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Super Bowl prop bets: what to gamble away your money on for the big game

Will a player be evaluated for a concussion? Will Lady Gaga say ‘Trump’ during the half-time show? Nothing enables a degenerate gambler quite like the Super Bowl, where the smorgasbord of proposition bets on offer is dizzyingEach year, the amount of Super Bowl proposition bets offered to folks who enjoy placing a wager grows larger and larger. For Sunday’s big game between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons at Houston’s NRG Stadium, the smorgasbord of props found on the offshore gambling website, 5Dimes.com, is downright dizzying.It will take you several minutes just to read each prop on offer. Take a look.5dimes going all out on the prop bets for the Super Bowl. You need 6 hours to analyze all...

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Deflategate was supposed to kill Goodell and the Patriots. They're still thriving

New England are into another Super Bowl and the NFL commissioner is still in power despite numerous debacles. So much for scandalsIt has now been two years since the start of Deflategate, an ordeal that should have ruined the New England Patriots and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Instead, the only key figure who is worse-off than before is the man who started the fiasco. On Saturday, a day before the Patriots went to yet another Super Bowl, the Indianapolis Colts fired their general manager Ryan Grigson. The move was celebrated by Patriots fans, who knew Grigson had told the NFL that New England were underinflating footballs during their rout of the Colts in the 2015 AFC championship game. Upon hearing of...

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