The national sports media will descend upon Jacksonville, and a number of their colleagues will be in Las Vegas. But they’ll get a lot of things wrong about both the Super Bowl and sports betting in general.

Let’s point out a few things they won’t mention, will misrepresent, or will get wrong….

• More money, by a large multiple, will be bet in call centers and on servers in a four square block area of San Jose, Costa Rica than will be bet in all of Nevada.
• Despite the above mentioned fact various sportswriters will go to Vegas, find the most pathetic compulsive drug, alcohol, gambling case from middle America they can find, and paint him as the typical Las Vegas sports bettor.
• Various bookmakers in Nevada and offshore will be quoted about their strategy booking the Super Bowl. This will be portrayed as inside info when in fact the bookies will be lying, misleading or simply trying to impress their employer by being coy.
• When the bookies try to make themselves appear like true swashbucklers by telling of $100,000 Super Bowl bets no reporter will ask “yeah, but how much will you take on the over/under of the Clippers/Grizzlies second half?”
• If the previous question is actually asked and answered, the sportswriter will not actually test the sports book by trying to place a wager for that amount on the Clippers/Grizzlies over in the second half. If they did they would discover that the true limit is 10 to 20% of the (relatively small) claimed amount.
• The sportswriters in Vegas will make a pilgrimage to Las Vegas Sports Consultants even though any Vegas sports book director who sets a line based on LVSC’s number instead of the offshore number would be fired immediately.
• These sportswriters will not ask the sports book directors, even off the record, if they would bother being customers of LVSC if it was not mandated by law that they use an oddsmaking firm licensed in Nevada.
• Nobody will mention that in November Andy Reid was offered a $25 million package to become the coach at Brigham Young, his alma mater. That’s because nobody outside of Utah ever reported on the offer.

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