Place Your Bets!

by | Aug 13, 2008 | NFL Gambling

Unlike a lot of sites that cover NFL related topics, we have no intent of burying our head in the sand when it comes to sports betting while conveniently ignoring that the majority of fantasy football leagues are played for money (sometimes significant money).

And while we have to wait until our trip to Vegas opening weekend to place any real money on games, this past summer we discovered a site that’s amusing to play around with (if you can stand the occasional pop-up ad), and can actually make you some free money for betting.  Very, very slowly, but hey–it’s free. (Although, we haven’t made nearly enough to actually cash anything out yet).

And the best part–we just realized that they do in fact even have preseason games on their board–so we set up a ZoneBlitz account, and encourage you to play along!

Our opening bet is a 4-way parlay, taking the Colts (+3) over the Falcons, the Vikings (+3) over the Ravens, the Saints (-3) over the Texans, and the Cardinals (+3) over the Chiefs–$0.10 bet to win $1.17.  Who says preseason football isn’t fun?

Feel free to mock our bets–in the comments here, or sign up for an account and put your money where your mouth is–or in this case, your free money where your mouth is.

Vegas, Baby

by | May 29, 2008 | NFL Gambling, We Forgot

Things have definitely been slow around here, lately–largely due to the offseason doldrums that are going on right now (no matter how we try, we just can’t bring ourselves to write extensively about OTAs and arrest reports.

But today we get to break out the one area we haven’t really talked about much on ZoneBlitz–’cause we’re on our way to Vegas.

It’s a little early to be thinking too much about NFL betting, but we figured we’d throw down at least a couple of futures bets on the Super Bowl.

At 30/1, the hometown Vikings are looking like one interesting bet. And if the Jags and Chargers are still at 10/1, they might be intriguing options, although I’m not convinced of either’s defense.

As for super sleepers, seems like every year I seem to think the Cardinals (45/1) are finally going to figure it out, and without looking up any of their offseason moves, it seems to me like the Panthers (60/1) had a decent offseason.

Here are the current 2009 Super Bowl odds we’ve been working off of (as of May 7, at least)–so, we’ll put this out there for any readers–what do you think are some good bets? Post them below, and we’ll let you know what we decide on.