NFL Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings head into Lambeau Field this upcoming Monday night for a classic NFC North tilt with the undefeated Green Bay Packers. The kick-off is slated for 8:30 p.m. (ET) and the game will be broadcast nationally on ESPN.

Arizona is 1-3 on the season and bettors should realize that each of the team’s games have been decided by seven points or less. The Cardinals have dropped consecutive games against the Seattle Seahawks (13-10) and New York Giants (31-27) despite out-gaining both teams.

Minnesota has suffered three consecutive second-half meltdowns in entering this week with an 0-3 record, including a 26-23 loss to the Detroit Lions as three-point home underdogs.

Detroit enters Week 3 of the 2011 season with a perfect 2-0 record, coming off wins over Tampa Bay (27-20) and the Kansas City Chiefs (48-3). The Lions are the only team in the NFL that have covered all six games this season, which includes the preseason.

Lines for Week 3 in the NFL

Tampa Bay dropped a 27-20 contest to the Detroit Lions as one-point home favorites in its season opener and will look to run the ball more heading out on the road. The Buccaneers completely abandoned the

NFL Lines for week 2

The Minnesota Vikings put the Brett Favre era in the past and move ahead with another veteran quarterback in the 2011 NFL season opener against the San Diego Chargers inside Qualcomm Stadium

San Diego continues to stumble out of the gates year in and year out under head coach Norv Turner and it cost the team a chance to play in the postseason last year. The Chargers are 8-12 SU

Florida Atlantic travels to The Swamp in Gainesville and will begin the final season under head coach Howard Schnellenberger, who began the program 13 years ago, taking it from obscurity into the major college football ranks

LSU is a dominating 20-4 all-time against current members of the Pac-12 Conference, which includes a 3-0 mark under Miles. Playing inside of a dome will likely factor little in the Tigers ability to come out with a victory, entering with a 22-7 all-time mark when indoors. LSU has won

Houston is one of three teams with a perfect 3-0 ATS mark and was visually impressive in a 30-7 road win over the San Francisco 49ers as 5.5-point favorites. The Texans out-gained the 49ers by an incredible 312 yards

Bettors are enjoying a unique opportunity to start playing around with the NFL Week 1 lines this year, even with many roster spots in doubt due to free agency starting this week. Professional bettors will continue moving these numbers around until the season kicks off with a premiere matchup

The Minnesota Vikings and Tennessee Titans open up their 2011 NFL preseason schedules Saturday night and the series has been dominated by the road team. The Vikings are a perfect 4-0 against the Titans during exhibition action

The ongoing negotiations between the NFL owners and the Players Association to arrive at a new CBA (collective bargaining agreement) continue to point towards a resolution that could potentially end a four-month owner imposed lockout of the players and reopen the league for business as early as the end of this week

The 2011 Pro Bowl returns to Hawaii after being held in Miami, Florida last year. The annual contest of the AFC's and NFC's best will take place Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, at 7 p.m. ET. This is only the second time in history that the Pro Bowl will be held the week

We thought that Philadelphia was going to kill the Vikings last week until the game was postponed. At that point Minnesota realized that they were going to be on national TV

If you have been following our column for the past few years, you know that we are a contrarian bettor, that is how you make money investing in stocks, commodities and more importantly

This game will most likely be play outdoors at the University of Minnesota. Back in the old days, do you remember the great games being played outdoors in the frigid cold in Minnesota. The Bears

Washington surprised Tennessee last week while the Vikings surprised Brad Childress by firing him on Monday. Who knows what kind of Viking team is going to show up this week. You saw what happened to the Cowboys when they fired

Brett Favre is embarrassing himself this year. Aaron Rodgers is quietly becoming the best quarterback in the NFL. That is why Green Bay got rid of Brett a few years back

The Vikings still want to save their season while Chicago is in good shape to be a division winner as long as they play good football. It is still very early in the year

Arizona has been very mediocre this year while Minnesota has been very “shitty" this year also. Actually they have had a rough schedule, and a “fossil” at quarterback

If you haven’t noticed the Patriots are tied for the best record in the league. I’m sure you have noticed that the Vikings have an overrated, grey bearded old man with sexual harassment

The Vikings won the desperate bowl last week with the Cowboys. The Packers are so beat up they have been reduced to an ordinary team. These 2 games between these 2 teams

Stop listening to all the idiots on TV and start listening to the sharp bettors like myself. Before the season, these 2 teams were supposed to meet for the NFC title

These are 2 of the most overrated teams in the NFL. The Jets are showing signs, however, of becoming a good team, thanks to the running

Another great week. We went 7-3 and hit on our big teaser bet. That makes it year to date, 27-14-1 and 3-1 on Teaser betting. We will start the week

The Lions have had a lot of bad luck this year. First they beat Chicago, but the catch was ruled incomplete to win the game, and last week they get Michael Vick

After a surprising Week 3 performance in which Wisconsin barely squeaked out a 20-19 win over Arizona State and needed a blocked extra point to do it, the Badgers get

Minnesota actually played better than we expected last week in the big opener at New Orleans. Miami found a way to win an ugly one in Buffalo

Welcome back guys. We are going to have a great year this year. We are going to start with the traditional opening night game featuring last year’s champ the Saints.

The Saints started to play like they did earlier in the year last week, and the Viking defense helped us hit our under bet, as well as side–total parlay bet. The defensive ends got off the ball so fast it seemed like were in the backfield before Tony Romo was. The Saints will find a way to score some points here, the question is, can Brett Favre match Drew Brees stride for stride

With emotions running high on both sides of the ball, one team (Florida) will benefit greatly. The other will suffer an embarrassing loss on New Year’s Day. Cincinnati is playing without former head coach Brian Kelly, who led the Bearcats to significant success in recent years

We hate to say I told you so, but I told you that the Vikings were overrated all year, and I think after a second embarrassing loss on national TV, I proved my point. Favre is done, was done 4 years ago, and as far as fighting with the coach about coming out of the game, that’s B.S

The Bears let us down last week. They looked like they were going to win that game against the Eagles, but a late touchdown cost them the game, and probably their season. Jay Cutler looks like a defeated man. He came into town as the saviour

Virginia coach Al Groh has beaten the Cavaliers’ arch rival Hokies just one time in his nine years at UVA. He and the Cavaliers look to make that number two and possibly avoid his firing this Saturday in Charlottesville. The Hokies are in a down year at 8-3 and will not contend for the ACC Championship,

Not quite the same allure as the Red River Rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma, but this week’s Bedlam Rivalry game is Oklahoma State’s Super Bowl. The Cowboys have had a tremendous season so far and Oklahoma is sitting at 6-5, ensured of its worst season since 1999

Boise State doesn’t play too many home games where they are only 14 point favorites, but that is exactly what they are this week when Nevada comes to play on the blue turf. Boise State needs a win this week, and badly. Though the Broncos are 11-0, their only hope for a BCS appearance

Despite an 11-0 record up to this point, Alabama still realistically needs to win its next two games to get into the National Championship. With Florida a perfect 11-0 as well, the Crimson Tide will need to beat Auburn this week and Florida in the SEC Championship

At first glance you might think that it was quite a shocker that Oakland beat Cincinnati last week, but at we said the Bengals were coming off their biggest win in years and might be flat. We also felt that Jamarcus Russell was hindering the Raider offense and the switch to anybody but he was the correct move

We had the Ravens +2.5 last week vs. the Vikings, and although they did miss a late field goal to win the game, the Ravens still covered in losing by 2.There are certain teams in this league that we feel are overrated and others that we feel are underrated.

No other person has cost us more money over the years than Brett Favre (except possibly Peyton Manning).He did it to us again on Monday Night.

Both of these teams have problems. Miami really can’t play offense at the N.F.L. level. They look like a college or high school team at times, with their “Wildcat” offense and their quarterback who throws the ball like a shot put. Another quarterback, who has a funky delivery is Phillip Rivers

The next 2 games that we are picking, we are going a little bit out on a limb. There are 2 home dogs that both played very well last week as huge underdogs. Both teams had opportunities to win outright but didn’t.

The Vikings are overrated; the 49ers are underrated. We really don’t know why everybody loves the Vikings this year. I guess Brett Favre, Adrian Peterson, and a good defense is making the experts think they have a shot to go to the Super Bowl

Stop thinking about rain by itself as a bad weather indicator. Look at the mix of wind, turf quality, and precipitation. It's the mix that matters, not one third of the mix.

Bettors no longer have to look at mere sides and/or game totals to strike it rich as mostly all the online sports books (and many Las Vegas) outlets provide first and second half wagering lines along with quarter by quarter prices too on football betting.