NFL odds especially Super Bowl odds, are the most popular of all forms football odds. NFL odds are the most popular on point-spread sides. This is also known as the betting spread, or the line. Gamblers have a choice of taking the favorite at minus points or the dog at plus points in football lines.
Also available on all NFL games and many college games are Over/under football odds, also known as totals. That is where you are wagering on whether or not the combined score between two teams will go over or under the football lines.
For gamblers that don’t like pointspreads but believe that they can pick winners straight up, then money line football betting lines are great options. Instead of laying or taking points with football betting odds, a gambler can either lay NFL betting odds on the favorite or take NFL football lines on the dog.
Gamblers can also choose to bet parlays. A parlay is a group of plays ranging from two to ten that are merged into a single wager in which all of the plays must win for the bet to win versus the football lines.
Teaser wagering is similar to parlays with the difference being you get points added to your wager. For example, a team that was a +4 point underdog on the regular and parlay line is a +10 dog on the 6-point teaser line. The trade off is that teasers payoff at lesser football odds than parlays.
Another popular option with NFL lines is “Futures” where you bet on a team to win the Super Bowl, division, season wins, etc. These are NFL betting lines that gamblers like to look at before the season begins but are also available throughout the year.
It's a showdown in the Show Me State, as the Kansas City Chiefs meet the St. Louis Rams in a preseason affair on Saturday. The football is scheduled to be kicked off in the Edward Jones Dome at 8:00ET.
The Superbowl Champion Giants will not have to travel far to meet their intracity rival Jets, as these two teams share a stadium in New Jersey. The Giants have been designated as the "visitors" in this one, but that won't stop their fans from coming out in equal numbers to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford for the 7:00ET kickoff on Saturday. You can view the action in much of the country on the NFL Network.
The Oakland Raiders will travel from the Bay area into the desert for a preseason matchup with the Arizona Cardinals on Friday. The game is scheduled to begin in the U of Phoenix Stadium at 8:00ET.
The Tennessee Titans depart the Music City and travel to the gulf coast to meet the Buccaneers in Tampa Bay Friday night. This is the second game of the preseason for both teams with kickoff in Raymond James Stadium scheduled for 7:30ET.
The Cleveland Browns travel to the not so frozen tundra of Green Bay on Thursday to face the Packers in their first exhibition game at Lambeau Field for 2012. The turf should be soft with the temperature around 70 degrees at the 8:00ET kickoff.
Are you ready for some football? I realize fifteen other NFL preseason contests are already in the books, but this is Monday night! Last week's Thursday night addition of Monday Night Football doesn't count as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, it will be the Dallas Cowboys and Oakland Raiders kicking it off on ESPN in the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum at 8:00ET.