By Robert Ferringo
We now have early Super Bowl 45 odds and I have to say, I’m shocked. And I don’t really get shocked by early Super Bowl odds.
The Packers are -2.5 favorites over the Steelers right now with a total at 45.0. The fact alone that Green Bay is favored made me do a triple-take; the NFC has not been favored in the Super Bowl since 2002, when the Rams were mammoth favorites against the Patriots.
It isn’t even the fact that Green Bay was the No. 6 seed out of the NFC. Pittsburgh was the same seed in 2006 when they were laying points to Seattle. But what surprised me about it was that I figures that the books would know that with Pittsburgh and its ravenous fan base that they would be getting hit with Steelers money for the next two weeks.
I called a friend of mine that is a sportsbook manager in Las Vegas to ask him what the deal was. And he said that not only were the Packers favored, but all of the sharp early money was pouring in on them. Some books were forced from an opening of -2.0 to -3.0.
So there you have it. Perhaps the sharps were as surprised as I was but then accepted that this is what I call an
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