Beef O'Brady Got Game

Correction: Beef O'Brady has a game, and this is it, tonight.  By the way, we ate at a Beef O'Brady's once, in Apollo Beach, Florida, and it was less than a culinary masterpiece. The only thing they didn't deep fry was the menu and the beer.  They're playing the Beef O'Brady's Bowl in the Trop, aka the Sombrero, aka the home of the Tampa Bay Rays, aka the Crapshack, located in a dumpy area of St. Pete, about a half hour south of the lovely Raymond James Stadium.  This one matches 6-6 Louisville against 8-4 Southern Mississippi. Louisville has hovered at a 3 1/2 point favorite since the game went up.   We felt like this was a sucker game, that Louisville's 6-6 was strong, then not so much.  Then we thought SoMiss might take this one straight away, and found SoMiss was paying 140 straight up.  Back and forth we went. Conclusion: they're inside on turf in a meaningless party game.  Bet OVER 57.



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 On Wednesday comes the game that I think I'd like to attend, Utah and Boise State matched up in the Las Vegas Bowl.  Two fun teams in the funnest (?) town around.  Gamble for a couple days, go to a football game, smoke a stogie, drink some drinks, watch the hooker parade, man, that just screams "Christmas!"  The forecast calls for 57 degrees and rain (yea, rain in Vegas, go figure).  There's a load of stats and game comps for these two teams, and the long and short is we see a track meet coming.  Boise is a 17 point favorite, but we've decided to go for the entertainment value again: bet OVER 57 1/2. 

That takes care of Tuesday and Wednesday.  Here are couple more days of Christmas past.

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Finally, happy 84th birthday to Joe Paterno.