Saturday Night's Football Game Between Lamar And East Texas A&M Featured As Horrific Of A Beat As You'll Ever See

Sorry to just completely poach your Bad Beats segment for a blog SVP. But I'll try to bring at least one additional detail to the table. 

You can't help but wonder how many people actually bet on this game, and where those bets may have been placed. Sports gambling is still illegal in Texas. They don't even have casinos outside of Indian reservations. There's one down in Livingston, but that doesn't seem to have a sportsbook. So unless you're willing to make the hour plus trip across the boarder to Oklahoma, or maybe a nice little weekend getaway to beautiful Shreveport, Louisiana. Or my personal favorite, my personal favorite, the Kickapoo Reservation in Eagle Pass, TX.

Then unless you're a premier ball knowing, non-Texas residing fan of the Southland Conference, you may have had a tough time finding action on this game outside of the bookie who hangs out in the gas station parking lot outside the stadium. 

To be fair, a gas station bookie in East Texas might see more action for a local football game than most small casinos get in a weekend. Regardless, as far as bad beats go, in the grand scheme of things, there couldn't have been THAT many people who were burned by Lamar-East Texas A&M this weekend. But if Lamar-East Texas A&M is making SVP's Bad Beats segment, you know it must be a real bad one. 

Which that clearly was. If you had East Texas A&M +7.5, you lost that bet without sweating a single minute. East Texas A&M went up early. You had a two score cushion for 59 min, 57 secs of that game. Even if that game tying field goal would have counted, you were still taking a 7.5 cushion into OT. Just a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad beat. 

And if you had Lamar, what a thrill it must have been on that final kick return when East Texas A&M's returner turned around and heaved the football backwards towards his own end zone. What a win for Lamar bettors. What a win for the Lamar faithful. I bet Janis Joplin and The Big Bopper were smiling down from heaven. 

All while Bum Phillips in his big giant cowboy hat… was also watching… also Kevin Millar (still alive)… Lamar University has a nice little Mount Rushmore of alumni.