American Football Betting
Everybody has a friend whose betting strategy is simple as it is stupid: lay chalk across the board. He tries to convince you taking USC -45 more than Washington State may be the lock of the week despite the truth that the Trojans have yet to cross the 30-point barrier all period. The Yankees at -325 with CC on the mound? No problem, the Yanks have won nine straight! You neglect to inform him he hasn’t carried out his homework because the Evil Empire clinched the night before and is starting their AAA lineup behind Sabathia. Occasionally these chalk bettors just need to discover a lesson. Now you need to lend this chump buffet cash for the rest of the trip simply because he forgot the quantity one sports handicapping rule: do not fall in love with favorites.
American Football Memorabilia
American football has grown an enormous worldwide fan base because the American Professional Football Association was formed in 1920, with the first game being played on October 3rd of that year. From that day on the sport has grown to be what it is today having a larger fan base in America than Baseball, and a fan base that follows each and every season of American Football avidly from every corner from the globe. The NFL was born out from the APFL two years later in 1922 and eventually became the Major League of American Football.
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Tampa Bay Bucs – Clash Of The Pirates
In the National Football League, everything seems to get a nickname eventually. From the Ice Bowl in the 1960s to the Steel Curtain defense of the 1970s, the tendency to define players, plays, teams, and events through the use of colorful monikers has been seemingly irresistible. With that in mind, it was perhaps inevitable that Super Bowl XXXVII in January of 2003 would be labeled as well. Featuring the Tampa Bay Bucs and the Oakland Raiders – both of whom employ symbols and imager evocative of a pirate motif, it was only natural that the game would earn the apt nickname “the Pirate Bowl”.
St. Louis Rams – From 1999 To 2001
The Saint Louis Rams have been playing football in the National Football League for 74 years, though not always in the same location. In fact, they’ve been a wandering team, beginning in Cleveland for ten years before moving to Los Angeles. From there, they picked up roots and plodded off to Anaheim before finally settling in Saint Louis for good – or at least for now. They have, at times, had an offensive unit that is just as movement-oriented. For instance, their offense was so potent between 1999 and the year 2001 that it earned the nickname “The Greatest Show on Turf”. Had it lasted, it might have rivaled the dynasties of Green Bay, Chicago, and San Francisco. Though it ended all too soon, it was still an impressive and exciting time in football history.
Seattle Seahawks And The All-Important Twelfth Man
If there is one thing you can count on in the NFL, it is that tradition will always play a major role in the League’s life. From timeless traditions like tailgating and the Thanksgiving Day Classic to the act of naming everything in sight – the Ice Bowl or the Steel Curtain, for example – fans appreciate the way that football has a language that is all its own. The Seattle Seahawks have contributed to the colorful nature of NFL tradition with a unique tradition of their own – if tradition can describe anything done by a team with only 34 years of play under its belt. That tradition involves the importance of the team’s 12th Man.
San Diego Chargers – Whatever Happened To Mister Automatic?
Any fan of football who keeps up with the rise and fall of the various franchises surely knows that the San Diego Chargers have been on a roll over the last few seasons. Winners of their Western AFC division for four years running, the team has been seeing its best days since the hallowed glory of the early Sixties. Unfortunately, their postseason record has failed to lead to a Super Bowl win. For many fans, the majority of blame for that fact can be traced directly to the man responsible for kicking the ball through the uprights on field goal attempts: kicker Nate Kaeding.
San Francisco 49ers And The Montana Dynasty
Any review of professional football dynasties throughout history would be incomplete without mentioning the great San Francisco 49ers dynasty that existed over the course of the 1980s and into the first part of the following decade. In fact, that dynasty was one of the most impressive to ever take the field, as it occurred during the playing years of some of football’s all time great stars – men like Steve Young and the indomitable Jerry Rice. Over a sixteen year period, 49ers teams compiled ten-plus win seasons each year and, with their great quarterback Joe Montana, won four amazing Super Bowls.
Saints – A Generation Of Patience
For the New Orleans Saints, the Louisiana representative of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC), life in the National Football League (NFL) has been one long exercise in patience. Since their establishment as an expansion franchise in 1966, the Saints have been on an upward trajectory – but one with a very slight uphill grade. It took them more than ten years to manage a break-even season, and another decade beyond that to finally have their first season with more wins than defeats. They didn’t manage a playoff victory until the 2000 campaign. Saints fans have had to endure far more downs than ups over the last four decades as their team struggled to find its place in an NFL dominated by concepts of parity, but throughout it all, patience has been the byword.
Raiders In The Era Of Madden
If you’ve heard of football, you’ve heard of John Madden. As the color commentator for one broadcast station after another, Madden has become nothing less than the voice of the National Football League. His folksy analogies have become inextricably wed to the game’s many finer points. There is also a special place for him in the hearts of Oakland Raiders fans, as he not only led the team during their heydays in the 1970s, but also helped them to win what would turn out to be the first of their three Super Bowl crowns.
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