Prop bets are one of the most fun — or infuriating, if you lose — ways to get involved in the action on Super Bowl Sunday. How did you fare on Sunday’s biggest props?
Did a bout of the flu keep Pink from topping the 2:00 mark in her performance of the national anthem before Super Bowl LII?
What was the result of the coin toss?
And was the game’s first offensive play a pass or a run?
Here are the results of Sunday’s most popular prop bets. If you won big, go ahead and pay it forward. Buy a round for your friends. Order the pizza at your Super Bowl viewing party.
And if you didn’t win any of these prop bets, don’t despair; there are always more ways to waste your money.
National anthem over/under time: UNDER
At minus-120 (bet $120 to win $100), the odds were in favor of Pink keeping her national anthem performance to less than two minutes.
Sure; Pink has got a set of pipes, and she’s not afraid to use them.
But Pink has also been dealing with the flu, and at her rehearsal on Thursday, she struggled to get through the song. So Vegas decided to err on the side of caution and presume that, being under the weather, she’d keep things on the shorter side.
Pink’s hair color: BLONDE
It’s always fun when pop stars who frequently change their hair color sing the national anthem before a big sporting event, because the prop bets go wild.
The options to bet on for Pink’s hair color included white/blonde, pink/red, blue/purple, brown/black and green, in order of their listed likelihood.
While no one could blame you for thinking Pink would be rocking pink hair as she took the field ahead of kickoff, it was instead a stunning shade of platinum blonde.
Coin toss result: HEADS
Heads was the favored result for the Super Bowl coin toss, at minus-105.
That’s what the Patriots, as the home team, elected to call, and, as usual, they won.
You can set your watch by what the Patriots do in the coin toss: they virtually always defer. It makes sense in a game like this, where New England, as the more experienced team, will look to wear the Eagles out before bringing down the hammer in the second half.
However, winning the coin toss hasn’t always…worked out for New England:
The Patriots have never won a Super Bowl when winning the coin toss. This is just the third time the Patriots have won a coin toss in 10 Super Bowl appearances (also won toss in Super Bowl XXXI and XLVI)
— NFL Research (@NFLResearch) February 4, 2018
First offensive play: PASS
If you thought the Eagles would to go running backs Jay Ajayi or LeGarrette Blount to open the game, think again.
The first offensive play of Super Bowl LII was a four-yard pass from Nick Foles to Nelson Agholor. In fact, the Eagles passed on their first three downs of the game en route to scoring a field goal on their first drive.
Team to score first: EAGLES
Speaking of the Eagles’ first field goal, it’s interesting that Vegas had the Patriots favored to score first (-115), because, as we established earlier, Bill Belichick and the Pats virtually always defer possession until the second half.
Maybe Vegas assumed the Eagles would get the ball to start the game but wouldn’t be able to put points on the board.
Just another instance of the Eagles playing up to their underdog status.
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Odds information according to OddsShark.