RealSportsHistory

A look at the history and improbable rise of the Same Game Parlay. Today in 2024 the "Same Game Parlay" is synonymous with sports betting itself, but it was only created in 2019 by FanDuel and the type of bet itself, even in its most simplest forms, was COMPLETELY BANNED and OUTLAWED by the Vegas sorts books for the entire history of sports betting. This Real Sports History documentary attempts to answer the crucial question: "What Changed?"

Episode ZERO of Real Sports History's FIRST Original Series: "Secret Origins of American Football: Fractured Skulls & Broken Bones". This "Episode Zero" is a PRELUDE Episode broken down here as a four part mini-series. The PRELUDE focuses on the first individual football card ever made and also the first football card set ever made, which includes the rarest card that exists in the collecting hobby today, the N302 "Anonymous" card. That card was a mystery for decades as to who the player was. The real mystery unlocked when I looked at the who the full set of players were who are in this set. A fascinating journey thru the gilded age and turn of the century and the power networks that controlled and shaped the future of the country and its sports.

On the weak leading into the first Las Vegas Super Bowl, Patrick Mahomes Sr got his 6th DUI and was able to roam free and party. This synchronized and occurred on the exact 3rd year anniversary of Andy Reid's son - who was a Kansas City Chiefs coach at the time - getting his third DUI and crashing into a family vehicle less than a mile from Arrowhead stadium, putting a 5 year year old girl into a coma. This follows years of criminal and reckless behavior by both Andy Reid's sons, one of which died of a drug overdose at Eagles training camp while a member of the strength and conditioning team and having a multitude of steroids on his person. The steroids would never be investigated and the death would solely be blamed on "heroin".