With the end of the NFL regular season in the rear-view mirror, it’s finally time for the playoffs. And while it might be difficult to say goodbye to some of the teams and storylines that highlighted 2019 – like the underachieving Browns’ on-field assault and Tampa Bay quarterback Jameis Winston being the first player in … Read more
The 2019 NFL campaign is nearly over, and only two playoff spots remain unclaimed as we head into Week 17. But never mind that. Today is Christmas, and that means that it’s time to sit back and look back on a season of ups and downs and everything in between. For football betting fans, the … Read more
The Holiday season is already in full swing, and a few state lawmakers are hoping to give residents the gift of legal sports betting before the last of the 2019 legislative sessions wrap up. Licensed and regulated sportsbooks still aren’t offered in the majority of states, and most of the legislatures that haven’t passed a … Read more
If losing a bet on the NFL wasn’t bad enough, Arizona Cardinals cornerback Josh Shaw may have just flushed his career down the drain as well. Shaw was suspended indefinitely by the NFL on Friday, November 29, for betting on multiple NFL games during the 2019 season. He can file a petition on Feb. 15, … Read more
Thanksgiving football is about as American as pretending to enjoy canned cranberry sauce. This year’s slate of NFL Turkey Day games includes: the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions, the Buffalo Bills and Dallas Cowboys, and the New Orleans Saints versus the Atlanta Falcons. To help drown out the inevitable bickering between family members, BetOnline has … Read more
Like Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre once said through tears: “All good things must come to an end.” Shortly after his retirement announcement, Favre returned to the league and continued his NFL career for a few more years. Could Rob Gronkowski be the next superstar to do the same? Gronk retired from the NFL … Read more
When your net worth of ~$110 billion is more than the GDP of Iceland, Tunisia, Jamaica, and Estonia combined, what more is there to do than buy an American professional sports franchise? For the last year or so, Jeff Bezos has been linked to the possible purchase of an NFL franchise, particularly Amazon’s hometown Seattle … Read more
Depending on who you ask, Colin Kaepernick can be described as the most influential or infamous player in NFL history. With his 4.0 GPA at the University of Nevada, Kaepernick was a student-athlete standout, becoming the only collegiate player to ever amass 10,000 passing yards and 4,000 rushing yards. Kaepernick was then drafted by the … Read more
I’m blind, I’m deaf, I wanna be a ref. This timeless fan chant has echoed through NFL stadiums for decades, and as legal sports betting continues to spread across the United States, you can bet the bad officiating anthem will continue to grow louder and louder. Seton Hall University released a new poll today showing … Read more
The 2007 New England Patriots are the only team in National Football League history to ever go 16-0 in the regular season. The Chicago Bears had two undefeated seasons, one in 1934 (13-0) and another in 1942 (11-0), and the Miami Dolphins went 14-0 in 1972, but the NFL did not expand to its current … Read more
The Miami Dolphins hold the distinction of being the only NFL team to ever go undefeated and win the Super Bowl, finishing the 1972 season 14-0 before beating the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII. However, in 2019, the Dolphins could become the sixth team to ever go winless in an NFL season and only … Read more
At least Jay Gruden was able to do one thing expected of him this season: Get fired first. After starting the season 0-5 in Washington, bringing his record with the Redskins to 35-49-1, the team canned Gruden in the most fitting way the historically dysfunctional franchise could: calling him into the office at 5:00 am … Read more