Article: AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME; THE BETTOR'S EDGE; BY THE NUMBERS; It is bettor to receive; Steelers, Falcons welcome the points.(Sports)

Once upon a Bob Martin, and long before the computer age and Internet wagering, the linesmaker, who happened to be Bob Martin, put out a number and stuck to it. In most cases, the number was somewhat formulaic, meaning that in games where the teams were viewed as equals, the home team was sacked with a 3-point impost.

I've written on more than one occasion that an NFL team is neither as good nor as bad as it looked in its last game. That's why the linesmaker usually doesn't overreact to what happened on the previous weekend. The key word here is usually, because this week the people who set the lines for the AFC title tilt really put some weight into what took ...

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