HolteEndRob Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I'm not a big NFL fan but I usually watch the Super Bowl. I don't have a preference this time around. I find that it's nice to watch huge sporting events like this as a neutral. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Aside from wanting Ray Lewis to ride off into the sunset with another ring to cement his legacy further, im also siding with the Ravens for all us older brothers, so lets go John! Very much looking forward to Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted January 30, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 30, 2013 This is the only time you've rooted for the older brother in the Super Bowl.I'll probably root for the Ravens, being the AFC and all, but my money will be on the 49ers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Aside from wanting Ray Lewis to ride off into the sunset with another ring to cement his legacy further, im also siding with the Ravens for all us older brothers, so lets go John! Very much looking forward to Sunday. Either way it makes no difference. There's Lawrence Taylor, then there's other linebackers. He's just another linebacker regardless of the outcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Levi i rooted for Peyton too! Too an extent i agree Kurt but if the Ravens and Lewis sign off with a W Sunday it will cement his place in football lore as another legend of the game. One of my mates is also a Raven fan and he has been very supportive of the Giants when we got there the last few times so i gotta have his back this time around! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Plenty of words can be used to describe this year’s Super Bowl week. Boring isn’t one of them. Former Giants receiver Amani Toomer, who currently has a show on NBC Sports Radio Network and contributes to Pro Football Talk on NBC Sports Network, used plenty of words to describe Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis to Mike Garafolo of USA Today at the media center on Wednesday. “It’s definitely all about him,” Toomer said ofLewis. “Once a guy goes to the center of the field, goes into the victory formation on the last play of his last home game . . . . I just don’t think the Giants or any organization I’ve ever been a part of, even growing up, would allow somebody to single themselves out like that. “If you single yourself out after you make a play, that’s one thing. But to walk out on the field reminds me of the WWE, like The Rock coming out. You’re becoming a caricature of yourself. It’s exhausting. I don’t know why somebody would want that.” Toomer also talked about the discrepancy between Ray Lewis the Man of God and Ray Lewis the man who was accused of double murder and who pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and who has still never publicly answered this simple question, which anyone with a pulse is qualified to ask: “Ray, what happened that night?” “If you want to say you’re Mr. Religious and all of that, have a clean record. Don’t say all of that stuff if you know there’s stuff that might come back,” Toomer said. “Those are the things that, when I look at him, I just think hypocrisy.” Powerful stuff. And Toomer didn’t even talk about deer-antler velvet extract. Which should never be confused withdeer-antler velvet Elvis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted February 1, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted February 1, 2013 Million dollar bets on the Super BowlMillion-dollar Super Bowl bets are in the works in Las Vegas.Jay Rood, vice president of MGM Race and Sports, says he’s received inquiries from gamblers wanting to bet seven figures on Sunday’s game between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers.“We always get inquiries, but the money doesn’t always show up,” said Rood. “Last year, we didn’t take any real, real significant bets (on the Super Bowl). Some six figures, but nothing more.”John Avello, executive director of the Wynn Race and Sports Book, said he took the first million-dollar bet of his career on last year’s Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and New York Giants.“It was on the favorite,” Avello said. The underdog Giants won.In a 2011 interview with 60 Minutes, prominent professional sports bettor Billy Walters said the biggest bet he ever made was $3.5 million on the underdog New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV.Rood estimates he has taken 10 seven-figure bets over the last six years and plenty more during his 20-year sports book career in Vegas.When he was just starting out as a ticket writer at the MGM Grand, he had to count a $2 million bet that was made in cash.“It was on a (Mike) Tyson fight. He was a huge favorite,” remembered Rood. “He laid something like $2 million to win $50,000, or something like that.”The majority of million-dollar bets are on the Super Bowl, though, and they’re not made in cash.Big bettors usually make arrangements through casino hosts to wire money to the cage, said Rood. They are then given chips to the sports book.“Up to $200,000 transactions are usually done in cash,” Rood said.Todd Fuhrman, a former sports book analyst at Caesars Palace, remembers customers coming in with backpacks or brown paper sacks full of money. The biggest bettors were almost always more organized.“When you’re talking $100,000 bets, it doesn't come in singles,” said Fuhrman. “It’s usually in stacks of $10,000, fresh from the bank.”As of Thursday morning, the MGM had received two six-figure bets on Sunday’s Super Bowl, one on each team.Avello said Wednesday that he had received two six-figure bets — both on the Ravens.More big bets are certainly on the way.Avello estimates he’ll take 15 to 20 six-figure bets on the Super Bowl this week.“There will be a lot more $50,000 and up,” Avello said. “Some people will bet $95 (thousand), $80,000 flat. There’s going to be some pretty big bets come in over the next couple days.”Like most Vegas sports book managers, Avello and Rood are very protective of their biggest bettors’ identities. Asked if the six-figure bets usually come from celebrities, Avello replied, “All I can tell you is that I wouldn’t put them in any category. They are people with more money in their pocket and more willing to bet it than you and I.”Rood said, “It’s not necessarily a famous guy, it’s not necessarily anyone that anyone would know. Realistically, I don’t really know much about their background and how relevant the size of the wager is to them. It could be like betting five bucks for you or me.”Avello did estimate the average age of a gambler who bets six figures on the Super Bowl is in their “mid-40s.”Six figures is obviously a wide range. One-hundred thousand dollars is a lot less than $999,000. Las Vegas book managers rarely get more specific.But the six-figure mark does trigger some upper-level communication.“When they get into the upper six figures and especially when seven figures starts getting floated around, I have to go talk to someone (one of his bosses) when it gets like that,” said Avello. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted February 1, 2013 Moderator Share Posted February 1, 2013 WTF is all this about Ray Lewis using reindeer antler velvet as a dietary supplement and it being a banned substance. I'll assume it is performance enhancing. It's a shame if he has. It's all mad. Not least the notion that the velvet from a reindeer's antler is performance enhancing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Bellend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kurtsimonw Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 is that what Ray Lewis has asked every player to wear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerniesElbow Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Ray Lewis stabbed 2 people to death...and got away with it. Baltimore took our team after crying when it happened to them. Art Modell moved his team, claiming financial problems, politicians who wouldnt help him and no desire to sell his team so that he could preserve his familys "legacy". He ended up selling the team after the move anyways. There are several Ohio State players on the 49ers F STDmore. GO NINERS! http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/12/10/40-inspirational-speeches-in-2-minutes/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerniesElbow Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 I just found out that Ray Lewis is from Lakeland, Florida, where I live now. Wonderful. But, the saving grace is, even most of the people HERE dont like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Getting nervous now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerniesElbow Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 I expect a good game though, regardless of the outcome. I would be surprised to see a margin of victory for either team greater than 7 points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
privateer Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 I've just voted 49ers and that has squared up the predictions 50:50. **** Ray Lewis, I think the man is a word removed and very lucky not to be doing natural life in a penitentiary. All this "Got God" shit is no different to the cynical angle a lot of cons take when trying to get parole. "Praise Jesus, I've seen the light. I was a bad man, now I acknowledge my sins and will lead a righteous life guided by the Lord". So, hopefully the 49ers send the **** off into the sunset with nothing but his past guilt and subsequent lies and hypocrisy. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerniesElbow Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 OK, got the Bud Ice in the fridge along with the boneless chicken breast marinating in Teriyaki sauce and a bone-in ribeye steak marinating in Italian dressing, both since yesterday. I have some shrimp skewers to grill along with the steak and chicken and Hint of Lime Tostitos Corn ships and restaraunt style, roasted garlic salsa. Almost beer time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 And it's almost bed time here - fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Can we get one of these installed at Villa Park? Oh, and 49ers. I seem to follow about 100 people on Twitter who live in the San Francisco bay area, so I guess I should join in with those guys. Not that I'll be watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 And it's almost bed time here - fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Throw a sicky . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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