2% max recommended unless otherwise noted. 1% max recommended for soccer.
A brutal week of bad beats in the NFL that produced a week so historic, it had never happened in the prior 1000+ Sundays of the NFL -- a perfect spread record on Sunday and Monday for public backing road favorites. By a YPP basis, it should have been a slightly profitable NFL week, which gives us some sense of the bad luck train that rolled over us, the sharps, and the sportsbooks on Sunday. C'est la vie -- that's the betting life of heavy volume. As past is prologue, now will likely be a good time to hop on, not jump off.
First NFL Regular Season Game in Ireland - Steelers vs Vikings
When it was announced last year that the first ever NFL regular season game was going to be played in Dublin early in the 2025/26 season, I was still very new to American football but even then I could see that the announcement of this fixture was a big deal. With the Steelers and the Packers touted as potential participants, immediate interest was drummed up, and not just in the USA. On Irish social media it seemed everyone and their dog wanted to go this game.
Thus it proved when the final fixture was announced as Steelers vs Vikings and the digital queue for tickets had over half a million people waiting at one point. For my own part, I forgot that this was on and by the time I found out tickets had finally gone on sale, the ticket window had already been open for most of the day. I decided to chance my arm and see if there were any tickets going and indeed there were, so I picked up two as a birthday present for my wife who wanted to go...