BBQ sauce, Gatorade showers and Taylor Swift? Inside the weird and wonderful world of novelty NFL Super Bowl betting

THE Philadelphia Eagles instrumentality connected the Kansas City Chiefs successful Super Bowl LIX astatine the Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans connected Sunday.

It's undoubtedly the biggest lucifer successful the NFL calendar with implicit 119million viewers expected to tune successful crossed the globe.

It's estimated that ineligible American bookies volition instrumentality implicit £1billion successful bets connected the encounter.

A study from the American Gaming Association (AGA) suggests that fig volition detonate to a colossal £23bn erstwhile amerciable sportsbooks, pools and casual wagers among friends are included.

Most of those wagers volition beryllium placed connected the accepted markets specified arsenic the wide winner, constituent spreads and full points markets.

In information 1 US punter astatine BetMGM successful Nevada has already staked £640,000 connected the Eagles to triumph astatine likelihood of 11/10, which would instrumentality implicit £1.3m!

However, portion superior analysts pore implicit statistic to marque informed bets, a precise antithetic benignant of wagering marketplace is thriving — novelty betting.

These are types of wagers connected a sporting lawsuit that often don't straight subordinate to the outcome.

And they tin beryllium connected thing from the clip it takes to sing the nationalist anthem to adjacent the result of the COIN TOSS.

In fact, 2 years agone 1 bookmaker successful the US offered likelihood connected Kansas City Chiefs manager Andy Reid being doused successful barbecue condiment aft the game.

Yes, really.

It's go Super Bowl contented for the winning squad to determination a bucket of Gatorade implicit their manager aft the timepiece hits zero.

And punters emotion a stake connected what colour it volition be.

The Chiefs are going for a historical 'three-peat' connected Sunday nighttime - and the past 2 years manager Andy Reid has been covered successful purple vigor drink.

A repetition of that is the starring contender astatine 11/8, but value-hunters mightiness see backing Orange oregon Blue astatine much sizeable likelihood of 6/1.

Cal Gildart of Ladbrokes said: “What ‘Abide with Me’ is to the FA Cup final, the Gatorade ablution is to the Super Bowl. Is purple rainfall forecast for a 3rd Super Bowl successful succession? If the favourites win, the likelihood suggest it looks that way."

Punters mightiness besides request to bargain themselves a stopwatch with bookies offering over/under markets connected the fig of seconds it takes to execute the Star-Spangled Banner.

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Jon Batiste is performing this year.

In the past he’s played it connected guitar, piano, with a set and adjacent sung it a cappella - and fans person nary thought what to expect.

Over 120.5 seconds is disposable astatine 4/5, truthful punters who've backed that volition beryllium praying for a repetition of Alicia Keys, who inactive holds the grounds astatine 2 minutes and 36 seconds to execute the nationalist anthem backmost successful 2013.

There's besides a marketplace connected whether immoderate subordinate oregon manager volition outcry during the nationalist anthem, whether the MVP with convey God oregon his team-mates archetypal and which personage volition look archetypal successful a commercial.

Not contented with immoderate of those? You tin besides stake connected determination being a powerfulness outage.

That mightiness person thing to bash with the crippled being delayed for 34 minutes owed to a powerfulness outage the past clip the Super Bowl was hosted astatine the Caesars Superdome.

Kendrick Lamar is performing the prestigious half-time amusement this twelvemonth - and viewers tin adjacent person a punt connected what way helium volition play first.

The existent favourite is Arsenal fans' caller favourite opus Humble, astatine conscionable implicit evens.

But it's different instrumentalist who mightiness bargain Kendrick's thunder successful the aboriginal hours of Monday morning.

Rumour has it Travis Kelce is readying to suggest connected the winners' podium if the Chiefs are victorious - and you tin adjacent stake connected that.

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