Wagering on Super Bowl Props

This is it: Super Bowl week. With two weeks to fill and only one game left, get ready for newspapers and TV sports shows to exhaust their insight into every possible angle and personality on the game. From a handicapping perspective, it's not always easy to find a soft betting line with respect to the side and total. With one game to go in the season, and two weeks to prepare, oddsmakers generally make a solid line on the side and total. And any kind of major line movement is less likely with so much public money flowing in on the game. However, this isn't the case with proposition wagers. Super Bowl props have become fascinating and near endless over the last decade. You can wager on almost anything, from the coin toss, to who will score the first TD, to the final score for either side. The purpose of prop bets is simple: The more balloons the sports books toss in the air, the more two-way money they can entice on the game. A person wagering on the Seahawks, for instance, might decide he also likes QB Matt Hassellbeck over 1