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:monsters- He had a partner named Bill Hilton that i think was the brains behind the operation. He moved to Vegas and started a service called Gameday Sports. Don't follow him , but heard he has had a mediocre year and is one of the square shotters in the business. Not many in that business.
:monsters- He had a partner named Bill Hilton that i think was the brains behind the operation. He moved to Vegas and started a service called Gameday Sports. Don't follow him , but heard he has had a mediocre year and is one of the square shotters in the business. Not many in that business.
These scammers are giving out losers left and right.
If you ever read their weekly newsletter they say how great they are doing. They are just a bunch of liar scammers.
Score is -5640% down for the year in college and pro football this season.
Tonight they have their 600% Bowl lock of the Year on Oklahoma.
If you ever read their weekly newsletter they say how great they are doing. They are just a bunch of liar scammers.
Score is -5640% down for the year in college and pro football this season.
Tonight they have their 600% Bowl lock of the Year on Oklahoma.
I remember that they released Michigan in the 81 Rose Bowl. The line skyrocketed. I made my biggest bet ever on Washington PLUS 16. Michigan won 23 to 7! I am still pissed to this day. All I remember is Washington dominating early but focking up every chance they got. The line moved at least a touchdown in that game.
Bob Dunbar was Boston-based. He was a terrible football picker, but one of the great writers of tout irony that ever lived.
He used to manufacture "associates" who would be on the scene of every college game. It would go something like this: "Our West Coast editor, Blinky Rudolph, was at the Arizona game, and Coach Twomy invited Blinky to the locker room to talk to the players at halftime. After a rousing speech by Blinky, the Wildcats went out and won, and gave our parlay players a huge payday!"
That kind of stuff - it was funny. (And amazing that morons actually believed him.)
He would invent little stories to sell his patented four team parlays. these were alleged letters he'd received from desperate people who'd been bailed out by winning one of Dunbar's parlays. Real heart-warming stuff, the guy should have been in Hwood writing scripts.
I once wrote a parody and sent it to him. I have it around here somewhere, but to reconstruct from memory: "Bob, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I was in Death Row, with the Grim Reaper staring me in the face in less than a month.
"Bob, I borrowed a thousand dollars from my lawyer and bet it all on your fabulous four team parlay. It hit! Naturally! You never miss. Well, with my newfound money I hired a new and much better attorney, got a hearing, and a reversal of my conviction. I'm now a free man! Thanks to you and your famous Four Team Parlay!"
Of course, as a scamming tout he should like Saddam be the guest of honor at a necktie party. But he did have a vivid imagination, and a brassy total contempt for the intelligence of his clientele. Gotta have a sneaking respect for that.
He used to manufacture "associates" who would be on the scene of every college game. It would go something like this: "Our West Coast editor, Blinky Rudolph, was at the Arizona game, and Coach Twomy invited Blinky to the locker room to talk to the players at halftime. After a rousing speech by Blinky, the Wildcats went out and won, and gave our parlay players a huge payday!"
That kind of stuff - it was funny. (And amazing that morons actually believed him.)
He would invent little stories to sell his patented four team parlays. these were alleged letters he'd received from desperate people who'd been bailed out by winning one of Dunbar's parlays. Real heart-warming stuff, the guy should have been in Hwood writing scripts.
I once wrote a parody and sent it to him. I have it around here somewhere, but to reconstruct from memory: "Bob, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I was in Death Row, with the Grim Reaper staring me in the face in less than a month.
"Bob, I borrowed a thousand dollars from my lawyer and bet it all on your fabulous four team parlay. It hit! Naturally! You never miss. Well, with my newfound money I hired a new and much better attorney, got a hearing, and a reversal of my conviction. I'm now a free man! Thanks to you and your famous Four Team Parlay!"
Of course, as a scamming tout he should like Saddam be the guest of honor at a necktie party. But he did have a vivid imagination, and a brassy total contempt for the intelligence of his clientele. Gotta have a sneaking respect for that.
buddy m said:
I think this may be true. I live here in Boston (like Score) and if you read that newsletter you would think are are always winning and are great. And they claim to be so honest too and rip apart every other handicapper. THey pick all favorites. It is unreal. That guy atGameday may have been the brains. I have known several people a few years ago that got score and they sucked. Now with the internet we see all their picks and it is funny because they can con you with that newletter. What a joke Bob Dunbar is. Harry Biondi is over there too and another one. I remember in one newsletter the scout they had gave Steve Spurrier advice that helped him on a Saturday that saved Florida. LOL. These people are bad.
WildBill said:
Was it Jack Price who used to state something like: "Guys, I swear to God that I have the winner of the game tonight . . . ."
One of these guys used that line constantly. It amazing that there are so many stupid peope out there who keep touts in biz. I was in the biz, football season only, in a small way, never more than 30 clients. I never hyped, just the opposite.But to be fulltime, to really make money, you have to have to lay it on thick and heavy. There just are not that many intelligent folks out there who appreciate skill and candor. The clients of the touts demand the lies and the heavy handed bullshit.
It is tho a fact the the imbecilic believers who make touts rich are often quite smart outside of sports betting. They could be, and some of them very likley are, rocket scientists and brain surgeons. And off-duty the brain dead slaves of the touts. Scary.
Tom Brady#1 said:
Right, but the stuff in their newsletter was so absurdly fictional it was classic. I saved a few of those old newsletters. If I ever write a script featuring touts I'll use some of the stuff that was in it. Oh yeah, all the big newspapers and magazines that Dunbar quoted on the back of the newsletter were also fictional, totally made up.
sd2 said:
As far as I know he is still alive but very old. I mean Score started in like 1971 or something. If he was a young man then he is old now. Guy picks all favorites. They have had a bad year. I see posted somewhere and a lot of complaints.
They also have the roundtable discussion where you get the inside info for the gameday. LOL
LOL...as fate would have it, I just came across an copy of the Score newsletter, dated August 12, 1991. It ranks up there with the Magna Carta in historical significance. Here are a few brief excerpts: "As ordered by Score super-scout Willie O'Brien, Rams coach John Robinson has switched from a 3 man set to a 4...."Ex-Raider steroid glutton Lyle Alzado recently sent a telegram to Packers hoax Tony "Steroids" Mandarich asking him to retire before it's too late." Said Packer coach Lindy Infante "I wish Mandarich would retire. Professionally, he's the worst excuse for a football player I've ever seen. It disgusts me to even look at the big oaf." Then they go on and on about "tennis dyke, Martina Navratilova...the greatest lesbian athlete of all time and rock and roll scuzz-ball, Madonna." Their "newsletter" was just a flyer hyping their record but all the outlandish humor was priceless!
