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NFL Play­off Gam­ble — Good Teams Play Good Games

The National Foot­ball League has grown in stature year after year. The NFL was not always the most pop­u­lar spec­ta­tor sport. The games of the 1930’s and 40’s were sim­ply con­structed offenses com­pet­ing against unimag­i­na­tive defenses but there were out­stand­ing play­ers dur­ing the early days of the NFL. Run­ning back Red Grange, the “Gal­lop­ing Ghost,” was a great run­ning back for the Chicago Bears. Quar­ter­backs Sid Luck­man, Otto Gra­ham and Norm Van Brock­lin starred at the pre­mier posi­tion in football.

There is always a defin­ing moment in sports his­tory in which an ath­letic event is so mon­u­men­tal that it crys­tal­lizes the sport in the eyes of the pub­lic. Pro­fes­sional foot­ball took the giant stride for­ward in 1958 when the Cham­pi­onship was nation­ally tele­vised by WCBS. The New York Giants had won the Cham­pi­onship in 1956 in stir­ring fash­ion, and were expected to dis­pose of the vis­it­ing Indi­anapo­lis Colts with lit­tle trouble.

The Indi­anapo­lis Colts were an NFL play­off gam­ble at best. How­ever, quar­ter­back Johnny Uni­tas led a come­back in the sec­ond half with a series of short passes to wide receiver Ray­mond Berry. In the wan­ing sec­onds of the game with the Giants nurs­ing a three point lead, Uni­tas led a come­back with passes to Berry and runs of full­back Alan Ameche to set up a field goal attempt by kicker Steve Myra. As the final gun sounded, the kick went through the uprights to knot the score at 17 apiece. In the over­time, the Colts drove the ball down the length of the field on the strength of the right arm of Uni­tas. Short passes to Berry put the ball at the New York Giant 2 yard line. It was a good NFL play­off gam­ble at that point to assume that full­back Ameche would get the call and that is pre­cisely what occurred. Ameche took the hand­off and burst over right tackle to win the Cham­pi­onship for the Colts, and ele­vate the NFL into the most promi­nent league in the eyes of the world.

The best NFL play­off gam­ble is to bet on the hot team com­ing into the play­offs since any team can defeat any other team on any given Sun­day. All it takes is a lit­tle research to make your NFL play­off gam­ble pay­off. A great source for NFL bet­ting is Lines­Maker Sportsbook.

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