Online Football Betting

Football is the most popular wagered sport in the United States. In fact, some online betting sites derive more than 50% of their profits from this sport. Perhaps the leading reason is the games primarily take place weekends, and the season starts right after the summer months come to an end. It’s a rather easy sport to follow, and from a betting perspective what’s nice is the betting lines get published a full week in advanced. This allows bettors plenty of time to prepare and research NFL team statistics, upcoming game schedules, individual player performance and other stats.

Football Content by a Professional Bettor

Considering our website is branded as “Online Betting” and football is the most popular sport, it of course makes sense we’ve spared no expense when it comes to football betting content. Every article about football betting published on this website was authored, or edited by, a professional handicapper who makes his living betting mostly NFL football but also NCAA college football and other sports. You’ll notice the pages linked from our football bet types page have much more interesting and useful content than that of other betting information sites on the web. If you spend some time navigating our pages I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.

How to Beat Football Betting

If you’re looking for more advanced strategy you should no doubt start by reading our article on fade the public and then head to our page on football betting strategy. The first article I suggested is a primer and it covers a bit on the evolution of sports betting and will help you understand the betting market from a broad perspective. The second article is our strategy hub where we give suggestions on the methods for learning College and NFL football betting and link you off to topics such as removing vig, teaser betting strategy and one my favorite topics football prop betting. Now if you’re overwhelmed by these topics, don’t worry. Our article on football betting systems contains five betting systems that when used greatly reduce the bookmaker’s advantage, and these involve no math nor learning curve.

Football Betting Sites

Please understand our website is not an advertisement to promote online sportsbooks. As mentioned, we have all sorts of advanced articles including topics like betting derivatives and even tools such as an NFL half point calculator. We very much hope you read and gain benefit from our content. Now once you start leaning sports betting it is important you have some legit and reputable sites to wager with. To conclude this page on football betting I’ll provide detailed information about my top three US friendly betting sites, each which accept wagers on NCAA and NFL football.

#1 is Bovada – The McDonalds of Sports Betting

Bovada (www.Bovada.lv) is no doubt the most popular sports betting brand in the US market. In many ways they are to the sports betting world what McDonalds is to fast food. Although it could be argued other shops have better french-fries or offer something else on the menu like onion rings, for the most part Bovada has the most appeal to recreational sports bettors. For starters Bovada welcomes new players with a 20% up to $100 sign up bonus and from here offers all sorts of promotions for their fully integrated online casino and poker room. Also Bovada is a world leader in mobile betting so if you wish to access them on demand via your iPhone, Android, Blackberry or Nokia this will be no sweat.

As far football betting is concerned Bovada has a ton to offer. For football teasers their 3-team 6-point +180, 3-team 10-point -120, and 4-team 13-point -120 options are the best value you’ll find in NFL betting period. Bovada also offers true odds for football parlay bets. Additionally, they offer an awesome live betting interface where it is possible to bet on things like the results of the next drive, series or play. You can also wager on the point spread and moneyline as the game progresses. This interface is available for all nationally televised football games whether we’re talking NFL or college football.

Now to be upfront, Bovada does receive criticism from certain sports bettors. The most common complaints are low betting limits ($1,000 max on NFL sides) and heavily shaded lines. I can’t change anything about the first complaint; if you’re betting more than $1,000 per game, choose another site. Regarding the second complaint I address this in many articles. If the betting line everywhere else is Patriots -7 -110 / Giants +7 -110 and Bovada has Patriots -7 -115 / Giants +7 -105, the smart move is to bet the Giants. It is not possible for a site to lack value because of line shades. Because when you shade the line one way you’re making it better for the other side. So in this case you’re getting better value on one team than you’d find at any other site. This is a huge plus.

The bigger plus is Bovada has by far the most convenient banking options and despite offering online betting since 2000, for more than 11 years now has never had a missed payout complaint. This is the biggest brand name in the business that accepts US players and giving them a try is a wise idea.

#2 is Bookmaker.eu – The KFC of Sports Betting

Bookmaker (www.Bookmaker.eu) has the oldest roots in bookmaking of all sportsbooks still accepting US players. Their Colonel Sanders is a famous bookie named Ronald “The Cigar” Sacco, who has been accepting bets since at least the very early 1970’s and built the largest bookmaking business in the US during the 1980’s. Back in 1985 he was the first US bookies to set up call centers offshore; his choice, the Dominican Republic. The same way Colenel Sanders started paving the way in the 1930’s for the fast food industry Ron Sacco paved the way for online sports betting. His first online sportsbook was BetCRIS, which as you can learn in our article on the history of Boookmaker.eu is for the most part the same company.

At Bookmaker you’ll find nice bonus offers including a generous sign up bonus followed by 20% reload bonus for all deposits made on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. As far as football betting is concerned, the same as Bovada.lv they have an in-play betting interface where you can wager the results of the next play, series or drive, as well as the point spread, moneyline or total. This live in-play betting feature is available on all nationally televised games, and accepts by far the highest betting limits.

For those looking to wager prematch Bookmaker offers bets starting at $1.00 per game minimum and $40,000 per game maximum for point spreads, moneylines and over/under totals. Just as KFC is an expert in side dishes, so is Bookmaker. Here you can find offers you won’t find at other betting sites such as football office pools (squares) and football prop bets for each and every game of the NFL season.

The best news is Bookmaker accepts Visa credit cards issued by US banks. Even if your card has been declined elsewhere give it a try here as it’s likely to go through. Now for privacy reasons we’re prohibited from disclosing too many details, but once your account is funded, check their cashier for a free cash out method that allows you to have cash in hand in a matter of days, not weeks. If you’re looking for fast and convenient deposits and payouts make your top choice.

#3 is BetOnline.com – The Taco Bell of Sports Betting

The third is www.Betonline.com.  The same way Taco bell likes to run 1 million free Taco promotions, BetOnline is all about promotions as well. Not only will they start you off with a 15-25% sign up bonus, you’ll get a 15-25% bonus on all future deposits. As if this wasn’t enough, BetOnline has amazing loyalty promotions as well. A small sample of the BetOnline football promotions are listed below.

• Halftime Surrender – Once per NFL season, BetOnline allows bettors to use a surrender option at half time. If you want to throw in the towel, send an email freeplay@BetOnline.com with your account number and the ticket number of the bet you wish to surrender BEFORE the official time of the first kickoff in the second half. When doing this you’ll be returned 50% of your wager stake as free play credits ($250.00 free play maximum). If your team comes back and wins you’ll still be paid the bet in full, but your once-per-season surrender option is used up.
• Shutout Bailout – If an NFL team you wager on fails to score, you’ll be refunded 100% of your stake up to $250.00 in free play credits. This offer is available once per season, and to claim email freeplay@BetOnline.com with your account number, and the ticket number of the bet you wish to use with the Shutout Bailout within one (1) hour of the final whistle of the game you choose to use in this promotion.
• Mulligan Bet – Once during the NFL season, BetOnline will give you a do-over on any losing Moneyline, Spread, Over/Under wager. You have up to one hour after the game has been graded to email freeplay@BetOnline.com with your account number and the ticket number of the bet you wish to make your Mulligan Bet. BetOnline will give you back your stake up to a $250.00 maximum in free play credits. You’ll need to rollover the free play five times prior to making a cashout.

This is only a small sample of the many promotions BetOnline offers. They also have a nil-nil bore draw refund for soccer, what the puck for hockey, a no hitter refund for baseball, 7% win or lose rebates for horse race betting, not to mention full menus with bonus offers for both casino and poker as well. If you love bonuses, promotions and free tacos (okay, scratch the tacos) make Betonline your football betting home.