2012年11月15日星期四

They flow from the bright of jerseys

Las Vegas – whether through higher stakes to draw only the sharpest of the sharp money or lower stakes to draw anyone willing to shell out less than the cost of an official NFL jersey. None have posed a serious challenge to it, so the question becomes, where does the growth end, and does that growth fundamentally change the Super Contest? Sunday, and the sun rises over Las Vegas on another cool, pleasant late fall morning. The men begin flowing through the door of Football Central at 9 a.m., walking past a display custom ncaa jersey wholesale merchandise: signed pictures, balls and other memorabilia.

In a steady stream of jerseys and team centric T shirts, they flow from the bright, loud, smoky casino floor into the dark of the theater. On the wall at the front of the theater, pre game shows cut through the darkness, desks of large men in suits, yelling over each other and laughing uproariously at mildly humorous comments. Right now, however, with the games an hour away from kick off, that is just background noise. The men in the cheap soccers jerseys and team shirts that occupy the padded seats stretching from wall to wall pay little attention to the screens. Head down, they study parlay cards and betting sheets and rarely look up.