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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Roddy White earned a bit of attention last week for a bet he made over Twitter regarding the outcome of the Duke-Mercer game in the NCAA tournament. White said he thought the Blue Devils would go all the way, but a fan named Dylan Hoyt disagreed:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;@roddywhiteTV @kristenm2185 Mercer gonna beat em first round! #478&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2014 Dylan Hoyt (@DHoyt77) March 18, 2014&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;White, confident in the Blue Devils, promised Hoyt season tickets if Bears pulled off the upset:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;@DHoyt77 if mercer beat duke I will give you season tickets 50 yard line first row&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2014 Roddy White (@roddywhiteTV) March 18, 2014&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the Bears then beat the Blue Devils, prompting White to start backtracking:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I lost a bet and I will give him tickets to the bears game since he is a bears fan done with this bet&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2014 Roddy White (@roddywhiteTV) March 21, 2014&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;White was widely chastised for reneging, to which he responded with the lamest excuse ever:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Y'all people are crazy on twitter you want me to man up and pay a bet to a person that had nothing to lose in the bet #soundsridicules&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2014 Roddy White (@roddywhiteTV) March 23, 2014&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plus it's illegal to gamble in the NFL \u2014 Roddy White (@roddywhiteTV) March 23, 2014&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hoyt, however, was a good sport, saying he was fine with White's decision because he (Hoyt) didn't want to be a distraction to the Falcons (you know, because we're in the midst of football season right now and the Falcons &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; can't afford to lose this week):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't expect anything from @roddywhiteTV because it wasn't even a legit bet. I do not want to be a distraction to The Falcons organization&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2014 Dylan Hoyt (@DHoyt77) March 23, 2014The lesson here, as always, is to never make a bet unless the terms are written in blood. Can someone get on making a BloodWager app? Actually, scratch that, don't steal my idea.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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