"The Compulsives"
You put six or eight dudes (maybe one chick in there) up in a Las Vegas hotel and give them $10,000 each to gamble with. Everything else is paid for and they share living quarters. The object of the game is to turn your $10,000 into as much loot as possible by betting (probably only on sports, but maybe poker and tables, too). The person who has the most loot at the end goes home with whatever their bankroll is plus like another $50,000. Everyone else keeps their bankroll at the end.
People would be eliminated every so often leading up to like a final 2 or 3 finalsts who would go head up over the first weekend of March Madness (all that action
). Elimination would be by losing your bankroll, or if nobody goes broke then at certain set dates the lowest bankroll is cut. That would make it a tough choice: do I go home with my bankroll or do I try to bet some or all of it to stay in the game and go for 50 large.
Of course the key to this would be getting HUGE squares. Guys who handicap using College GameDay and NFL Countdown. I think there would be good drama in the house where they all live because people would always be conning everyone with what games look strong. It would also be a good idea to find at least one decent looking chick to throw into the sharks.
This would be the type of thing you tape from Super Bowl week until the start of March Madness. I know, that eliminates football season but there is not enough weekly action every day of the week during football season I think so this might be better. Maybe not, I dunno. Anyway, I think it would be interesting to watch a contest like this unfold on TV.
ESPN should do something like this to replace Playmakers. It is probably the only thing the NFL would hate more, especially if it was taped during football season with the showdown on Super Bowl Sunday with all of those stupid props like 500-1 that Aretha Franklin falls out of her top during the halftime show.
You put six or eight dudes (maybe one chick in there) up in a Las Vegas hotel and give them $10,000 each to gamble with. Everything else is paid for and they share living quarters. The object of the game is to turn your $10,000 into as much loot as possible by betting (probably only on sports, but maybe poker and tables, too). The person who has the most loot at the end goes home with whatever their bankroll is plus like another $50,000. Everyone else keeps their bankroll at the end.
People would be eliminated every so often leading up to like a final 2 or 3 finalsts who would go head up over the first weekend of March Madness (all that action
). Elimination would be by losing your bankroll, or if nobody goes broke then at certain set dates the lowest bankroll is cut. That would make it a tough choice: do I go home with my bankroll or do I try to bet some or all of it to stay in the game and go for 50 large.Of course the key to this would be getting HUGE squares. Guys who handicap using College GameDay and NFL Countdown. I think there would be good drama in the house where they all live because people would always be conning everyone with what games look strong. It would also be a good idea to find at least one decent looking chick to throw into the sharks.
This would be the type of thing you tape from Super Bowl week until the start of March Madness. I know, that eliminates football season but there is not enough weekly action every day of the week during football season I think so this might be better. Maybe not, I dunno. Anyway, I think it would be interesting to watch a contest like this unfold on TV.
ESPN should do something like this to replace Playmakers. It is probably the only thing the NFL would hate more, especially if it was taped during football season with the showdown on Super Bowl Sunday with all of those stupid props like 500-1 that Aretha Franklin falls out of her top during the halftime show.
