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Betting
The first pick’em game in Super Bowl history was a classic, closing the book on another wild NFL season. Here’s a Top 10 list of the regular season’s most memorable betting moments.
The San Antonio at Santa Anita Park will feature California Chrome, Hoppertunity and Shared Belief on Saturday. It will be the first race of the season for the Horse of the Year California Chrome.
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With everything on the line, Russell Wilson threw an interception that cost the Seattle Seahawks a second straight Super Bowl win. It was a costly mistake for Nevada’s sports books, too.
It was thrilling for everyone holding a ticket on the New England Patriots and sweating bullets. It was the agony of defeat on Seattle Seahawks bettors. It was millions of dollars changing hands in a split second in the biggest betting event of the year.
Proposition bets, from the basic to the zany, help kept bettors in action during the Super Bowl and also kept them watching.
It could be a classic. Every time Bill Belichick and Tom Brady get here, it’s close.
The sports books throughout the Las Vegas Valley will be packed today for the Super Bowl. The buzz already had begun by Saturday, especially on the Strip.
Super Bowl XLIX between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks is a pick’em game, and the total is 48. A survey of opinions from Las Vegas Review-Journal staff members, other media, oddsmakers and professional handicappers:
When both teams go to bed tonight after Super Bowl XLIX and wake up Monday, it will be Feb. 2, and it’s likely to feel like the movie “Groundhog Day” for the Seattle Seahawks.
When betting propositions on the Super Bowl each year, I avoid anything based simply on the luck factor.
The Rebels host Air Force tonight at the Thomas & Mack Center. Tip is at 7:00 p.m.