Now that’s what I call stealing the pot.

Do I really need to tell you what I think about this, or can you guess?

Is it just me, or does it seem like Lee High School makes the news a lot more often than other schools?  It’s been that way for as long as I can remember…

I have less interest in the NFL than Ryan Seacrest has interest in women, but even I can’t resist the temptation to gamble on the big game.  So I am in a proposition bet pool and a squares pool.  The former involves some skill; the later involves none.

The squares pool is $300 per square.  Quarters pay $3,000.  Final score is worth $20,000.  Charity gets $1,000.

I bought a $50 interest in each of two squares.  Because of the charity, my $100 was worth $96,67 before they drew the squares.  Then they drew the squares, and I got:

Saints 9 – Colts 1 and  Saints 7 – Colts 9

Using the odds here, The expected value went from $96.67 to about $56.  A better source (which considers that each quarter has different weighting reveals that the value is closer to $55.50.  So, I have lost $45.50 already, and the game hasn’t even started!

The props pool I entered is fairly simple.  You place a set amount on every prop bet in the pool (53 in total) and whoever wins the most wins the pool.  Top five spots pay out.  Not knowing squat about the NFL but knowing a thing or two about pools, I figured that the best strategy was, to the fully extent possible, make picks that are highly correlated with each other.  So, I picked the props that would come through if Indy lit up the scoreboard.  One of my longer odds props is that Austin Collie will score the first touchdown.  This was largely arbirtrage on the current odds (12:1) compared to the pool odds (15:1).

Go Colts!

To be perfectly honest, I probably won’t watch the first 3 quarters of the game since it is on during dinner, bed and bath for the kids.  But I’ll tune in to see if the final score is Colts 39, Saints 17.  If so, it’ll be chicken dinner at the Fro house.

This is a little bit funny.  Evidentyly, 13,000 shirts claiming UT as the BCS National Champion are headed to Haiti.

Even though the Longhorns lost the game, Ellis and many others believe this act is a victory to provide clothing to people in dire need of supplies right now. “There’s certainly a win here,” she said.

Oh good.   So we get a win after all.

…but this is pretty darn funny.