For the first time since Titanic, As Good As It Gets, and Good Will Hunting were crushing box offices nationwide, all three Florida-based NFL teams will appear in the playoffs together this weekend.
And the Jacksonville Jaguars, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Miami Dolphins will each enter the arena as underdogs, even though the Jags and Bucs both won the right as division winners to host their opponents on what the NFL calls Super Wild Card Weekend.
If you are brave or foolish enough to make a novelty parlay on this trio, make sure you're getting the best number. As of this writing, FanDuel Sportsbook prices the three-Florida-team parlay at +3002. This comes after the Dolphins ruled out Tua Tagovaiola (concussions) on Wednesday and prepare to start rookie Skylar Thompson. Of course, if you're in Florida, you're either calling your local bookie or ringing your son back in Yonkers, because legal sports betting there remains on hold in the court system.
To review the last time Florida’s three teams even presented such a possibility, let's briefly go back in time to the run-up to Super Bowl XXXII — a game in which Jewel sang the national anthem, referee Ed Hochuli's biceps presided over the contest, and the underdog Denver Broncos bested the Green Bay Packers 31-24.