5 Crazy Sports Bets You Won't Believe People Actually Made
As hard as it is to believe, these bets actually happened.
#5 Floyd Money Mayweather bets 5 million on Miami Heat
It's no secret that Floyd Money Mayweather enjoys getting in on the betting action, but his five million dollar bet on the Miami Heat to defeat the Indiana Pacers in the 2013 Championship game was just insane. What was even more insane was the fact that he only made 660,000 dollars off the bet, which really doesn't seem worth it when you think about it.
#4 Getting tasered over the Green bay Packers
What s the worst thing you can do as a married couple? That would have to be bet on sports, which one woman found out the hard way. While she didn t lose any money after betting her husband that the Green Bay Packers would destroy the Chicago Bears, they agreed that the loser would be tasered by the other. Unfortunately for the woman, she lost and ended up getting tazed three times by her husband.
#3 Mistakes make money
The story goes that a man bet on a 5-leg soccer parlay at a Jamaican sports betting site, but accidentally picked the wrong team to win the final game of the day. The man meant to pick Barcelona to beat Roma, and quickly tried to cancel his bet. When he was told that wasn t going to happen, he decided to just shrug and kiss his money goodbye.
Fortunately for the unnamed man, Roma ended up beating Barcelona, making his mistake into a winning ticket. He even ended up winning upwards of 52,000 dollars off the bet, which had to feel good after thinking he had thrown his money away.
50 cent wins big with New York Giants
Imagine going all in on the New York Giants in 2011. Keep in mind that this was back when they lost their first six games of the season and would then go on limp their way into the playoffs. That wouldn t be the end, however, as they managed to defeat the San Francisco 49ers and earn the NFC title. This also earned them a spot in the Super Bowl against the undefeated New England Patriots.
Believe it or not, rapper, 50 Cent won half a million dollars off the Giants when they defeated the 49ners for the NFC Title, but still wanted to get in on the Super Bowl action. This prompted him to place a million-dollar bet on the Giants to win it all, and they eventually did. 50 Cent would earn a nice lump sum of 1.3 million dollars off the whole deal. All for betting on the underdogs!
#1 Drunk man bets 100 dollars on 4 leg parlay at 3am.
Derek Bergee must have felt lucky when he woke up at 3 am and made his way to the casino at 3:30 am. Why else would the man proceed to get into a lengthy conversation with another person about sports betting and put 100 dollars on what can only be described as a ridiculously arduous parlay? The icing on the cake, though, was that the last leg of the bet hinged on an underdog college hockey team defeating a heavy favorite.
In the end, it all ended up going his way, and Bergee won over 26,000 dollars from his drunken antics. How he managed to correctly predict four games correctly while intoxicated at 3 am is anyone s guess, but it really is an outrageous series of events. Keep in mind that thousands of other people do the same thing that Bergee did and end up losing a house payment for their efforts.