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24 hours a day of sports betting?

Our local sports station KDUS Phoenix is now constantly talking about betting. You can make long term bets (who will win the NL pennant), in game bets (can the home team come back in the fourth quarter down 6 points and win?), propositions (will Derrick Henry break 100 yards against the Texans), parlays (two or more bets simultaneously for a big payoff), teasers (multiple bets simultaneous with improved terms for a standard payoff), etc.

If you want to spend 24 hours a day gambling you can listen to sports radio as before, but more attentively, and thinking of what had been meaningless (who will hit the first double of the game?)

The NFL is all in now that it is legal in places besides Vegas, and I imagine there are creative ways for MGM, Draft Kings and the other sports books to funnel money to sports betting radio even outside of the standard advertising.

I was listening last week, and the host was pushing the idea of betting "under" on an NFL game. He suggested that more money would be bet on "over". First, even an intermediate knows that a well run honest book keeps the bets even on both sides to guarantee revenue. Second, he reasoned that that one of the teams in question was underperforming on offense, and so UNDER was the way to go. Only a casual fan, but I immediately disagreed with the reasoning by looking at the matchup, and made a mental bet with imaginary money on OVER. The game was Kansas City at Tampa Bay, and the final was 41-31. How many people were influenced by the host's logic and bet UNDER?