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Originally Posted by mountainman
Spot on. I thought horseplayers took the know-it-all cake before I began hanging out a bit at the mnr sports parlor. EVERYBODY..and I mean EVERYBODY considers themselves an infallible expert on all things NFL.
In fact, the whole scene has a familiar feel I couldn't quite pinpoint until it finally dawned on me: The way guys debate and pontificate there is how players used to hold forth trackside...back when people still showed UP trackside. And that seems like the Paleozoic era.
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Exactly right. The devious genius of football betting is precisely that 1/2 or more of the male adult population thinks themselves experts on football who can accurately predict results even though in reality they don't know diddly.
And horse racing used to attract know it alls like that, but no longer does.
