{"id":8983,"date":"2014-02-03T23:54:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8983"},"modified":"2014-02-03T23:54:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:54:59","slug":"record-119-4-million-bet-on-super-bowl-19-7-million-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/03\/record-119-4-million-bet-on-super-bowl-19-7-million-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Record $119.4 million bet on Super Bowl, $19.7 million lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8984\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8984\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/superbowlgame.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"405\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/superbowlgame.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/superbowlgame-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/superbowlgame-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nA record $119.4 million was bet at Nevada casinos on this year&#8217;s Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>With the Denver Broncos entering as a 2.5 point favorite, bettors turned out to show support for Peyton Manning. The result was a record $19.7 million profit for the sportsbooks reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/playoffs\/2013\/story\/_\/id\/10399019\/super-bowl-xlviii-fans-bet-record-119m-game-nevada-casinos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Associated Press<\/a>. That&#8217;s more than the last three Super Bowls combined.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle thumped Denver 43-8 which was a total of 51 points. The over\/under at most places was 47.5 points meaning Vegas was helped there as well.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of this story &#8211; if it was not clear already &#8211; do not bet against Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record $119.4 million was bet at Nevada casinos on this year&#8217;s Super Bowl. With the Denver Broncos entering as a 2.5 point favorite, bettors turned out to show support for Peyton Manning. The result was a record $19.7 million profit for the sportsbooks reports the Associated Press. That&#8217;s more than the last three Super [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}