By Mark Concannon
FOXSportsWisconsin.com
January 31, 2011
If Packers punter Tim Masthay kicks a ball into the end zone this Sunday, 99.5 percent of Super Bowl viewers won't give it a second thought as they make their way back to the chip and dip tray or scurry for a bathroom break. But Jay Kornegay will care about the play. He cares about every play in this game.
"It's funny," Kornegay said in a telephone interview. "Because when things happen during a Super Bowl, and you're in Las Vegas, especially if you're in a Sports Book, on the outside it's just a meaningless punt that goes into the end zone but in here you hear 'Yaaay! It's a touchback!' and I'm like 'Oh geez we didn't need that.'"
Kornegay is director of the Race and Sports book at the Las Vegas Hilton and is the recognized king of the Super Bowl Proposition or "Prop" bet. The Hilton routinely turns out 25-30 pages of prop bets for the big game every year.
Of course millions will be wagered on the outcome of the game and the total number over or under the number of points scored, but Kornegay says that's just 50 percent of his business on Super Sunday. Prop bets make up the other half of the action.
A prop bet is a wager on a team's or individual player's performance in the game. You can bet on the total passing yardage for Aaron Rodgers (over or under 265
