IN THE LINE OF FIRE minor sub plot ...

... showing the football player tied to a tree, whining about "the hole in the
line just opened up and I ran through to score, I'm so sorry" which leads to
our chief villian admonishing him about his play (obviously fixed, or so Malloy
thought) costing the bad guy $350,000 brings back many memories for some of us
I suppose.
Like last Sunday when the Chiefs defensive back gave up the last second
(literally) meaningless (yeah, right) touchdown on the LAST SNAP OF THE GAME to
allow San Diego to get the ATS cover and to push the game from an UNDER to an
OVER!
Like Don Beebe (Buffalo) who didn't even ATTEMPT to get into the end zone in
the last few seconds of that super bowl loss to the Cowboys (a 4th down play
but he RUNS OUT OF BOUNDS inside the 5 yard line, which lead to Bernie Kosar's
only SB appearance, a "kneel down" to end the game)!
How many games on average, per weekend, are affected by players with money on
or against their own teams?  What about coaches, refs, trainers, etc?  I didn't
see every second of every episode of PLAYMAKERS on ESPN but of all of the
negatives they included I don't remember anything about pointspreads, gambling,
under/overs, etc.   Anyone else wonder about that?
As Malloy walked away while the running back hands were smashed with the sledge
hammer did the player's screams sound anything like the screams of any bettors
you know who happened to have money on the wrong side as some steriod laced,
drug addicted dead beat pretended to fall down instead of making a tackle,
fumbled an easy hand off, dropped a sure thing TD pass (think Jackie Smith in
the end zone, super bowl Cowboys vs Pitt I think), etc?
We all have our horror stories I am sure.  Eventually we all have screamed at
the television.   Right? 
tc99999999