Bad Beats: Super Bowl Edition
The ultimate goal of this masterpiece Bad Beats column is to find out the absolute, most disgusting beat ever to occur in the Super Bowl.
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats Feb. 4th
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats January 26th
Bad Beats: Even Saints fans can admit Vikings got hosed
My name is David Payne. I write for Ben Burns. I lived in New Orleans for 10 years before Hurricane Katrina blew me East. I am a diehard Saints fan. The Vikings were the better team and deserved to win.
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats January 19th
Bad Beats: What was Ray Lewis supposed to do?
Mike Preston, a Ravens writer for the Baltimore Sun, called Ray Lewis’ vicious hit on Colts’ wide receiver Austin Collie a “death blow” or “kill shot.”
“It was a cheap shot, and Lewis had already done this two or three times this season,” wrote Preston. “It’s usually done on purpose and delivered under the chin, where it can cause serious damage.”
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats December 29th
Burns’ Worst Beats of 2009
It only seemed like there were 2,009 bad beats in 2009.
In reality, you guys are just really bad bettors.
Only kidding.
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats December 23rd
’Cause I gotta have faith.”
Hopefully, being reminded of George Michael’s fame, in a sports betting column of all places, is a bad enough beat to satisfy all us Sadomasochists, who enjoy tormenting ourselves by reliving and dissecting difficult defeats.
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats December 18th
Who ‘dat going to screw the over?
In a season chock full of controversial coaching decisions, New Orleans’ Sean Payton made and got away with one Sunday in Atlanta.
Bettors who had over 50 weren’t so lucky.
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats December 9th
Burns’ Bad beats: Painful loss for Redskin moneyliners
The time to bet big moneyline underdogs in the NFL is now.
The season is taking its toll on teams. Injuries are mounting, equalizing the talent gaps between the haves and have not.
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats December 1st
Bad beats: Should Tiger Woods tell the truth?
The old moose left a bunch of us feeling like turkeys on Thanksgiving weekend.
There was Colorado, a 10-point underdog, hitting a 54-yard touchdown pass on the final play to cover in a 28-20 loss to Nebraska.
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats November 24th
Burns’ Bad beats: What in the world was Les Miles thinking?
Black Friday super special discount – Les Miles’ coaching clinics. Get ‘em while they last.
Miles and his staff fell completely apart in Saturday’s 25-23 to Ole Miss.
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats November 10th
Bad Beats: Where have all the ‘Pick ‘em’s’ gone?
The old oddmakers’ joke goes like this: ‘You can’t make a game a Pick because the squares won’t know who to bet.’
It’s referring to the public’s love of favorites. But oddmakers aren’t kidding around about Pick ‘em games anymore. There aren’t any.
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats October 26th
Bad Beats: Tough to recover from Dolphin debacle
Whether you won or lost, the Saints’ remarkable cover against Miami is the type of game that messes with your mind. It lingers and affects the way you bet for weeks.
If you had the Dolphins plus 6, you’re heartbroken and have lost a lot of confidence. If you had the Saints, you’re probably a little bit over-confident. How you react in coming weeks could be the difference of a winning season and a losing one.
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats October 19th
Bad Beats: How do you blow a coverage when you are in basically your Hail Mary defense?
Ask the Washington Huskies.
With 13 seconds to play in a tie game with Arizona State, the Huskies allowed not one but two Sun Devil receivers to get behind their defensive backs deep. Arizona State quarterback Danny Sullivan simply dropped back and heaved a 50-yard winning touchdown pass to a wide-open Chris McGaha.
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats October 13th
Bad Beats: Ego check for Ray Lewis and Brandon Meriweather
Maybe we were bullied too much on the playground, but puffed-up egos really piss us off here at Bad Beats Central.
Losing a bet because someone can’t keep their ego in check and feels the need taunt or excessively celebrate is infuriating.
Take Ray Lewis for instance. Does anyone in the NFL not know this guy is a hard-hitting, physical bad ass?
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats October 6th
Burns’ Bad Beats: Extra points deliver extra bad beats
For something worth one point, PAT’s sure do screw things up.
No one knows that more than bettors who played the Kansas State-Iowa State game or the total in Auburn-Tennessee.
Last season, teams converted extra points better than 95 percent of the time. Thirty-five teams did not miss an extra point all season, and only one team, North Texas, converted on less than 85 percent.
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats September 28th
Burns’ Bad Beats
If your team never gives you any hope of winning, the loss often won’t sting as bad. You can simply write it off as a bad decision, try to learn from it and move on.
Saturday’s Wake Forest-Boston College game seemed to be one of those types of games for anyone who bet the Demon Deacons.
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Ben Burns: Bad Beats September 22nd
Bad Beats: When Bad Quarterbacks Attack
Here’s the situation: You’re laying two points with a home favorite. Your team just scored a go-ahead touchdown and now leads 10-6 with 2:30 left.
Which opposing NFL quarterback would you most like to be facing in that situation?
Oakland’s JaMarcus Russell, if not the unanimous first choice, has to be in the discussion.
