Pittsburgh -7 favorites to beat Arizona
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
I can’t blame these Vegas bookies why they like the Steelers.
In case you missed the conference championship games two weeks ago, the road to Super Bowl XLIII is done and we have the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals left standing to play for the biggest prize in North American sports.
You read it, for the second time in four years, the Pittsburgh Steelers will once again play for the Super Bowl and face the Arizona Cardinals, a team making their first trip to the big dance in franchise history.
The Pittsburgh 
Steelers have been one of the favorites to win the Super Bowl even before this season started and it is quite understandable that Las Vegas oddsmakers are already favoring those guys by as much as 7 points.
The Arizona Cardinals, on the other hand, were already longshots right from the get-go and they have their track record to thank for that. They were 45-1 longshots at the start of the season and were still 40-1 underdogs to win the Super Bowl even after they got the invite to play in the postseason.
It seems the Cardinals are not getting the respect from oddsmakers despite proving those guys wrong for three consecutive weeks. One oddsmaker said more favor the Steelers because a win over the Ravens beats a win over the Eagles.
‘’Beating Baltimore is a little more impressive,’’ oddsmaker Jason Been said.
Although I don’t entirely disagree with that one, what about beating the Falcons and the Panthers BEFORE beating Philly? Is that less of an accomplishment compared to coming up with a win over a Chargers team playing without…
Can Steelers win another Super Bowl?
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
A second Super Bowl title in four years, now that’s impressive if Pittsburgh can pull it off.
The Pittsburgh Steelers are back in the big dance, they will play the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Florida looking to win their second championship in four years. Amazing huh?
The Steelers outhit and outplayed the Ravens, 23-14 last Sunday to win one of two Super Bowl XLIII tickets at stake. And with the Cardinals already winning their ticket earlier, the pressure was on the Steelers to perform as good, or even better.
Ravens undrafted rookie
quarterback Joe Flacco was harassed by the Pittsburgh Steelers defense all game long. Normally unflappable, he looked lost at times and finished just 13-for-30 for 141 yards with three costly interceptions.
On the other end of the field, Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, the same guy who was picked off four times by New England in his rookie-year AFC title game, was a steady 16-of-33 for 255 yards and, most importantly, no interceptions. If nothing else, it showed how much experience mattered in a game so important.
After Polamalu’s twisting, turning run sealed it with 4:39 to play, the game was held up when Willis McGahee, who scored both Baltimore touchdowns, was carted off the field following a frightening hit to the helmet by Pittsburgh safety Ryan Clark.
With Pittsburgh heading for Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Florida, they are now walking into their seventh Super Bowl. Only the Steelers, 49ers and Cowboys have won five, and Pittsburgh can be the first to win six.
If the Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals, the 36-year-old Mike Tomlin would be…
Pittsburgh V Arizona in Super Bowl 43
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Can Arizona’s high-flying offense run over the defense of Pittsburgh’s ‘Steel Curtain?’
Yes, Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Florida is finally set as the favorites to win it all this year, the Pittsburgh Steelers, will do battle with the season’s ultimate underdogs, the Arizona Cardinals. This is Pittsburgh’s second trip to the Super Bowl in four years while Arizona finally earned the trip to the big dance for the first time in franchise history.
It has been one heckuva’ season and one that could very well be described as one of the most unpredictable campaigns the NFL has ever seen. Who would’ve thought that the Pittsburgh Steelers will be kings of the AFC again with Ben Roethlisberger? Of course, nobody saw the 
Arizona Cardinals coming and the kind of campaign those guys just had.
The Pittsburgh Steelers punched their ticket after closing the curtains on the Ravens offense. Baltimore’s undrafted rookie quarterback Joe Flacco was harrased by the Steel Curtain all night. After posting awesome numbers during the last two playoff games, he had a terrible night against the Steelers secondary, forcing him to finish 13-for-30 for 141 yards and THREE interceptions.
The Steelers defense stopped the running game for the Baltimore Ravens as well, although nobody thought Pittsburgh would be doing it in a literal sense. Pittsburgh safety Ryan Clark literally stopped Baltimore’s most productive force of the night, Willis McGahee.
With 3:29 left to play and already leading 23-14, the Steelers saw Clark lay out Ravens running back Willis McGahee with a vicious hit that sent the tailback motionless on the field for a few minutes. McGahee was carted off the field on a stretcher before the rest of his team gave in to the Steel Curtain.
The Arizona Cardinals earned the right to play in Super Bowl XLIII after once again shocking the world for the…
Who’ll advance to Super Bowl XLIII?
Friday, January 16th, 2009
Only four teams remain, two of them will earn the trip to Tampa this weekend.
As opposed to the wild card round, where we saw all the road teams as favorites, last weekend’s divisional playoff round of the 2009 NFL playoffs set up with all four home teams laying the points. But, as bettors who played the favorites found out, sometimes it’s best to take the path less traveled, or at least it was this past Saturday and Sunday.
The weekend’s biggest underdog, the Arizona Cardinals, played those 9.5-point favorite Panthers in Carolina last Saturday night. The Panthers were almost always favored by as many points all year that betting against them was hard, to say the least. The Cards were champions of arguably the NFL’s weakest division, the NFC West, with a 9-7 record straight up, while the Panthers won the NFC South with a 12-4 mark SU.
Fortunately for Arizona bettors, and unfortunately for Carolina’s, Panthers’ birthday boy Jake Delhomme threw five picks in an awful performance. The resulting 33-13 loss dealt a blow to the betting public, as the Panthers were heavily backed to cover the spread, but as well the straight up loss killed a lot of teaser and moneyline parlay tickets Saturday.
Arizona is now 6-1 ATS when underdogs of 8-points or more and advances to its first ever NFC championship. Who knows, that trend might come in handy if the Cards meet Pittsburgh in Super Bowl XLIII, though the line probably wouldn’t get that high.
The Cardinals have the Philadelphia Eagles next after Philly sent the Giants to an early vacation. Remember that quarterback controversy in Philadelphia earlier in the season, when Donovan McNabb was benched in favor of Kevin Kolb? Remember how the New York Giants won the Super Bowl last year?
Both are distant memories now as the Philadelphia Eagles ensured that the Giants won’t be defending their Super Bowl title, covering as +4 road favorite in a 23-11 win last Sunday.
The Under had cashed in 10 of Philadelphia’s…
2008 NFL Week 16 Betting Tips
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
It’s crunch time in the NFL with only two weeks remaining in the season.
Yes, it’s already Week 16 of the 2008-09 NFL football season and nothing, absolutely NOTHING has been decided as far as the final playoff picture is concerned. And after 15 weeks into the season, we learned that Matt Cassel can put up points, Terrell Owens is letting Romo and Witten have their thing together (for now…) and the Lions STILL can’t win shit. (Surprise… surprise…)
Heading to NFL Week 16, we’ll have the last Thursday and Monday night games of the season and since we’re giving you a heads up for the coming football action, we’ll start on Thursday night when the Indianapolis Colts visit the struggling Jacksonville Jaguars.
The Indianapolis Colts want to extend their six-year streak of making it to the playoffs. That’s exactly what they can do with a win over the Jacksonville Jaguars, who will try to partially salvage their season of failed expectations by at least delaying the Colts’ seventh straight entry into the postseason. However, the 10-4 Colts won seven in a row to put themselves at the top of the AFC wild-card standings. That’s why you should stay away from Jacksonville for this one.
Indianapolis Colts by 7
For the first time this season, we’ll have NFL football action on a Saturday when the Baltimore Ravens visit the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas. This is historic for the ‘Boys since they’ll be playing their last game at the stadium. Of course, they’re looking to win their last one too. The Ravens currently share the same 9-5 record with three teams; the Jets, the Dolphins and the Patriots, and if they win their last two games, they would finish 11-5, including 8-4 in the AFC, to give themselves a better playoff position heading to the postseason. However, since…
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