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LAS VEGAS — Just when a key might have been revealed to unlock NFL betting profits, it snapped in half like a stale pretzel before turning the latch.
Favorites on the moneyline to eliminate the dastardly spread? Recent dividends had been handsome.
However, Colts-Steelers, plus the Packers (against the Panthers) and the Lions (against the Vikings), both at home, upended that developing theme in spectacular flameouts.
“Who can beat it?” a well-known veteran handicapper told me among my typical frenzy of Sunday calls. I agreed to conceal his identity. With the NFL, he mostly deals in player props.