Vick becomes first QB to top 1,000 yards rushing

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12/24/2006 - Atlanta, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick needed only 10 yards rushing in Sunday's game against Carolina to become the first quarterback in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards in a single season. He got all of it and more on his first carry, an 18-yard jaunt three minutes into the game that put him where no quarterback has ever been before.

Vick took the snap in the shotgun at the Carolina 42-yard line and broke left, running 18 yards before being pushed out of bounds, giving him 1,008 on the season. The Falcons quarterback passed the previous rushing record for a quarterback, Bobby Douglass' 968 yards in 1972 for the Bears, in last week's 38-28 loss to the Cowboys.

Atlanta is the first team in NFL history to have a quarterback-running back tandem who both topped 1,000 yards on the ground, as Warrick Dunn entered Sunday's game with 1,053 yards on the ground.

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It is called the "pointspread."

Many years ago, NFL games, as well as the more popular college games, used straight odds as a vehicle for betting. For example, if the Bears were playing the Giants, and it shaped up as a competitive contest, the Bears might be, say, a 7/5 favorite. If they were playing an also-ran, it might be 10/1. Well, there is a point where a line becomes prohibitive, as far as betting the favorite. And who would waste money betting an underdog that has virtually no chance? Such a setup did not contribute to promoting betting action.

But in modern sports betting, a "pointspread" is used.

A NFL pointspreads are exactly that, a pre-established point difference between the two sides that will, for all intents and purposes, create a handicap that evens things out, and in doing so, produces comparable wagering activity on both sides of that proposition. So in lieu of a odds figure in which to bet the team to win outright, the Bears might be a three-point favorite over the New York Giants, and a 17-point favorite over the also-ran. Now that the team that is the underdog can "get" points, there can be equal action on both sides.

In sportsbooks, this is usually done with efficiency by charging the losing bettors 10% extra - in effect, bettors are laying 11/10 on those games. So they are actually betting $110 to win $100. If they lose, they pay the "vig." If they win, they simply collect.

The establishment of the pointspread as the corner stone around which team sports like football can be wagered upon was truly what brought gridiron betting into the stratosphere for online football betting .

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