"Sucker Bet" Could Earn Mount Holly Man $10,000
 

"Sucker Bet" Could Earn Mount Holly Man $10,000

POSTED: 9:15 AM EST January 23, 2004

MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. -- Page Long's faith in the Carolina Panthers could net him $10,000.

Last summer, while visiting Las Vegas, Long's sister-in-law, Lori Hunt placed a $100 bet for him that the Panthers would win the Super Bowl. Before the 2003 season started, the odds that Carolina would become NFL champions came in at 100-to-1.

"It's a sucker bet. You just don't think you're going to win when you make a bet like that," said Long, a gate supervisor for U.S. Airways for 18 years who lives in Mount Holly, just west of Charlotte. "But there's a lot I can do with that money."

Hunt placed her brother-in-law's bet with a sports book at the Luxor Hotel casino. The people who took the money tried to convince her to simply take Long's money and tell him she lost it on the roulette table, she said.

"I walked out of there feeling really dumb," Hunt said. "When I told them I wanted to put $100 on the Carolina Panthers to win the Super Bowl, they all just laughed at me. They said I'd be better off taking the money and putting it in my pocket."

After Hunt brought the voucher back with her, Long put it in a lock box and forgot about it, although he felt the Panthers had the talent to help him collect on his bet.

"I knew the Panthers had a good defense and special teams; I definitely didn't do it because they were the home team," Long said. "If I win, I'm going to take a look at some of the other teams for next year's Super Bowl and bet on them."

Doesn't she know? The Pats already won!

In the future, please don't ever start a thread with the words, "mount", "Holly", and "bet" in the title, without warning me first. When I loaded the page just now I almost sucked a piece of blueberry Eggo down my windpipe.

In other words, he's going to lose it.

Looks that way

Holly shit! I bet Holly just got mounted!

I've got something for that can clear that blockage from your wind pipe. :Graucho

not like Phil Mickelson the golfer needed any more money but he did pretty well on 2 longshots in the past...


"Granted, professional golfer Phil Mickelson has more than the usual amount of fun-money folded in his wallet. But if his golf game ever leaves him, he likely could make a living in Las Vegas.

Mickelson, who lives in Arizona, put down $20,000 before the baseball season on 35-1 odds that the Diamondbacks would win the World Series, according to Web site Business 2.0. He won $700,000 on that one, but it wasn't the first time a champion had paid off for him. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, he bet $20,000 before the 2000 NFL season on 28-1 odds that the Baltimore Ravens would win the Super Bowl. Mickelson collected $560,000. "