:04:02
(Lang) Football wasn't a sport.
:04:04
It was my life.
:04:07
And I wasn't gonna give up now.
:04:09
I would play again.
:04:12
In the meantime I needed ajob
to hold me over between tryouts.
:04:16
Then one day, and it didn't take long,
:04:18
six years had passed
and I woke up at the bottom.
:04:22
"You have reached
the Jessica Simpson hotline.
:04:25
"Jessica will tell you
about Nick's birthday party,
:04:28
"and a whole lot more about
her rocking new panty line at Wal-Mart.
:04:31
"But first here's a little fan trivia
to win a VIP gold-package backstage pass
:04:36
"to Jessica's Omnicon Hotel summer tour."
:04:39
- Lang.
- "The question..." I'm taping, boss.
:04:41
Look. I got a job for you. Bauer's sick.
I can't update his betting line.
:04:45
- You know anything about sports?
- Yeah, a little.
:04:48
(Lang) 900 numbers, audio text.
The racket had a lot of names.
:04:53
This guy's gig was sports handicapping -
predicting winners for people who bet.
:04:58
I was supposed tojust record his picks.
:05:01
Thing was, I didn't agree with them.
:05:04
No, they're not.
:05:07
Living in Las Vegas, it was easy to gauge
the temperature of the betting public.
:05:12
The problem is they're usually wrong.
:05:15
What's up, Stu?
Where's all the action this weekend?
:05:18
Tampa-Oakland.
Everyone's jumping on Oakland.
:05:21
- That's crazy.
- You think?
:05:23
Yeah, man.
That game's gonna be won by coaching.
:05:26
Gruden put that Oakland team together
before he came to Tampa.
:05:30
He knows every strength and weakness.
:05:32
Brown catches to his left, so he'll have
him double-teamed to the defender's right.
:05:37
Gannon throws on a three-step drop.
:05:39
He'll stack the midfield with line backers,
take away the short pass.
:05:43
Gannon will throw three or four NTs Sunday.
:05:45
Fuck me.
:05:47
- You took Oaktown?
- Yeah, what do you think?
:05:50
I think I gotta
save your ass one more time.
:05:53
Take Tampa Bay on the money line.
They're gonna win this game outright.
:05:58
- Bet 'em big.
- Thanks, B.