{"id":1541,"date":"2009-01-11T19:52:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T00:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/nfc-and-afc-championship-odds-up-cardinals-eagles-steelers-ravens\/"},"modified":"2009-01-11T19:52:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T00:52:15","slug":"nfc-and-afc-championship-odds-up-cardinals-eagles-steelers-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/nfc-and-afc-championship-odds-up-cardinals-eagles-steelers-ravens\/","title":{"rendered":"NFC and AFC Championship Odds up: Cardinals-Eagles, Steelers-Ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'><\/p>\n<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The Vegas odds are locked and loaded for the<br \/>\nEagles-Cardinals and Ravens-Steelers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">Sportsbooks<\/a><br \/>\nhave set the odds for the NFC Championship, the Philadelphia Eagles as a 3.5<br \/>\npoint favorite (but even money) over <st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>.<br \/>\nMany of the linesmakers have <st1:City><st1:place>Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\n-3 (-130). <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span>The total in this game is 48<br \/>\nto 48.5. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>For the lay person, this means if one bet <st1:City><st1:place>Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nat -3.5, they would risk $100 to win $100, though <st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State><br \/>\nbackers would ante $120. Or to lay just three-points, Eagles bettors would<br \/>\ninvest $130 for every $100 to win. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>In the AFC Championships, the Pittsburgh Steelers are a<br \/>\nfive-point favorite over the Baltimore Ravens with a total of 33. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/\">BetUs<br \/>\nSportsbook<\/a> and all the major bookmakers will have <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=58\">fantasy football<br \/>\nbetting odds<\/a> and proposition bets by Thursday or Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Cy McCormick says that even though the public generally<br \/>\nlikes favorites, he believes many gamblers will be tempted to bet on the home<br \/>\nunderdog Cardinals. McCormick is head of the famed online betting syndicate <span\nstyle='color:black'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterlockline.com\/\"><span\nstyle='color:black'>MasterLockLine.com<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>\u201cIt\u2019s rare when a team is that big of a home underdog in a<br \/>\nconference championship game\u201d says the professional bettor McCormick. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The top betting site <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span\nstyle='color:blue'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/b><br \/>\nwill not only update the game <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=54\">odds<\/a> but will<br \/>\nkeep an eye or player prop bets at well and will be the first to report on the Vegas<br \/>\nodds for Super Bowl XLIII. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegas odds are locked and loaded for the Eagles-Cardinals and Ravens-Steelers. Sportsbooks have set the odds for the NFC Championship, the Philadelphia Eagles as a 3.5 point favorite (but even money) over Arizona. Many of the linesmakers have Philadelphia -3 (-130). \u00a0The total in this game is 48 to 48.5. For the lay person, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/nfc-and-afc-championship-odds-up-cardinals-eagles-steelers-ravens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NFC and AFC Championship Odds up: Cardinals-Eagles, Steelers-Ravens<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[243,242,244],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news","tag-afc-championship-odds","tag-nfc-championship-odds","tag-nfl-lines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}