Super Bowl props galore, but some of best offshore

The Super Bowl prop bet craze was kicked off in Las Vegas in 1986, when oddsmaker Jimmy Vaccaro gave gamblers at the old MGM Grand the chance to wager on whether William “The Refrigerator” Perry would score a touchdown in Super Bowl XX.

Bettors hammered the prop — which opened at 40-1 odds and closed at 5-1 — and, for once, buried the bookmakers as Perry scored in the Chicago Bears’ 46-10 romp over the New England Patriots.

Almost 30 years later, there are hundreds of Super Bowl XLIX prop bets offered at Las Vegas sports books. But if you’re looking to bet on what color Bill Belichick’s hoodie will be Sunday or if singer Idina Menzel will mess up the national anthem, you’ll have to visit Bovada’s online sports book.

For the record, gray is a minus-120 favorite to be the color of Belichick’s hoodie, blue is even money, and red is a plus-750 underdog. Other Belichick props offered are type of hoodie: sleeves cut (minus-200) or sleeves intact (plus-150); and will Belichick smile during the game on camera: yes (plus-140) or no (minus-180).

If you believe Menzel — no relation to Johnny Football — will forget or omit at least one word of the anthem, you can bet yes at plus-450 odds. The total for the anthem is 2 minutes, 1 second, with under a minus-130 favorite.

To keep halftime interesting, you can wager on what Katy Perry will be wearing when she starts her show: pants below knees (plus-450), shorts above knees (plus-250) or skirt or dress (minus-300).

Wardrobe malfunction wasn’t a prop, but you can bet that Marshawn Lynch will grab his crotch after scoring a touchdown (plus-250). We can only pray for no (minus-400) to be the right side on the crotch prop.

How many times will “deflated” balls be said during the game, you ask? Well, the total is three, with the over a minus-150 favorite.

This Leftovers item still isn’t “over,” as play-by-play man Al Michaels has been known to say about certain games that were under the total. Will Michaels refer to the point spread, total, odds on who wins the game or any prop bet during Sunday’s game? Do you believe in miracles? Yes (minus-120)!

■ TIGER A STAND-UP GUY — Tiger Woods will be here all week. Try the veal.

After the golfer struggled through a career-worst round of 82 and missed the cut at the Phoenix Open on Friday, he cracked in an interview, “I’m just doing this so I don’t get fined.”

Woods also showed off his newfound self-deprecating sense of humor during a news conference in Phoenix on Tuesday, when he provided details of how his tooth was knocked out by a cameraman at girlfriend Lindsey Vonn’s ski race in Italy.

Asked about a skeleton ski mask he wore to the event, Woods said, “I was trying to blend in. There’s not a lot of brown dudes at ski races.”

Tiger also played to the crowd during Wednesday’s pro-am event, where he was greeted with light-hearted boos after hitting his tee shot into a green-side bunker on the par-3 16th hole he aced in 1997 to thunderous applause.

Woods responded by intentionally hitting the ball straight into the crowd. At least it looked like it was on purpose. After Friday’s debacle, we can’t be sure.

You’re not being the ball, Tiger.

COMPILED BY TODD DEWEY LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL