Let’s Get Ready for a Bungle in the Jungle After an up and down year of NFL Football we’ve finally arrived at Super Bowl Sunday. For sports fans, gamblers, degenerates, fans of overpriced commercials and cute little puppy lovers it’s like Christmas, Halloween,...
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Grumpy Calling for a Rematch of Super Bowls XVI & XXIII or Super Bowl LIV
How the San Francisco 49ers Get Back to the Big Game Well after a Week 18 full of dreck and a Wild Card Weekend of boring games the NFL came back strong in the Divisional Round with 4 great games. Capped on Sunday by an almost monumental collapse and comeback and then...
A Historical Look at the NFL’s Wild and Wooly Wild Card Weekend
And Am I the Only One Who Believes NFL Week 18 was Dreck? Ok, before we get to Wild Card Weekend, I want to take a moment to explore a word that to me personified NFL Week 18. Hyperbole (hahy-pur-buh-lee) obvious and intentional exaggeration.An extravagant statement...
Full Field Fantasy Golf & Golf Wagering is Back in Full Swing
Finesse Players Make for Good Bets at the Sony Open As the NFL moves to Wild Card Weekend, the golf world gets back into the swing of things and the world of fantasy golf and full tilt golf wagering is now underway! Before moving on to this week’s event I had to come...
NFL Week 18 – WHY?
Breaking Down the First Extra and Thankfully Final Week of Regular Season NFL Football Here we are, the final week of the NFL regular season. It’s the first ever Week 18 and features the 17th regular season game for each and every NFL team. Are we this starved for NFL...
NFL Week 15 Otherwise Known as The Covid Carousel
And What is and isn’t Surprising About the Firing of Urban Meyer As Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange would say upon greeting his Droogs, “Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly well” here we are in Week 15 of the NFL. You know the NFL, that multi-billion-dollar business...
The Old Browns vs The New Browns
The Grumpy Gambler compares the Old Cleveland Browns vs the New Browns for the NFL Week 14 matchup against the Baltimore Ravens Why One of These Things is Not Like the Other Looking over the week 14 slate of NFL Games, two matchups jumped out at me. First there’s...
How Kurt Warner Helped Grumpy Get His Groove Back
NFL Week 13 Picks and Annoying Players from the Past This has been a tough week for yours truly to be his grumpy old self. You see since watching my Michigan Wolverines finally rise to the occasion and beat the absolute crap out of those annoying Ohio State Weasels...
When Dan Marino Tricked the Jets, Randy Moss Mooned the Packers and How George Costanza’s Favorite QB Blew a Golden Opportunity for a Playoff Win
Familiar Matchups Headline NFL Week 11 Here we are, NFL Week 11 and before we move on to the rest of this column, let’s address the elephant in the room. Yes, after starting off a stellar 3-0 ATS, in the last seven weeks your Grumpiness has gone 1-8 on his picks. One...
This Crazy Vegas Betting Stat for NFL Week 10 Blew My Mind
Just When You Think You Know What You’re Doing, You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know NFL Week 9 was a perfect example of why when you think you know everything there is to know about wagering on NFL games, you really know much less than what you think you know. I mean...
When Titans Rams Super Bowl XXXIV Cost Grumpy a Bundle of Cash
Five Super Bowl Rematches Highlight NFL Week 9 In last week’s column I mentioned a loss of $1,500 when the Tennessee Titans came up a yard short against the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV and how that was another story for another day....
Grumpy Gambler Gives out Halloween Candy & Horror Movie Monsters for Every NFL Team
Grumpy’s NFL Football Trick or Treat Edition In celebration of Halloween, this week’s Grumpy Gambler NFL column will be devoted to the win-loss records of each and every NFL team in games played on Halloween. Some teams have treated their fans to incredible...