Las Vegas professional bettor Steve Fezzik wants to clear something up before Super Bowl Sunday.

He’s not anti-fun.

He is, however, anti-losing when it comes to the plethora of prop bets, especially the ones with no edge for bettors.

Steve zeroed in on what really separates winning and losing bettors on the biggest betting day of the year for VSiN.com.

The Super Bowl is the one game where novelty takes over. Exact scores. MVPs. First and last touchdowns. Bets that are fun to talk about and easy to sell — and, as Steve points out, loaded with extra vig. He calls them “needle-in-the-haystack” props, and it’s one reason sportsbooks almost never lose on the Big Game.

That doesn’t mean every prop is bad. It does mean you have to know where the edge actually lives.

Fezzik used the coin toss as a good example. The annual heads-or-tails debate is mostly noise. The real question — when it matters — is who gets the ball, and whether books are slow to adjust or pull related markets (e.g., first-half team totals) once that information becomes known. That’s an edge discussion. It just doesn’t fit neatly into most Super Bowl chatter.

He also pushed back on something most Super Bowl players suffer from: overoptimism. Bettors building a confident game script and then forcing every prop to line up with it. If your projected final score is meaningfully different from the market, Fezzik argues, that’s probably not insight — it’s overconfidence. The market is usually closer than we want to admit.

Even when it comes to in-game betting, Fezzik’s approach is more deliberate than reactive. Rather than chasing at halftime, he’ll target second-half bets before the game kicks off, when pricing is cleaner and less influenced by early noise.

Finally, if you’re betting strictly for entertainment, Steve’s advice is simple: Scale the bet size accordingly.

Rams QB Matthew Stafford won his first NFL MVP Award on Thursday night at the annual NFL Honors show, beating out Patriots QB Drake Maye in one of the closest races ever.

The final tally: Stafford had 366 points and 24 first-place votes. Maye was right behind with 361 points and 23 first-place votes. Others receiving first-place votes: Josh Allen (2) and Justin Herbert* (1).

• It's the closest MVP vote since 2003, when Peyton Manning and Steve McNair were co-winners of the award.

• Stafford joins Y.A. Tittle (1963) and Rich Gannon (2002) as the oldest first-time MVPs, all at age 37.

Coming back for more: Stafford committed to return for his 18th season amid retirement speculation. "I'll see you guys next year," he said. "Hopefully I'm not at this event and we're preparing for another game at SoFi," which will host next year's Super Bowl.

More NFL Honors:

• Awards: Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Seahawks (OPOY); Myles Garrett, Browns (DPOY); Mike Vrabel, Patriots (Coach); Christian McCaffrey, 49ers (Comeback Player); Tetairoa McMillan, Panthers (OROY); Carson Schwesinger, Browns (DROY); Joe Thuney, Bears (Protector)

• Hall of Fame: Drew Brees (QB), Larry Fitzgerald (WR), Luke Kuechly (LB), Adam Vinatieri (K) and Roger Craig (RB) were announced as the five-man 2026 Hall of Fame Class. As previously reported, Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft didn't make the cut this year.

• Man of the Year: The night concluded with Commanders LB Bobby Wagner being named the Walter Payton Man of the Year for philanthropy and community impact. He gave a wonderful speech honoring his late mother, Phenia.

"The best play you can run is to open up a can of whoop ass on somebody and go win. That is a play in itself."

- Brenden Schooler, Patriots safety

Drake Maye is 8-0 to the ‘over’ of 220.5 passing yards in games this season,
per Bettor Day.

The record of NFL teams whose starting quarterback’s last name is 4 letters or less is 0-3 all-time.

They include Joe Kapp, Matt Ryan and Jared Goff.

It’s why Babe Ruth never won a Super Bowl game.

It’s also right up there with which color Gator Ade will be dumped in the winning coach as far as edges in the Super Bowl are concerned.

SUPER BOWL HALFTIME PERFORMER

• 1992: "Winter Magic" including a salute to    the winter season and the winter Olympics    featuring Gloria Estefan, Brian Boitano and    Dorothy Hamill

• 1991: "A Small World Salute to 25 Years of    the Super Bowl" featuring New Kids on the    Block

• 1990: "Salute to New Orleans" and 40th    Anniversary of Peanuts' characters,    featuring trumpeter Pete Fountain, Doug    Kershaw & Irma Thomas

• 1989: "Be Bop Bamboozled" featuring 3-D    effects

• 1988: "Something Grand" featuring 88    grand pianos, the Rockettes and Chubby    Checker

• 1987: "Salute to Hollywood's 100th    Anniversary"

• 1986: "Beat of the Future"

• 1985: "A World of Children's Dreams"

• 1984: "Super Bowl XVIII's Salute to the    Superstars of the Silver Screen"

• 1983: "KaleidoSUPERscope" (a    kaleidoscope of color and sound)

• 1982: "A Salute to the 60s and Motown"

• 1981: "A Mardi Gras Festival"

• 1980: "A Salute to the Big Band Era" with    Up with People

• 1979: "Super Bowl XIII Carnival" Salute to    the Caribbean with Ken Hamilton and    various Caribbean bands

• 1978: "From Paris to the Paris of America"    with Tyler Apache Belles, Pete Fountain and    Al Hirt

• 1977: "It's a Small World" including crowd    participation for first time with spectators    waving colored placards on cue

• 1976: "200 Years and Just a Baby" Tribute    to America's Bicentennial

• 1975: "Tribute to Duke Ellington" with    Mercer Ellington and Grambling State band

• 1974: "A Musical America" with University    of Texas band

• 1973: "Happiness Is." with University of    Michigan marching band and Woody    Herman

• 1972: "Salute to Louis Armstrong" with Ella    Fitzgerald, Carol Channing, Al Hirt and U.S.    Marine Corps Drill Team

• 1971: Florida A&M band

• 1970: Carol Channing

• 1969: "America Thanks" with Florida A&M    University band

• 1968: Grambling State band

• 1967: University of Arizona and Grambling    State marching bands