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The Greatest Game = Football
NFL Team sites for history, information and
team stores for official merchandise, jerseys,
jackets, shirts, hats, collectables and much more.
Welcome to the FOOTBALL-FAN-MANIA.COM Web site and NFL Team stores for official merchandise, jerseys, jackets, shirts, hats, collectables etc. for your favorite NFL or College team. Our goal is to provide you with useful information about Americas favorite game. While baseball may be the “American pastime” football is America’s Passion! We want to give you the very best resources for getting to Official NFL Team stores for official merchandise, jerseys, jackets, shirts, hats, collectables and everything you need for your home, office, car, tailgate party and just to show your support for your favorite team.
Football-Fan-Mania will give you a brief history on each team in the NFL and several well chosen resources from which you can obtain team gear and collectables at bargain prices. NFL Team stores offer only official merchandise, jerseys, jackets, shirts, hats, collectables and more. We have special products available from both NFC and AFC Teams and all priced below what you can buy them for from retail stores. We have special arrangements with the major vendors and offer Rock-Bottom prices. We will also introduce you to the best place to place your wager on your favorite team and show you how to make the best picks.
We will provide you with information on the history of all NFL teams and we will provide you with links to your favorite college teams sites and resources. In addition to the NFL Team stores with official merchandise, jerseys, jackets, shirts, hats, collectables we also have all major colleges with football programs represented with their Team Stores.
The NFL
From the time of the NFL's establishment, football made headway in popularity with the population. The games played by the Chicago Bears versus teams like the Los Angeles Tigers and the New York Giants featured Harold (Red) Grange, the fresh-out-of-college rookie star who helped draw record numbers of fans into the stands. After the NFL divided into two divisions, the culmination of the best teams from those sections played the first NFL championship game in 1933.
As football became a favorite with Americans, many leagues soon followed the NFL in trying to establish their own franchise. The NFL's dominance was so pervasive that many did not even last beyond four years. Under millionaire Lamar Hunt, however, the American Football League (AFL) was the only lasting follow-up league that was able to keep up with the NFL. Soon thereafter, both leagues fought to draft star college players, television contracts, and other perks generated from football's popularity with the NFL often besting the AFL most of the time.
In another historic moment in football history, representatives from both the NFL and the AFL met in 1966 to agree on merging both leagues, but keeping the NFL name. Within the new league which actually began in 1970, two conferences were created that reflected the NFL's origins: the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). From then on, those two sides of the NFL were to play its best teams in a championship game later named the Super Bowl starting with the champions from the NFL and the AFL. This of course has resulted in a number of NFL Team stores for official merchandise, jerseys, jackets, shirts, hats, collectables etc.
Football Presently One of the top sports in America, football has come a long way from the rebelling college students who want to play something that was more fun and exciting. With the introduction of the television which greatly increased football's accessibility to more parts of the United States and the merger of the NFL and the AFL, football would become the most-watched television show as well as being very profitable. The titanic flood of fan interest in NFL Team stores with official merchandise, jerseys, jackets, shirts, hats, collectables etc. generated billions of dollars by the 1990s for the profession which eventually trickled down to the players' salaries.
If change was how football began, it is change that has kept the sport's popularity high. Continually, the rules governing football have evolved throughout the years to generate fan interest. For example, newly enacted rules in the 1970s that promoted the risky throwing of the ball as opposed to running with it. In 1994, a greater emphasis was drawn from field goals to the two-point conversion. Completing the full circle, modern football still places fun as its top priority.
Yes, football is an obsession with many diehard fans and we plan on providing more and more for fans on this site. But for now, take advantage of the great buys we have on NFL Merchandise and show how crazy you are for your favorite team. We offer NFL Team stores for official merchandise, jerseys, jackets, shirts, hats, collectables and much more. Just click here and you can do a quick search by Team Name and then by the product you want to see more about. Or you can click the team name on the left menu and read a brief history of your favorite team and enter their special team store directly. You will enjoy the shopping experience and even more importantly you will see the very best prices on the Net with you satisfaction guaranteed. NFL
1. NFL Parity
The NFL has made great strides to achieve rough equality among teams. It has succeeded. Just look at these SuperBowl teams from the past several years: St. Louis in 2000, Baltimore in 2001, New England in 2002, Tampa Bay in 2003, and Carolina last year. None of these teams were supposed to make it that far but they all did and many won, despite losing records the year before. Unlike the college game, any given team can win on Sunday in the NFL. Why not get some points to boot?
2. A Win is a Win
Again, unlike in College, there is no need to blow-out a team. Favorites that get up early don't typically run up the score in the NFL. It doesn’t serve a purpose and in most cases, coaches would rather not embarrass their opponent and/or risk injury to their stars. In the NFL, big leads often dwindle, with underdogs covering late in the game.
3. The Rodney Dangerfield Effect
Underdogs don't get any respect! They don't get it from the public, sometimes leading to higher than deserved spreads. More importantly, they don't get it from their opposition. Good teams can sometimes take bad teams lightly (especially if players and coaches minds are on other things, like next week's tougher opponent). Research and an understanding of historical trends can reveal great situations in which underdogs are poised for an upset.
4. The Public Can't Help Itself
The average bettor loves the popular teams (favorites), oftentimes pushing lines unreasonably high. We saw it during the 90’s with Dallas and San Francisco. In fact, almost every week, with the right research, you can spot teams that should be favorites but are getting points against a popular team that has been installed as a favorite due to the public "bandwagon effect.” For example, last year Kansas City visited Cincinnati in week 10. The Chiefs had won nine straight and seemed invincible. In hindsight, Cincinnati was the easy underdog pick. Kansas City’s defense was ranked 25th in the league at the time. Cincinnati was on a roll having won 3 of their last four games and Rudi Johnson was coming into his own. Cincinnati had the emotional edge and nothing to lose by taking a shot at an undefeated team they knew they could beat. However, the public couldn’t get over Kansas City’s success and spot this situation.
5. Got Courage?
Most bettors don't have the courage to go with certain underdogs. They see a (perceived) good team versus a (perceived) bad team and assume it won't be a contest. They have formed an opinion about how horrible some teams are based on a recent blowout or past personal gambling loss. Again, with the right combination of statistical and situational research, some undervalued dogs can be spotted each week. There are also certain situations in which bad teams have historically and reliably outperformed their average. Match that with a historically-proven situation in which favorites under-perform and you have yourself a reliable upset scenario.
6. The Point-spread Matters Less than You Think
Historically, the point-spread matters in the NFL only about 16% of the time. In other words, 84% of the time, the team that covers the spread also wins. With this knowledge, if you have underdogs that you really like (based on the right research, not a hunch), you can take them to win straight-up (money line), collecting anywhere from 1.2 to 4 times your original bet. Usually a three-point dog will pay around 140 for 100 for a straight-up win versus 100 for 110 wagered on a regular spread-based pick. Seven point underdogs pay around 250 for 100 for a straight-up win.
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