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As New Orleans sponsors Minnesota in a extraordinary football betting competition, NFL Football Gambling anticipation climaxes Thursday evening with the beginning of the 2010 NFL season. Football betting lines makers and enthusiasts will have a rematch of last year’s NFC Championship competition to handicap and two of the top football betting favorites for 2010. 
The online sports books opened up with the Saints as a 5-point fave and a total of 48. Kickoff is at 8:35 PM Eastern.
The Vikings are still sore from their 31-28 loss at New Orleans last year in the NFC Championship Game as four-point road long shots. Minnesota felt that, due to the fact of slack play and turnovers, they gave the competition and Super Bowl berth away to the Saints, although they were the better squad.
Minnesota also believes that New Orleans came after quarterback Brett Favre too hard and pounded him with too many unnecessary hits that were beyond the policies. Favre is still not totally recovered from the ankle injury that he endured in the competition, which nearly pressured him into retirement.
Bobby McCray and Anthony Hargrove were both fined by the League for hits on Favre.
“I understand a quarterback’s going to get hit,” Brad Childress, Minnesota’s coach, explained. “It’s football. I don’t have any illusions about that. What I hate to see are the late hits or attempts to hurt anybody. I don’t think there’s a place for that in the game.” Favre has not been critical of New Orleans and how they played stating its part of the competition.
As they are expected to sustain ambitious play that emphasizes turnovers, the Saints have tried to tighten up their defense and has 3 new starters.
Minnesota did get the money in 4 out of their last 6 in that role with 4 of those games also going over the total, even though they’ve covered only 8 out of their last 20 games with the football lines as an longshot.
As they went only 3-8 with the lines NFL in their last 11 games as a chalk, New Orleans has had trouble as a fave recently. Only four of those eleven games went over the total.
Minnesota has covered the spread in 5 straight football betting matchups with the Saints including their last 4 trips to the Super Dome. Only 1 out of the previous 10 meetings between these two teams has gone under the total.
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