We heard the clip on Howard Stern this morning, and 700 Level has found the video from Jim Rome’s TV show (after the jump): Sir Charles Barkley, who is addicted to listening to ESPN talking heads ‘because they played,’ switched his bet to the Patriots a few days prior to the Super Bowl, and wound up losing about $400,000. For a bright man, his logic is disturbing. We also turned up this great quote from the Chuckster about why he gambles:

Charles Barkley was distraught about changing his Super Bowl bet from the Giants to the Patriots shortly before the game. He was asked why he likes to gamble. Here’s the reason he gave on HBO’s “Costas Now”:

“I don’t want to leave all that money to my freeloading family. I mean, you take care of your family, you build them all those houses and give them all cars. Then when you die they live happily ever after. That ain’t cool. I want to be like dead broke when I keel over.”

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