{"id":192499,"date":"2025-07-09T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/192499\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T03:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:00:18","slug":"bettor-throws-25000-in-the-garbage-with-wager-on-raiders-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/192499\/","title":{"rendered":"Bettor throws $25,000 in the garbage with wager on Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not even the most optimistic Las Vegas Raiders fan thinks they&#8217;re going to win the Super Bowl in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas hasn&#8217;t won a Super Bowl since the team was located in Los Angeles during the 1983 season, and the Raiders aren&#8217;t ready to compete for one in 2025, either.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, one bettor is putting their money behind the Raiders ending their 42-year drought.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BFawkes22\/status\/1942698512648659120\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Yahoo Sports betting analyst Ben Fawkes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Yahoo Sports betting analyst Ben Fawkes<\/a>, a bettor at DraftKings placed a $25,000 wager on the Raiders to win the Super Bowl this coming season back on April 9.<\/p>\n<p>The bettor did so at 100-1 odds, which means they would win a cool $2.5 million if it hits.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas&#8217; odds have actually gotten worse since the bet was placed, with the Raiders sitting at 120-1 odds with training camp around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders have made some positive changes this offseason, including the hiring of head coach Pete Carroll and trade for quarterback Geno Smith, who is a sizeable upgrade at the most important position in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>However, that isn&#8217;t going to be enough to stand toe-to-toe with elite teams and capture the biggest prize in the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not even the most optimistic Las Vegas Raiders fan thinks they&#8217;re going to win the Super Bowl in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,1507,1744,393,2455,2454,1014,6,525,12357],"class_list":{"0":"post-192499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-geno-smith","10":"tag-las-vegas","11":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","12":"tag-lasvegas","13":"tag-lasvegasraiders","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-raiders","17":"tag-the-super-bowl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114821046746518611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}