With millions expected to be wagered illegally on the upcoming Super Bowl, Nevada and gaming officials are eagerly awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court decision on whether states should be allowed to offer legal sports betting.
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There’s nothing like watching a Super Bowl in Las Vegas, where a pedestrian 4-yard run can produce a roar in the middle of the second quarter like someone had just won the game.
There have been only two pushes against the spread in Super Bowl history: the Rams’ 7-point win over the Titans in 2000 and the Packers’ 14-point win over the Patriots in 1997.
At 3 and 59, the numbers remain the same for Super Bowl LI at Las Vegas sports books, and they don’t appear likely to change before Sunday’s game between the favored Patriots and the Falcons.
Westgate sports book director Jay Kornegay was working at the Imperial Palace in 1995, when Steelers rookie Kordell Stewart earned the nickname of “Slash” for his ability to play running back, receiver and quarterback.
This will be the first sports gambling information network, which will broadcast live from a new state-of-the-art studio in the South Point sports book.
The public is on the favorite and over in Super Bowl LI and the professionals are on the underdog and under. It’s the same pattern with prop bets, where the sharps are betting ‘no’ and the squares are betting ‘yes.’
While it would be considered only a minor upset if the surging Falcons beat New England, some bettors made wagers on them at 100-1 odds after they lost their season opener to Tampa Bay.
“He misses it and I won the bet. I thought I was really smart after that. The next three or four years, I bet that prop and I think I lost it every time.”
Brian Blessing, host of Sportsbook Radio and Vegas Hockey Hotline on KSHP-AM (1400), witnessed one of the worst Super Bowl square bad beats ever.