For a preseason game, you can expect a ton of attention when the Eagles and Jaguars hook up Thursday night. If you haven’t heard, Michael Vick will make his debut with Philadelphia – online sportsbook SPORTSBETTING.com is reporting heavy action on Philly in this contest, as bettors feel the team will make a real effort to win this one.
Time to raise the curtain on the 2009 NFL season, as it all gets going this weekend in Canton, Ohio with the Hall-of-Fame game.
The Hall-of-Fame game odds have been listed for a while now. The Tennessee Titans are 3-point favorites over the Buffalo Bills, with a Total set at 31. The number has actually moved a little at a number of online sportsbooks, with some of them now showing -2.5.
It had been a pretty quiet off-season over in the AFC North, as the teams prepared to head for training camp, but that changed with yesterday’s news cycle and the Ben Roethlisberger story breaking.
The internet and sports talk radio buzzed throughout the day with the news that Big Ben had been named in a sexual assault civil suit. All was no longer quiet on the Northern front….
