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Sportsbooks set the Monday night's meeting total between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Rams to an astronomical score of 64 – and both teams went over 41 points.
Michael Grodsky, spokesman for William Hill, who counts 108 sports betting in Nevada, told ESPN that the game was a "healthy seven-figure loss" for the book, with 69% of customers betting.
The game was opened and closed at age 64, the highest level among players on an NFL game since at least 1986, according to research by ESPN Stats & Information.
A match that quarterback Jared Goff rightly called "four quarters of madness" saw the Rams and Chiefs combined to add several entries to the NFL record book on Monday night.
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Patrick Mahomes scored for 478 yards and six touchdowns in the Monday night game but lost two fumbles and made three interceptions.
Chiefs' Stud Kareem Hunt has seven touchdowns and seven touchdowns – a feat that has not been accomplished since Lenny Moore, 57 years ago, in 1961.
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The previous record in the ESPN database was 62 in a match between the St. Louis Rams and the San Francisco 49ers in November 2000, which the Rams had won by 34 to 24.
The Rams opened last weekend as a consensus 1-point favorite on sports betting in Las Vegas. The line had been bet down to -2.5 Rams last Monday before being pulled off the board due to uncertainty as to the location of the match. The match was eventually moved to Los Angeles as a result of concerns over field conditions at Mexico's Estadio Azteca.
The line was reopened in Vegas books on Rams -3.5 before closing at -3.
Darren Rovell also contributed to this report.
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