Man kills longtime friend after losing $700 Super Bowl bet
It's been three years since Eddie Roberson shot and killed his longtime friend after he lost a $700 Super Bowl bet, and he is now being sentenced to life in prison for the killing.
It’s been three years since Eddie Roberson shot and killed his longtime friend after he lost a $700 Super Bowl bet, and he is now being sentenced to life in prison for the killing.
In 2013, Roberson bet his friend, Talif Crowley, that the San Francisco 49ers would win in the Super Bowl XLVII, but the team lost to the Baltimore Ravens after a no-call on holding, which many fans of the 49ers felt cost the team the entire game.
Two days after the loss, Roberson not only refused to pay up on the bet but shot Crowley six times on a New York street, shouting, “They cheated my team.”
On Friday, Judge Alfonse Cifelli sentenced Roberson to life in prison, noting that “this casual murder of a longtime friend” had been sufficiently “brazen” and “cold-blooded” that it warranted the lifetime sentence.
“I’m glad he got what he got,” Crowley’s mother, Audrey Crowley told a NJ.com reporter after the ruling. “He deserve every bit of it and more.”
Roberson has continued to maintain his innocence but did take the time in court to say that he sympathized with Crowley’s family, despite the fact that, he said, they had the wrong man. “I do feel for y’all loss,” Roberson said.
