To those clamoring for #NFL conference championship games to be played indoors at neutral sites, I can only offer the narration of the great John Facenda.
If we lose the elements, we lose some of the great storylines and history.
The dumbest market on prediction markets rn is this Lord Miles promo that I am quoting. Long post ahead.
For reasons that are beyond my comprehension, Polymarket teamed up with a pudgy, half-wit, animal-abusing, white-supremacist incel who calls himself "Lord Miles" and who proclaimed - to great fanfare - that he would do a "water fast (with electrolytes) in one of the hottest deserts in the world in isolation for 40 days." He was trying to emulate Jesus. Lofty target!
The guy arrived into a legit desert with all sorts of professional equipment, including solar panels, ready for weeks of fasting. For naught: he looked miserable and hot, and gave up on day 1 because, and I quote, "my phone is getting too warm." He ended the stream within hours.
Given the fact that he blatantly failed within a few hours, No holders expected to be paid based on the abandonement (abandonement = No wins). But Polymarket clarified that he would be allowed to RESTART the challenge.
The aforementioned involuntarily celibate racist who calls himself Lord Miles then booked himself in a luxury resort on the outskirts of [redacted major city], in a resort area near a major highway. He showed up back online in said resort, with some grains of sand in the distance (if you squint). He indicated the room itself was not for him: he would set-up his tent outside on the balcony and endure the heat.
At this point, many again thought the Polymarket wager was over given the fact that he was no longer in a desert. But Polymarket clarified that his luxury hotel was in a "confirmed desert" (???) and the market would remain open.
At the hotel, he subsequently abandoned the "in isolation" aspect of the challenge, and is visited by friends and hotel staff on a regular basis. Oh, and the bit about being outside? Well, he moved his tent from outside his hotel room to inside his hotel room (due to the aforementioned heat). It turns out it is still pretty uncomfortable outside, even if you're at a hotel. He has therefore spent the entire challenge in his air conditioned luxury resort, in a tent pretending to be outside. Per Polymarket's team of rules adjuticators, this is the equivalent of a "desert" due to....well, they never said.
Anyway, Miles also decided to start expanding his public diet beyond electrolytes and started taking various "vitamins" and "supplements" and drinking colored liquids of unclear provenance. Again, No holders thought the bet was over at that point. But he indicated that Polymarket had told him privately he could start doing this (???). Polymarket had not let any of their users know that he could expand his diet beyond water & electrolytes.
At this point, it's probably worth mentioning that Lord Miles said a lot of his friends are betting on this market (one such "friend's account" appears to be Miles himself). After Polymarket told Miles secretly that additional consumed items were allowed -- and lots of trades were happening in the interim including from his friends -- then Polymarket decided they needed to say something publicly, and they clarified to everyone that these supplements do not have "significant caloric value" (???) and the bet was still on. The bet has been modified from no sustinence allowed to slight sustinence allowed.
Finally, the coup de grace, is that Lord Miles goes off camera for significant stretches of time (using the bathroom, working out his incel frustrations, etc.), sometimes showing back up with stains on his clothes or with stuff in his teeth. He insists that these non-streaming times are all being videod and being uploaded to a secret folder. Said secret folder of him, doing Lord knows what, is being watched by Polymarket employees, according to Miles. The secret folder will allegedly be publicly shared on the final day (at which point, nobody will have enough time to go through this disgusting crap even if they wanted to).
The idea for a 40-day fast (with only electrolytes) in isolation in "one of the hottest deserts in the world" was Lord Mile's idea. He set the criteria, and subsequently abandoned almost all of them. He might actually be fasting from solid foods? Although it's impossible to be verified. As one could probably surmise by now, the guy is a pugnacious rapscallion and a filthy liar. As of day 21 of 40, bettors think with 67% likelihood that he will complete the challenge (or, perhaps, that it will be impossible to prove he cheated beyond what was on the stream).
P.S. Lest you think I am overstating how loathsome of a person Lord Miles is beyond his aggressive hatred of non-white races and Jewish people, etc., Lord Miles began this challenge with a cat. The cat appeared to be underfed and not well cared for. On the stream, the cat was yelled at and thrown at walls, and not playfully. It was being abused, and people watching his stream were getting quite mad about this. The cat hasn't been around for days, and nobody is quite sure where it went or if it is still alive. He edited out the animal abuse from his videos.
The best time to stop promoting this sham was a few weeks ago. The second best time is right now.
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@RichCimini Not as good of a player but this feels reminiscent of when Sam Cowart injured his achilles in the first gm of the season after signing a big FA deal
@BBall_Coach12 @JCaporoso Was there for it as well - pretty sure there was a shady DPI call on that final Colts drive and some Jets fans threw a beer on the field. The Jets also came pretty close to executing a Stanford miracle lateral play after the Colts scored.