With legalized sports betting expanding across the country, more people than ever are placing bets in addition to filling out their brackets. While some might assume that betting and filling out a bracket require the same approach,

Trying to prove the real inventor of the March Madness pool seems about as implausible as picking a perfect bracket.

By the time Jody's Club shut down the pool in 2006, under scrutiny from everyone from the IRS to Sports Illustrated, the jackpot was a whopping $1.6 million to the winner.