The Super Bowl is, as everyone knows, the biggest thing in sports. And television. Which are, increasingly, indistinguishable. The game is routinely the highest rated program of the year. Any year. In fact, three of the four most highly rated shows of all time are Super Bowls. And those would be the last three games. The trend, then, is for this year’s game to become the highest rated ever. For a year, anyway.
People who do not watch another game all year and cannot tell you, when a team is flagged for having too many men on the field, exactly how many are allowed … they will watch the game, eat the guacamole, drink the beer, and get into the betting pools. The Super Bowl is, in fact, as big for the gambling industry as it is for avocado growers. In Vegas this week, you can put your money on as many as 300 different “proposition” bets.
