What is your first sports memory as a kid? First Gambling memory?

[BLBisinnocent]

The first memory I have of sports were both in 1992.....Duke/Kentucky and Laettner's shot and the Pirates heartbreaking loss in the NLCS.........A couple moments like that and I was hooked.........

My first gambling memory was hitting the very first four team parlay I played in NCAA football when I was 15.....last team was Vandy plus 30+ points against Tennessee.....what a sweet win......I thought they would all be that easy.....

[ParrotHead]

I think parlays are what got me hooked as well. One parlay win and you just think its such easy money. Can't remember what it was but it was like a 5 or 6 teams CBB random guess parlay.

Cant remember first sports memory, probably playing sports as a kid. Listening to the World Series on the radio or watching the NBA finals

[the penguin]

before they were the astros and the astrodome was built, they were the colt 45's and played in colt 45 stadium. the mosquitos could stand flat footed and bang a chicken. the whole stadium was wooden bleachers. by todays standards that stadium would need millions of dollars in improvements to be considered a dump. my dad died when i had just turned 8 and i remember him taking us to see the phillies. i must have been 5-6 yrs old. i know we saw a couple of other games, but the phillies stick out.
since the dome wasnt built yet, i also saw the oilers play the chiefs at rice stadium. also all wooden bleachers.
alot of people dont realize, but even after the astrodome was built and houston was awarded super bowl Vlll [i think it was 8], that game was played in rice stadium. the dome seated under 50,000 and rice seated over 85,000. so the bowl wasnt played in the realitivly new dome.

[HotStreak]

Went on a group trip to Fenway in the early 80's with my Little League team. Was betting the kid next to me 25 cents each batter on shit like swing and miss, swing and hit.. meaning put the ball in play. Made like $3. My first sports and gambling memory. I was like 10 years old.

[ParrotHead]

Gambling was just a bunch of random card games or watching my dad play

[BLBisinnocent]

Originally Posted by ParrotHead

I think parlays are what got me hooked as well. One parlay win and you just think its such easy money. Can't remember what it was but it was like a 5 or 6 teams CBB random guess parlay.

Cant remember first sports memory, probably playing sports as a kid. Listening to the World Series on the radio or watching the NBA finals

Most people I talk to claim to have hit their first parlay or big bet that they have made, and this is why they got hooked....I wonder if they are experiencing a little "selective memory".....

[ParrotHead]

Ive always liked gambling with random card games and poker, and pretty much random things.

But sports betting was definitely from a parlay. I wanted to get in to sports betting but knew nothing about it, placed a few single bets just randomly guessing, probably losing quite a few of them, then found parlays. Placed a few parlays and finally won one for like a hundred bucks or something.

Afterwards I started reading about it, trying to stray away from parlays and stick to singles.

It definitely wasn't my first parlay I won, but I did hit one a few in to getting in to betting. All down hill from there.

But like you said, I would say it was either some parlay someone hit or a big bet and then everyone thinks easy money

[Romanowski]

first real sports memory was the 1986 World Series, gambling, was around the same tiem period, maybe a few years later, those straight up bets vs someone else..

"Oh yeah!?! Wanna bet? "

[BLBisinnocent]

Originally Posted by Romanowski

first real sports memory was the 1986 World Series, gambling, was around the same tiem period, maybe a few years later, those straight up bets vs someone else..

"Oh yeah!?! Wanna bet? "

I probably should renember sports from the 80's.....Very poor LT memory though.......

[Chris46139]

I lost about two weeks worth of paper route money on the Bills-Dolphins divisional playoff game in like 90 or 91, of course had the Dolphins straight up, didn't make another bet until the Raiders-Bucs SB, Bucs and over of course, rest is history

First real sports memory, besides buying football cards at 7-11, is the Bears-Pats SB

[BLBisinnocent]

That wasnt the frank reich game was it?

[Romanowski]

reich was vs oilers, now that I think of it, the 86 world series was the first time I really payed attention closely to any sport...

but first far off recollection was 83 super bowl, raiders redskins, didnt know anything, I was 7, and only payed attention at bowl time then ever subsequent super bowl I payed more and more attention, to playoffs, marino vs montana, bear pats etc, then regular season by maybe 90, bills vs giants...

[Gobbler's Knob]

Dolphins/49ers superbowl is my first full memory of a sporting event. Gambling was probably when I decided to become a bookie when the Bills and Cowboys played in the Superbowl. Everyone took the Cowboys, I got killed and retired the next day.

[BLBisinnocent]

Originally Posted by Gobbler's Knob

Dolphins/49ers superbowl is my first full memory of a sporting event. Gambling was probably when I decided to become a bookie when the Bills and Cowboys played in the Superbowl. Everyone took the Cowboys, I got killed and retired the next day.

I thought canadians watched hockey from the womb?

[smooth53_98]

First sports memory - watching the Phillies with my grandfather listening to Harry, Richie, and Andy call the games as Mike Schmidt was just amazing...

First gambling memory - going to Monmouth Park with my family... my grandmother loved gray horses and my aunt's husband was a professional gambler - eventually taught me how to play every casino game and got me hooked on handicapping the ponies... We had some tour of the backstretch early, followed by my uncle showing me how he was nailing trifecta after trifecta that day...