Gambling in sports.

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Recently there was an issue in the Pittsburg Steelers game last week when they played the San Diego chargers. The referee blew a call at the end of the game that would have had the steelers win 17-10 instead of 11-10. I know a win is a win, but for people who gamble, the steelers were favored by 5 points. Which means that the won the game, but they lost the point spread. From what I hear in Las Vegas, there was about 100 million dollars that was bet on that game. and over %66 of the wagers were placed on the steelers. There are alot of people who lost alot of money because of the final score of that game. I am one of them. I picked 8 games on a ticket at my job. I put my little $5 dollars on the ticket, which would have made me $500 if all the games that I picked covered the piont spreads. The only game I got wrong was the steelers game. Since they only won by one point, they did not cover the spread. being that they were 5 point favorites, they needed to win the game by at least 6 points. It's one thing to gamble and have the team you pick play a bad game, or just get outplayed by their opponents to cost you to loose money. but it's another thing when the officials make a bad call to cost you some money. I wonder if the referee who made the bad call had some money on the game himself. Knowing that if he would have allowed the interception that was returned for a touchdown by Troy Palamalu count, he would have lost some money.