New Orleans Saints Deserve Better: 2011 Super Bowl Odds
For the New Orleans Saints, winning the 2010 Super Bowl just wasn't enough to earn them much respect for the 2011 Championship game.
2011 Super Bowl odds released on Monday by Sportsbook.com had the Saints listed with +800 odds of winning the 2011 Super Bowl. Such odds would pay out $800 for every $100 bet.
The Saints odds coming into the 2009 regular season were set at anywhere from 16/1 to 20/1 and quickly got slashed down to 3/1 by the halfway point with an undefeated record. It is the team they defeated, the Indianapolis Colts, who come in as the 6/1 favorites to win the 2011 Super Bowl.
The big question: Can the New Orleans Saints repeat and win the 2011 Super Bowl?
Continued after the jump....
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Ed Daniels of NewOrleans.com writes:
"In the past 21 years in the NFL, 4 franchises have had repeats. The 49ers, Cowboys, Broncos and Patriots all won back-to-back Super Bowl titles. All four had this in common: Elite play from the quarterback position."
The victory was historic for New Orleans who had never won a Super Bowl.
"Gamblers were backing the Saints heavy in the end but nobody anticipated a 14 point upset," said Don Shapiro of Gambling911.com.
The margin of victory for the Saints winning by 14 points paid out $1000 for every $100 bet.
Whether the Saints repeat this year's performance depends a lot on if they can keep personnel in tact while avoiding injuries. Last year's Saints franchise ended the regular season at .500.
"Somewhere last night, we talked about Dallas and one of the greatest stadiums that our league knows," a bleary-eyed Saints head coach Sean Payton said at the Monday morning news conference.
"I think what's going to be fun is using the term 'repeat' all next year," said Drew Brees, the game's MVP on the strength of his Super Bowl-record 32 pass completions.
Division rivals look as if they will enter the 2010 regular season in disarray.
Julius Peppers said he no longer wants a long-term contract with the Carolina Panthers.
In an interview that aired yesterday on WFNZ-AM in Charlotte, N.C., the five-time Pro Bowl defensive end indicated that he is irritated by the team's "silence" and has changed his stance on whether he wants to continue his career in Carolina.
"Last year, at the time, that was the option that I wanted most," Peppers said. "Now it's not."
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are not expected to get far out of the cellar and the Falcons look like a "middle of the road" team at best, though they probably provide the most competition for New Orleans.
Ean Lamb, Gambling911.com
