{"id":23444,"date":"2019-02-04T07:26:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=23444"},"modified":"2019-02-04T07:33:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T15:33:55","slug":"super-bowl-hits-and-misses-sigma-derby-rides-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/super-bowl-hits-and-misses-sigma-derby-rides-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl hits and misses; Sigma Derby rides again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Super Bowl LIII<\/strong> is over and viewers are left to ponder such existential questions as “Is Julian Edelman<\/strong>\u00a0a Hall of Famer?” and “Why are all NFL<\/strong> kickers bald?” The New England Patriots<\/strong> did the most important thing, i.e. covering the spread in a game that saw more first-half Los Angeles Rams<\/strong> punts (six) than total Rams points scored \"\"(three). Early money favored the Rams by a point but an influx of sharps bets moved the line in New England’s favor. However, sports books missed big time in the projection of 57 total points scored. Whoops. Oddsmaker Pete Prisco<\/strong> gets a nod\u00a0for prophetic skill<\/a>: “The Patriots don’t blow out teams in the\u00a0Super Bowl, and they won’t here. In fact this one will come down to a late Tom Brady<\/strong> drive. This time, which will be different from their first Super Bowl meeting, he will need to get a touchdown late to win it. And he will.” The league would like to censor prop bets but sports books aren’t having any of that. Still, Nevada<\/strong> books didn’t take action on the over\/under of Gladys Knight<\/strong>‘s protracted “Star Spangled Banner,” perhaps because there was so much ambiguity<\/a> as to when the Queen of Soul actually finished her rendition.<\/p>\n

It’s not known whether any of the prop bets included “Halftime hip-hot artist\u00a0spews obscenities<\/a> into a hot mike” but who’d bet against that? However, strange prop bets<\/a> included “Which commercial will be aired first” and “Will There Be a Spongebob Squarepants<\/em> tribute at halftime?” (Congratulations to all of you who bet “yes.”) Incidentally, we enjoyed the crowd’s lusty booing of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell<\/strong>, even if it wasn’t related to his recent cover-up<\/a> of anti-Colin Kaepernick<\/strong> collusion. As for our favorite Super Bowl commercial, it was this …<\/p>\n