Bettor wins $2.88M on five-leg NFL parlay thanks to Raiders' miracle win over Patriots

One lucky NFL fan hit the jackpot on Sunday after Jalen Hurts' overturned touchdown for the Philadelphia Eagles completed their $15 parlay. The bettor in question placed a four-leg first touchdown scorer wager on FanDuel Sportsbook and watched on as Jakobi Meyers (+1000), Amon-Ra St. Brown (+850) and Cooper Kupp (+650) left him needing just one…

The Patriots' downward spiral from a playoff team in 2021 to the dregs of the NFL can be traced to the lateral last season that lifted the Raiders to a miracle win and cover over New England. The Patriots were 7-6 when Chandler Jones snatched an unnecessary lateral by then-New England receiver Jakobi Meyers out of the air and returned it for a…

Actor Mark Wahlberg is one of Boston's biggest celebrity sports fans. But the Las Vegas resident also has a soft spot for the Eagles and Raiders. Wahlberg, who poured shots of his Flecha Azul tequila on Sunday at the grand opening of the Yahoo Sportsbook powered by William Hill at The Venetian, played former Philadelphia player Vince Papale in the…

The New England Patriots face an uphill battle in 2023 following a third-place division finish and the rest of the AFC East entering the campaign with Super Bowl aspirations. Can New England compete in football's toughest division? Check out our best New England Patriots futures predictions based on the best NFL odds. The Patriots are cursed with…

Bettor Marco Piemonte correctly picked the first 4 games in a 5 pick parlay -- with only a Raiders win standing between him and $2.88 MILLION The game was surely going to overtime... that's until Chandler Jones cashed that huge ticket with one of the greatest game-ending plays in NFL history! Piemonte laid down $31K Saturday afternoon... picking 5…

Sports Betting Dime provides exclusive sports betting content to MassLive.com, including real-time odds, picks, analysis and sportsbook offers to help sports fans get in on the action. Please wager responsibly. The 8-8 Patriots travel to face the division rival 12-3 Bills at 1:00 pm EST Sunday in Week 18. It's been a wild week in the NFL after…

Football has really taken a back seat for the Buffalo Bills (12-3, 7-7-1 ATS) over the past week while praying and rallying around their teammate Damar Hamlin, who suffered a frightening injury against the Bengals on Monday Night Football. Read on for an analysis of the Patriots vs Bills. In the past few days, it's been nothing but positive news…

On the lunar calendar, 2022 was the Year of the Tiger. On the sports betting calendar, it was the Year of Mattress Mack. It certainly didn't appear to be his year when it started. Houston furniture store owner Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale lost $6.1 million in January on Alabama to win the College Football Playoff and $9.5 million in February on…

Sports Betting Dime provides exclusive sports betting content to MassLive.com, including real-time odds, picks, analysis and sportsbook offers to help sports fans get in on the action. Please wager responsibly. Coming off a backbreaking and heartbreaking loss that they literally threw away, the New England Patriots must find a way to regroup at…

Assessing the NFL Week 16 NFL picks against the spread, there are a number of games that jump out with the potential to be early lines to target. There's also a sure sign that not only does the NFL know its history, they also respect it. Saturday will be the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception. In a 1972 AFC playoff game, the Pittsburgh…

NFL Week 15 was littered with bad calls, moves and beats. In this column, we highlight the worst of the bunch that determined the outcomes of games and, in turn, betting tickets. By the stats: The favorites had a stellar outing behind a 13-2-0 straight-up (SU) record but they went only 7-8-0 against the spread (ATS). Home favorites went 7-8-0 SU…

The New England Patriots were not the only ones to take a brutal loss in Las Vegas on Sunday. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the miracle final play that gave the Las Vegas Raiders the most unlikely of victories was also a crushing blow to the city's sportsbooks. With the game tied 24-24, the Patriots tried multiple laterals on the final…

NFL Week 16 kicks off with the Jacksonville Jaguars visiting the New York Jets on Thursday Night Football. The Jaguars (6-8) are favored by 1.5 points after beating the Dallas Cowboys 40-34 in overtime Sunday. The Jets (7-7) lost to the Detroit Lions 20-137 With Christmas falling on Sunday, the bulk of the NFL Week 16 schedule will be played…

NFL weekends don't come crazier than the one we just saw. On Saturday, the Vikings completed the largest comeback in NFL history, storming back from a 33-0 halftime deficit to beat the Colts 39-36 in overtime. The Bills and the Chargers both drilled walk-off field goals, there was an NFL-record three comebacks of 17 points or more, and the Patriots…

The New England Patriots and Arizona Cardinals will finish up Week 14 in the NFL when these two clubs go head-to-head on the "Monday Night Football'' stage at State Farm Stadium. For New England, this matchup has serious playoff implications as a win would see them leap over both the New York Jets and Los Angeles Chargers to take the No. 7 seed in…

The Patriots are favored on the road against the Cardinals on "Monday Night Football." Something has to give when the Patriots and Cardinals meet Monday evening in the desert. New England and Arizona have both dropped two games in a row, though the former is on the cusp of the tight AFC playoff picture and the latter could be in the conversation…

The Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen visit the New England Patriots and Rhamondre Stevenson at 8:15 pm ET on Thursday Night Football at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. Is Stevenson a good bet for your TNF Bills vs Patriots props? Find out our top picks here. The Bills (8-3) have won back-to-back games, including beating the Detroit Lions 28-25 on…

If the calendar says it's December and Bills vs. Patriots props are on the betting board, your most prudent first move should be to consult your favorite weather app. As it happens, a rainstorm packed with gale-force winds blew through Foxborough, Mass., on Wednesday. Dry conditions and mild breezes followed the storm, and those conditions are…

There is one question looming over and throughout One Patriot Place this week - ahead of the Bills-Patriots game on Thursday night that begins Week 13 of the season: "Will the Patriots force the Bills to punt?" This query was not made in jest. The Patriots and Bills have played three times in the past 359 days. In those three games, the Bills have…

The New England Patriots and the Minnesota Vikings have the privilege of bringing down the curtain on the NFL's annual Thanksgiving Day tripleheader slate when they face off at the U.S. Bank Stadium on Thursday Night Football. The Patriots (6-4-0) bolted to victory in Week 11 against the New York Jets with a punt return for a touchdown and the…

There were several valuable lessons to be learned by bettors on an NFL Sunday won by the sportsbooks. One is that when a line doesn't look right, it's probably right on the money. That was certainly the case in the Cowboys-Vikings game. Minnesota entered tied with Philadelphia for the league's best record at 8-1 after beating Buffalo. But the…

An Illinois car dealership owner hit it big last weekend on a six-leg football parlay that cashed in for a whopping $2.96 million. The owner of the winning ticket Illinois sports betting ticket was Marco Piemonte. He oversees five of the Al Piemonte Auto Group dealerships across the Land of Lincoln. Piemonte's parlay consisted of two college…

Once or twice a season, almost all the NFL favorites cover and the betting public buries the bookmakers. Sunday was one of those rare, glorious days for bettors. Favorites went 7-0 ATS in the 10 a.m. games and 8-4 ATS overall as Las Vegas sportsbooks got destroyed. Caesars Sportsbook and BetMGM each reported multimillion-dollar losses. "It's a…