NFL betting straddles the Atlantic

With as many as eight games from the National Football League being televised in Britain each week of the season, there has never been a better time to get involved in NFL betting.

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Sunday evenings need never be the same as legends of the game bring their knowledge to new households over a 16-week regular season, plus the enthralling play-offs, and give punters the chance to test out their own levels of expertise in a wide range of NFL betting markets.

Check out first touchdown in American football betting

NFL betting odds are not just restricted to the match result in American football betting.

Although many a treble and bigger multiple can be found on the coupon, take the results straight up or on a handicap where any particular team takes or gives a head-start based on the final result. So you can support your team, see them lose and still win!

For those who like an NFL betting challenge, take on the first touchdown scorer and see whether your player can cross the line first.

Popular picks like Brandon Jacobs of the Super Bowl champion New York Giants, can bring rewards in American football betting and odds by rushing to glory, or hope the ball flies through the air and see a wide receiver like Cincinnati's T.J. Houshmandzadeh rise for a catch and come down with it in the endzone.

Or take a plunge on the first scoring play in the NFL betting, and hope it is a booming kicker like Sebastian Janikowski of the Oakland Raiders who makes the first impact on the scoreboard.

Like the excitement of a high-scoring game? Take a chance on the total points market in the American football betting and hope for a feast of touchdowns or go low and hope that defenses like the Pittsburgh Steelers vaunted big men keep the scoring down.

Usual suspects feature in NFL betting odds

NFL betting odds are not just limited to the matches of course, with much focus placed on the Super Bowl outright markets.

Take a view at the start of the season, wait for the trends to start developing or take an outsider in the NFL betting, that creeps into the play-offs, much like 2008 champions from the Big Apple, unconsidered by many in the American football betting odds, but able to cause an upset by winning 17-14.

Even going unbeaten for 18 games is no guarantee of success in the NFL betting and you only need ask the New England Patriots about that after last season's run towards perfection came to a shuddering halt in the Super Bowl in Arizona in last season's grand finale.

They will again most likely be among the competitors for the big prize when it comes around in Tampa in February, but the queue to take them on and to try and take away the Giants' crown is lengthy – just ask thousands of hopeful fans from Tennessee, Arizona and from the Giants own stadium-share partners the Jets. Could there be another party in New York on the way? Keep an eye on the NFL betting odds.