A Steelers Victory Kicks Off NFL Football Odds
The champion team and the defenders of the Super Bowl title, the Pittsburgh Steelers kicked off the 90th season of NFL football odds defeating the Tennessee Titans 13-10 in overtime.
It was a football odds game to be dominated by the defense from both teams. The Steelers suffered a great loss once Troy Polamalu was injured. The same player that had made an interception catch using only one hand could not play the entire second half.
The first quarter went by with no scoring. The first points of the 2009 regular NFL. NFL football odds season came from a 34 yard touchdown pass by star quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
“Big Ben” and Santonio Holmes had combined to score the last touchdown of last season’s NFL championship, the same way they had come together to score the very first touchdown of the current NFL odds season.
Just before the game went to half time, the Titans tied up the score with a 14 yard touchdown pass from Kerry Collins to Justin Gage.
Just like the first quarter, the third quarter went on with no scoring, and finally in the fourth quarter, after having failed two field goals, Rob Bironas gave Tennessee the first NFL football odds advantage in the game after scoring a 45 yard field goal to put the Titans in a 10-7 lead.
Not long after, Pittsburgh tied things up with a 32 yard field goal by kicker Jeff Reed. It looked as if the Steelers would take the win within the first four quarters, as Roethlisberger found an excellent football odds opportunity to take the Steelers within the Titans’ 10 yard line. With less than a minute on the clock however, the pass intended for Hines Ward wasn’t completed and the game went into overtime.
In overtime, Pittsburgh was given possession of the ball, and in a drive that lasted 10 plays for 63 yards they took the first win of the regular NFL odds season thanks to a 33 yard field goal by Jeff Reed.
Roethlisberger completed 33 of 43 passes, for a total of 363 yards, one touchdown, and two interceptions.
Tennessee’s Kerry Collins completed 22 of his 35 attempted passes, for a total of 244 yards, scoring one touchdown and allowing one interception. That wasn’t enough to beat the Steelers, and the Titans can chalk up their first NFL odds loss of the 2009 NFL regular season.
