In 2015, the Patriots won the Superbowl against the Seahawks on a Malcom Butler INT at the goal line. Unbeknownst at the time of the INT, Butler would develop into one of the premier CB’s in the league (4th highest PPF rating this year behind for Talib, Chris Harris, and AJ Bouye). At the conclusion of that game, I had some action on what color Gatorade would be poured over the victor’s head. I had chosen Patriot blue. This proved to be a money maker.
We’re back at it again thinking the Patriots will indeed win the Super Bowl and Mr. Belichick will be taking a blue, not clear (the betting favorite) or golden, shower. Is this easy money? HMMMMMMMMMMMM. I don’t think so. As much as my intuition tells me, “why is there any reason they would swap from blue?” I found this picture below.
There you go ladies and gents, here’s to blue money.
Probably my favorite and most referenced bet of all time. Right above Bears vs. Saints.
It’s a shame that I didn’t have my blog back then when the details were fresh but I’ll rehash the best of my memory for the degenerates.
The year was 2006 and the NFC Championship game was taking place at Soldier Field in Chicago. The 15-3 Bears were hosting the 11-7 Saints. Sexy Rex Grossman (23td-20int) was leading the Bears against the 27 year old budding start of Drew Brees who just passed for 4,418 yards and 26td-11int. The Saints were getting 3 points!
Evan and I couldn’t believe it. The Drew Brees led Saints were playing stinkin Rex Grossman. It didn’t matter if this game was being played in the home of a hibernating Grizzly bear, there was no chance in hell the Saints were losing this game, let alone losing by 3.
The game started slow with the Saints going down 16-0 before Marques Colston caught a TD pass to end the half to make it 16-7. The 2nd half opened with Reggie Bush scoring an 88 yard pass from Drew Brees and we started counting our money. A Drew Brees safety put us out of covering but there was still an entire 4th quarter to be played.
Ultimately it was not meant to be. The Bears rattled off 21 straight 4th quarter points and Evan and I were licking our wounds. It is still the largest bet I’ve ever placed in the 7-800 dollar range and Evan was even more. The funny part about it was we started with hundred dollar bets and just kept adding more and more as we convinced ourselves there was no way we could lose.