TODAY AT SANTA ANITA PARK
Betting
The Green Bay Packers are 2½-point favorites over the Pittsburgh Steelers in today’s game, and the total is 45. A survey of Super Bowl opinions from Las Vegas Review-Journal staff members, other media and Las Vegas handicappers.
It’s a great day and a sad time all rolled into one. We’re anticipating the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers will put on a spectacular show befitting the Super Bowl hype, but we also know that by 7 p.m. we’ll be bemoaning the fact that the next meaningful football game is seven months away.
Three reasons to like the STEELERS (+2½) OVER THE PACKERS
It’s Super Bowl eve, and a mother pushes a stroller while her two young daughters walk on each side of her outside the sports book at Mandalay Bay.
Attending the Super Bowl is overrated. I would much rather watch the game in a Las Vegas sports book, and it just so happens that Mayor Oscar Goodman agrees. That’s no surprise, obviously, because Goodman is this playground’s top pitchman.
If predictions are correct, this Sunday’s game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers will have a nongaming economic impact of $85.6 million locally, while sports books estimate a handle of $88 million to $90 million.