As always along with the Super Bowl comes some significant gambling. The Super Bowl is the most gambled-on sporting event in the United States, with more than $100 million wagered on the game in some years, according to FOXBusiness.com.

American Gaming Association data, complete through 2009, show that legal sports wagering in Nevada that year totaled $2.57 billion. However, that number isn’t even close to the actual total as it does not reflect the illegal wagers made elsewhere. The National Gambling Impact Study Commission estimates that illegal sports wagers amount to as much as $380 billion annually and no game brings more action that the Super Bowl.

The Patriots opened up as 3.5 point favorite for Super Bowl XLVI, but most casinos now have the line down to just 3 points. With a ton of early action already going on New York a couple of casinos have now dropped the line to 2.5.

Vegas could stand to take a beating if New York wins.  Several sports books took significant bets on the Giants to win the Super Bowl at odds as high as 80-1 (a $1 bet wins $800).
Prop bets were released on Thursday by Bovada.lv.

Fans have a chance to fire down on what color fluids get dumped on the head coach of the winning it all. Orange has 9-4 odds while just plain water has a 3-1 chance to be thrown on Bill Belichick's or Tom Coughlin's back.

Tom Brady has the best odds to win game MVP at 13-10 and there's a 4-1 chance that Wes Welker will score the Patriots' first touchdown. Odds are 5-2 that Kelly Clarkson will forget or leave out a word of the National Anthem while odds that Madonna will be wearing an NFL jersey at any point during the halftime show are also 5-2. The over/under of Clarkson's anthem is at 1:34 and there are even 3-1 odds on her showing her belly during it.

If this year's Super Bowl isn't enough for you to get excited about, the odds for next year's Super Bowl are already out. Suprisiningly its the Packers and Saints, neither of who will be playing in this year's contest, that are the early favorites.

Celebrities, who are not regular bettors typically, often throw big money and high stakes bets down. Birdman has gone public and said he is going to bet $5 million on the Patriots. While 50 Cent is taking the Giants and pledging to tweet a naked photo if the Pats win.

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