For The Win
This is one of my favorite columns to write every year.
Every time the Super Bowl comes around, the betting options get sillier and weirder. It’s really the one game in all of North American sports where oddsmakers show off their collective creativity when it comes to setting betting markets.
The 2025 Super Bowl is no exception. With the Kansas City Chiefs looking to three-peat, Kendrick Lamar performing at halftime, Taylor Swift cheering on Travis Kelce from her suite and President Donald Trump expected to take in the game from the Superdome, oddsmakers had plenty of fun coming up with props that have nothing to do with the game.
This post goes out to everyone who couldn’t care less about what a first down means.
Let’s dig in.
There are so many options here, including: Heads or tails, which team will win the toss and whether or not the team that wins the toss will win the game.
Here’s a quick primer on why the toss odds are not 50-50.
Only available to bet on in Washington D.C., Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey, West Virginia, Wyoming and Ontario, the Gatorade color is one of those minor details bettors obsess over.
The last two times the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, the color was purple. But as of Friday at BetMGM, 50 percent of all money wagered was on Yellow/Green/Lime.
New Orleans native Jon Batiste has the honor of singing the national anthem before his hometown hosts the Super Bowl and, best of all for bettors, there’s video of his previous performance singing The Star-Spangled Banner!
Kendrick Lamar has so many radio hits and cult classics that he could really pull out any number of songs for his halftime performance opener and it wouldn’t be a surprise. Humble is the favorite, but don’t sleep on Euphoria or MAAD City.
Very self-explanatory.
Everyone loves a good doink! The fine print on this bet is that it doesn’t matter if the field goal is successful or not. Only if the ball doinks off the post first.
Odds via FanDuel Sportsbook Ontario
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