Does anyone gamble on football?

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I do online gambling. Today I did a 5 team parlay for $5. Not a whole lot of money, but if all 5 teams win and cover the point spread, I win $125. I just finished watching tampa bay vs seattle seahawks. Every team I picked won today, and the Tampa bay buccaneers were the last team on my parlay picks. they were 10 and a half point favorites. for those of you who don't understand, that means they have to win the game by more than 10 points to cover the point spread. They were up 17-3 with a little under 4 minutes left in the 4th quarter. They had the ball inside their own 30 yard line,and it looked like they were setting themselves up to score another touchdown. This would have made it 24-3. But what does John gruden do? He runs the ball maybe 6 or 7 straight times. As I'm watching this, I then realize that he is playing conservative, and setting his team up to kick a field goal. This is the type of thing most coaches do when they're in overtime and they are in field goal range. They call a bunch of run plays instead of passing plays to prevent an interception. The 1st team to score inn overtime wins in the game of football for those whomay not know. The point I'm trying to make, is that Tampa bay was up 17-3. And like I said there was a little under 4 minutes left in the 4th quarter. They had the ball inside the 30 yd line. The point spread was 10.5, which means the actual score was really 17-13 and a half. I don't put blame on the Buccanners players, I blame John Gruden for his cowardly play calling. He could have at least made an attempt to throw the ball to the end zone and score another touchdown. But he didn't even try. by kicking the field goal, this made the score 20-3. Tampa bay is now covering the point spread by 7.5 points. Now I understand they made it a 3 possesion game by kicking the field goal. But I knew that if the seahawks scored, they would be covering the spread by a half of point. And what happens of course, they return the ball few yards past the 50yd line on the kick off. And several plays later they score a touchdown. The reason I'm pissed off is that I knew Tampa bay was going to get the ball back and run the clock out. Which is the right thing to do. But when people have money on the game, wether it's $5 or $100, that's not acceptable! If John Gruden, who is the Tampa bay coach, would've let his team at least try to score a touchdown instead of playing like a sissy and settling for the field goal, I would've been okay with them not covering the spread. They were up 17-3 at the time, and their defense had shut seattle down all night. Plus the fact that Tampa missed a field goal before half time which cost them an extra 3 points, made me even more pissed off. With them making the score 20-3, I now needed them to shut the seahawks down on deffense like they did all night. But they let them score a touchdown and screwed me out of $125. I'm not a big money gambler, but I expect to win! My little $5 bet could have turned into $125. I blame John Gruden for his coward play calling. And I hate it when a team screws you out of some money, and you see the coach at the end of the game running across the field like a moron with a stupid smile on his face like he did a good job! It makes me wanna be there right in the locker room and scream at him and his players for not covering the point spread. It's the fact that they didn't try to score a touchdown, settled for the field goal, and had the nerve to let the other team score!