Rico Bosco, Big Cat sweat the Gambling Cave Week 6 parlay

The Cave came into Sunday going for 3 parlays in a row, and the crowd was already on board well before kickoff.

Steven Cheah

@StevenCheah

Under 90 minutes til kickoff and we’ve got almost 16k people riding with the Gambling Cave Parlay as we go for three in a row. Odds up over 15:1 and if you use a BOOST on @DKSports you can get it up over 20:1. Ride with us here: t.co/MBnBa1E4E8 #DKPartner

Steven Cheah

@StevenCheah

Do we cash big again? If not, who blows it for us? Tomorrow, the Gambling Cave goes for THREE STRAIGHT Either Or TD Parlays on @DKSports Bet it here: t.co/8wesaN1nFp #DKPartner t.co/0H3O79TMkx

That's close to 16,000 people tailing a ticket north of 15-to-1, the kind of number that makes a room full of grown men act strange. Two straight hits will do that. Steven Cheah said on Friday's Quick Picks that people had been texting him their legs unprompted days ahead of time. Everybody wanted in on the streak.

Chicago gave the room an easy start. Caleb Williams found Colston Loveland for a 14-yard touchdown on the opening drive, D'Andre Swift ran one in to make it 14 points in the 1st quarter, and Swift scored again later on his way to 2 touchdowns. While the Bears were cruising, Pittsburgh was spitting the bit in Tampa. The ticker at the bottom of the Cave feed had the Steelers down 13-0 in the 2nd quarter. That's about when the cameras found Rico.

Big Cat

@BarstoolBigCat

Rico chewing on his highlighter. Lot of pressure in the cave

Big Cat put it down to pressure. The other version going around the Barstool accounts was that Rico had chewed on the thing long enough that it ended up all over his face, and nobody in the room told him. Whether the ink actually got that far is between Rico and his mirror. Either way, when a guy is eating office supplies before halftime, the parlay is weighing on him.

Then the afternoon turned. The either-or touchdown leg, Chuba Hubbard or Devonta Smith, came through, and the ticket that had people chewing stationery suddenly looked like it had a real shot at 3 straight.

Barstool Gambling

@stoolgambling

Chuba Hubbard or Devonta Smith✅ THE CAVE PARLAY HAS SOME LIFE

The Bears closed out a 31-23 win in Atlanta, which left Steelers-Bucs as the last game standing. Pittsburgh trailed by 13 through 3 quarters, came all the way back in the 4th to force overtime, and then took the overtime kickoff on a 12-play, 70-yard drive that ate 6:45 of the 10-minute period. Aaron Rodgers capped it with a 6-yard touchdown to Germie Bernard, the rookie's first in the NFL, and the room had a winner.

That's how a game that looked dead in the 2nd quarter paid the over in overtime. Tampa still converted a big 4th down late to drag things out, and Big Cat sounded like a man who just wanted to go home, but the Bucs' drive died with about a minute left and Pittsburgh won 26-19. Nobody has posted the final word on the full parlay yet. Until somebody does, the Cave goes into next Sunday with a 3-in-a-row ticket on the line and Rico in need of a new highlighter.