With the big game now in the books, the normally busy Super Bowl betting in Las Vegas was pretty quiet this year. Yet another victim of the Coronavirus pandemic. Usually, the Super Bowl will bring somewhere near 300,000 visitors to Sin City and boost the Nevada economy upwards of $500 million, WITH $100 million coming from bets placed on the game. But with COVID still forcing closures, occupancy limits, and other restrictions on business Vegas is struggling at about 50% of normal capacity. The state of Nevada remains under severe restrictions at 25% of capacity for many public venues. The…

Forbes – It’s Super Bowl week and after 298 games, including preseason and playoffs, it comes down to one final contest to crown a champion. Before the season began, the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks, along with the San Francisco 49ers, were the betting favorites to reach the Super Bowl. And in a rare occurrence, we had two preseason favorites make the Big Game. Here is what you need to know for Sunday’s game on the teams, players, owners, coaches, betting and other storylines. 1. First the basics on when and where. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:25 ET on Feb….

There have been some monster Super Bowl blowouts in the past. Washington beat Denver 42 to 10 in 1988. Then, San Francisco beat Denver to the tune of 55 to 10 in 1990. Noticing a trend here? Well, to be fair we only selected the blowouts involving the Denver Broncos. Mostly because they were embarrassed in the biggest game of all once again, this time by Seattle, to the tune of 43 to 8. Not a pretty sight. To be certain, these were not the only lopsided loses for the Broncos in the Super Bowl. In the champion for the…

Even if it was legal, the amount of sports betting on the Super Bowl in New Jersey was probably significantly reduced by the Giants’ awful 0-5 start. However, a federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled in a 2-1 decision last month that New Jersey does not have the right to legalize sports betting, a blow to the state’s casinos and horse racing tracks which would have benefited from the potential millions of dollars in revenue generated by the game being played at MetLife Stadium. Lawyers for the state had maintained that the U.S. Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of…