Football is king.
While the other sports have their backers and bettors, it is the National Football League on Sunday, preceded by NCAA Division 1-A football games on Saturday, which are responsible for the majority of the betting action in the legal sportsbooks of Las Vegas. These figures don't include money bet on parlay cards, which are figured into a separate category, but are mostly football-oriented. Truly, football is king. First of all, it is important to remember that there is a grand equalizer in football called the point-spread or simply, the line. In almost every game, there is a favorite and an underdog, with the difference between them fixed at a number that the Las Vegas oddsmakers have determined.