Museums Wagering Multi-Million Dollar Paintings At Super Bowl XLV

Think you’re laying down a ton of cash on the Super Bowl XLV odds? Well think again because it’s probably peanuts compared to what the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art (located in Pittsburgh) are putting at risk.

Both museums have decided to back their respective teams by wagering two, multi-million dollar paintings on the line at Super Bowl XLV.

[Off topic: by the way, do you want to get a 55% bonus on your first deposit here at BetOnline? If so JOIN NOW.]

The Milwaukee Art Museum, who will obviously be rooting for the Green Bay Packers, has put Gustave Caillebotte’s “Boating on the Yerres” up against Carnegie Museum of Art’s Pierre-August Renoir’s “Bathers with a Crab”. For the layman, that’s basically like wagering a ship-in-a-bottle against a very old copy of Playboy.

This isn’t the first time that museums have joined in the fun of beating Super Bowl odds and the world of sports gambling. Last year, a similar wager was made between the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

I guess this is something that museums in Super Bowl worthy cities do to bring their establishments some much needed press amongst a community of sports fans that would rather punch themselves in the face than go to an art museum.

To keep things in perspective, the paintings aren’t really won or lost. They’re loaned, and I have to tell you that if I lost a “loan” only to get my money back in a few months than I would be a much happier camper when I take to the polls to register my wager against the Super Bowl XLV betting odds.

It’s undetermined if the Milwaukee Art Museum and the boys at the Carnegie Museum of Art are using the spread, or if they’re just ignoring the Super Bowl XLV wagering odds and going for the straight up bet. Something tells me it’s the latter.

Still, the wager is a little unfair. I’d rather have a nudist painting over one of a boat any day of the week, even if the nudes were attached to crabs in some way or another.

Click here to bet on Super Bowl XLV odds and the 2011 NFL Pro Bowl!