The fields for the MVP and rookie of the year awards are starting to get very crowded. Why? Because the stand-outs aren’t on what many would consider unbelievable teams. The rookie of the year is okay for that. But the MVP award usually goes to a person on a team that has separated itself from the rest of the NFL.
Week 11 in the NFL was downright boring when compared to the entertaining highs and lows that BetUS NFL sports betting buffs everywhere enjoyed the previous ten weeks.
Still, in keeping with the general ‘surprise’ theme that the 2008-09 season has turned out to be, there were one or two surprising outcomes across the NFL landscape.
Tony Romo, playing with a bandaged pinkie, proved that you can indeed affect a reeling team when you’re the guy under center. For sports betting fans, the presence of Romo was the difference in what turned out to be a very good game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins on Sunday night.
It’s the midway point of the NFL season and sports betting fans are either absolutely thrilled or positively heart broken at what has transpired so far. This has been a particularly strange year for NFL betting.
The usual suspects aren’t lighting up the online sportsbook world and some surprise teams have come out of nowhere to solidify themselves as online wagering studs.
Here is my weekly NFL review, which, as always, provides bettors with, not only a look back at the week that was in the NFL, but a glimpse ahead as to what NFL sports bettors can expect out of each team in their upcoming contest.
What another whacky Sunday in the NFL. Sports betting fans have be thrilled at how things have been going so far this NFL season. What started out as a fairly traditional NFL season with favorites taking home most of the money, has turned into a strange, almost long-shots paradise with some of the lesser known teams in the NFL easily covering spreads.
The BetUS online sportsbook hasn’t released online odds on the Indianapolis Colts vs. Pittsburgh Steelers game because quarterback Ben Rothelisberger may or may not start for the Steelers.
It’s a huge game. Sports betting fans will definitely want to take a look at it once the BetUS online sportsbook releases online wagering odds.
The New York Giants became the best team in the NFL this past Sunday for NFL betting fans when they beat the pre-season NFC East favorite, Dallas Cowboys, by a commanding score of 35 to 14. For sports betting fans, it doesn’t get any crazier than that. One pre-season favorite falls to the defending Super Bowl champion by a margin that nobody expected? Such is life in the NFL for a football betting fan.
While the NASCAR betting championship might be a foregone conclusion—yes, Jimmie Johnson will win again—that doesn’t mean there’s not plenty of NASCAR betting value on the board at BetUS.com this weekend. The good ol’ boys will travel to the hotbed of Texas for this week’s Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. And wouldn’t you know it, there’s a familiar name at the top of the track averages standings…
It has become crystal clear in this topsy-turvy NFL betting campaign, that nothing is as it seems for the majority of teams across the league.
Outside of a just a handful of NFL teams this season (Titans, Giants, Redskins, Panthers) nearly every team in the league has shown a serious propensity to display what I’ve long termed, the ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ symptom.
In last week’s NFL Sunday Re-cap I wrote about how the wheels had fallen off of the New Orleans Saints, San Diego Chargers and Dallas Cowboys. I alerted online sportsbook betting fans to the fact that all three of those teams had become horrible online betting propositions.
In the words of legendary soul singer, Marvin Gaye, I’m sure NFL fans and bettors everywhere, want to know, ‘What’s Goin’ On?’
That’s right BetUS NFL Sportsbook wagering fanatics, I have to admit that despite recording a respectable 8-6 mark on all of my Week 7 NFL selections this past Sunday, to improve to a season total of 50-39 (56 percent) with all of my NFL Free Picks in the BetUS Locker Room this season, the 2008-09 NFL season has been one of the craziest in recent memory.
The books did well last week on the NFL betting board, with favorites going an almost even 8-6 against the number. If that continues, bettors need to make sure they’re handicapping the right games because simply keeping track of sweeping, overarching trends won’t get your wallet padded. With that in mind, here’s three matchups on Sunday that are seeing serious action from pigskin players:
Jeff Burton has five races in which to catch Jimmie Johnson. For online wagering fans that have placed a NASCAR online bet on Burton, things don’t look too good. Johnson was masterful last Saturday night when holding his second place position in the Bank of America 500.
That’s all you can hope to expect from Jimmie at this point. Burton won the race but Jimmie held serve.
What a Sunday in the NFL! Four games, count them, four were decided by three points or less this past Sunday. It was a day for online betting underdogs as some of the most talked about teams in the NFL fell to some of the more underrated squads in the league.
One of the upsets was downright daring as the Washington Redskins, easily one of the most reliable online wagering options in the NFL so far this season, fell to the previously winless St. Louis Rams.
Online sports wagering enthusiasts and hockey betting sharps are primed for the start of the NHL season, as there is tremendous NHL betting value to take advantage of as early as this weekend.
One typical betting trend when it comes to early season NHL games is high scoring. Generally, it takes goaltenders a few weeks or so to get into a rhythm once again, and coaches like to alternate between their starter and backup to begin the season, so as to give both ‘keepers a look.
