NFL trading

Yesterday's Result: £1,100.13

Whoa! That was a bit unexpected. Decided to look in on some NFL yesterday evening for the first time this season. Caught a bit of two games, Oakland at Miami and Denver at Indianapolis. Pleased I made the effort. Reckon I might have another look in sometime soon. :-)

I like trading NFL. Has basic similarities to tennis and I also find a fair few cricket traders find a second home with the sport too. And given it's essentially a winter sport over here it can fit in quite nicely with a cricket trading schedule. Fills in the gaps as it were.

Although he played it down Oakland at Miami was set up for Daunte Culpepper and he took the bait. Just months after being escorted off the Dolphin's training ground the new Raiders' quarterback accounted for all five Oakland touchdowns with two passes and three rushes. After a hard run in for his first he made a point of showing his knee was ok. Must be more than a few round Miami way wondering if the decision to release him was a wise one!

Lightening at the start of the match delayed it which meant we were able to see live as Sky switched to the Green Bay at Minnesota match just in time to show Brett Favre beating Dan Marino's NFL record for career touch down passes. He added another before the end of the match and has now made 422 in his 17 year career.

I made around £240 on the game before picking the rest of the day's profit up on the Denver at Indianapolis match. The Colts started a short-priced jolly, went behind, drifted - but never as far as evens - and then just took control with some impressive drives. I just rode their price in on the whole picking up around £860.

So a nice daily result, especially as I hadn't planned to to do the games at first. Not quite as unexpected as turning the tv on and seeing my old flat mate Neil Reynolds in the Sky Sports studio though doing the pundit bit. We shared a place at journalism college many moons ago. Funny, while I always wanted to be the guy that "made his excuses and left" for the the News of the World he was always mad into his NFL. Lost contact a long time ago but nice to see he's doing good for himself. :-)

Anyway, I got up early this morning for the Pakistan v South Africa test on ARY Digital but for reasons known only to the channel it's not showing the match at the moment - despite listing it in its schedule and assuring new customers signing up yesterday that it would be showing the cricket. Poor stuff. This subscriber ain't pleased! Still, I guess at least the first Sri Lanka v England ODI starts soon on Sky Sports. Sure Bumble will be able to cheer me up! :-)