Fans bet $94M on Super Bowl at Nevada casinos

Someone, somewhere, has money, things aren't too bad around the country. This was just Nevada, just think of ALL the other bets that  were made around the country and the world. Just think what might have been wagered in China, they have more money than we do. Are all of our "ducks in a row"?

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) —

Sports fans bet $93.9 million at Nevada casinos on Sunday's Super Bowl match up between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, the most wagered in the past decade.

The Gaming Control Board says unaudited tallies show 184 sports books won a little over $5 million on the football action. New England was about a 3 point favorite, but the Giants won 21-17.

It was a different story for Nevada casinos when the same two teams played in the 2008 Super Bowl. The Patriots opened as 14-point favorites four years ago, but Giants backers bet the line down to 12 points and got paid when New York earned a 17-14 win.

Nevada casinos lost the most money ever on the Super Bowl that year — $2.6 million.

A WHY just occurred to me

Just saw a commercial on TV, naturally, about a company having a sale on tires.

Made me wonder, why are there different qualities of tires? The 40,000 mile tire was on sale. My concern, am I safer on an expensive tire than in a cheaper one? Are those who can afford the more expensive tire safer than I am on the set I can afford.

What is the difference between a cheap tire and an expensive tire? Quality, safety, endurance, a car I understand, you pay more money for a name and more luxury. What happens if you take an expensive car and put cheap tires on it?

Why don't they make all tires the same? Ironic, in a way. If you can't afford the expensive ones, you settle on cheaper ones, that you get less mileage from, so you have to buy tires more often. If the expensive ones last twice as long, well you see where that goes, and you apparently are safer in the expensive ones.

I remember years ago when we bought "recaps." How unsafe were they, if you got a bad one, the tread would come off, but, I was younger than, and things like that didn't seem to worry me.

Today, 40,000 miles is about one-third of the life of a car, just look at the mileage on the cars in used car lots.

Suzuki

New Suzuki vehicles, destroyed by tsunami waters from the March 11 massive earthquake, are piled on the Suzuki company lot, Tuesday, March 29, 2011 inSendai, Miyagi prefecture, Japan. Much of Japan's auto industry, the second largest supplier of cars in the world, remains idle two weeks after a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country's northeast coast. Though few plants were seriously damaged by the quake, limited supplies of water and electricity have left many unable to reopen.

The New Masthead

I think it needs a bit more explaining.

Joe Conforte, Nevada brothel owner, who I dealt craps to on numerous occasions in Reno, is in this photograph seen shooting craps in prison in Carson City, Nevada. Gambling, of course, is legal in Nevada, so they had a casino in the state prison. It was reportedly the most honest game in the state. You didn't want to get thrown out of there, there was no place else to go. Joe is not living in Brazil.

I remember Joe pulling up in front of the Primmadonna in a cordovan colored Lincoln Continental convertible, camel top coat, nice fedora, big cigar, walking in to the club with a few of his girls, all nicely dressed, in town for some entertainment, generally on a Thursday night.

Ernie Primm had a special bottle of something, just for Joe, and a box of cigars for him also. Joe spread his money around pretty good, so everyone took good care of him. I had a few occasions to not only deal to him, but also to chat. I always liked him.

The Chris Craft on the pond. Well, I always loved boats, in those days they were all wooden. I had driven a Chris Craft on one occasion, in Michigan, on Burt Lake, that was owned by Hoppie, I think his name was John Hopkins. He was a dashing figure of a man, vacationed at the lake, made a lot of money during the war and moved up to the lake. He bought John Greenmans's store and tavern, turned it into a full time tavern, and it still is there today, changed quite a bit, but still Hoppies.

We had the pond, I saw a Chris Craft for sale, and the practical person I was, bought it, put it on the pond, got it running and had a ball with it. Don't ask what happened to it. I decided to refinish it, ADD kicked in, end of story.

Don't bring up the subject if you talk with my wife, please.