Vegas casino offers refund to Packers-Seahawks bettors

[Stranger]

Las Vegas casino offers refund to Packers-Seahawks bettors
latimes.com
By Melissa Rohlin
1:22 PM PDT, September 26, 2012

In an unusual move, a Las Vegas casino is offering refunds to gamblers who lost money on the Seahawks controversial 14-12 win over the Packers on Monday.

Yes, you read that right, a casino is actually offering to return money to bettors.

The owner of The D Las Vegas, Derek Steven, told the Associated Press that the events that transpired in the final moments of the game were unacceptable and that giving people back their money was the right thing to do.

The Seahawks won after some of the league's replacement officials botched a call, giving the Seahawks a touchdown on the final play of a game.

That call prompted a nationwide outcry over the competence of the replacement officials.

Steven said the casino will refund straight and money-line bets made at the downtown Las Vegas sports book through Sunday.

latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-las-vegas-casino-offers-refund-to-bettors-on-packersseahawks-game-20120926,0,1739785.story

 

[PhxRam]

unprecedented.. unheard of... unbelievable.. AWESOME

 

[Ram Quixote]

Take that NFL, you and your everything's fine, rose-colored glasses.

Even Vegas, with their entrenched attitude toward taking every gambler and bettor for all they're worth, recognizes the truth.

 

[DR RAM]

unprecedented.. unheard of... unbelievable.. AWESOME

Echo that...echo that...echo tha...echo...tha...echo th...ech...

 

[Iron Lion]

As long as the Packers are losing and not getting their favorable BS calls they're accustomed to, the integrity of the game takes a back seat IMO.

And so of course the regulars are back now... ugh.

 

[Memento]

As long as the Packers are losing and not getting their favorable BS calls they're accustomed to, the integrity of the game takes a back seat IMO.

And so of course the regulars are back now... ugh.

You can't say that with a straight face. This was a game that the Packers should have won. It was stolen by these refs. There were Seahawks players who said that they shouldn't have won; Marshawn Lynch all but apologized to Packers fans for the outcome. Even Vegas is giving money back to the people who bet on this game. When have you ever seen that happen?

I realize that the Packers are your rival, but you have to look at this objectively: they got horribly screwed on that call, and it literally may have cost their season, as well as the rest of the NFC West.

 

[Iron Lion]

I don't recall saying any of that stuff with a straight face.