Illegal Forward Pass Ruling in SD-PIT Game

[ajmc]

Arguing with a fool is always a losing proposition, even when you do it on a point by point basis. If every time a bet doesn't work out the way the bettor wanted, we are going to run towards some silly conspiracy theory, we're going to be spending a lot of time on losing bettor's whining.

What continues to amaze me is that some people still think that this whole "instant replay" idea is going to reach perfection. The gamblers who pissed and moaned because they bet on losing choices before instant replay, are still whining and complaining and no matter what technology does to bring decisions down to a finer and finer point, they will continue to complain when their hunches don't pan out.

The real fools, in this process, are the rest of us who bother to listen to this garbage. Bettors bet because they have convinced themselves they are smarter than everyone else and can handicap anything to a point where they think they know, better than anyone else, how things will turn out.

The smart bettors know that that there are always unanticipated consequnces lurking and factor that into the risk-reward ratio and take results that prove them wrong in stride. The un-smart (didn't want to say stupid) bettors fail to anticipate anything other than ego and are ill prepared to accept that they "chose wrong". If they can't deal with picking wrong, they should stop picking rather than waste everybody's time looking for fantasy conspiracies.

People who bet can't comprehend how other people can be totally impartial, and trying to explain it to them is an absolute waste of time, why bother.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by ajmc

People who bet can't comprehend how other people can be totally impartial, and trying to explain it to them is an absolute waste of time, why bother.

You make a good point, Al. Perhaps part of me was hoping I could reach a fellow official.

Chalk all of this up to yet another reason I don't gamble.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by ajmc

The smart bettors know that that there are always unanticipated consequnces lurking and factor that into the risk-reward ratio and take results that prove them wrong in stride.

The smart bettors know that the bookmakers set the line in order to bring in approximately equal amounts of money on either side of any game. No matter how the game ends, bookies use the losers' money to pay off the winners. Bookies make their money on the cut, not the outcome, so they don't care who wins or how.

Only losers care how.

[OverAndBack]

Originally Posted by mbyron

The smart bettors know that the bookmakers set the line in order to bring in approximately equal amounts of money on either side of any game. No matter how the game ends, bookies use the losers' money to pay off the winners. Bookies make their money on the cut, not the outcome, so they don't care who wins or how.

Only losers care how.

Exactly, Batman. What people don't understand about how it really works. If you've "balanced your book," who wins and how is immaterial.