By Julie Smith
Shaun Alexander from the Seattle Seahawks tied a NFL single season record for touchdowns (TD) on Saturday, after scoring three times against the NFL Indianapolis Colts. Alexander scored in the first, third and fourth quarters of the game. The mark was established by Priest Holmes from Kansas City Chiefs on September 27th, 2003.
Alexander gained 139 yards on the game played with the Colts and became the 16th player to run for more than 1,800 yards in a season. He now has 1807 yards.
This increased Seattle's winning run to 11 games and set a franchise record with their 13th win of the NFL season.
NFL Indianapolis Colts played this game without their coach Tony Dungy, who had to leave town to go to Tampa due to his son's death. The 18 years old was found dead in his apartment in Florida from an apparent suicide.
Without Dungy, Indianapolis lacked their usual focus suffering their second straight defeat after opening the NFL season with 13 consecutive wins.
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History of Sports Memorabilia
STORY OF SPORTS MEMORABILIA
The other day I was cataloguing three boxes of baseball cards for a friend of mine and I began to think about how this entire card collecting and sports memorabilia phenomenon began. If you are a closet fan (as I am) of shows on television that travel from city to city checking out and pricing antiques for the general public, you'd be aware of the fact that often sports memorabilia is brought to the shows for assessment. So this tells me that a lot of people out there have sports memorabilia that they consider to be antiques, so collecting of sports memorabilia has been around for a long time.
WHEN DID SPORTS MEMORABILIA COLLECTING BEGIN?
If it's true that nothing says "USA" like baseball does, then it's natural that sports memorabilia collecting in this country began with a connection to the American pastime of baseball. Tobacco Companies introduced baseball cards to Americans in the late 1800's in an attempt to sell their products.When I was younger I had always thought that the Bubble Gum Companies such as Topps first introduced baseball cards, but bubble gum baseball cards were really a product of the fifties and sixties.These days Tobacco Companies are finding it next to impossible to have their names advertised any where near sports and sporting events, but in the late 1800's and early 1900's, cigarette and cigar smoking was the norm. The Goodwin Company of New York put out the first real numbered collection of baseball cards in the 1870's. The American Tobacco Company produced the most famous and therefore, today, the most valuable baseball card, the Honus Wagner T206 in 1909. It has been estimated that only around fifty of these cards exist today. Wagner was said to be not happy having his name connected to tobacco sales and production of his card was therefore limited. In the early 1900's baseball card collecting began in earnest and spawned the hobby and business of sports memorabilia collecting, as we know it today.
Tobacco Companies continued to produce baseball cards through to the 1920's and in the 1930's Bubble Gum Companies began putting collection cards in their packages in an attempt to increase sales of their product. These sales were halted during the Second World War and in the 1950's production began again with the first color photograph cards being offered. Baseball card production continues to this day in a highly competitive business although no longer are card sales inter-connected to sales of gum.
IT'S NOT JUST A HOBBY
Of course, sports memorabilia collecting today has gone well beyond just the hobby of the collecting of baseball cards and today it is a full fledged industry on its own accord. Collectors today are not only sports buffs; they are also interested in the investment aspect of their collections. Probably the most famous of all baseball memorabilia collectors, Barry Halper who recently passed away at the age of sixty-six at one time owned over 80,000 baseball related items. He began his lifetime of collecting at the age of eight and collected over thirty thousand baseball cards along with many signed baseballs and other assorted baseball memorabilia. Around twenty percent of his collection is now displayed at the Baseball Hall of Fame with the balance having been sold at auction for approximately twenty-two million dollars after Halper found himself in failing health.
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Correlated NFL Parlays for next weekend
In general, it is not wise for sports bettors to bet parlays. They generally pay less than playing the games separately. If two games are played at -110, the payout with 2 wins is greater than a parlay paying 2.6 to one.
But, there is one time when parlays are good. This is when they are correlated. Parlays can be correlated for many reasons - A big spread and an under, a first and second half, one games outcome effecting the meaning of another, etc.
Based on the playoff scenarios, next weekend, there are a number of parlays that should be played. In all cases, after the first game, a team in the second game will know it either has a chance to make the playoffs (Hence playing that team) or no longer has any chance (Hence playing the other team)
These are all very highly correlated.
ML stand for money line.
Weakest of the bunch:
Denver ML and KC ML
Denver ML and KC - points if available
The rest:
SD ML and Cinci ML
SD ML and Cinci + pts if avail
SD ML and Detroit ML
SD ML and Detroit +17
Was ML + STL ML
Was ML + STL +12.5
Car ML + STL ML
Car ML + STL +12.5
Car ML + Was ML + STL ML
Car ML + Was ML + STL +12.5
Phil ML + Dal ML
ATL ML + Dal ML
Phil ML + Dal -12.5
ATL ML + Dal -12.5
Oak ML + NO ML + Dal ML
Oak ML + NO ML + Dal -12.5
NYG ML + NO ML
NYG ML + NO +14
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