How many Super Bowl bets do you think you’ll place this year? Maybe this will be the first time you’ve ever laid down any cash on the Big Game, or maybe you’re a seasoned veteran here at Bodog Sportsbook. Either way, there’s an endless stream of Super Bowl props waiting for you every year, on top of the standard point spreads, moneylines and totals. Which ones will you choose? We’ll help you decide with our official top 10 list of the best Super Bowl prop bets at Bodog.
This isn’t your garden-variety top 10, either. Of course you’ll want to load up on those Super Bowl player props for Touchdowns Scored, Passing Yards and everything else that we celebrate the “skill” players for achieving. This top 10 is about the more exotic Super Bowl props you’ll find on Bodog’s NFL odds board, and we’re listing these props in something close to order of appearance, starting with arguably the most famous of them all.
1. National Anthem
Even before they kick off, you can get your money down on whether the traditional pre-game rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner will go Over or Under the posted total. This happens to be a very difficult song with a vocal range that spans 12 notes – or 19 piano keys – from lowest (G3) to highest (D5). If you’re a baritone, forget it; even if you’re a tenor, that high note might make you crack.
As if that weren’t challenging enough, the lyrics for The Star-Spangled Banner don’t exactly roll off the tongue. Francis Scott Key wrote them in 1814, rather hastily, as part of a poem called “Defence of Fort M’Henry” after witnessing that fort’s bombardment by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Baltimore. The words are notoriously easy to mix up, like Christina Aguilera did at Super Bowl XLV; thanks to her faux pas, the National Anthem props now include whether this year’s singer will screw it up too.
2. Coin Toss
To decide which team kicks off the Big Game, the officials gather at midfield (as of 1977) with the team captains, including honorary captains for the Super Bowl, and perform the pre-game coin toss. As per the NFL rules, this is supposed to happen three minutes before game time. A commemorative Super Bowl coin is typically used; the designated “away” team chooses Heads or Tails while the coin is in the air, and the winner of the flip chooses to receive, kick off, or (as of 2008) defer and let the other team choose.
Just like the National Anthem prop, there are now multiple Coin Toss props on the Super Bowl betting odds list at Bodog. The classic Heads/Tails pick has been joined by whether the away team will choose correctly, whether the winning team will receive, kick or defer, and whether they’ll go on to win the Super Bowl.
3. Which Coach Will Be Shown on Camera First After Kick-Off?
Football is a coach’s game, and one with a lot of stops and starts, so there will be plenty of camera time during the Super Bowl for each team’s head coach. Sometimes you get a matchup where the coaches are equally famous or telegenic; sometimes there’s a considerable gap between the two.
Then there are those Super Bowls where the champions are back to defend their title. That team’s head coach is naturally more likely to be shown first – especially if it’s a rematch, like Kansas City (Andy Reid) facing San Francisco (Kyle Shanahan) at Super Bowl LVIII.
4. Will Trump Be There?
The former and future president has something of a fraught relationship with the NFL. However, he was there at Super Bowl XXVI in 1992 alongside second wife Marla, so maybe he’ll show up this time as well.
Then again, no sitting US president, Trump included, has ever been in attendance for the Super Bowl. George H.W. Bush was there to perform the coin toss at Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans, but that was in 2002 while his son George W. was in office; Ronald Reagan participated in the coin toss for Super Bowl XIX via satellite from the White House.
5. Halftime Show
If you’re among the many who watch the Big Game for anything but the football, the halftime show is your main event for Super Bowl Sunday. This spectacle is so big, the acts regularly perform for free, just to get that many eyeballs on them. What will they wear? Which song will they do first? Will their sidekicks show up as featured performers? You can bet on it all at Bodog Sportsbook.
As you may have heard, Drake’s nemesis Kendrick Lamar will be the headliner for Super Bowl LIX at the Superdome in New Orleans. To get a better sense of what songs and guest performers you might see, keep in mind that Jay-Z and his firm Roc Nation have been putting together these shows since August 2019; Lamar was among the many co-headliners at Super Bowl LVI, joined by Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Mary J. Blige. Any and all could return in 2025.
6. Super Bowl Ads
The polls say about half of the Super Bowl television audience looks forward every year to watching the commercials. We won’t judge; the people behind the ads usually spend a lot of money on their production, since there will be well over 10 million people watching in Canada and 100 million in the States. And yes, the Canadian broadcast has its own Super Bowl ads, much to the chagrin of those who want to see the really high-end Hollywood stuff instead of the Hollywood North knock-offs.
The Super Bowl odds at Bodog are based on the US broadcast, which Fox will be handling this year, but those ads generally get released to YouTube well before kick-off, so you can preview them before you bet on things like which brand of beer or car gets advertised first. On top of that, you can take a look at Bodog’s top 10 Super Bowl commercials of all time.
7. Celebrity Appearances
We could have given this whole section over to Taylor Swift props, but we don’t know yet whether Kansas City will make it back to the Super Bowl, so let’s keep things open for any celebrity appearance at the Big Game. Check the details of your specific wager before betting; these appearances have to happen on-camera during the broadcast, within a certain time frame.
Of course, if Kansas City and TE Travis Kelce are in the mix, Swift and her entourage will be there – maybe Blake Lively and Ice Spice, who joined her at Super Bowl LVIII. You can also expect many of the same Roc Nation faces mentioned above to show up in this category, although Jay-Z has some legal issues that may eventually prompt him to lay low.
8. Gatorade Shower
Congratulations: You made it through the Big Game. But the betting doesn’t stop with the final gun – and you might not even have to wait very long to find out what colour of Gatorade (or whichever beverage they use) gets dumped over the winning head coach. New York Giants coach Bill Parcells took the first Gatorade shower on October 28, 1984, and the tradition stuck.
They’ve got all sorts of different colours of sports beverages these days, not just the classic Orange and Lime/Green/Yellow. And some teams actually still use water to hydrate. Keep track of which head coaches have received which showers over the years, and you’ll be one step ahead of the game.
9. Who Will the MVP Thank First?
The Super Bowl MVP prop is one of the most popular on Bodog’s NFL odds board, but here in the wild world of exotics, we’re more interested in who the winner will thank first during their post-game interview. “Teammates” is often at the top of the list, followed closely by any religious figure; “Family” and “Fans” get to fight it out for a distant third.
10. Proposal Props
Again, we could have made this section all about Taylor Swift. Everyone waited to see whether Kelce would propose to her after Super Bowl LVIII, but they remain boyfriend and girlfriend for now. Maybe they’ll get another chance on February 9 at the Superdome. Or maybe someone else will pop the question to someone else, like LA Rams safety Taylor Rapp did to Dani Johnson after winning Super Bowl LVI.
We haven’t even touched on some of the crazier in-game Super Bowl props, like what uniform number the winning quarterback will wear. But these 10 exotics are the core of Super Bowl betting. Keep an eye out for them at Bodog Sportsbook, and enjoy the Big Game.