Oddsmaker says it is 'an aberration' that Vegas, NFL are in cahoots to benefit Chiefs

The statement is that the Kansas City Chiefs person gotten the payment of the whistle, but immoderate person taken it a spot far.

Rob Gronkowski adjacent admitted successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital that helium thought "something" was up with the officials.

But different astir whether the NFL has been benefiting the Chiefs, which successful crook is giving sportsbooks immoderate other money.

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But that's not happening, said 1 longtime oddsmaker.

"Not buying it. I conscionable deliberation it’s an aberration," DraftKings manager of sports operations Johnny Avello said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital.

Avello admitted that the Chiefs "have caught a mates of bully calls and breaks for possibly the past half-year oregon so," but sometimes, that's conscionable the mode it goes.

"That’ll alteration astatine immoderate point," added Avello. "I don’t deliberation the refs are doing thing intentionally, I conscionable deliberation that it’s happening and things are going their way."

Avello did admit that the Chiefs supply an added popularity that would pb to much proposition bets.

"The lawsuit successful constituent present is the Chiefs person Kelce, Kelce brings Taylor Swift, radical spot Taylor Swift, past each of a sudden, much radical are funny successful the NFL, and we commencement making props astir Kelce and the full team," said Avello.

DraftKing's rival successful FanDuel adjacent has "Swift Specials" wherever you could stake propositions that are named arsenic respective of Swift's songs.

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But astatine the extremity of the day, "I don’t deliberation immoderate teams are bigger than the crippled itself," Avello said.

The Chiefs are presently 1.5-point favorites connected DraftKings, a fig that has not changed astatine each since it primitively opened astir 2 weeks ago.

"Usually there’s immoderate movement. . . . Nothing has moved connected the side," Avello said.

However, Avello noted that 70% of wealth and wagers were connected the underdog Philadelphia Eagles.

"In mean circumstances, erstwhile you’re getting plus-money connected specified a tiny constituent spread, this is the betting of immoderate bettors, ‘I don’t deliberation a squad is gonna triumph by one, truthful wherefore americium I going to instrumentality the 1.5? Might arsenic good instrumentality the plus-money. That’s the rationale down it," Avello added.

But could radical beryllium utilizing their Chiefs fatigue to stake against them? Possibly, but that's not a dependable strategy.

"If you’re betting money, and you privation to triumph a game, I don’t deliberation you should usage the dislike factor. You should stake with who you truly deliberation is winning the game," Avello added.

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