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It is a Friday, a couple of weeks, 10 days before Super Bowl 55 is here between the chiefs and the Buccaneers.

And we are here to start getting you ready for this game from a gambling perspective.

I am Michael Beller.

I am joined by Vic Tafer as always. Vic, this is not the Super Bowl that you and I expected. We both thought we were going to be looking at the Chiefs on one side, the Packers on the other. That obviously did not play out. I guess it's our own fault for doubting Tom Brady wouldn't be able to get two handfuls of Super Bowl appearances. So here we are, Chiefs and Buccaneers. How you feel in as we start looking toward this game a little more than a week from now? Yeah, I mean, it's going to be a great game. Obviously, looking at probably the two, it could be the two greatest quarterbacks of all time when it's all said and done. I just think it's amazing what Tom Brady. Everyone says says that, but really to think that this year of all years, everyone's talking about the COVID-19 and how hard it was, no off-season, all these excuses coaches make. Here a guy comes in. Brand new team is back into a ball, which is absurd. But yeah, it should be fun. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, we're going to hear, we've already heard it a bunch, right? I mean, we've had a five days worth of leading up to this game. We've already heard the passing of the torch from one generation of greatness to the next generation of greatness. I think we're going to hear it a little bit more over these next nine, ten days. And we'll try not to say it ourselves, but no guarantees. We're going to get things

started on this episode here, not necessarily locking in any bets. If there's something that we

have some big conviction about, of course, we'll feel free to lock him in. But really, think of this

as part one of a two-part extravaganza as we build up toward Super Bowl 55. We're going to talk about the side of the total.

We're obviously going to dive into some props.

This is just sort of scratching the surface and getting ready for the big discussion

when we do ultimately lock in our favorite plays for Super Bowl 55.

That will be next week.

We're going to start the conversation here.

And Vic, you know, I really think that we

should start with the game itself. Right now, the line at BetMGM has the Chiefs favored by

three and a half. We have an over under of 56 and a half. No movement on the line yet. This is

where the line opened. The total has come down one point. Open at 57.5, down to 56.5.

Both tickets and handle strongly on the Chiefs and the over.

How are you feeling about this part of the game?

I probably would never thought I'd say this,

but I'd probably lean towards the Brady's.

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