Now that training camp has begun for the NFL teams with preseason games, as is the holy grail of offshore action. Sportsbook fans and writers both share an eager anticipation for the start of NFL training camp that is difficult to describe in its intensity but rivalries that of a five-year old child on Christmas Eve. You see, for us, in the small world of offshore sportsbook activity, this is our Christmas. NFL training camp is an indicator of the wild action to come in the upcoming sportsbook season and it is one of the greatest times of the year for the truly diehard offshore fans.
Sportsbook activity dies down in the late summer season and this period has been likened to the clam before the sportsbook storm. This year the NFL training camps open with the usual anticipation and excitement that one would expect from the world. But this year, unlike so many other years, the action has been dominated by one single story.
The Brett Favre saga has commanded the top headlines in the media for weeks now and it’s grown with an incredible intensity. But if any story deserves this type of attention in the football universe it is certainly this. Favre is the most highly decorated and one of the most popular QBs in the history of offshore action. It will be interesting to see how this story plays out, but this has the potential to get very ugly if not settled in the next few days. And the likelihood that Favre will begin the season with a new team is very likely.
But there are also many other elements that make the sportsbook training camp exciting aside from retirement and un-retirement stories. Training camp is a time to find out which players have the talent and desire to compete in the Sunday sportsbook action and a place to pluck gems from the rough. Rookies taken in the NFL draft and unsigned free agents alike compete for roster spots and careers and every down counts in this epic sportsbook battle. That’s why training camp is so exciting and fascinating for sportsbook fans. Sure a story like Favre’s is intriguing, but for the most part training camp is about the new -no the old, no matter how big of a sportsbook icon the old may be.
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