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Sports Exotics Betting – Detroit Lions to have winless season

Posted on 11/28/2008 3:40:22 PM By Summer Campinelli

Detroit Lions props: Lions will finish 0-16

• Already 12 losses
• Schedule looks tough
• Lions have no talent

Although I haven’t followed football or online football betting too closely since my San Francisco 49ers have departed from the competitive ranks, it’s hard not to pay attention to the Detroit Lions, who are becoming quite the national story.

Sportsbook odds have now posted a line for exotic sports betting that allows us to choose whether we think the Detroit Lions will finish with an 0-16 record. They currently have no wins in 12 tries and have just four games to go to cash in for online sports betting handicappers.

The Lions are terrible. I had a chance to watch them play on Thansgiving day and, to be honest, 11 deep fried turkeys could have done a better job of competing or covering a point spread for those who bet online than the Lions.

Here are some of Detroit’s issues: their head coach looks like an aged gremlin that doesn’t know how to coach football, their quarterback turns over the ball like crazy and, most importantly, the Lions just don’t have a lot of talent.

For those that are into this type of exotic sports betting, the bottom line for the Lions is their remaining schedule. Here are their remaining four games:

Online sports betting sharps should know that the Lions will be playing their third consecutive home game against the Vikings and that will likely be their best chance to win.

The problem is that the Vikings have one of my favorite players, Adrian Peterson, and he should be able to run his team to victory. After that, the Lions head to Indianapolis and those who bet online know that the Colts are a good team.

After that, they welcome New Orleans, who has too good of a quarterback to stumble in Detroit. So that leaves the Lions winless heading into their final game with the Green Bay Packers.

I like the warm weather in Southern California and so do the Lions, who play in an indoor stadium. Travelling outdoors – and travelling in general – is always a challenge for them.

The key thing for online sports betting handicappers to note about all of the Lions remaining games is that all of those teams need to win to stay in the playoff race. All of those teams will be focused.

SUMMER’S PICK: I might not be into sports betting so much but for this exotic sports betting prop bet, I would bet that the Lions will in fact go winless and finish the regular season with an 0-16 record in 2008.

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Summer Campinelli lives a low-key lifestyle in Los Angeles and is a regular guest contributor to BetOnline.com. There’s a lot more to her than just her appearance; Summer enjoys movies, television and fashion as much as the next girl, but her knowledge of sports and sports betting is what makes her a real catch. Email Comments@BetOnline.com.