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Originally Posted by Freewill2112
I was listening to local radio here in New England, and they advanced an interesting theory as to why the line has stayed at Atlanta +3. The 2nd most-heavily-bet future for the 2016 season was for Atlanta to win the SB, at 150:1. So the handicappers are keeping the line low to get more money to come in on New England, in order to hedge against possibly having to pay out heavily if Atlanta wins.
I'm certainly no sharp but that does make sense to me.
Was listening to the same show when Mazz read out the callers email saying that
Im not saying its wrong or right but im like 100% sure i heard somewhere else that the only team that got less bets to win the superbowl preseason than the falcons were the Browns. So maybe the caller got it backwards.