Sports - Football bets

To understand what a good football bet is one must think like a bookmaker. The bookmaker will obviously center his attention on the games that are most attractive to the public at large and less on the games that do not appeal to the masses. Less attractive markets help add to this factor. That does not mean that odds makers won't be on top of these football games, 1800-Sports.com just believes that the sports bettors have a better advantage when betting on them.

We will now review the 2004 NFL football schedule. We will make a comparison of the most boring games in any given week with those of marquee match-ups that will help draw attention away from your target football bet. No matter how bad one or two sides of a match-up might be seen, sports bettors will always bet heavily on Sunday night and Monday night games; these will thus have to be removed from the overall equation.

While conducting this exercise, it is important to know which teams will be seen as slackers early on. We can only judge by early predictions and future odds set by the bookies. As such, by Week 5 perceptions can change, so only the first four weeks will feature in our example analysis.

Among the bad teams ideal for placing your football bet: Arizona (the perennially bad team), Detroit, San Diego, Houston, Cleveland, Chicago, Buffalo and New Orleans. To a lesser extent: Jacksonville and Cincinnati, but there is a good chance that these teams are likely to improve their performances.

Our favorite match-ups to place a football bet on are:

W1 Jacksonville / Buffalo

Detroit / Chicago
San Diego / Houston - with a -4 needs some focus.

W2 Houston / Detroit

W3 NA

W4 New Orleans at Arizona