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Want to bet the Super Bowl? Dogs might be an indicator


Each Super Sunday, our family puts together a pool, marking off questions in a grid format.

First team to score? Will there be a safety or two-point conversion? Over or under, say, 45 points? First score a TD or a field goal? Questions that are basically coin flips and don't require football knowledge. Makes Sunday more interesting.

Of course, Vegas has their prop bets (see below). Then Palm Beach Kennel Club has its greyhound "Pooch Predictor." The details:

In the Super Bowl Pooch Predictor Race, one Greyhound will sport the blanket of the AFC champion New England Patriots while the other dons the colors of the NFC’s New York Giants. They will compete in an official schooling race on the 545-yard Royal Palm Course.

The teams the Greyhounds will represent have been randomly selected. Stepping onto the Palm Beach oval in their first official schooling event will be sisters Kebo Kara (New England Patriots) and Kebo Kewpie (New York Giants).

The two Rader Racing Kennel youngsters, Kara and Kupie (Lonsome Cry - Kaycar Glinda), will break from the one and eight posts, respectively.

The will take place after Friday afternoon’s fifth race at approximately 1:50 p.m.

The Palm Beach Kennel Club canines have correctly predicted nine of the last 11 Super Bowl champions, including last year’s winners, the Indianapolis Colts and the 2006 victors, the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Woof!

Meanwhile, some prop bets I pulled off the internet:

Will the first missed FG be wide left or wide right?
How many times will Archie Manning be shown on the telecast?
How long will it take Jordin Sparks to sing the national anthem (over-under at one minute, 42 seconds).

(My pick by the way: Patriots, and they'll cover. It's coronation day, and the Giants are out of gas.)

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Maybe you've made the right play, maybe you haven't. Your heart speeds up, your stomach rumbles.

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NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
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