Hypothetical Question: Gray's Sports Almanac

[CharlesPhipps]

Eh, the recast isn't a sign of time travel.

Some allowances need to be made for the fact they're movies.

HOWEVER, random bizarre theory: Doc Brown originally created the hoverboard after his time machine research. However, due to his marriage to a 19th century woman, he never got around to sharing the technology.

[hammerofglass]

It actually does make sense, bear with me here:

Prime Doc sends Prime Marty back to 1955. Prime Marty alters the timeline, 1985 2 created.

Prime Marty is in 1985 2 just long enough to marvel at the timeline and start traveling to the future with Doc 2 and Jennifer 2 as shown in the end of the first movie. Timeline change lag (Delayed Ripple Effect as TV Tropes calls it) catches up, Prime Marty is erased and overwritten by Marty 2.

In altered timeline Marty 2 goes back to 1955 and successfully maintains what to him is the original timeline, stabilizing the loop. Prime timeline as seen in the beginning of the first movie is completely overwritten and none of the characters are aware of it.

Returning Marty 2 experiences the altered version of traveling to the future with Jennifer 2 and Doc 2 as seen in the beginning of the second movie and we follow them the rest of the series.

[McAvoy]

You could use it if you do small and modest bets mixed in with intential loses. Or win one big one, but even the big ones won't be enough to get truly rich off of it. Not Biff rich anyway.

Throw it on unlikely bets too with obvious mixed results.

I remember in 2012 a man placed a bet that the first scoring drive of Super Bowl 46 would be a safety. Tom Brady did exactly that and the man won $50k. A safety in football is hard and requires a specific placement of the football to even work. Even then it required him to place $1,000.

My brother nearly won a $800 bet on this last Thanksgiving that the Giants first drive would be scored by the QB. He nearly won because the QB did run it in but turned out to be a yard short. Next play the team's RB ran it instead.

Too be fair, Biff became rich from not just gambling, gambling was the start of his massive riches. He really became rich off his casino, political connections, and general awful personality that we know is praised and beloved.

Well they say Biff in that timeline was based off of Trump. This was back in 1989, so before Trump even divorced his first wife and all of the shady stuff he did in the 90's and beyond.

[CharlesPhipps]

Eighties Trump was already known as the guy who took over his father's real estate business and heavily marketed himself as the "face" of Walstreet. Even by then he was suspected of being involved with the New York City mafia (his father was the real guy doing that) and real estate swindles before the first of his casino bankruptcies.

[McAvoy]

Eighties Trump was already known as the guy who took over his father's real estate business and heavily marketed himself as the "face" of Walstreet. Even by then he was suspected of being involved with the New York City mafia (his father was the real guy doing that) and real estate swindles before the first of his casino bankruptcies.

I know. Though technically he didn't fully take over his father's business in the 80's, that happened in the 90's. That was when his father's mental health went downhill. Then Trump did his usual shady stuff to grab Fred Trump's fortune of around $400 million.

Fred Trump was basically helping fund Donald Trump after his failures.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Get rich and watch my back for Sculder and Mully.

[McAvoy]

I just have a hard time seeing someone even with a book like what Biff had to get truly rich off of betting. Especially in the days before internet.

Maybe if it was a book of winning lottery numbers for each week or year. Win a couple of times or just once like that one $2 billion one would easily put you in Biff or Trump range of having money in hand.

[CharlesPhipps]

I just have a hard time seeing someone even with a book like what Biff had to get truly rich off of betting. Especially in the days before internet.

Maybe if it was a book of winning lottery numbers for each week or year. Win a couple of times or just once like that one $2 billion one would easily put you in Biff or Trump range of having money in hand.

I mean you can bet on sporting events in Vegas, especially in terms of actual points and percentages. We're also notably in the 1950s when legalized gambling was in its heyday. As we see with Biff, he also is heavily involved in crime in Hill Valley--at least enough to turn it into Hell.