Super Bowl Bad Boys Betting – Leinart Could Take It
BetUS Sportsbook Super Bowl Odds:
Player most likely to get arrested leading up to Super Bowl or after Super Bowl:
Matt Leinart 10/1
J.J. Arrington 2/1
Anquan Boldin 5/2 Larry Fitzgerald 5/1
Santonio Holmes 2/1
First of all, why are there four Cardinals on this list and only one Steeler? Is Phoenix such a hotbed for trouble that their own players have more of a history? Four African-Americans and one white? Culturally biased, no doubt.
Let’s explore. You wouldn’t figure Larry Fitzgerald (5/1 in BetUS odds) to be the kind of player who had a lot of off-the-field problems, but just recently he was ordered by a judge to keep his distance from his own 11-month-old son and the Oakland Raider cheerleader he knocked up, who said that during an altercation at his Phoenix home, Fitzgerald “grabbed me by my hair with both hands on the back of my head very very hard and tossed me across the room.” Of course, she hit him in the face first to get things started. The child, a boy, was there to see all of it. And the baby mama was missing some hair at the end of it. If she manages to stay out of Tampa this week, that will reduce Fitzgerald’s chances of coming out the “winner” here. So Angela Nazario will likely be watching the game at home. Will she throw vegetables at the TV set?
Evident by his argument with Cards’ offensive coordinator Todd Haley on Sunday as Arizona was trying to drive for the winning score, Anquan Boldin (5/2 in BetUS odds) may put his own interests ahead of the team, but that is not enough to get him arrested. There would appear to be no doubt he is a malcontent. The whole “I’m not getting the ball enough” mentality is pervasive, and has ruined many a locker room. It might indeed be a cancer that has spread throughout the Arizona camp, and may have hurt their chances to win a Super Bowl. I still think Boldin will save his rage for the sidelines, rather than the streets. But wait! Let’s remember the parameters of the prop: it’s “leading up to Super Bowl or
AFTER Super Bowl.” If Boldin doesn’t see the ball enough on Sunday, he may just throw his offensive coordinator off the Howard Franklin Bridge and into Tampa Bay. Now THAT would be a felony.
OK, I would agree that J.J. Arrington (2/1 in BetUS odds) can be a candidate here. He got arrested a month before training camp at a nightclub. There are plenty of nightclubs in Tampa, so there will be plenty of opportunities for him to get in trouble. Might I suggest the Mons Venus? It’s right down the street from the stadium. Coach Ken Whisenhunt is imposing just a 3 AM curfew, so he’ll have all the time in the world to wreak havoc (or am I confusing that with something I read about another team in The Onion?).
Santonio Holmes (2/1 in BetUS odds) got busted for marijuana possession in October. Big deal. That shouldn’t even be illegal. It doesn’t compare with hair pulling, assault, shooting someone, shooting your wife, murder, or any of a number of things NFL players could be accused of. In fact, I think Roger Goodell has issued a decree to the Tampa police that no one is to be jailed for pot possession before the Super Bowl. Of course, I’m just kidding. But I can’t say for sure.
No folks, the winner is….
MATT LEINART, at a bargain price of 10/1 in the BetUS odds, and I have a very logical explanation for it; actually one that is two-pronged: (a) he is probably suffering from a great depression (not the same one as the country) because he walks around all day thinking that it should be HIM getting all the attention from reporters this week and not Kurt Warner, and (b) he is the only guy on this list who has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do on Sunday. Hey, as long as Kurt Warner doesn’t die – and I’m not implying to know anything you don’t (remember that scene between DeNiro and Pesci in “Raging Bull” when they were talking about Tommy?) – Leinart ain’t gonna play. So he may feel a certain license to go out and party, which is what he likes to do, and in fact what may have led to him eventually losing his job to Warner in training camp. Of course, Leinart’s logic in (a) is fouled up, because if he was the Arizona quarterback instead of the two-time NFL MVP, his team probably wouldn’t be in Tampa this week in the first place. Or in first place either. Nonetheless, he may find himself a great moment to make Super Bowl headlines after all.
