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Odds on Bengals, Browns winning Super Bowl XLIV in Miami, Fla.? Slim & none
PATRIOTS, COWBOYS
ARE EARLY FAVORITES
TO WIN SUPER BOWL 2010
STEELERS’ DAN ROONEY PRAISED
PRESIDENT OBAMA, BUT THE PREZ
DIDN’T DIAL HIM UP AFTER GAME
LUDWIG AT LARGE would like to thank Jimmy Shapiro — Sports Publicist for Fiver Media — for sending along these 2010 Super Bowl Odds. They are courtesy of Bodog.
Shapiro also sent along some other interesting tidbits from Super Bowl XLIII.
DID YOU KNOW …
• Super Bowl XLIV takes place in South Florida (date in 2010 to be determined). It will be televised by CBS …
• Super Bowl XLIV will be the record-breaking 10th Super Bowl played in the Miami area. It will be the fifth Super Bowl played at Dolphin Stadium. The other five Miami Super Bowls were played at the Orange Bowl …
http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/futuresites
Odds to win the 2010 Super Bowl XLIV:
New England Patriots — 8/1
Dallas Cowboys — 9/1
New York Giants — 10/1
Pittsburgh Steelers — 10/1
Indianapolis Colts — 12/1
San Diego Chargers — 12/1
Baltimore Ravens — 14/1
Tennessee Titans — 16/1
Carolina Panthers — 18/1
Philadelphia Eagles — 18/1
New Orleans Saints — 20/1
Atlanta Falcons — 25/1
Denver Broncos — 25/1
Green Bay Packers — 25/1
Jacksonville Jaguars — 25/1
Minnesota Vikings — 25/1
New York Jets — 25/1
Arizona Cardinals — 30/1
Chicago Bears — 30/1
Tampa Bay Buccaneers — 30/1
Buffalo Bills — 35/1
Houston Texans — 35/1
Miami Dolphins — 35/1
Washington Redskins — 35/1
Seattle Seahawks — 50/1
Cleveland Browns — 55/1
Cincinnati Bengals — 60/1
San Francisco 49ers — 60/1
Oakland Raiders — 75/1
St. Louis Rams — 75/1
Detroit Lions — 100/1
Kansas City Chiefs — 100/1
OTHER RESULTS
National Anthem — Two minutes, 10 seconds (2:10)
Coin toss — Heads
Highest Ad Meter — Doritos
John Madden Mentioned — Ben Roethlisberger first
Al Michaels — Did not allude to or mention point spread or total
Brenda Warner on TV — Four times during the game
Matt Millen predicting winner — Was wrong, picked Cardinals
Bidwell’s Tie — Red
Tackled by hair — No one
MVP thanks — Santonio Holmes thanked no one
President Barack Obama — Did not telephone the winner
Madden Food References — Zero
Gatorade poured on coach — Yellow
CHICK LUDWIG TRIVIA
“The Chickster” is a huge fan of “Forensic Files” on tru TV …
http://www.forensicfiles.com/about-trutv.htm
So I’m excited to see where the Boulder, Colo., police have decided that the death of JonBenet Ramsey will be investigated as a cold case.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090202/aponreus/jonbenetramsey
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By Brian
February 3, 2009 11:12 AM | Link to this
And Slim left town…By Steven Ross
February 3, 2009 11:20 AM | Link to this
The odds on Hell freezing over are better than the Bengals winning the Super Bowl.By Brian
February 3, 2009 1:58 PM | Link to this
Uh, what’s up with the offensive Sodahead.com ad with President Obama’s picture on the DDN Website? I realize these are tough economic times, but that’s uncool on so many levels.By jared
February 3, 2009 2:24 PM | Link to this
sixburgh all the way bout to be 7 thnk bengals will compete next yr browns sorry for yaBy Pete
February 3, 2009 2:51 PM | Link to this
The reals odds should be set at what point of next season the Bungals & Clowns (& their sorry A$$ fans) will know that they’ll be watching the Super Bowl AGAIN. ANYONE WANNA PUT THEIR MONEY ON WEEK 1?By photoman
February 3, 2009 3:58 PM | Link to this
Amen on the Bengals chances for a SB appearance. Their chances for a playoff spot are probably about the same. We will just have to continue to outwait MB for the odds to improve and become probable. Meanwhile, let CP go!!By photoman
February 3, 2009 5:39 PM | Link to this
CL wrote…”STEELERS’ DAN ROONEY PRAISED PRESIDENT OBAMA, BUT THE PREZ DIDN’T DIAL HIM UP AFTER GAME”. That’s OK. This Prez has to break away from everything the last Prez did. Good riddance to W.By Ft. Myers Foursome
February 3, 2009 6:36 PM | Link to this
The Boulder Colorado Police Department and Prosecutors’ Office were and remain an embarrassment to law enforcement and the criminal justice system. I find it difficult to believe there is another investigative body more incompetent than Boulder, Colorado. Bottom line: Mom did it. She is dead. JonBonet is in heaven. Mom isn’t.By bobby
February 3, 2009 9:41 PM | Link to this
Pass the pipe.By Brian
February 4, 2009 11:39 AM | Link to this
Hey Chick, what’s your take on the Steelers medical staff utilizing treatment that sounds an awful lot like blood doping to get Hines Ward ready to play in the Super Bowl?By psychostats
February 4, 2009 10:24 PM | Link to this
A little bit of True Crime on the blog now? That’s cool. On the JonBenet Ramsey case, I think the intruder theory has a lot of merit. Let’s hope the “new technology” allows the investigators to get a good reading of the DNA evidence. The perpetrator might well turn out to be one of the small-time Boulder criminals occasionally mentioned by the press.By Ft. Myers Foursome
February 5, 2009 12:55 AM | Link to this
To believe the intruder theory, you have to believed the intruder took the time to write a three page ransom note in the house with the Ramsey’s pen and legal pad, all while keeping control of JonBenet and then rolling her up in a blanket and hiding the corpse in an empty basement room. All with no fear of being seen or caught by the parents. I can’t recall another case where a kidnapper spent such a lengthy amount of time inside an occupied structure.By psychostats
February 5, 2009 7:23 AM | Link to this
It seems unlikely, yes, but not necessarily far-fetched. We know about cat burglars: people who sneak into occupied homes. And we know about sociopaths: people incapable of feeling fear (or remorse). This type of intruder seems much more likely than a parent to commit a torture-murder using a garrote.By Ft. Myers Foursome
February 5, 2009 8:38 AM | Link to this
Not true. 92% of all homicides are committed by someone the victim knew (FBI statistics). There has not been a similar homicide in the area since. The Ramseys had a large 3 story house plus a basement. Part of the house was added at a later date. It is impossible to go from the girl’s bedroom to the basement without being familiar with the house, as the stairways are in different locations. If you read the ransom letter, the writer describes himself as a foreign faction. He’s not foreign to himself. The alleged foreign faction was never heard of again. The ransom note demanded an amount identical to the bonus John Ramsey awarded himself ($118,000). Only someone who knew how much John awarded himself could demand that amount. Additionally, the amount of ransom money sought was relatively small considering John’s social status and wealth. Parent’s are indeed the one’s most likely to commit such gross crimes like Susan Smith who drowned her kids and blamed it on a black man and most recently here in Florida where a mom is awaiting trial for killing her daughter and blaming it on a babysitter. Did I mention she reported her daughter missing a month after the little girl allegedly disappeared. How about the mom who microwaved her baby. I could go on all day. Finally, strangulation along with a concussion was the actual cause of JonBenet’s death. No one leaves a dead body in the victim’s basement and demands ransom money. Mom just never had the chance to dispose of the body.By psychostats
February 5, 2009 11:54 PM | Link to this
FM4, I don’t dispute the statistics about victims knowing their murderers, or about parents often being the guilty party. My point was about the particular way JonBenet was killed. It seems more like the work of a “sexual sadist” as investigator Lou Smit put it, than of an abusive mother. And Patsy Ramsey didn’t have the history of abusiveness we would expect to find. Regarding the apparently odd actions of the perpetrator, who knows? An intruder could have changed the plan mid-way through, after something went wrong. Or maybe this person wasn’t entirely thinking rationally. And the mother theory would seem to have its issues, too. Do you think Patsy used a stun gun on her daughter?By Ft. Myers Foursome
February 6, 2009 9:07 AM | Link to this
Yes, I believe Patsy could have used a stun gun on her daughter. JonBenet was a chronic bed wetter. The stun gun could have been used by Patsy as a form of punishment to get her daughter to stop wetting the bed. Remember, the Ramseys were at a Christmas gathering that day. JonBenet probably had liquid refreshments on this special occassion and mom indulged in adult beverages. When interviewed, Patsy admitted JonBenet was a bed wetter but it didn’t bother her. Anyone, including myself, knows the constant bed wetting, changing child’s bed clothing and bed sheets, and washing the sheets does bother the parents. The child can’t help it but it happens. It gets old after awhile. The prosecutor summed it up best in an interview when he said, “Sometimes good people do bad things and sometimes bad things happen to good people.” If it was a pedophile who committed the crime, he’d continue doing it until caught. Again, there have been no repeat crimes in the area. I’m sad to say, mom did it. As for Lou Smit, a respected and extremely competent retired police investigator, he was hired by the Ramsey’s and reported what they needed him to say. Just like paid expert witnesses who testify in court. Psycho, I’m afraid we’ll just have to disagree. I spent too many years seeing people do the unthinkable and wondering why. Patsy is just one parent among many. This case got a lot of hipe because of JonBenet and Patsy beauty queen status and John Ramsey’s social status. If it had occurred in inner city America, no one would have given it a second thought.By cingeswell
April 10, 2009 10:49 AM | Link to this
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