Wanna bet?

With the internet at our disposal, and that plastic card with a bunch of numbers on it laying nearby, the most dangerous temptation is thinking you know more than you really do and putting bets down with an off-shore bookie that's just waiting to lure you into losing your shirt, pants and marriage.
But what the heck. You only live once. You can always remarry.

But here's how stupid it gets.

At Intertops.com, you can take the safe bet and predict that Art Shell will be the first NFL coach to lose his job. The odds right now are 7/2. Pittsburgh's Bill Cowher (13/2) is somehow ahead of Tennessee's Jeff Fisher (7/1) and Tampa Bay's Jon Gruden (15/2). Arizona's Dennis Green, who you'd think might be at the top, is only 9/1. The odds of no coaching change before Super Bowl XLI is 13/1.

Or, over at PinnacleSports.com, Green is the 1/1 favorite to get canned first, with Shell at 8/1, Fisher at 13/1 and Cowher at -- gulp -- 31/1.

Jump over to BetUS.com, there's the tempation to take an educated guess which NFL team will be involved in the next great sex scandal.
There's no way to fix that bet? When's the next Cincinnati Bengals' bye week?
Every NFL team is listed at 10/1 odds at the site that one of their players will be involved in a sexcapade, but the odds change when predicting where that will happen.
The breakdown:
On a boat: 10/1
In a locker room: 4/1
At a strip club: 2/1
In a hotel room: 5/2
On a roof top: 10/1
On a football field: 50/1
In a movie theater: 8/1
At the Playboy mansion: 25/1
In an airplane: 20/1
What, no stairwell?
"Sex scandals are almost inevitable in professional sports,� said BetUS.com spokesperson Christopher Bennett. “The combination of athletes, copious amounts of money and/or alcohol and team groupies will always produce a scandal.�
And the combo of money, free time and stupidity will always produce gamblers.