NFL Betting: Another Ladies Night in Buffalo
TAGS: Futures, Sports Betting: NFL
So, how fun is it that in only one short month we’ll be blogging about football for real and not taking on these silly speculative bets and talking about the WNBA and Canadian Football? We’re excited. You excited? Good. Now, pull up your pants.
The Readabet crew is doing an admirable job of forecasting the NFL divisional winners and putting together some solid rationale about which team is givng the best odds. However, in our opinion, they’re huffing turpentine if they think taking the Buffalo Bills at 7/1 to win the AFC East is something worth paying attention to. Yes, we know running back Willis McGahee went apeshit on 90 percent of his legs the second half of last season and the defense was positively dominating, however, here’s where we disagree:
What intially resparked my interest in Buffalo was the the signing of Kelly Holcomb from Cleveland. I first saw Holcomb shred Pittsburgh for 429 yards and three touchdowns in a 2002 playoff loss, and then hit 30 of 39 for 413 yards and five TDs last year against Cincinnati. The former Brown is a quality QB and should second year signal caller J.P Losman falter, then Kelly Holcomb is a fantastic backup.
However, Readeabet is leaving out the horrendous job Holcomb did when he was finally handed over the starting job after first-string Browns’ quarterback Tim Couch went down. We were also Kelly Holcomb fans when he started chucking endzone balls in the second half of 2003 for the Browns and racking up multi-touchdown games and yardage. However, dude, it’s Kelly Momma Freaking Holcomb and it should not in anyway be a determining factor in taking the Bills to win the division. He’s the BACK-UP. That’s the equivalent of buying stock in Sirius satellite radio because your grandfather suddenly decided to get digital cable.
AFC East Betting Odds Preview [Readabet]
AFC East Division Betting [Totesport]
NFL Futures: The Mirth of a Raider Nation
TAGS: Sports Betting: NFL
Ask a bookie and he’ll tell you the truth – it ain’t about how good a team actually is. Odds are based on the amount of cash idiot-geniuses who will throw their money at the teams they love. Nowhere is this more obvious than The Oakland Raiders and their rabid, hard-drinking, crack-abusing, wife-beating, unemployed and unemployable fans. Your average Raider fan will hop in his Chevy Vega with the high gloss chrome rims, drive ten hours to Vegas to drop cash on just about any line a book offers on the Silver-and-Black. That’s why BoDog will give you 18/1 for the Raiders to win the Super Bowl. That’s right, the Raiders, who finished 5-11 in 2004, look so luscious next to The New York Jets (10-6 in 2004 and 22/1) and the Denver Broncos (10-6 in 2004 and 35/1). Sanity is available, of course. If you’re a Raider fan and you can read this…congratulations on completing third grade before dropping out and lay your money at UK-based Bet365 where you can get 50/1.
2006 Super Bowl futures [BoDog]
2006 Super Bowl futures [Bet365]
Oakland Raiders [home]
CFL Betting: We Have No Idea What We’re Betting A-boot
TAGS: Sports Betting: NFL
We here at Oddjack are obviously into betting on everything, and we’re wont to imply that you should ever feel like you’re a tool for betting on something. That said: You’re a tool if you bet on the Canadian Football League. For those who Truly Have A Problem, Covers previews Week 3 in the CFL. We don’t really understand what any of the bets are about, but we remain amused by how much the nicknames of CFL teams sound like condom brand names.
Roughriders. Blue Bombers. Renegades. Stampedes. Eskimos. Sounds like brunch at the Bunny Ranch.
Week 3 In The CFL [Covers]
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How Gambling Makes the NFL Draft Interesting
TAGS: Sports Betting: NFL
Costas, Collinsworth, Barkley, and McEnroe talk about the snooze-fest that is the NFL Draft and contend that the only people interested in spending 8 hours of a Saturday watching names being called intermittently are the gamblers.
Plus, Barkley says that the NFL wouldn’t be all that interesting if it weren’t for the lines on games and Collinsworth admits he checks out handicapping sheets before going on HBO’s Inside the NFL. He admits, “Hey those guys are right a lot of the time.”
Watch the pre-buffered video on SI.com for all the not-so-unique insight and notice how conceivable it would be for Barkley to eat Bob Costas. I think he could finish him in three bites. Any takers?
One day, everything will be a wager, from a hand of poker to the likelihood you'll be struck down by a bioterror attack before the next brain backup. One day. For now, there's Oddjack. It's a sneak peek at the future of gambling.
