Football season is finally here. It starts this Thursday. It seems like an eternity between the time the Superbowl ends and the regular season starts. The pro-bowl and the pre-season don’t count, either. This is the time when all the work spent during the off-season is either going to pay off, or another huge disappointments will befall the city of your choice. Will there be another unlikely giant killer (pun intended) like the Giants of New York from last season? Could it possibly happen again? And is there a team that is as daunting as the Patriots were last year? I don’t think that they could be as good as they were last season, in fact I don’t see any team going undefeated this year. I would almost say that it was impossible, although I didn’t think that the Pat’s could do what they did last season. Oh, to be so close and not be able to finish. I still smile at the thought of the hail-mary like pass being snagged from mid air in front of the Pat’s cornerback, the gasps of millions of New England fans echoing across the country. It was great. Every time I see the re-play on ESPN, it brings joy to my heart. Lets just hope that it does happen to be another one of those great NFL seasons that will have at least one moment that will be talked about for years to come.
Since the New York Giants upset the Patriots in the Super Bowl, a record $2.6 million was lost by the Nevada sports books. Several smaller sized bets were placed on the Giants to win, making the total wagered to the Giants around 60 percent. This in fact caused the Patriots to only be favored by 12 points instead of the original 14 points.
Most of the people who bet chose Giants to win outright on the money line, which in turned cause the payouts to be up to $475 for every $100 wagered.
The overall total amount that was wagered at Nevada’s 174 sports books was $92.1 million, the third highest amount ever wagered. The last time the casinos had lost money on the Super Bowl was in 1995, when the San Francisco 49ers defeated the San Diego Chargers 49-26. In that Super Bowl, only $400,000 was lost.
