousand fourteen Ohio State. Uh. They initially opened
Speaker 1: up at ten to one, but uh, senior QB Braxton Miller,
Speaker 1: who was Heisman UH contender. He injured his shoulder in
Speaker 1: training camp, so they had to go with retirt freshman
Speaker 1: J T. Barrett, And they moved all the way at
Speaker 1: the one before the start of the season, um, before
Speaker 1: the start of the the playoffs or no, during the
Speaker 1: before the start of the season, they were forty two
Speaker 1: one at their peak. What were they before mid Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: so wait, but you said Auburn was one, So why
Speaker 1: do you give it to Ohio State? Right? So I'm
Speaker 1: given to house stages because even throughout the year they
Speaker 1: were they were never below ten to one, and even
Speaker 1: entering the the College Football Playoffs they were fifteen to one.
Speaker 1: They were an underdog even entering the conference championship to
Speaker 1: Wisconsin UH, and they ended up wing that fifty nine
Speaker 1: to zero. I think you're right, and I'm just give
Speaker 1: it to them just because they were they were never
Speaker 1: really UH considered the favorite, where Auburn, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of moved up the ranks. I love you, no, you
Speaker 1: could vote had Ohio State and Ohio State also lost
Speaker 1: in Week two to Virginia Tech, and they moved. They
Speaker 1: were still forty two one at that point. They lost
Speaker 1: by two touchdowns of Tech. And then, of course the
Speaker 1: person are not mentioning here is Cardale Jones. Cardale Jones,
Speaker 1: who had the three games spectacular that remember, led people
Speaker 1: to say after that, hey, man, like he could be
Speaker 1: a top three pick in the Driver. Remember how people
Speaker 1: were like, oh my god, he could be drafted. Right
Speaker 1: at the top of the day, he elected to stay.
Speaker 1: I believe I ended up where the Bills camp. In
Speaker 1: the Chargers camp for a while. But they beat Wisconsin
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten Championship fifty nine to nothing, and
Speaker 1: then they were dogs against Bama. Beat Bama by a
Speaker 1: touchdown in a game that wasn't really as closed. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were up by more than that. Zeke just ran
Speaker 1: all over Alabama in that game. And then they beat
Speaker 1: Oregon in the finals. That was more comfortable forty two
Speaker 1: to twenty um. Right, but even then there were still
Speaker 1: five and a half point underdog in that game, right,
Speaker 1: still a dog all the way through the end. I
Speaker 1: think you're right. That is the college football sports betting
Speaker 1: team of the decade. That's great stuff, Blake. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: How about we take a break here, We'll come back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll do the four major professional sports, will do hockey,
Speaker 1: will do baseball, will do the NBA and the end
Speaker 1: FL tomorrow. We're good. We lost. We lost, Blake there,
Speaker 1: I think we lost in a second. We heard his one.
Speaker 1: Oh right there he is Blake Mahoney from Sports Odds
Speaker 1: History at s O History. Talk to you tomorrow, Blake. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, sounds good. All right man, thanks so much. Interesting.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. We'll uh put a little more stuff
Speaker 1: in perspective beyond that with the sports betting teams of
Speaker 1: the decade, and we'll talk about today's college football games.
Speaker 1: I guess we're contractually obligated to talk about this. Drek
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to comment before we get off the
Speaker 1: sports betting teams of the decade there, and nice job
Speaker 1: from Blake Mahoney going through all those all those sports,
Speaker 1: but there's other things to talk about. Clearly that happened
Speaker 1: sports betting wise this decade and maybe the single most
Speaker 1: important day of all of them. Jeff was May foen Um.
Speaker 1: I was sitting here with reduce the number three. Jorge
Speaker 1: Mondaca may be rest in peace, by the way, Um.
Speaker 1: Jorge and I were here, and we had this thing
Speaker 1: every morning because we get on the air at seven
Speaker 1: am Pacific ten am Eastern, and because we happened to
Speaker 1: be on air at that time. That's when the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court decides to announce decisions on cases that have gotten
Speaker 1: all the way up to the highest court of this land.
Speaker 1: And so there are certain days that they have signed
Speaker 1: on the calendar, and we knew that the sports betting
Speaker 1: case was on the docket, or really the case about
Speaker 1: paspa Um, and so there were several dates during January
Speaker 1: and February and March and April, and we basically had
Speaker 1: to prepare for two shows that morning, the show we
Speaker 1: were going to do on a normal day and then
Speaker 1: the show that we would have to do if, in fact,
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court decided, hey, we're ready to announce our
Speaker 1: decision on this. And Mayen was that day where the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court ruled in a six to three decision which
Speaker 1: did not really fall on hardest in lines by the
Speaker 1: way that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act PASMA
Speaker 1: was unconstitutional. PASPA had been passed in had served as
Speaker 1: a blanket prohibition on state sponsored sports betting, say for
Speaker 1: a few states, obviously in Novada being one of them. Uh,
Speaker 1: that we're grandfathered in under the previous previous allowances of that.
Speaker 1: But that was made and that has changed the way
Speaker 1: that we do our shows, the way that we talk
Speaker 1: about things because obviously now twenty plus states have some
Speaker 1: form of sports betting going on. There will only be
Speaker 1: more added. California, for instance, a big one to drop
Speaker 1: at some point in the future, but a jurisdiction by
Speaker 1: jurisdiction sports betting all over the land. And so when
Speaker 1: we're here, we're talking about things in New Jersey, we're
Speaker 1: talking about things and Mississippi all over the country. Um
Speaker 1: So that was that was obviously maybe the single biggest
Speaker 1: day when it comes to sports betting this decade. I
Speaker 1: think Leicester City, which we talked about with the Premier League,
Speaker 1: I think that would have all the teams in any sport,
Speaker 1: that's probably the biggest sports betting story of any team.
Speaker 1: Leicester City Premier League globally speaking, and there's some other
Speaker 1: I mean then then the obvious other one here I
Speaker 1: think in this country, and really the thing we got
Speaker 1: the most mileage out of at any stretch of time
Speaker 1: here on Visa was obviously Floyd Mayweather and Connor McGregor.
Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather and Connor McGregor. The odds opened for that fight. Uh,
Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather was I think it was a minus twenty
Speaker 1: hundred favorite um at the super book, I want to
Speaker 1: say was minus twenty hundred here at the south Point,
Speaker 1: and Connor McGregor was plus eleven hundred coming back. In
Speaker 1: both cases, that was at the beginning, and it kept
Speaker 1: crashing and crashing and crashing. And this is over weeks
Speaker 1: and months even, and the closer the fight got, we
Speaker 1: couldn't believe that it kept going down. And I remember
Speaker 1: having Jimmy McCarroll on the show and saying to him,
Speaker 1: He's like, what what are you waiting for? Kid? What
Speaker 1: are you getting in? I said, I'm waiting for Mayweather
Speaker 1: to get to minus five hundred. If he gets to
Speaker 1: minus five hundred, I'm in. I remember get dipped to
Speaker 1: minus five fifty there for a second and jump back
Speaker 1: up to minus six and I was like, Ah, maybe
Speaker 1: I got too greedy. Nope, didn't get too greedy. Got
Speaker 1: to minus five hundred, even gotten to the minus four
Speaker 1: hundreds here around town and off shore, even south of
Speaker 1: minus four hundred. Pinnacle I believe closed at minus three
Speaker 1: seventy five on Floyd Mayweather. And it remains to this day.
Speaker 1: I said Saturday, being very honest, Saturday was the biggest
Speaker 1: single betting day of my life. This past Saturday. I'm
Speaker 1: for clemps even talking about it, But as far as
Speaker 1: one single event was the most money I've ever been
Speaker 1: on one single event. It will always probably remain Floyd Wave,
Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather and Connor McGregor, and I remember it was
Speaker 1: one of those things where you were a lot of
Speaker 1: people in town will go to a bank and withdraw
Speaker 1: money and the teller would say to you would be like,
Speaker 1: You're like and you would say that You'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll have this money back on Monday. Why are you
Speaker 1: taking out this I'll have it back on Monday, don't worry.
Speaker 1: And then when the night of the fight actually got
Speaker 1: here and people who were uh me, I was at
Speaker 1: I was at Teddy Cover's house. Teddy Cover has had
Speaker 1: a viewing party that night. Shout out to Teddy and
Speaker 1: his son, the great basketball playing Isaiah. But we're at
Speaker 1: Teddy Cover's house. And when you have that much going
Speaker 1: on an event and it speaks for so many of us,
Speaker 1: then when it starts, you start you're like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is boxing. What have I done? What have I gotten
Speaker 1: myself into? And Connor McGregor for the first three rounds
Speaker 1: kind of wins all three of those rounds and even
Speaker 1: though you know Floyd could probably figure this out, you
Speaker 1: got it. There's a little bit of you was like,
Speaker 1: what's happening here? And then once Floyd figured you know,
Speaker 1: once Floyd decided to do his thing, it was over
Speaker 1: and in a dominant fashion. But that I mean, if
Speaker 1: you talk about Lester City Team of the decade passed,
Speaker 1: but that day being the single biggest impactful day. But
Speaker 1: there will never be anything like Maywether McGregor again, because
Speaker 1: it was this unbelievable m m A money, the mm
Speaker 1: A people banking on Connor and all this Irish money
Speaker 1: in town. It was an amazing weekend. Jeff, you were
Speaker 1: leaning and you want to say something, No, I've had
Speaker 1: nothing to add other than other than that was that
Speaker 1: that in the Nationals this year probably where the two
Speaker 1: biggest successes in a way, a line came to a
Speaker 1: position that I liked as well well, the Nationals here
Speaker 1: on the Numbers game, we said it, I said repeatedly,
Speaker 1: and I've never said this about anything else, it was
Speaker 1: your obligation to bet the Washington Nationals if you are
Speaker 1: doing this correctly. Again, there's no guarantees. Could I tell
Speaker 1: you without with a certainty that the Nationals are gonna win?
Speaker 1: Of course not, it's a sporting event. But if you're
Speaker 1: doing this betting thing correctly, it was your obligation to
Speaker 1: bet the Nationals time and time again for all the
Speaker 1: at all the moments that we outlined here on the show. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to think of other things that we
Speaker 1: hadn't brought up this decade. Obviously, the Vegas gold Nights,
Speaker 1: which is closed locally here, right, We'll get to hockey tomorrow,
Speaker 1: We'll get the baseball tomorrow. I'm not sure if these
Speaker 1: will be the teams mentioned, but the Vegas Goal Nights
Speaker 1: didn't get the prize, so they won't be mentioned tomorrow
Speaker 1: with Blake. But the Golden Knights were famously five hundred
Speaker 1: to one before their inaugural season to win the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1: And you know, they were really good early and we
Speaker 1: were kind of like, wow, this is you know, what
Speaker 1: a great way to start. First of all, it started
Speaker 1: under a horrible circumstances. It was posted to the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas shootings, and the Knights as an organization couldn't have
Speaker 1: handled that better. Uh, with the community of Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: and they were they were beloved instantly in this town.
Speaker 1: They got off to a great start in hockey. Um,
Speaker 1: and then they just can't and we were sort of like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is great, but you know, this can't last. And
Speaker 1: they just kept winning and winning and winning. They got
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. We're like, oh, it's not that hard
Speaker 1: to get to the playoffs in hockey, so you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see how far this goes. And they just kept
Speaker 1: winning and winning and they got and they got to
Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup finals. And I remember saying to people here,
Speaker 1: I'm like, guys, I've been a lifelong Capital sass. I
Speaker 1: get to the finals against the Caps, I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: can't root for me. They get to the finals against
Speaker 1: the Caps, they win Game one against the Caps five
Speaker 1: one for people holding tickets, so people there are three
Speaker 1: games away from the Stanley Cup and then the Capitals
Speaker 1: just destroyed them. I think twenty goals if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: in the next four games against Marc Andre Fleury. Turns
Speaker 1: out the Caps were the team of destiny who had
Speaker 1: waited forty four years for their Stanley Cup. But that
Speaker 1: could have happened in hockey. That was obviously big. We
Speaker 1: alluded to u NBC beating Virginia one, UM, but that
Speaker 1: was UNBC. I mean, Owen sixteen were own one thirty
Speaker 1: five against number one's before UNBC. The Retrievers for those
Speaker 1: scoring at home knocked off Virginia, UM, but that was
Speaker 1: you know, that was like twenty to one before that game.
Speaker 1: So for one game that was unbelievable. But we're talking
Speaker 1: one keep you in mind again Leicester City five thousand
Speaker 1: to one. It was twenty one for one game. Still amazing.
Speaker 1: And I remember there was somebody who who had an
Speaker 1: eight hundred dollar money line bet on UMBC for that
Speaker 1: game at CG twenty one odds paid out sixt I
Speaker 1: was in eight hundred dollars. William Hill took a hundred
Speaker 1: thirty four bets on UNBC before that game, according to
Speaker 1: ESPN at to one, so a little a little higher
Speaker 1: than that largest six were for a hundred bucks though,
Speaker 1: hundred bucks, but for one game that was huge. One
Speaker 1: thing about that tournament, to remember, everyone was talking about
Speaker 1: that was going to be the year that the six
Speaker 1: team beat the one because Penn was really good out
Speaker 1: of the IVY and Kansas really just methodically handled them
Speaker 1: through the game. And the Virginia game was the last
Speaker 1: game of the first round, basically on that Friday night,
Speaker 1: and I was I was covering Missouri and Florida State
Speaker 1: and Nashville and we're watching the game on the television
Speaker 1: and tied at halftime. Alright, alright, Virginia put the clamps on,
Speaker 1: and then it was pretty obvious in the second half
Speaker 1: of what was going to happen in the u NBC game.
Speaker 1: It really was. It never really they never really threatened
Speaker 1: to come back. It was just I remember I was
Speaker 1: about to go out somewhere just watching it in amazement.
Speaker 1: But that you can't stress enough that U v a
Speaker 1: story how they lost the previous year, and then the
Speaker 1: nature of their victories last year on the way to
Speaker 1: their title. Rather Texas Tech was seventy to one when
Speaker 1: I got them. Near miss took the final game to
Speaker 1: overtime last year. Near miss In terms of sports betting
Speaker 1: teams of the decade. Um, who was that kid for
Speaker 1: U NBC? That was just awesome? Do you remember? His
Speaker 1: name was Smile? So I forget his first Nay A
Speaker 1: commuter school between d C and Baltimore actually closer to Baltimore,
Speaker 1: University of Marylyn, Baltimore County. Um. What else? I guess
Speaker 1: Tiger winning the Masters has to be mentioned, but it's
Speaker 1: like his odds sucked the whole time. If we're going
Speaker 1: sports moments of the deck, but they may remember everybody
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about this dude who made that that
Speaker 1: five thousand dollar bet to win one point one nine
Speaker 1: million dollars um. I can't remember which shop that was,
Speaker 1: Will Hill too, but everyone was like lauding him. I
Speaker 1: was like, that's the worst bet ever. Good for him
Speaker 1: that he wanted, but good lord, But yeah, not a
Speaker 1: sports betting moment um. And then, uh, what am I forgetting?
Speaker 1: First day ever at Visent Patriots Falcon super Bowl, Patriots
Speaker 1: trailed twenty eight to three. At twenty eight to nine,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was at three, but at
Speaker 1: twenty eight to nine, it was sixteen to one on
Speaker 1: the Patriots and people were banging it, pounding it at
Speaker 1: six one. Not a good day for the books. Patriots
Speaker 1: ended up covering a pre flop the pre flop line
Speaker 1: and overtime. Just what a day that was? Uh? And
Speaker 1: then I guess, uh a day that I don't like
Speaker 1: to talk about Cavaliers coming back from a three to
Speaker 1: one deficit against the Warriors in sixteen where he's had
Speaker 1: two home games, they're seventy three win season. Uh, Cavaliers
Speaker 1: were plus eleven fifty to come back from the three
Speaker 1: to one deficit. Plus eleven fifty went down three to one.
Speaker 1: So some other moments that need to be met mentioned
Speaker 1: from the decade individual game to my dad just mentioned
Speaker 1: to me, remember last year the first round of the
Speaker 1: playoffs in the NBA when Golden State was up by
Speaker 1: thirty in the first half against the Clippers. Oh, my god,
Speaker 1: And that was I believe, I believe it was fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred or a hundred and fifty to one out of
Speaker 1: I gotta double check, we gotta check on that. That was.
Speaker 1: That was another one too. That was the thirty point
Speaker 1: game with a team that was pre flop, I think
Speaker 1: a thirteen and a half point dog as it was
Speaker 1: that that's unbelievable that happened, just and it was a
Speaker 1: game that that ultimately just sort of washes away. But yes,
Speaker 1: that happened, so we gotta check on what the number is.
Speaker 1: But anyway, well, tomorrow we'll get Blake back will do
Speaker 1: his team of the decade in hockey. Uh maybe it's
Speaker 1: the ones we mentioned. Well, Goldennights didn't win it, so
Speaker 1: it couldn't be the one we mentioned. I think I
Speaker 1: know what the hockey one is Baseball, which will be interesting.
Speaker 1: NFL and NBA will do that tomorrow with Blake as
Speaker 1: we continue with the sports betting teams the decade right
Speaker 1: here exclusively on a numbers game in visa these sports
Speaker 1: betting now it's Gill Alexander of Parley produced Number five
Speaker 1: is here as well. Uh So, a lot of audio
Speaker 1: problems this morning on the show being reported back, and
Speaker 1: we are aware of those. But what I want to
Speaker 1: do as a result of those audio problems and hopefully
Speaker 1: we can find the audio and put it in podcast form.
Speaker 1: I can't make any promises, but hopefully we can get
Speaker 1: that at the beating of the book podcast for our
Speaker 1: sports UH betting teams of the decade. So a lot
Speaker 1: of people ended up missing what was a lot of
Speaker 1: work going into the sports and the research for the
Speaker 1: teams that got to the championship or won the championship
Speaker 1: rather with the longest odds, either before the season started
Speaker 1: or during the season. So for those folks who missed
Speaker 1: some of those, Jeff, let me just recap what we
Speaker 1: did today. Yesterday, I think everybody got horses, golf, tennis.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should talk about some of those. I don't know,
Speaker 1: We'll trying to put those in podcasts, some of those
Speaker 1: tennis ones. Honestly, I think most people don't even remember,
Speaker 1: like the late the female tennis players, the women's tennis
Speaker 1: players who were on that list were probably like not
Speaker 1: recognizable to some people. Flavia Panetta. No, anybody that doesn't
Speaker 1: doesn't bring that, doesn't bring a bell for anybody. Um.
Speaker 1: So that was that was certainly interesting. Um. But as
Speaker 1: far as what was done today and what actually for
Speaker 1: folks who missed that, by the way, the tennis players,
Speaker 1: I just want to get these uh straight yesterday, because
Speaker 1: yesterday it was horses, it was golf, it was tennis,
Speaker 1: it was Premier League, was college hoops, and it was
Speaker 1: college football. The women's tennis players that made the list
Speaker 1: Marian bar totally hundred to one to win Wimbledon Slam,
Speaker 1: third Slam of of that year. Of course, Flavia Panetta
Speaker 1: one on to win the U s Open. So those
Speaker 1: are the most obscure names on on all any sport.
Speaker 1: But as far us today, if you missed it, we
Speaker 1: started with hockey. The honorable mentions with the Penguins who
Speaker 1: were I get eighteen, fifteen and four at one point
Speaker 1: during that year, slow start, that's what they were. On
Speaker 1: New Year's Day, they were plus six fifty entering the
Speaker 1: playoffs um, but the preseason they were thirteen to one,
Speaker 1: so they were an honorable mention. We have these on
Speaker 1: the screen to Visa dot Com, the Visa appwelve Kings,
Speaker 1: who were sixteen and one during the preseason, but had
Speaker 1: the highest pre playoff odds of any Stanley Cup champ
Speaker 1: this decade at twenty two to one. And again that
Speaker 1: was a team that was in tenth place in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference with one month remaining in the year. And
Speaker 1: then finally, Jonathan Quick's goaltending and great defense on that
Speaker 1: team was complimented by all of a sudden the offensive
Speaker 1: surge they've been looking for all year. But the NHL
Speaker 1: team of the decade, no surprise there was this past
Speaker 1: year's St. Louis Blues closing the preseason at thirty to one,
Speaker 1: mid season odds as high as two hift one on
Speaker 1: January tenth, and of course we had Scott Barry on
Speaker 1: the show. We talked about all these guys who had
Speaker 1: these outrageous Blues tickets from right around there the name
Speaker 1: Deer their low point of that season. So a surprise
Speaker 1: on the hockey pick, How did you feel about the
Speaker 1: baseball pick, Jeff, because the honorable mentions were all three
Speaker 1: Giants teamteen. We went through all the reasons for those Royals,
Speaker 1: this past year's Washington Nationals in But the baseball sports
Speaker 1: betting team of the decade the twenty eleven St. Louis Cardinals,
Speaker 1: And we talked about Game six. By the way, the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: as we point out here a Visa dot Com, the
Speaker 1: Visa app. On August twenty, they were ten and a
Speaker 1: half games behind Atlanta for the wild card. September one,
Speaker 1: they were two d one to win the World Series.
Speaker 1: Such a That's a great call by Blake Mahoney at
Speaker 1: Sports Odds History dot com. Great call. You were at
Speaker 1: that game six, Parlay, I was wow, and I contend
Speaker 1: and maybe we're on like all the great sporting events
Speaker 1: of this decade. Would you agree that that is one
Speaker 1: of the ones that people seem to never mention? Well,
Speaker 1: it was for that was the World Series. Are kind
Speaker 1: of two to just get lost in the shuffle. I
Speaker 1: don't know why that ended up being a case, because
Speaker 1: was an unbelievable seven game series that featured a pool
Speaker 1: holes three homer game that featured that great Game six.
Speaker 1: That game six, we were talking about it during one
Speaker 1: of the breaks before. It was so sloppy. Early in
Speaker 1: the game, Freeze dropped the pop up that scored a
Speaker 1: run for Texas. There was there were there were multiple
Speaker 1: terrible defensive plays throughout early in that game. And and
Speaker 1: I'll and I'll stick with this. And my dad was
Speaker 1: at the game two, and he and I will always
Speaker 1: be uh always be a hand and hand in this one.
Speaker 1: The biggest mistake of that game was Ron was made
Speaker 1: by Ron Washington and it cost him a championship, leaving
Speaker 1: Nelson cruise in the game in right field instead of
Speaker 1: putting Andy Chavez in for defense in the ninth inning
Speaker 1: of Game six, it cost the Texas Rangers a World
Speaker 1: Series because Andy Chavez makes that play on the freeze
Speaker 1: triple probably out of a hundred times. Cruz was never
Speaker 1: a good outfielder. He got to the ball, an alligator
Speaker 1: are armed it and and it cost him a World
Speaker 1: Series in the end. And also that game, that Game six,
Speaker 1: the Hamilton's hit the homer in the top of the
Speaker 1: tenth inning and the Cardinals had to come back and
Speaker 1: get two in the bottom of the tenth. Also the
Speaker 1: unbelievable the Cardinals, and we went through what happened there
Speaker 1: in the ninth, tenth, and eleven. But the Cardinals set
Speaker 1: two records in that game six win, first team to
Speaker 1: come back twice from deficits in both the ninth and
Speaker 1: tenth innings, and the first team to score in the eighth, ninth, tenth,
Speaker 1: and eleven. And that of course was the ship. Remember
Speaker 1: the shot over Nelson Cruze. You think Nelson Cruz missplayed
Speaker 1: that ball in right field? He got there, he alligator
Speaker 1: armed it, alligator armed it. Amazing. That was the two out,
Speaker 1: two strike ninth inning triple from David Freeze, who of
Speaker 1: course then ended up winning it two innings later in
Speaker 1: the eleven. It's just an amazing one. Then we talked
Speaker 1: about the NBA Honorable Mentions in the NBA and I
Speaker 1: think this was a good list too. I think he's
Speaker 1: right about this honorable mention in the NBA Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1: That was the first of the Warriors championships. This day, Gade,
Speaker 1: Andrea Goodalla your Finals MVP. Steph Curry your m v P.
Speaker 1: For the season. They were seven sixty seven and fifteen
Speaker 1: that year, had lost the Clippers in round won the
Speaker 1: previous season. I can't tell you enough again how the
Speaker 1: Bay Area lost their minds when they had traded Monte
Speaker 1: Ellis before that for Andrew Boga. Bogat was a part
Speaker 1: of that championship team. So they were one of the
Speaker 1: honorable mentions to one that preseason. I remember Dr Bob
Speaker 1: was all over them that year as well. One Toronto
Speaker 1: Raptors this past year, plus eighteen fifty in the preseason
Speaker 1: and again that as much as we remember the win
Speaker 1: over the Warriors in the finals of Warriors just a
Speaker 1: mash unit at that point. It was really that game
Speaker 1: seven win over Philly and that ball that h Kauai
Speaker 1: shot that seemed to shift in mid air and bounce
Speaker 1: off the rim four times with the game seven win. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then but the NBA team of the decade, And
Speaker 1: I think he's right about this, Dallas Mavericks, Like we
Speaker 1: forget First of all, we forget that that was even
Speaker 1: this decade, right, but we forget as we as we
Speaker 1: close it out, we forget that Dallas, we need to one.
Speaker 1: In the preseason, they were fifty seven and twenty five.
Speaker 1: Despite that they were a third seed in the West.
Speaker 1: They flew under the radar throughout the season twelve eighteen
Speaker 1: and one most of the seasons, as Blake points out,
Speaker 1: but eighteen and one entering the playoffs and that finals
Speaker 1: against the Miami Heat. It was the first year of
Speaker 1: Lebron and people really there's a lot of Lebron hate
Speaker 1: back then after the decision and the way that that
Speaker 1: was handled. Um. But the MAVs, as I mentioned, they
Speaker 1: were down, they were down fourteen with seven minutes plus
Speaker 1: left in that game. Uh, they roared back. That was
Speaker 1: a team with Dirk obviously, Jason Kidd, Shawn Marion, J J.
Speaker 1: Barrera that was just an unbelievable team. You'd agree with
Speaker 1: that selection, Jeff, I would absolutely It has to be
Speaker 1: because that mav team, of all the good mav teams
Speaker 1: through the first decade of this millennium, that this was
Speaker 1: the one that won the title was kind of backwards because,
Speaker 1: of course the sixties seven win team that was probably
Speaker 1: the best, one of the best regular season teams I've
Speaker 1: a seen that got stunned by the We Believe Warriors.
Speaker 1: That was the one where we all thought, oh, Dallas
Speaker 1: missed the window. And then they come back. They were three,
Speaker 1: they were three, they were They beat Oklahoma City I
Speaker 1: believe in the Western Conference Finals that year before. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it was really okay. See and you mentioned it before.
Speaker 1: That was a double digit game with six minutes to
Speaker 1: go in Game two against Miami, with Miami about to
Speaker 1: go to up to nothing, and the series would have
Speaker 1: been over if they don't blow Game two and the
Speaker 1: comeback and then I remember, well, I remember about Game six.
Speaker 1: It was apparent it was over when Yon Mehemi made
Speaker 1: three straight shots to begin in the fourth quarter. And
Speaker 1: as soon as that happens, we're like, well, it's time
Speaker 1: to pack it up for Miami. By the way, Heat
Speaker 1: Up fifteen. I aired Heat Up fifteen with seven fourteen
Speaker 1: left in that game in store back. Game two ended
Speaker 1: up winning the series in six games. Uh. They were
Speaker 1: down two games to one and then won three straight
Speaker 1: to a Dallas one at Miami by ten to close it.
Speaker 1: Joe Jason jet Terry don't want to forget about him.
Speaker 1: He was to that. By the way, For those who
Speaker 1: are listening on Serious X, mean you're like, didn't you
Speaker 1: guys talk about this earlier? Um, we are rehashing it
Speaker 1: because there's a whole network of our audience that didn't
Speaker 1: hear it, and we wanted to actually clarify some of
Speaker 1: these because we we had to rush through it the
Speaker 1: first time around, but a lot of our audience didn't
Speaker 1: get to here, and we want to put this in
Speaker 1: podcast for him as well. Finally, the NFL, let's just
Speaker 1: talk about that real quick here. Jeff uhlve Ravens honorable mention.
Speaker 1: That was the Ravens team that were crushing Colin Kaepernick
Speaker 1: and the the Niners in that Super Bowl and they
Speaker 1: were doing so to the tune of six, and then
Speaker 1: that delay came right Conspiracy theorists love that game. It
Speaker 1: was like, everybody, turn off the lights. We don't like
Speaker 1: the betting outcome, this conspiracy theorist talking. I had Baltimore
Speaker 1: that day. UM. I loved Colin Kaepernick's team in the
Speaker 1: NFC playoffs, but loved Baltimore that day. They got it done.
Speaker 1: That's an honorable mentioned team. Ray Lewis, by the way,
Speaker 1: at that point, remember in twelve he was in a
Speaker 1: original raven and he had played on the first Ravens
Speaker 1: Super Bowl team and he was retiring at the end
Speaker 1: of that game, and that's how he went out. Great
Speaker 1: for him. Uh. The other honorable mentioned the twenty seventeen Eagles,
Speaker 1: which are very recent in our minds. They were forty
Speaker 1: two one at their height UH in the preseason. Obviously
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl behind Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: Remember Carson Wentz tore his a c L in Week
Speaker 1: fourteen against the Rams. Had a thirteen and three record,
Speaker 1: They had the number one seed. Um, but they were
Speaker 1: fifteen and one fifteen to one to win it all
Speaker 1: entering the playoffs fifteen to one. The Eagles got it done.
Speaker 1: But the NFL team of the decade, the twenty eleven
Speaker 1: New York Giants, so not the team that beat the Patriots,
Speaker 1: team that was trying to be undefeated. That was way
Speaker 1: back in twent two thousand seven. The Patriots were eighteen
Speaker 1: to know when the Giants beat them. But in twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: the Giants were twenty two and one twenty two to
Speaker 1: one in the preseason, got as high as sixty six
Speaker 1: to one when they were six and five mid season one,
Speaker 1: and they dropped a fifty and one when they were
Speaker 1: six and six and heading in a week thirteen. I
Speaker 1: know that's counterintuitive, but it was sixties six to one
Speaker 1: at their peak, and after they lost, they were actually
Speaker 1: fifty to one. They beat the Cowboys week seventeen and win.
Speaker 1: The NFC's entered the playoffs at twenty two to one
Speaker 1: as a four seed beat the Packers. That wasn't the
Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin red face game. That was back in two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, I believe too. But they beat the
Speaker 1: Packers at Lambeau Division Round by seventeen as eight point dogs.
Speaker 1: Then they beat the Niners in San Francisco has two
Speaker 1: point dogs, and then again they were down seventeen to
Speaker 1: fifteen with less than four minutes left. They're pinned back
Speaker 1: that passed from Eli Manning to Mario Manningham. You should
Speaker 1: go back and look at it. That was just it
Speaker 1: was everything on a first and ten, but it just
Speaker 1: lodged in between the quarter and the safety. An amazing
Speaker 1: pass and that's what led the final game winning drive. Seventeen.
Speaker 1: Giants winned that by betting numbers the NFL Sports Betting
Speaker 1: Team of the decade. You like that show, Jeff, Absolutely
Speaker 1: the the I will say the the only bad team
Speaker 1: to win a championship this decade was then New York Giants.
Speaker 1: That was the only bad team to win, like the
Speaker 1: two thousand six Cardinals, which might be the worst team
Speaker 1: in the history. Professionals to win a champion always called
Speaker 1: them that. Two thousand six Cardinals to me were horrible.
Speaker 1: And of course, if it happens in baseball, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: can happen in baseball because you get hot at the
Speaker 1: right time, and it's hard to do it in football
Speaker 1: because just usually the gap between the elite teams and
Speaker 1: are not so good teams in the postseason, it's just
Speaker 1: so big. But look that the Giants had green Bay's
Speaker 1: number those two postseason runs. That was the fifteen and
Speaker 1: one green Bay team. They beat in two and that
Speaker 1: game was not close. That was a destruction that the
Speaker 1: Giants put on Green Bay at Landboat that day. And
Speaker 1: they they're the only team to really have Belichick and
Speaker 1: Brady's number through this old run, which it's amazing that
Speaker 1: it was Tom Coffin who was a really good football
Speaker 1: coach and Eli Manning, who might be the biggest lightning
Speaker 1: rod of a Hall of same discussion. There isn't well
Speaker 1: it's the NFC east right. Philadelphia did as well. Um,
Speaker 1: but Leicester City the global sports team of the decade
Speaker 1: five thousand and one. Leicester City team that UH just
Speaker 1: really flirted with relegation the previous year and UH caught
Speaker 1: fire five thousand and one, causing William Hill u K
Speaker 1: did never to say we'll never put up anything above
Speaker 1: one thousand and one or longer odds than one thousand
Speaker 1: and one. After that experience, cash out options all available.
Speaker 1: They won the Premier League with eighty one points that year.
Speaker 1: Leicester City the sports betting global team of the decade.
Speaker 1: We'll come back, We'll wrap it up. We don't offer
Speaker 1: repeat segments here, but UH, for the audience that didn't
Speaker 1: get to hear that one, we wanted to wrap it
Speaker 1: up and put it in podcast for if anybody who
Speaker 1: did