From Another Blogger In North Carolina

 This Is A Link To A Blog I Found After It's Author Commented On A Post I Made About 2 Years Ago which is about "Holistic Approaches To Pain Relief" but is a pretty comprehensive Overview of the topic...

From holistic pain relief to...betting on football?!

And, from the same blog comes the above post giving "tips" for betting on football.

My philosophy on the subject was inspired by Jim Rome, the AM radio sports talk guy, whom I used to listen to on a hand-held AM radio that played for almost 2 months off one pair of AA batteries..
He basically said that he has met tens of thousands of people in his life as a sports guy, but never one who has said anything like: "Gee, I was in financial ruins there, for a while -the bills were piling up, the wife was threatening to leave me...but then I discovered betting on football, and my life did a complete 180 degree turn...now, I'm financially independent!" Jim has never met that guy...

The biggest problem with betting on football is that you can't go through any betting "service," because they charge what is called a "rigorish" on all losing bets. That is how they (are virtually guaranteed to) make their money by running the service.

Simply put; if you win a 50 dollar bet on a football game, congratulations, you have won 50 bucks; now you have 100 dollars, care to bet some more? type of thing.

But, if you lose, you pay the service something like $57.50 which represents the money you lost, plus a 15% rigorish to the service.

So, betting with a friend or someone whom you would only be required to pay the amount bet ($50 in the above example) is a prerequisite to any success in betting on football.

Watching injury reports seems to be the main advice in HaroonBlogger's post. But, that information has been factored into the point spreads already, so people betting on the team with a hobbled quarterback are already getting a few points to compensate.

The only way I ever had success (and I did win about 58% of the time) required being at the game, in order to gather the required knowledge. 

There is no substitute for being able to watch the players who are off-camera as far as any TV audience is concerned.

The body language of the players who are not on the field is the metric.

Are they sitting on the bench and not even watching the game, or are they standing up and roaming back and forth on the sidelines as the action drifts back and forth in front of them? Are they watching every play and reacting emotionally, or pulling their jackets in front of them, covertly texting someone as they sit on the bench, not really paying attention to the game?

When I was an 11 year old kid who did pretty well betting his caddying money on Sunday's games, it was the teams that I had seen at Shaefer Stadium, coming in to play the Patriots (my dad had season tickets) that I would bet on, or against.

If the teams that huddled on the bench with their jackets wrapped around them, looking like they couldn't wait to get back indoors, were going into Minnesota that week to play the Vikings in 10 degree weather; well, against them is where my caddying money would go.

So, in order to bet on football, one must at least attend a game each Sunday. This is where any "bettors instinct" would come from. There is no substitute for being "present" in the stadium.