Mother’s Day! Kentucky Derby! NFL Futures and Celtics Playoff! Great, and wildly profitable, weekend. We stayed at the beautiful Pallazzo which has the best sports book we have ever seen. Some of the highlights included:

Betting/winning on potential Triple Crown winner, Big Brown, in the Derby. Also bet him to PLACE in latest victory, which paid better at 2.60 than to WIN at 2.40, as Dan expected given that nearly everyone expected him to win and so the place pool would be better distributed.

Taking our mom out for dinner and Barry Manilow as a Mother’s Day gift.

Using the casinos as our personal ATM machines.

After having some fun, the Belforti Brothers’ got down to the business of making money, collecting on 2007 NFL futures and reinvesting in 2008 NFL futures. Mark came back ahead by $1400 which was achieved through baseball, basketball and casinos. The bulk of the Mark’s winnings came on a tremendous run in Black Jack.

Dan increased his advantage on Vegas, winning net $2700 on craps, that same run in Black Jack enjoyed by brother Mark and by a huge call on our beloved Celtics who crushed Atlanta in Game 7.

Below are our current 2008 Best Bets on NFL Futures, which has yet to lose in the history of this NFL football blog. football.belforti.org

New England Patriots over 12.5 total wins (-120) – Pats should be motivated after losing SB, and spoiling their 1st chance at immortality. This modern day dynasty will feed off of this loss to more clearly be known to be the greatest franchise in the history of the NFL. They also have the 2nd easiest schedule behind SD. They play only 4 teams with winning records in 2008. We are somewhat worried with defensive secondary losses from last year but draft and free agency probably addressed those needs. Team may be even better than last year if key players stay healthy.

Seattle Seahawks +135 to win their division – Even though they lost Shaun Alexander, who has lost a step, they picked up T.J. Duckett and Julius Jones. With Dionne Branch and Hasslebeck healthy again, Seattle easily has the talent to win the weak NFC West division.

Seattle Seahawks over 8.5 wins -155 – NFC West plays the NFC and AFC East Divisions this year. With their own conference and likes of Bills, Jets and Dolphins, we see Seattle going over 9 wins.

Best of the rest:

Pats 3.8 to 1 to win SB; -650 to win AFC East; +180 to win AFC (Best Team Ever?)
Philly Eagles 8 to 1 to win NFC; 20 to 1 to win SB; Win Division +450
NY Giants +650 to win NFC; +350 to Win Division (underrated Champs offer value)
Colts 5-1 to win AFC; +900 to win SB; -160 to win division (one step below Pats)
Redskins under 7.5 regular season wins (NFC East is toughest division)
Chiefs under 5.5 wins (no QB to speak of)

On Monday, June 9th, 2008 NFL MVP Tom Brady will be revisiting The International Country Club for the annual Patriots golf day in support of The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation. Brady’s drive of 307 yards won 1st Place amoung his teamates in 2007, the same distance that I made to win our 3 Day Member Guest Tournament last summer. I may suggest to him that we have a “drive off” to establish the amateur International Club Champion.

For archived interview with The International Owner Dan Weadock and Paul Mastroianni describing the “Patriotic” event, click here.

Coming this Saturday, April 26th: Deja Vu? (that was indeed TheCorrectAnswer.com). We are (again) the defending champions of the Vince Wilfork Bowling Tourney for diabetes. Do YOU want to be a champion too? Can you bowl? Belforti Investments is looking to replace Jon Murray (moving to Tampa this week). If you can average over 120, you’d be an improvement! email me asap!

Patriots Nosetackle Vince Wilfork Awards Bowling Championship to Belforti Investments
May 16th, 2007

The New England Patriots 2004 #1 Pick and soon to be All-Pro DT Vince Wilfork celebrated NFL draft day with the good people at Pinz in Milford, Mass. on April 29th. The Patriots continued their faith in Vince by drafting his former Miami Hurricane teammates in the 1st and 4th rounds with safety Brandon Meriweather, who mentioned Vince as his main mentor in Meriweather’s 1st interview as a player on May 14th , and defensive tackle Kareem Brown. An unnamed source shared with me that Coach Belichick considers Vince Wilfork to be his favorite Patriots player.

Belforti Investments sponsored a team in the bowling tournament, won 1st place and was awarded signed team bowling jerseys (see photo), which will be used to defend their title at next year’s charity event for diabetes research. Several other Patriot players (Ty Warren, Matt Light, Kevin Faulk and others) were in attendence at the well managed event.

The boys from Milford (Ronnie Pagnini,Dan Belforti) and Portsmouth (Adam Fellman,Jon Murray,Travis Glazier) put forth a Patriotic performance in bowling over the 2nd place winning team by an average of 11 pins (143 team average per string).

Team captain and Belforti Investments promoter Dan Belforti added, “This large margin of victory is consistent with the outperformance of our model portfolio vs. the average mutual fund, hedge fund or stock market index over the past 5,10 or 20 years.”

The model portfolio (Dan Belforti’s own rollover IRA account) achieved an average annual return on investment in excess of 17% from January of 2000 thru April of 2007, continuing his streak of positive portfolio returns in each calendar year.

Belforti explains, “Similar to Vince Wilfork, Tom Brady and the rest of the dynastic New England Patriots, we EXPECT to win every year when we faithfully execute our strategy, which the portfolio has done successfully in each calendar year since inception in 1986.” Present value is well in excess of $500K with deposits made only from 1986 thru 1990 at GE Aerospace (9% of paltry engineering salary) and 1996-1999 at Tucker Anthony (2% of commissions earned).

Belforti advises, “Spend far less than you make, invest your savings well and you will achieve financial independence. It is just common sense, and it is also The Correct Answer.”

Worth the listen. Looks like Belforti went on a diet, then a rant!
—– Forwarded Message —-
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:34:23 AM
Subject: Lets take a break from the bashing and watch this funny clip
This is hysterical!!
http://www.townienews.com/

Mr. Burns’s et al,
Bad enough I witnessed another heartbreaker from a shitty seat that cost me $2500 (similar upper level in Indy in Jan), but now I learn that Braintree Belcher does a better Patriots sports blog http://www.townienews.com than http://football.belforti.org . And even more twisted and ironic is that he left Boston years ago for New York. But he is correct. Humble pie DOES taste like shit.

This ball was overthrown by best ever 2007 NFL MVP Tom Brady which bounced off the painted turf into the stands (has “Patriots” typed onto ball unlike souveniers). Got to hold it at a stadium adjacent bar bathroom after game. Not quite like hoisting the Lombardi Trophy.

Still in hiding after all my gloating of the historic 19-0 preseason prediction. So much for my slogan of reporting the news before it happens. Here’s the embarrassing 5 minute clip from my interview with Sportscenter 5 Mike Lynch the day of his premiere of Patriots All Access back on Sept 7: http://odeo.com/audio/17644843/view

Anyone what to buy these futures at a deep discount? Good thing still have the stock market to make us money…even on the way down. SRS.
NFL FUTURES

Account Ticket # Team Game Odds Inverse Odds Risk To Win
Palms 08D02-3E4B-938A Patriots SB 9.00 -0.11 1,000 9,000
Palms 08F02-3E85-938A Patriots SB 9.00 -0.11 1,000 9,000
Gold Coast C9105-095B-D81D Patriots SB 9.00 -0.11 1,000 9,000
BetRoyalDan 18404982 Patriots SB 10.00 -0.10 500 5,000
Bodog-Gavin 69744549 Patriots SB 10.00 -0.10 600 6,000
Heritage Sports 21419700 - 1 Patriots SB 7.00 -0.14 200 1,400
Greek Patriots SB 0.69 -1.45 2,900 2,000
Totals 5.75 -0.17 7,200 41,400

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Listen in this Friday from noon to 1pm on LeftRightAndCorrect.com for former Patriot Coach Raymond Berry’s comments and predictions. Hall of Fame QB Tom Brady doesn’t have 2 sub par games in a row. And The Best Team in the History of Sports doesn’t lose games….period. And to do it with style, it shall be a BLOWOUT!

Who could have predicted 19-0? Listen to this 2 minute segment from my September 7th interview with Sportscenter 5 Sports Anchor and Patriots All Access host Mike Lynch http://odeo.com/audio/17644843/view

Ronnie Pagnini and I are going to Arizona with Bill Belichick’s frat buddies (Jim Caray, Paul Malnati, John McKeown, Brad Monico and John Gaebe) to cover the game for new insights to bring to you in upcoming weeks about this historic team and game.

If Pats do cover the 11.5 to 12.5 point spread, the Belforti Bros will have achieved a 75% winning percentage against the spread in the past 36 games picked on this web site. Presently only 26 wins and 9 losses for 74%. Sorry about zero for two last week but Pats SHOULD have covered!

Please leave your prediction of final score for the big game in the comments section below! Winner gets complimentary tix to a Pats game next season, courtesy of Belforti Investments (the company that presently has less than a 20% asset allocation to equities/stocks for his clients). Timing is everything! Over 15% average annual return since 1/1/2000 in my retirement account…beat that and I’ll invest with you!

Was there ever any doubt about 2007 NFL MVP Tom Brady? Last week setting a playoff record for highest percentage completed. As earlier predicted, Brady should fill up all ten fingers before hanging up his cleats by age 40.

Speaking of percentage completed correctly, this web page predicted 3 of 4 last week (sorry about Indy pick, bad luck for Peyton Manning again on tipped balls turned into interceptions). Still, 26 wins and 7 losses against the spread in last 33 games keeps our winning percentage at 79%. Here are our Championship weekend picks.

Patriots 46 Chargers 10. A week late in predicting the collapse of the average and beat up Charger offense against the best team in sports history.

Packers 38 Giants 17. Great young defense and enough weapons for Favre to go to another Super Bowl against our beloved Pats. Eli Manning still not an Eli-te QB and shows why on Sunday. I was wrong about Brett Favre in my preseason predictions, he’s still playing great.