And boy, was it painful.
In the battle between the books and the sports betting public in Week 1 of the 2009 NFL football season, both sides got their shots in.
The players won the day on Sunday after the smoke cleared late Sunday night with the Green Bay Packers coming back to beat Chicago, finishing the day off nicely for sports bettors (pointspread covers by Dallas, Minnesota, Philadelphia and Baltimore were also solid wins for the players).
But the books rallied back on Monday night with two big underdog covers.
First, the New England Patriots eked out a 25-24 win over the Buffalo Bills but fell well short of covering as 10.5-point home faves. The Pats were suppose to blowout the Bills in Foxboro 
but thanks to Trent Edwards, they put up a fight that got the Brady Bunch off guard.
In the next game, we saw a very late Darren Sproles TD run, allowing the San Diego Chargers to defeat the Oakland Raiders 24-20. However, since nobody predicted this game to be as close as it turned out to be, it wasn't enough to allow the Chargers to cover as -9 road faves.
The Patriots and the Chargers both saw a ton of betting action leading up to their games, but many players watched in agony as almost from the opening whistle it was clear neither big favorite was going to blowout their opponents.
So sports bettors gave some money back to...
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