Las Vegas sports bettors favoring Patriots vs. 49ers for Super Bowl XLVII

No love for Atlanta as San Francisco is the most popular bet of the weekend

Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 | 2 a.m.

The Baltimore Ravens and Atlanta Falcons made local sports books sound like amusement parks last weekend. The two teams’ exhilarating comeback victories in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs produced more shrieks and roars than the world’s most famous thrill rides. Baltimore, 9.5-point underdogs, cashed money-line tickets as high as plus-350 (risking $1 to win $3.50) in Denver after Joe Flacco connected with Jacoby Jones on a 70-yard touchdown pass with less than a minute to go to send the game to overtime. Atlanta rewarded bettors who took it at minus-125 (risking $1.25 to win $1) on the money ...

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By mred

Jan. 17, 2013

5:53 a.m.

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I like this website that shows odds from about 20 British bookies ..looks like they like the Patriots

http://www.oddschecker.com/american-foot...