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Article: Green Bay made for New Orleans
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 20, 1997
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Last September, readers of this column were advised to support
the Green Bay Packers to win Super Bowl XXXI at a pre-season price
of 7-1. Four months later, the odds about the Pack emerging
victorious in New Orleans next weekend are pretty much the same,
save for the important addition of the "on".
One of betting's more worthwhile dictums is that no one ever
went broke by taking a profit. Even so, anyone with 7-1 against the
Packers will surely be throwing bad money after good if they save
on the New England Patriots at a top-priced 9-2.
True, home-field advantage - in particular acclimatisation to an
average wind-chill of minus 20 degrees - has assisted Green Bay
thus far, but their ...