richardmcbeef said:
lloyd christmas, fezziks record is easily verifiable, you can just search google for fezziks record. he's the only one who won the hilton twice and even more impressively he won it back to back! and he won a bunch of other contests too. no one is even CLOSE to his overall record!
and betting -3 when it closes -6 is most certainly NOT a good bet if it was the public squares who moved the line from -3 to -6 and the pros were all betting +6. fezzik fades the public squares often like when he says he cant put up his plays until sunday because he's waiting on the public square move. like the squares who were betting the vikings up to -7 on sunday. you dont even need to be a pro to know that the vikings should never be favored by a touchdown at home! so fezzik released the bears +7 an hour before kickoff. the squares who bet vikings -6 most certainly did not have a good bet.
Can you provide a link to those verifiable records? I'm not even bashing Fezzik, if anything I'm defending him with the BTCL talk. No one is saying that winning the Hilton not once but TWICE is a great accomplishment, I think we've had that crammed down our throats until we've almost choked. But I hope you realize records in a stale line contest and records against widely available lines is an apples/oranges comparison.
As for your other argument, you'd rather play this who/what/why/how guessing game than get 3 points shaved off the closing number? When the number at post splits favs/dogs close to 50/50, and you are getting 3 free points, you are going to win long term. This is not a difficult concept.