With the sports betting NFL labour dilemma coming to an end any day now, it is once again time to project the surprise team of next season. Each year 32 teams take to the field in September, with many of the worst teams from the year prior turning into respectable franchises. However, of the terrible teams to turn around their seasons, only one ever makes the full 180 and goes to the playoffs. Today online betting enthusiasts will be able to look at one team that should turn heads for the 2011 – 12 seasons.

It has been nearly three years since the Detroit Lions had the season from hell, in which they lost all 16 games of the regular season. In the three years since that fateful 2008 season, the Lions under new management and coaching, have slowly built up one of the most impressive young cores in the NFL. The offense is led by the trio of Matthew Stafford, Jahvid Best and Calvin Johnson, while the defense is headlined by the tandem of 2011 draft choice Nick Fairley and 2010 defensive rookie of the year Ndamukong Suh.

Last season, the Lions went six and 10 including a four game winning streak to close out the season. Positively it's no betonline.com scam, with an impressive finish to last season, along with three amazing draft classes, many breeders cup betting fans and experts alike we included, feel the time is now for the Lions to put it all together and return to the playoffs for the first time in 13 years. From a betting standpoint, the Lions have seen their odds rise dramatically, as they opened the 2011 season as a 75 to one underdog to win the Super Bowl. Yet, three months after the odds were posted; the Lions now sit at 20 to one odds of winning the title. Could this be the year the Lions break the curse?