There are a ton of great things about Las Vegas — O’Shea’s is probably not one of them … unless you like midgets who stand atop a bar and pour shots down your throat … which now makes me re-think the point of this double-dash — but within sports betting, which is the best for me, is prop betting.

It’s amazing and often amusing what you can bet on within a game. The Super Bowl is the nexus of this tomfoolery and you can bet on things like the color of the Gatorade poured on the coach, whether an offensive or defenisve player pours the Gatorade, how long the national anthem runs, who the MVP thanks first, etc.

I actually bet with some friends last year on the number of windmills Pete Townsend would do during The Who’s halftime show. I took the over at something like 26.5. I was with people I didn’t really know back then and I was counting “…nine…10…11, 12, 13…” and after a while I had a crowd rooting with me. Pete then went crazy and ended up at something like 273. Easy money.

Anyhow, it adds some spice to the games and the season and I’m pretty sure we can come up with some ways to really evaluate the Mountaineers this season as only you can. I’m not so much concerned with over/under number of wins as I am over/under kickoffs out of bounds, turnovers caused by the defense that the defense immediately gives back to the opponent and heartwarming stories written before Sept. 1 about Scooter Berry.

And forget season-long measurements. We need a “tremendous” calculator for WVU v. Syracuse week.

Let’s set the parameters and possibilities for 2010 football, shall we?