It’s Mardi Gras, St. Patrick’s Day and New Year’s Eve all rolled into about a 3½-hour jubilee of fun, food, drink — and excess.
Super Bowl Sunday is unlike any other day in America, a de facto national holiday that draws the largest television audience of the year, is celebrated with festivities across the land and for decades has been the most-wagered game annually in Nevada’s legal sports books, with countless millions of dollars clandestinely bet elsewhere.
This weekend the Big Game betting bonanza makes its debut in the St. Louis market, as the first two legal sportsbooks in the area are open for business — and, in fact, have been taking bets on the contest since the matchup was set on Jan.