In an utterly joyless installment of “Sunday Night Football” from a broadcast and productional standpoint, the Detroit Lions lost in Week 6 to the Kansas City Chiefs. Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth made sure to highlight the Chiefs were rallying behind the face of the league in Patrick Mahomes, but there were no asterisks this time around for Kansas City’s victory. But had you followed the money, you would have saw this coming well before you waited all day to watch the game.
All week long, an overwhelming majority of the tickets and money flowed in on the Lions. 81 percent of bets and 85 percent of the money was placed on Detroit to cover the spread (+2.5). At face value, nothing about that seems strange or out of the ordinary. The Lions had ripped off four straight victories, the Chi