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Super Bowl XLIV Betting Propositions
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
It’s that time of the year when bettors go ga-ga over one huge football game, betting on everything from coin tosses to who among the Colts will wear panties.
Well, maybe not that last one. (I hope…) Seriously, Super Bowl XLIV should once again generate all kinds of betting propositions since this is only the biggest sporting event of the year other than the World Cup and it will be the last time we’ll ever get to enjoy football until we hit August again later this year.
Get ready, because here they come again, Super Bowl prop bets. Every year, a part of the media coverage around the big game focuses on the astounding number of proposition betting options that online sportsbooks roll out.
These prop bets range from the obvious (correct score of the game) to the unique (the Over/Under on the length of the national anthem). Over the next week and a half, we’ll look at some of the Super Bowl prop betting options offered and where the betting public are putting their money.
On that note, SPORTSBETTING.com has hundreds and hundreds of props listed and some of the most innovative options you’ll find anywhere.
Let’s get the popular coin toss one out of the way at the start here. The prop bet ”will the opening coin toss be heads or tails?” is currently listed at -115 for both options (I don’t really see this line moving due to heavy one-sided action…)
The Total for the Super Bowl is at 56 and of course there are numerous props related to the Over/Under. For example, one betting option is, ”what will the actual total score of the game be? An even number (-110) or an odd number (-120)?” See how crazy that is? Not even Peyton Manning can figure that one out.
There is also a proposition on the…
2008 NFL Week 11 Betting Tips
Friday, November 14th, 2008
It’s Week 11 in the NFL and in case you haven’t felt it yet, the playoffs are just around the corner.
Week 11 of the 2008-09 NFL football season stared this Thursday night as teams continue to jockey for position with the playoffs only less than two months away. And after ten weeks into the season, we learned that the Titans continue to surprise themselves, the Bills continue to disappoint their fans, the Giants like to toy with their prey and an old fart like Kurt Warner could be the MVP at the end of the year.
Crazy huh? Guess what, it only gets crazier because Week 11 stared with the 
New England Patriots. What has been crazy about this team is the fact that they have been able to stay on top of their division playing without starting quarterback Tom Brady and starting running back Laurence Maroney. They played Brett Favre and the surging New York Jets last Thursday night and since the Jets are tied with the Pats for the AFC East lead, it sure was nice to relive this Eric Mangini – Bill Belichick rivalry.
The 5-4 Miami Dolphins look for their fourth win in a row when they face the struggling 2-7 Oakland Raiders this Sunday. The Dolphins are ranked 31st in defensive punt-return average, last in opponent’s field position on kickoffs and last in net punting average but somehow still managed to put up a solid win-loss mark above .500. We don’t expect the struggling Raiders to be able to take advantage of Miami’s problems on special teams because while the Dolphins don’t have that strong of a group on special teams, the Raiders have literally not been a team this season yet.
Miami Dolphins by seven.
The winless Detroit Lions, just like last week, the week before that, and…
2008 NFL Season Week 10 Betting Tips
Friday, November 7th, 2008Time to cash in on some games in the NFL.
Week 10 of the 2008-09 NFL football season started early this week because starting this week, football comes early every Thursday night until the second to the last week of the season.
And in case you missed the first paragraph, YES, Week 10 started on a Thursday night with the Denver Broncos visiting the Cleveland Browns. These two teams have been struggling lately and matching them up together last Thursday was just what both of these two teams needed.
Next, the St. Louis Rams will try to regain some momentum after giving their new coach a couple of wins only to lose the next two games when they face the New York Jets. Having won two of three games under coach Jim Haslett, another victory would have given the St. Louis Rams a 3-5 record last Sunday at the season’s halfway point and moved them to within one game of the Arizona Cardinals. Instead, they have fallen three games behind Arizona after the Cardinals handed them a 34-13 loss back in Week 9. They have the Jets this Sunday, a team that won two straight to put them in the middle of a three-way tie for first in the AFC East. And in case you didn’t get that, yes, this is a bad time for a struggling Rams team to face the high-flying Jets.
New York Jets by seven.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have their worst record in franchise history after eight games at 3-5. Fortunately for these guys, they will play the STILL winless Detroit Lions this Sunday and there’s no way in hell the Jags will drop this one. The Jaguars are the first team in NFL history to play back-to-back games against teams with 0-8 records, but after losing to the once winless Cincinnati Bengals last Sunday, giving the winless Lions their first win of the season shouldn’t be included in their…
Can Trent Edwards lift the Bills against the Redskins?
Saturday, December 1st, 2007The Buffalo Bills have decided and it’s Trent Edwards starting again.
After J.P. Losman went down with an injury against the Patriots back in the early weeks of the 2007-08 NFL football season, the Bills went to their rookie quarterback Trent Edwards, hoping that the kid would be able to lead this team steady until their feature QB returns from his injury.
Trent Edwards did just that and more, leading the Buffalo Bills to win five of their six games with him as a starter. When J.P. Losman went back, ironically against the very team that took him out, the Bills lost.
Last week, it was more of the same story as J.P. Losman failed to lead the Buffalo Bills to win a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, losing in emphatic fashion, 36-13. Losman now led the Bills to TWO straight losses and it was only logical to give Trent Edwards the starting spot back.
”We’re definitely looking for a spark, but that’s probably not the only reason we’re making the change,” Buffalo Bills head coach Dick Jauron said. ”We fully understand that it’s not only J.P. That’s not the only reason we’ve lost these couple of games in a row. But it is the focal point of the offense. We do need consistency from that position.”
Jauron still refuses to see that he needs Trent Edwards at the starting QB spot and not J.P. Losman to give the Bills a glimmer of hope to win football games. As of press time…
NFL Rivalry between Raiders and Chiefs continues Sunday
Sunday, November 25th, 2007It’s this Sunday and while a Raiders-Chiefs game would be as big as a Giants-Cowboys game a few years ago, it’s not the same this year.
Why? For one, both the Oakland Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs are just struggling this 2007-08 NFL football season. Both teams are on a downward spiral and the only thing both teams will be playing for this Sunday is to not play as bad as the other team.
The Oakland Raiders continue their struggle, having yet another miserable year with a dismal 2-8 stand. After Daunte Culpepper carried the Raiders to a decent 2-2 mark last month, they lost SIX STRAIGHT GAMES, leading them to a familiar place, the bottom of every statistical category there is in football.
The Kansas City Chiefs, on the other hand, have lost three straight games. They haven’t won anything since their bye-week last October and after scoring a decent 4-3 mark, they now stand as the second worst team in the AFC West at 4-6, with the Raiders the worst of course.
When these Chiefs host the rival Raiders at Arrowhead Stadium, they will relive one of the better rivalries in football.
And although it doesn’t mean anything this year with both teams struggling at this point of the 2007-08 NFL football season, it’s still a rivalry game for both teams and winning this game could be the ”push,” so to speak, each team will be looking for to get back on track.
Who’ll win? Well, sad to say but I’m picking the Kansas City Chiefs since they were THAT close from giving the defending Super Bowl champs, Indianapolis Colts, their third straight loss of the year last Sunday.
Sure, Peyton Manning was not himself against Kansas City but since…
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