One Kick, 56 Yards, $4,300 Gone: A Bad Beat, Play by Play
A $100 parlay at +4300 needed overtime. Dallas tied it with 10 seconds left, then Tyler Loop hit from 56 at the gun. The finish, rebuilt play by play.
One kick. Fifty-six yards. Four thousand three hundred dollars.
This one's my own bet, not a Boom Board Pick: $100 on a boosted parlay at +4300. Brock Purdy and George Kittle had already hit. It needed two more, both in Ravens vs Cowboys:
- Dak Prescott 290+ passing yards. With 90 seconds left, he was at 240.
- Derrick Henry 100+ rushing yards. He was stuck on 89.
Ravens up three.
The drive
Dak to Flournoy for 13. Lamb for 14. Flournoy again for 9. Dak's at 276, fourteen yards away, and Dallas is knocking at the 2.
Incomplete. Scramble. Incomplete. Dallas kicks the field goal. Tie game, ten seconds left. Overtime means more snaps for Dak and more carries for Henry. We're alive.
The kick
Seven seconds. Lamar Jackson, deep middle, Zay Flowers for 27. Timeout with one second left.
Tyler Loop, from 56 yards. It's good.
No overtime. Dak finished 14 yards short. Henry finished 11 short. We'll never know.
Why it still stays up
Every bet stays in my tracker, including the ones that hurt. A +4300 parlay loses almost every time; that's the price. What matters over a season is whether the prices were worth it, and you only learn that if the losses stay on the books next to the wins.
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