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Super Bowl 44 Prop Bets – You making any of these?


The Super Bowl.

A time for getting together with friends, family, and co-workers for the ultimate Super Bowl party as you gather around the big screen to watch the game (and the Super Bowl commercials), while you hunker down with some awesome Super Bowl party food.

And what makes watching the Super Bowl with a crowd more interesting is a little friendly wager.

We’re not talking about anything crazy, money-wise.  Everyone can just throw $5 into the pot and fill out some FOOTBALL SQUARES – you don’t have to know anything about the game, just put your name into a box and wait for the scoring to commence.  Could be the easiest money you’ve ever made.

But for the more serious gambler who looks at the Super Bowl as an investment opportunity, Football Squares is not nearly as interesting as the SUPER BOWL PROPOSITION BETS that you can get through any major Las Vegas casino.   While most everyone is familiar with the more common bets (who will win the game? what will the final score be?), a proposition bet is one that covers the more esoteric parts of the game.  In essence, if there is something in the game that can’t be known ahead of time, a prop bet should be able to cover it. 

Remember when the Chicago Bears’ Refrigerator Perry scored a touchdown in the Super Bowl in 1986?  That is credited with being the first proposition bet set, and it was done by Caesars Palace.  Needless to say, they lost a lot of money on that one.   Perhaps you’ve made your own prop bets of your own:  the outcome of the opening coin toss, for example, is a common one made between two friends.  But it takes some real professional oddsmakers – like the ones at the Las Vegas Hilton – to come up with SOME OF THESE PROPOSITION BETS for this year’s Super Bowl:

First, the more common ones –

to the more unusual –