Super Bowl Prop Bets

I'm a big believer in staying with a trend and not going with the "it is due" theory. I would take the NFC winning the coin toss (and the game).

They don't normally allow parlays on props as they are too highly correlated. Example- they don't let you parlay over in first half to over in the game, because if the first half goes over the total, the game is likely to go over also.

DonDiego knows of one sportsbook that used to allow such parlays. Maybe they didn't understand that there correlation thing.

In 2000 when he still lived in El Paso, Texas DonDiego would frequent the Juarez Race and Sports Book at the southeast corner of Juarez Avenue and Azucenas Street, . . . about two blocks south of the Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Frontera Chihuahua, Mexico.

For Super Bowl XXXIV, in which the St. Louis Rams faced the Tennessee Titans, DonDiego wagered on the SIDE (Rams -7), the UNDER (42), who'd score first (Rams), who'd have possession at the end of the first half (Titans), and three other props he doesn't recall. And he mixed and matched lots of parlays.

DonDiego went 6-0-1 on his selections. The final score was: Rams23, Titans16. The SIDE was a push. The UNDER won. With 3:00 remaining in the first quarter the Rams scored a field-goal, so that bet won. And the possession at the end of the first half was decided when, after scoring a field goal with 19-seconds left in the half the Rams kicked to the Titans; on the first play from scrimmage, Steve McNair took a knee and the half was over.

The final play of the game, . . . with 6 seconds left at the Rams 10-yard-line Steve McNair threw a pass to Kevin Dyson at about the 4-yard-line; Dyson turned, was hit by Mike Jones, stretched the ball toward the goal-line, but the ball hit turf at the 1-yard-line, . . . preserving both the SIDE and the UNDER bet !

Mid-week following the game, DonDiego sauntered over the International Bridge and collected something like $2800 in winnings even after the 2% "sportsbook-tax". It took about 35-minutes for the tellers to actually come up with the cash. DonDiego ambled back over the bridge to the good, ole' USA as unobtrusively as he could.

Nonetheless, DonDiego is reluctant to recommend this sportsbook to billryan now. Juarez has become the murder capital of North America, and violence - both gunplay and bladework resulting in numerous beheadings - is all too common. The 2-block walk to the border would seem much longer now.

Last year although the Las Vegas Hilton put some proposition bets on their board throughout the week following the Conference Championships, they did not publish all 300+ until Friday January 29th.
So, it might well be that the proposition bets are revealed this year on Friday January 28th. The local newpapers will publish many of them, pr'bly on the upcoming weekend.

The sportsbooks don't have parlay cards for the Super Bowl any more? I know I've seen and played parlay cards on Super Bowl weekend that had 10 prop bets. You could pick as few as three or as many as all ten.

They do but they are sucker bets as most of the options have a high likelihood of a tie, and ties lose on these cards. The options will be likely--

GB -3
Over/under 2 field goals made
Over/under 5 sacks
etc

Which ones do?

Usually books don't allow parlay on prop bets, although I though I heard that someone was doing it online.

Since the Hilton doesn't put out its props online, what I would do is go to one of the offshore sports books like, Caribsports.com or some others, and print out what they have available, so you'll have an idea what you want to bet on before you get to Vegas. Then when you get there, all you have to do is pick up one of the prop sheets, and circle the ones you want to bet.

Unsure....I see them every year but pay no attention to which casinos have them. Many casinos run a special like "Buy a $20 parlay card and get a Big Game T-shirt". That should tell you they are sucker plays right there.

Might be sucker plays but you can get a lot entertainment for your money. How funny is it to have a bunch of goobers rooting for "tails" on the coin flip and then yelling "Defer, defer."