Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=20565388'>posted</a> on 12/15/2013:

Quote Originally Posted by SportsMushroom View Post

and what they do is they give some one side of the game and some others the other side, so the people who win are gonna be so ecstatic that they will pay for more

Before the internet... That ^ was the old 'East of the Mississippi -6 1/2 ; West of the Mississippi +6 1/2'