Back on track and 5th grade football

After our first losing week of the season,we got back on track with a winning week including going 5-1 in the nfl sunday and monday. With the new month brings new excitement. October is typically one of our most profitable months all season.

Last week my 10 year olds football team played their first game of the season. we were a 7 point favorite ,and the total was 21 1/2. We won 18-0 so the general public won with the favorite! Good for them. This is a big week for the team. We play the other 2 teams in the league that would be considered the favorites to win in all. The 3 of us are all pretty evenly matched so we will see. Playing both thursday and sunday should be fun and come monday we will know a lot more about our team. Due to the fact our best rush lineman and our best offensive lineman were questionable the lines were late coming our. Both of those players won't play for us so here is the updated line

Thursday

Cleveland -2
Total 21 1/2
Over truman

Sunday
Roosevelt -2
Total 20 1/2
Over truman.

Should be an exciting weekend both betting on the games and coaching. Get signed up today and win this weekend.
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Key to my handicapping success..... My wife.

I was on an airplane the other day thinking about things. I was thinking about how blessed I am to be the fat jack. How great it is to be able to pick winners against the spread and help players make money. I was thinking about how nice it is to be good at something that is fun and helps lots of people. Then I thought about why. Why am I so blessed? Just simply,why?
Its simple really, the best decision I have made in my life is asking my wife out on a first date. At the time it didn't seem like a huge thing, just the easiest way to maybe have sex that week but it ended up being much more important. Although she didn't put out in the first month, that month changed my life. She taught me to look at life in a whole different way. She was and is the happiest most grateful most loving person I have ever met. She is the type of person that after almost 20 years of marriage, wakes up every day and thanks god we get to spend another day together. Yes really. She tells me and our children she loves us at least 6 times every day! Yes really,I have counted. She will do anything to help make our lives better each day. The point is, how in the hell couldn't I be successful!? Ever man should be so lucky to have a woman that makes it her only goal to help him be the best he can be. I would have to be the biggest idiot in the world not to find the things I am great at and make them work for us. She is truly an amazing person and my clients and I are lucky to have her behind us.

Have a great weekend and if you are a man, show this entry to your wife/girlfriend and then ask her wtf ?
If you are a woman, think about 100 percent commitment. No secret accounts,no lying but actually pulling on the same rope as your husband. You will be amazed how great he can be when that happens.
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Fat jack sports hour tv

We are heading into a new weekend and the games look great. Although we have won 2 of the first 3 weekends, we are due for a monster week. 9-2 or better is considered great and the card looks good for both saturday and sunday.

We are going into week 4 of the fat jack sports hour tv show. This show is on in oklahoma cox channel 7 at 8am saturday mornings and 10pm on sunday evenings. I have heard from a lot of people that are watching and thanks for that. We are adding features every week and are starting to figure out what translates well from radio to tv and what doesn't.

We are also in the middle of the fat jacks football and poker classic at the firelake casino in shawnee. I do these things as just another example of what makes me different from the shady salesmen handicappers most are use to. I get out in the public,I stand behind my selections,I talk about both winning and losing weeks. We try and do things the right way. If you are a poker player, guys are coming in from all over the country for this great event. Please join us.

Btw, when I was on the plane going to vegas a few days ago I sat next to an oklahoma congressman. I think it was the dr from eastern oklahoma. Coburn maybe. Anyway he had his computer out and was looking over his schedule for the week. I must tell you it was a whole lot of nothing! Lots of meetings with people that had ideas that sounded like they were never going to happen. One looked like it was with mothers against drunk driving to discuss raising the driving or drinking age. Maybe both. His notes were hard to read. Either way, that's not happening. People will continue driving at 16 and drinking at 21 no matter what is said in that meeting. With that being the case,I think that meeting is a waste of his time and since I (as a tax payer) am paying his salary it is a waste of my money. I should have talked to him about it but I was breaking down the games for the weekend and didn't have time for a debate about his time management.

I am offering the rest of the month for only 99.00. Get signed up and turn a profit this weekend.
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5th grade football and responsibilities debate

Ok, I have a problem. Not with the picks, things are going well but something much much larger.

This thursday is the second day of ultimate fat jack football and poker classic. I have a tournament to host/play in at 7pm. I have been working on this for about 2 or 3 months. Kind of a big deal to me. Well, I found out today that I also have the first game of the season for my sons 5th grade tackle football team! Worst case!
Now at first you might think the answer is simple. Promotion I have been working on for 3 months vs. 5th grade football. Seems like an easy choice ,right? Wrong! First of all, I am the offensive coordinator/head coach of the team. What kind of message an I sending if I don't show to the first game? Its like, "hey kids, I want you to practice 3 times a week, hitting your friends ,putting in the time,sweating and bruising your little bodies, and I will be there with you unless something more important comes up!?" I am not going to do that! I have told these boys we are in this together and I mean it! I am still working on how I am not going to be at a poker event that is called the "fat jack" poker tournament but I do think that if most of the players in the event really thought about it and put their selves in my shoes they would somehow pick the same thing.
Maybe not but it s the right decision for me.
I think I can do all of the prework at the casino, get everything ready and then leave at 6pm to drive the 45 minutes to norman to coach and then be back by 10pm to wrap things up for the evening.
It is a 4 day event so I don't think overall it will be a huge deal and if it is then I still choose 5th grade football. I have a commitment to these kids that in my opinion is much greater than business,poker,promotions etc.

Btw, we are playing monroe. Here is the line

Truman -7
Total of 21 1/2

I will let you know how everything goes.
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People watching at the airport

Well, we had our first losing week of the season. I hate losing weeks!! The problem with winning every 3 out of 4 weeks on average is 1 out of every 4 weeks is almost always is a loser! We are still making money on the season and had another on monday night so things are fine but I always want my clients to win. Most of my clients understand we are going to have bad weeks and are grateful for all of the winning ones so everything is good.

I have to go to vegas for 24 hours. I don't want to go but I have a really important meeting,so I'm going. If it goes well. It is going to be a great thing for me and the company I am talking to. I like win,win deals and this is one of those.

I am sitting in the airport watching people. All types of people. There is a hispanic woman who has a child that might be the devil. The kid is yelling and screaming. He is wiggling and flopping. He is trying everything to get away from his mother. The mom is going with the "silent restraint" method. Now I'm no dr phil but I have always felt the "silent restraint" method of discipline was the least effective and the most annoying to those around you. Think about it, if you were trying to change the behavior of any animal, the s - r method never works. Your child is a lot smarter and has more will than any animal! I want to go tell that mom to try the "eye to eye,idol threat" method. That is where you get down to eye level with the kid and calmly tell him that if he doesn't shut his mouth you are going to throw him out of the plane. If the threat is bad enough,he will shut up because there is at least a chance you might do it. How about the "drag and bust" method? That's where you stop with the silent restraint,actually get your a++ up and take the yelling child to the bathroom and teach him there are conscience for his actions.

After a win on monday we are ready for a big weekend. If you are betting on the games and down on the season,get signed up today. Have a good week.
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WEEKEND LOOKS GREAT

Another week is gone and Friday is here. It sure seems like the older I get, the faster the weeks go by. This time of year,I am really busy so I am sure it has something to do with that. My next poker event is less than 2 weeks away and should be HUGE! We are having it at a great casino, The Firelake Grand Casino, in Shawnee Ok. You can go to www.cardplayer.com and look at upcoming events for the details but I am really excited about it because we are going to give away a lot of great stuff to the players. A trip to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl, televisions and flowers to the ladies just to name a few. The casino allows cash to play on the table so the live games should be really good. 

 

As we head into the weekend, I am thinking about a lot of things. We had a winner on Thursday night and the weekend games look good. I released 5 selections for tomorrow and I feel great about all of them. I am also thinking about my upcoming round robin, for my sons 5th grade football team. We are still having trouble moving the ball but it should be a lot of fun. I also am doing a lot more work for the Fat Jack Sports Hour television show. I am going to the OU football game and film a segment for the show about back up quarterbacks. I may also follow up last weeks feature "free winners from the garage sale" with a new feature called "fee winners from the football stadium Urinal" . Should be ground breaking stuff!

 

Have a great weekend and if you are betting on the games,get signed up. We had Cincy on Monday night and Tennessee +6 last night (both winners). The weekend is going to be great so don't miss out. Also, I am sending out free winners on twitter each week so if you are wanting to see what the fee bees look like, sign up and follow me on twitter.  Thanks, Jack

WINNING WEEK AND MY SPECIFIC PROBLEM WITH SOCCER

Well, first week in the books and we are into profit. Starting with easy winners on Thursday and Friday and ending with Cincinnati on Monday. I am sure there are some other people that also made money but for those of you that are already down.... WTF?  How can you be betting on the games, reading the blog of the best handicapper in America and are bad enough at picking winners on your own, that you were not able to make money on what was an easy weekend to find some winners? You might want to take the 3 minutes and less than $10.00/selection and start getting on the right side of some of these games. We are going to have  a great weekend with the start of the NFL season and if you didn't make money this weekend, you need to get signed up and stop paying your man.

 

Ok, I got a call from a friend of mine today. The timing of my "soccer" entry ,a few days ago, made him think I might have specific experiences that I was mentioning when I said, I hated soccer. After reading the entry again, I could see how people might think I hate all soccer. Specifically, the part where I say,"I hate soccer" and other parts where I talk about the skills needed in soccer. Let me be a little more specific about my feelings on soccer as it related to me and my team. 

 

1. I love kids that play more than one sport. I am a strong believer that ALL kids should play lots of different sports. The kids that focus on only 1 sport are setting themselves up for disappointment. Having all of your eggs in one basket is very dangerous.So the fact I talk bad about kids having to miss one practice to go to another one is actually very hypocritical on my part.

 

2. The fact is, soccer is better for 80% of the kids long term than football is. Most kid 4th and 5th grade kids are not going pro in football and EVERYONE can benefit from being in shape and soccer is about running and staying fit. I do believe,like a lot of sports, soccer has become a lot more about chasing down titles and less about staying in  shape but that is another blog entry.

 

So some of you are saying "Jack, your last entry doesn't sound like someone that likes soccer. This one sounds like you do. " " You cant have it both ways.'

 

Well , thats where your wrong. Sometimes I get focused on MY short comings, maybe the last entry was MORE about my frustration with the fact, I am trying to teach an offense to my football team and they were getting it a little slower than I would have liked so I blamed the only thing I could think of at the time. The fact is, when I wrote that blog, soccer hadn't even started. I was on a plane (2 weeks ago) and was bored and drawing up new plays on my napkin. There weren't any kids on MY team that had a conflict because soccer hadnt even started.

Maybe, my problem isnt with soccer at all  and instead more about my ability to teach my little players how to score.

Yes, I might have just used soccer as a whipping boy. Sounds like, when I have a problem scoring in little league football, I might need to spend less time looking at the fields on Robinson and more time looking in the mirror in my bathroom.

 

LONG LIVE DAVID BECKHAM!!

 

BTW, It is nice to have friends that call and tell me I might sound like a Jackass when I write or talk in a public forum.  I dont always realize it on my own and I appreciate people that talk to me when they have something on their mind.  Thanks.

 

I have an easy winner going tomorrow night and a great weekend ahead. Have a great weekend and enjoy your games, no matter what the shape of the ball.

A few thoughts and 5th grade football season futures!! Place your bets!!!!!

I was in vegas last week and as everyone knows , vegas has felt the recession more than most places. I have thought about buying a place but the problem is, when home prices are low and people aren't going to vegas, I get lots of offers for free rooms. Then when they have recovered and the town is hopping,I stop getting as many offers! Probably just keep doing what I have been doing. I did see something new on the excalibor marquee. Apparently, you can pay 25.00 and eat all day long as many times as you want! Kind of an all- inclusive for the cheap and obese. 25.00 sounds like a great price and if the food is half way decent then that is a nice idea.

It is game week for my sons football team. I am the head coach and the offensive coordinator. Now, on the surface that sounds like a pretty easy gig for someone like me. After all,I spend most of my waking hours breaking down teams and am as well versed in football as anyone. I am positive I have forgotten more football then most men will ever know and am one of the only ones willing to put my money on my knowledge of the game
...but....
these kids are like a riddle!! It is like trying to get a group of poodles to perform the opening to lord of the dance!!! How hard is it to go into motion and pass the qb when the ball is snapped!!! It is apparently really really hard if you are 10 years old! I will ask them to simply turn around and hand the ball off and they get the ball and start dancing around like someone just turned on the dance version of you spin me right round,round ,like a record baby....
I don't get it!!! Then someone finally gets the play down and there mom comes running up and says they have to go to soccer!!!! Soccer???!!! Give me a freakin break. I get 2 hours twice a week to teach my plays and soccer is a 11 month,6 days a week,4 hours a day lesson on running around and kicking it to the wing man!! Not that hard!
Oh well, we are still early in the season and I am sure they are going to get it. We are having a great time and that is all that matters. Round robin is sunday so we will know more about where we stack up then.

Pre round robin odds to win the norman 5th grade optimist tackle football super bowl.

Cleveland/all saints.- even
The powers that be, combined the second best team from last year with the best athlete in the league(charlie something). This ,combined with a coaching change makes them the favorite.

Roosevelt - 2 to 1
The defending champs are back from last year. Along with being my nemesis on the field , they have some big hitters and a quarterback #10 that is 50 lbs soaking wet, but the kid gets it! He is the coaches kid and probably has older brothers. He finds holes and is a good leader that spreads the ball around. That combination has made them a balanced team and the second choice.

Truman ( my team ) - 5 to 1
Although we lost our quarterback and our best rush lineman on defense there is a sprinkling of good athletes on both sides of the ball. Truman also has some defensive coaches that are sure they are buddy Ryan's illegitimate kids , and the expectation of excellence on defense will help the team if the coaches don't get into a fight before the team has time to gel. The defense will keep them in most games but a lot like the chicago bears, truman has offensive issues! Starting with their head coach/offensive coordinator ( me) and ending with a group of boys that enjoy the reckless hitting that comes with defense and are resisting the discipline and effort that it takes to run my high powered offense, we have a long way to go before the playoffs. Truman does have a couple of big play threats and a group of undersized quarterbacks that are in a heated battle for the starting job. With some kids that can catch passes and quarterbacks that can all throw. Truman may end up with a hybrid version of the fun and gun before the end of the year. With 10 weeks to get the kids on the same page, don't count truman out just yet.

Jackson elementary and others- 5 to 1
This is the green team from last season that made it to the finals with 17 boys on the team and not a 1 kid over 4 feet tall and 60 lbs. It was like watching cast members from circus ole' go into the form of a football team. This season their coach gets to combine with some big kids and a few kids that have spent the last few seasons up in that infant football factory known as moore,oklahoma. They are well coached and if some of their kids are as advertised, they might surprise.

Field - 10 to 1

There are 4 other teams in the league. I don't know much about most of them. I played with one of the coaches in high school and he is great with the kids if he has the athletes. They might be the best of the rest. We will see.

These lines will change after the round robin so if you see some value,get to vegas today.

Oh,and if you are trying to make money with 5th grade future bets, you might want to get signed up with me and get some real front line winner! Have a great week.
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If one of these sounds like you......you might need to sign up for my football service.

If....

You find yourself worrying about the duke vs ul monroe football score when you are suppose to be watching your daughters piano recital, you might need to sign up.

Your wife wanted to make love, and you asked if you could leave the hawaii game on television for those 4 minutes. You might need to get signed up.

You punched your brother-in-law in the face for cheering for michigan because you needed penn st to get you back to even on the week. You might need to get signed up.

You have ever thought about how much is in your daughters piggy bank ,when it was time to pay your bookie...it might be time to get signed up.

Your wife came home and said she got you a new book and you replied "honey,I still owe tony 2k from last week." ....its probably time.

If you have to hide your gambling from your wife/girlfriend. Its time to sign up. Remember,its not the gambling she hates...its the losing.

If you have ever watched women's table tennis or the spelling bee on espn for more than an hour because you were waiting to see the brown vs columbia score to see if you owed this week. It might be time to sign up.

If you have ever had to explain to your wife why you lost a small import car over the weekend. ...time to sign up.

And finally,

If the guy at best buy knows you by name because you buy 5 or 6 tv remote controls per season... It is probably time to get signed up.

Give me a call and I will show you a whole new way to look at sports gambling!!!
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Things to do in dallas

I know a lot of people from oklahoma are going to be making a bonus trip to dallas this weekend so here are a few ideas for you to do while in big d.

1. Fogo de chao or texas de brazil!! Seriously, if you are a meat eater or even 5 lbs overweight, one of these are a must do. A little pricey but you won't mind because it is as good as it gets if you love meat.

2. The american girl store. If you have a daughter under 30 years old. This is your place. Just buy her the doll with the clothes they have on. Then show her all of the other options she will have,if she is a good girl, the next time you come back to dallas. The great thing is,it will become a tradition each time you go to a city with a store. It is also great leverage if her grades start to slip or you are wanting more goals in her soccer game. Bribes get it done!

3. Pappadeaux- more great food. Kinda trendy but still has the best cajun seafood in town.

4. The ghetto- if you are taking your kids to the game, drive thru the ghetto. Dallas has lots of poor scary neighborhoods and nothing makes your kids appreciate where they live more than a fake car breakdown on mlk blvd.

5. There is a Jamaican place that was on diners,drive ins and dives that is in arlington that looked great. Look it up and let me know if its any good.

Have a great trip and drive safe.

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Prop bets worth a few bucks

As most of you might know, I will start twittering free winners this weekend. Now,understand,my free winners are exactly that ..free. If you are trying to make money you might want to think about investing the less than 10.00 per selection and get my top plays but for those of you small players and those of you in prison betting soap and cigs, here are a few props to get you going.

1. Total wins by the chicago bears over 8 wins

2. Total wins by penn state under 10 1/2

3. I like ohio state to beat usc in a couple of weeks and go on to win the bcs championship.

4. Florida to win less than 11 games.

And

5. Lsu to win more than 8 games.

Remember, these are free. If you want more free selections,sign up to follow me on twitter and for consistent winning selections you can use to actually make money with this season,call or go online to get signed up. Have a great weekend!!
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Heading back from vegas, let the games begin !!!!

I am coming home from a 24 hour trip to vegas. I came out to place a few futures bets and have a meeting with an associate of mine. Have to get my ducks in a row before the games start. I wish I could have stayed longer but duty calls. I have to get everyone signed up for the season starting in 2 days and I have a scrimmage with my sons 5th grade football team today. I always try and keep my family first and as much as a massage this morning would have felt great, it couldn't take away the guilt I would have felt if I would have missed his scrimmage.
Also, the first episode of the fat jack sports hour on television runs this weekend!! It is a little like mike and mike in the morning meets howard stern but without any talent. I am sure you can't wait to see it and if you are betting on the games, it is can't miss tv. The show will run in oklahoma city on saturday mornings from 8am-9am and sunday nights from 10pm - 11 pm. Watch out dean blevins, you've got some competition!! Seriously, I am excited about the show and am currently filling it up with some great sponsors. We will have all of the current lines of the games and much more. If you live outside oklahoma, you can catch it on youtube or at my website each week. Really a fun show and going to get better each week.
I have found a few great spots this weekend and feel really good about the prospects of having a winning week. Last season we started the season with 3 winning weeks in a row and ever looked back! Here's to a repeat performance.

Only 2 more days to get signed up and get all of the games. I look forward to hearing from you today!!!!
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