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BAD FOOTBALL: Did you see this? From Sportsinteraction.com, one of the oldest sports books on the web: Bookies Take a Battering on NFL's "Black Sunday"....DECEMBER 7, NEW YORK — "An unprecedented run of favourites winning last weekend in the NFL has left the bookmaking industry paying out millions to its football bettors, a leading online sportsbook has revealed....Sixteen NFL games were played last Sunday and Monday, and twelve favourites won and covered the spread. The culmination was Seattle's demolition of Philadelphia on Monday Night Football. Good news for bettors, but not so good for the bookmakers who have to write the checks....'We're calling it "Black Sunday",' revealed Anthony Munnelly, vice president of Sports Interaction, the first online sports book licensed and registered in the United States. 'In my time in the industry I have never seen a Sunday like it. It's very unusual to see that many favourites cover at any one weekend, especially in this era of parity,' added Munnelly. 'I'm happy for our customers, they won their money fair and square and good luck to them. But when I'm writing my letter to Santa later this week I'm going to ask for some underdogs to start biting, before I end up standing on the street wearing a red hat and ringing a bell.'"