Sports Betting Won
There’s no such thing as a smart sports bet, but the first one I ever made was, by any measure, particularly stupid. It was late January 2022, and mobile-gaming apps had become legal in New York only a few weeks earlier. I had successfully ignored all of them until I saw Joe Burrow, the quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals, walk into Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City for the AFC Championship game wearing a sherpa coat, black turtleneck, huge gold chain, and rimless sunglasses. That man is not losing a football game today, I thought to myself.
When I saw Burrow’s outfit, I knew what to do immediately, even though I’d never really contemplated betting do it: Frank discussion of betting odds and point spreads has become a marquee feature of sports media, where the topic had long been forbidden.
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