Super Bowl Sunday…..and it all comes down to this. No, not the Colts and Saints but Picks4Players versus Maddux Sports, an epic clash between the little guy and the Darth Vader of Sports Handicapping

As a loyal Picks4Players follower you know that our goal is to help sway the football handicapping field in the direction of the player and away from the house.  Utilizing our unique style and ever-improving system (patent pending) of interpreting what’s happening around the National Football League and more importantly how it will affect the games from week to week.  In order to help validate our selections and independently document our success, your handicapping consulting partners here at Picks4Players have participated for the last two years in the National Handicapper’s Bowl  as featured and promoted in Pro Football Weekly.  This season is the 30th edition of the highly respected National Handicapper’s Bowl and your team here at P4P is the lone remaining competitor, out of more than 100 entrants, with a chance to upset 2 time NHB defending Champion Maddux Sports, one of the most followed pay for pick sites in the handicapping business.  For a list of all entrants please go to: http://www.nhbowl.com/Participants.php  and for the NHB standings please go to: http://www.nhbowl.com/Games.php

Of the hundred plus participants in the NHB, the vast majority are pay for pick sites, NOT Picks4Players.  We never charge for our advice.  Our picks are always F.R.E.E - FREE and while we are extremely pleased that we’ve clinched second place in the 30th version of this prestigious event, make no mistake about it, we’ve got first place in our sights, and we feel VERY strongly about what will go down in Super Bowl XLIV in Miami when Drew Brees, Kim Kardashian’s Bush, and the rest of the upstart New Orleans Saints take on title starved Peyton Manning and the primed and polished Indianapolis Colts, led by first year head coach, ‘Ol What’s His name.  Actually, Coach Caldwell may finally be a suitable answer to that decades old cajun question, Who Dat? As in, Who dat coaching da Colts?  I think we all know that Peyton Manning is coaching the Colts, but Jim Caldwell will be the guy standing on the Colts sidelines with the headset on and his red flag at the ready.  

Kick off is slated for 6:25 pm EST and Las Vegas has set the line at the Colts - 5 1/2 with an OVER/UNDER point TOTAL of 57.  As mentioned above, your team here at P4P feels VERY strong about the game today.  After much research, dialogue, discussion, argument, and technical breakdown of personnel, we are so COnfident about what wilL go down Today  ATS (against the spread)  that we will once again, as promised, be giving our selection away for FREE.  

This game will be one of the most exciting Super Bowls of all time.  Peyton Manning is a QB genius and as football fans we are lucky that he plays now.  He is clearly one of the best of all time and his fine tuned, precise offense will move the ball up and down the field today on the Saints.  The Saints will also move the ball at will against the Colts and if Dwight Freeney is not 100%, his explosiveness off the snap of the ball and his ability to get around the edge and pressure Drew Brees will be limited.  While we are certain which way this game will go against the spread (ATS), our lock of the day in Super Bowl XLIV is OVER 57.

Please check back frequently for any updates, alternate selections, and results.  Please spread the word about Picks4Players and direct your friends to our site.  Best of luck to all of our partners, the players out there.  Thank you, from all of us at Picks4Players, for a great season.  We look forward to training camp in July and the numerous mandatory OTA’s (optional team activities) in the off season as we gear up for the 2010-2011 NFL season, perhaps the last season not affected by the looming lack of a labor agreement.

Championship Sunday in the National Football League - With 3 games left in the season, your team at Picks4Players is hanging with the big boys, the pay for pick sites, with a National Handicapper’s Bowl ATS Championship within our sites!

Welcome back to Picks4Players.com.  Before we get in to our evaluation of which teams will win and which teams will cover the spread in today’s Conference Championship Games, first our team here at P4P would like to thank each of you for visiting our site, repeatedly.  We can’t thank you enough for your loyal and dedicated support.  Our vision has always involved helping you, the player, tilt the wagering field, through the art of selecting winners, in your direction.  The other critical Picks4Players component is our commitment to giving our advice for free.  That’s right, F.R.E.E. FREE!!!!!  We always have, and we’re committed to keeping our site that way, so please spread the word.

An update: With 3 games remaining in the 2009-2010 National Football League season, your partners here at Picks4Players are in 2nd place, 170 essentially meaningless points out of first place in the 30th Annual National Handicapper’s Bowl, as featured in Pro Football Weekly.  We are competing with primarily pay for pick sites, and amongst the large number of competitors, we only trail the defending champion and pay for pick giant, Maddux Sports.  We’re very proud of our accomplishment’s thus far, but we are by no means satisfied.  We feel VERY strong about both conference Championship games today.

In Game 1 today, with kick-off set for 3:00 pm EST from Lukas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the Colts will host the brash, upstart New York Jets in a rematch of their controversial week 16 game, when the previously undefeated Colts rested Peyton Manning and a number of other starters and greased the way for the JETS to sneak into the playoffs.  The JETS have taken that win and ridden the Rex Ryan emotional wave to multiple wins over the Bengals, then beat the Chargers on their way to this surprising rematch with the Colts.  The Colts are an 8-point favorite with a point TOTAL of 40.  We expect Darrel Revis to lock down Reggie Wayne, but expect Manning and the Colts to remain patient by utilizing his other weapons.  The JETS will try to control clock with their strong ground game and take occasional chances down field to Braylon Edwards.  If the JETS get behind early they will have to abandon this strategy and open things up a little.  You know Manning and the Colts will move the ball and score.  The 8-point spread is usually a little beyond our comfort zone in a playoff situation.  OUR SELECTION:  OVER 40

In the finale tonight, Adrian Peterson, Brett Favre, Jared Allen and the Minnesota Vikings travel to the Big Easy for the NFC Championship game that will be anything but easy against Sean Payton’s, Drew Brees led, New Orleans Saints.  What a game this will be.  The story lines are endless and the over / under TOTAL of Kim Kardashian sightings in Reggie Bush’s box at the SuperDome is 5.  In fact, Who datville along with a nationwide Fox audience will be looking at Kim Kardashian’s Bush all evening as Reggie will be a featured weapon today. The host NewOrleans Saints are a 3 1/2-point favorite with a point TOTAL of 53 1/2.  The Vikings would be smart to give the Saints D a heavy dose of AP all daylong to keep Brees and Bush off the field, but smart and Favre are not typically used in the same sentence unless the word ass is attached.  So expect Favre to force passes that aren’t there and misuse the best running back in the game to the point that his touches are inconsistent and his propensity to fumble accentuated.  That being said however, Minnesota is on a roll and feeling very good about themselves.  Favre is definitely in his element and being one step away from another Super Bowl has the Twin Cities giddy.  Even if the Vikings are successful in keeping the Saints offense off the field, both teams will move the ball. Both teams will score. OUR SELECTION: OVER  53 1/2 

Play wise, play smart, play on, Players!!!!!  Check back with us on Monday for an update.