One Ladbrokes punter is celebrating this massive 20-leg, four code multi collect that went right down to the wire this week!
They had to wait a full month for this collect but it was well worth it, even if there were some nervy moments in a couple of the NFL games.
Having placed a $100 outlay on these 20 results, there was not a whole lot left to do but sit back and wait for the teams do deliver.
All 20 legs were straightforward, head to head markets so there was no need to worry about lines, totals, goal kickers, try scorers or clean sheets and the first half of this multi took place on the weekend of August 22-23 over Round 13 of the AFL, Round 15 of the NRL and the UEFA Champions League Final.
Things began on a busy Saturday evening with our punter backing all three NRL games on that day and a pair of AFL games.
Canberra flew out of the gates taking a 22-4 halftime lead over the Titans before cruising to a 36-16 win on the Gold Coast.
It was a similar story in the other two NRL games with the Roosters and Rabbitohs both recording convincing victories over the Tigers and Manly respectively.
In the AFL legs it was a little bit closer with Hawthorn running Port Adelaide very close before Zak Butters kicked the game sealing goal late in the fourth quarter to secure a 10 point victory.
Richmond looked like they would blow out Essendon midway through the third quarter taking a four goal lead before an Essendon rally reduced the deficit to single digits, before a strong fourth quarter helped them to a 12 point win.
Three more legs would be resolved the next day starting with Newcastle shutting out the hapless Cowboys in the NRL leg.
Geelong had minimal trouble dispatching of Adelaide in the early AFL game of the day before West Coast lead from wire to wire against GWS at Optus Stadium.
It was a quick turnaround for the next leg and it brought about a brief foray into the UEFA Champions League with the final between Bayern Munich and PSG in the early hours of Monday morning.
Bayern had to work a bit harder in the final than they did in the earlier stages, battling to a 1-0 victory and paying off our punter’s faith after backing them to lift the trophy.
The tenth leg was victorious that night as Collingwood defeated North Melbourne in the final game of Round 13.
With half of the multi down and 10 more legs to go, our punter played the long game and backed 10 favourites in Week 2 of the NFL season this past weekend.
It was a great week to show some faith in NFL favourites with 14 of the 16 winning their games.
Cleveland got the weekend off to a winning start defeating Cincinnati in the Battle of Ohio on Friday (AEST) by a score of 35-30 with the final nine legs set to take place in the early hours of Monday morning.
In the 3:00am window, our punter had some fairly straightforward results with the 49ers thumping the Jets, Tampa Bay cruising over Carolina and the Packers belting Detroit but there were some tense moments in some of the other legs.
Tennessee and Pittsburgh both had their wins go right down to the wire, but the real drama took place in Dallas.
Atlanta lead 20-0 before the end of the first quarter and looked like blowing the Cowboys out of their own building.
In true Falcons fashion though, they had a big lead in Texas before suffering what would be a historic choke for most franchises, but for that highly broken organisation it’s just standard fare.
Dallas rallied back to 29-24 before Atlanta responded to extend their lead to 36-24 with eight minutes remaining, then the Falcons decided to Falcons.
The Cowboys brought it back to 39-37 with 1:49 remaining thanks to a pair of touchdowns and regained possession after one of the most insane onside kickoffs you will ever see.
It was almost inevitable from there as Greg Zuerlein nailed a game winning field goal as time expired and saving this multi from seemingly certain collapse.
Our punter was just three legs away from this massive collect and those games all took place in the next window of NFL games.
Baltimore and Arizona took care of business against Houston and Washington respectively and you could have forgiven our punter for thinking they were home and hosed after the LA Chargers were forced to start rookie quarterback Justin Herbert.
The young signal caller stood tall in his debut putting the Chargers in position for a massive upset of the defending champions, before Patrick Mahomes reminded everyone why he is on the contract in NFL history.
First he drove the Chiefs 88 yards in just over two minutes for the game tying field goal as time expired before Harrison Butker was as cool as ice, hitting a massive 58 yard field goal in overtime and delivering this huge win for our punter.
