GOT YOUR PORRA NUMBERS READY? $1,000S TO BE BET, WON (AND LOST) TODAY

Ed.'s Note: It has to be the city's worst kept secret that $100,000s – maybe millions – will be bet and won (and also lost) by bettors who wage $100s on cuadritos, or betting squares, at $100, $50 or even $25 or $10 a pop.

There's even $1,000 squares, we are told. And it happens all over the country and the world just as it does here.

It is, of course, patently illegal, to engage in this kind of gambling, but there are Super Bowl pots put together in offices, workplaces, and local drinking establishments.

If your $100 square, for example like card on top above, sits at the intersection of the AFC Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles score of KC 14 and Eagles 7 ( last digit 4 on top and 7 on the side) at the end of any quarter or at the end of the game (no overtime), you hit a $1,000 winner, the right way. If the score is reversed (Eagles 14 and Chiefs 7 – the wrong way, you still win $500.

Even more confusing is the plus-five and minus-five (5 plus 4= 9, 5 plus 7= 12, then a 9 and 2 score will win you $300 the right way, and $200 the wrong way. Minus 5 works the same way.

Regardless, with every player paying $100 per square, the seller of the numbers starts with a kitty worth $10,000 before expenses like a dinner and door prizes held when the numbers are picked at random.

The prizes for these four winning categories each quarter amounts to close to $8,000, with $2,000 left for the square seller who has to collect the $100, $50, $25, or $10 entry fee per square depending on the size of the pot and entry fee.

Now that Houston and Dallas are out, who cares who wins as long as the scores land on your numbers. Let the games begin! And good luck!