Dan Campbell is not a betting man.
"I’ll get banned for life in this league if I bet," he said Friday.
But the Detroit Lions coach was surprised to hear that his 5-7 team is a 2½-point favorite vs. the 10-2 Minnesota Vikings on Sunday — the first time since the 1970 merger that a team eight or more games over .500 is an underdog against a team with a losing record (excluding games where teams rested their starters), according to CBS Sports.
"I’m shocked by that," Campbell said. "But there again, it doesn’t — all those things don’t matter.