02/01/2020 - 14:40
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On Sunday night, at the imposing Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, someone will lift the Vince Lombardi trophy and there billions of dollars will go to the side of the bench or the gambler. Sports betting houses are the other scenario where the Super Bowl 54 final is played between San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs.
When the game start time approaches, the most basic bet "who will win the Super Bowl?" He has a slight favorite in bookmakers: Kansas City Chiefs, which pays -on average- US $ 1.80 for every dollar wagered. A victory of his rival will allow anyone who has bet to take US $ 2.10 for each dollar.
But that's the simplest bet among the hundreds of possibilities to play in the Super Bowl. You can also predict who will win each quarter, who will have half time, if there will be an extension, and make combined bets between the winner of one time and the other.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo during practice for Super Bowl 54 (AP Photo / Wilfredo Lee)
According to the main bookmakers, in recent years the greatest amount of money came from those who want to play more crazy forecasts. For example, guess which color of Gatorade will be emptied on the winning head coach and if the draw of the coin will be face or cross.
Source: NFL Infographic: CLARÍN
Other really crazy proposals is to bet whether the national anthem played by Demi Lovato will exceed two minutes or not. There is also the option to bet if a player will be arrested after the game or how Jennifer Lopez's dress will be during their halftime performance. Each bookmaker has its own menu.
Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chief quarterback Mark Brown / Getty Images / AFP
° William Hill is offering odds of 9,999-1 for the Chiefs to score exactly four points. No team in the Super Bowl era has ever finished with exactly that score.
The list of the last winners of the NFL final - AFP / AFP
° At the PointsBet house, San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan will pay 100-1 if he wastes another 28-3 lead in the Super Bowl again. Shanahan was the offensive coordinator of the Atlanta Falcons when they squandered that difference on the scoreboard against the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 51.
° SuperBook will even allow betting if LeBron James will score more points against the Sacramento Kings on February 1 than the full passes of Field Marshal Patrick Mahomes of the Chiefs.
According to the American Football International (AFI), Mexico is the second place worldwide with more NFL fans. With 23.3 million fans it is located above countries like Brazil with 19.7 million and Canada with 7.2 million fans.
Although extremely far from the amount of bets expected in the United States (about 6,800 million dollars), legal and illegal bets in Mexico for the duel between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs will exceed 200 million (about US $ 5 ,3 millions) .