Casino Gambling on Super Bowl Building Toward Climax
Now that the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers have been established as the two Super Bowl contestants, Las Vegas sportsbooks will begin handling the wagering on the year's biggest betting event. The early line has Pittsburgh favored by a touchdown, with a total of 47 points.
The end to the NFL season is always the annual highlight of the sports gambling year, and this year promises to be no different, although perhaps a mite more subdued by the ravages of the recession. The 2006 game between Pittsburgh and Seattle drew the record handle, a total of $94.5 million just at Nevada casinos.
Although the Steelers are an extremely popular team across the US, and the Cardinals are the classic underdog, a role on which US gamblers love to wager, experts are picking the handle to fall into the high eighty millions. Edmund Crumley, sports analyst for Online Casino Advisory, says the betting pool will be diminished by the shortage of money around the US and the world.
"Online casinos, European gambling venues, even neighborhood bookies will notice the action drop a little from past years. Still, the Super Bowl always stimulates the gaming industry, and it will again this year."
Crumley's official recommendation for the game is to take the Pittsburgh Steelers and the under. "Many people will choose Arizona just because their quarterback, the most visible player, is better than Pittsburgh's. But the offensive and especially defensive fronts of the Steelers will leave the Cardinals feeling like a truck ran over them. Pittsburgh, 34-10."
