The 2019 Obscure Super Bowl Prop Bet Guide

The 2019 Obscure Super Bowl Prop Bet Guide

Not only is the Super Bowl just the biggest sports betting day of the year, but it also offers an insanely deep variety of unique Super Bowl prop bets that only show their face once a year. The Super Bowl prop bet game is an entirely different beast compared to other sporting events and a wide range of pop culture and cross-sport lines are in play.

While the game itself should be an absolute barn burner, our goal here is to take a look beyond the game and break down some of the stranger, but fun, obscure betting lines on the evening.

All that said, if you want to stick to more traditional prop bets, I would highly recommend FantasyDraft’s Big Game NFL Prop Challenge. The contest is free to enter and first place wins free NBA contests for the remainder of the season!

For this year’s edition, we’re going to be taking a look at:

• National Anthem Over/Under
• Color of Gatorade dumped on the winning coach
• First song of halftime show
• Trump tweets Over/Under
• Coin Toss

Without further ado, let’s dive into those obscure prop bets and see what the best bets are. Click through the slides to see a breakdown and pick for each of the props!

The 2019 Obscure Super Bowl Prop Bet Guide

National Anthem Over/Under – 1:47

We’ll start off with arguably the most fun prop bet of the day. Nothing kicks off Super Bowl Sunday like the crew of degenerate gamblers surrounding the TV with their phones out timing the national anthem.

This year Gladys Knight gets the pleasure of performing the national anthem at an unusually low mark compared to years past. Last year saw Pink clock in with a time of 1 minute and 52 seconds, which was actually the only anthem in the last 5 years to go under the 2 minute mark.

Especially when you consider how Gladys Knight has gone on record this year saying that she wants her anthem performance to be soulful and moving, we can likely expect for her to hold a couple of notes and draw this one out a bit. Any national anthem worth remembering (Hendrix at Woodstock, Whitney Houston at the Super Bowl, etc.) all were long and drawn out renditions.

Expect Gladys to bring her A-game and dominate the anthem while cruising well north of that 1:47 mark.

Super Bowl Prop Bet Pick #1: OVER 1:47 (-170)

Color of Gatorade Dumped on Winning Coach?

The biggest statistic to consider with this bet is the fact that 3 of the Patriots 5 Super Bowl wins have not even involved dumping Gatorade on Bill Belicheck. The two that they did dump on Bill were Blue and Clear.

For what it might be worth, Rams running back Todd Gurley gave us a bit of insight as far as the Ram’s preferred Gatorade flavor:

Ice Punch is clear and seeing as 50% of the time the Patriots DO decide to drench Belicheck it has come in the form of clear Gatorade, going clear doesn’t seem like the worst bet. There’s a good chance if the Patriots win that Bill doesn’t get soaked in the slightest, that said, take the insider info from our man Todd Gurley and run.

Super Bowl Prop Bet Pick #2: Clear/Water (+220)

The 2019 Obscure Super Bowl Prop Bet Guide

What Will Be The First Song Performed By Maroon 5?

This is probably the biggest wild card in terms of our prop bets on the evening. Maroon 5 has a laundry list of hits and just about any of the listed options have a legitimate shot at being their opening hit.

Last year saw a bit of controversy regarding the first song as Coldplay came out and did about 10-15 seconds of “The Scientist” before jumping into Viva La Vida (which most books, including mine, paid out).

That said, my biggest factor in picking this one is listening to the intro of the song and trying to picture what sort of energy that brings to the arena. Viva La Vida (last year’s winner) has a classic stadium anthem intro and that is the type of song we’re going to be looking for in this year’s field.

Also, you’re going to want to look into newer hits as opposed to all-time classics (sorry “She Will Be Loved”) as most Super Bowl halftime performers have a tendency to open up with recent, high-energy hits.

Going off the stadium anthem criteria; “One More Night” (+550), “Sugar” (+900), “Moves like Jagger” (+600), and “Maps” (+2200) all fit the bill.

“Payphone” (+1800) is also another great option as well. While it lacks the upbeat vibe of some other hits, there’s simply no denying that the song straight up brings the heat.

“Makes me Wonder” at even money gives me a solid scare as it fits the criteria of upbeat song to set the tempo, but frankly I think the other options offer set the table a bit better.

With all that said, I’m going to be leaning either “Payphone” at +1800 or “Sugar” at +900. “Sugar” is a little sappy, but arguably the band’s biggest hit in the last 5 years and would probably play well in front of the vanilla Super Bowl crowd. “Payphone” is a little slow compared to some of the other options, but offers a great payout and just listen to the first 15-20 seconds of the song:

You can’t deny that wouldn’t play GREAT in front of a dark arena before dropping into that nice little groove around the :19 second mark.

With such a wide open field to choose from, I suggest hedging your bets and going with both “Payphone” and “Sugar” to maximize those odds.

Super Bowl Prop Bet Pick #3: Payphone (+1800) & Sugar (+900)

The 2019 Obscure Super Bowl Prop Bet Guide

Total Donald Trump Tweets on February 3rd – Over/Under 6

Regardless of your feelings from a political standpoint on our president, the fact remains that the dude loves to tweet. A caveat to this bet is that unlike in years past, the bet isn’t simply how many times Trump will tweet DURING the game, but instead how many times he will tweet during the entire day.

On average, Trump typically tweets around 6-7 times each day (unless he decides to go on a patented twitter rant on a political subject) making this a tough one to peg. The one thing to consider is looking back at years past, Trump hasn’t tweeted much during the Super Bowl in general. The past super bowl saw Trump tweet only two total times (once during, once before).

Look for that trend to continue as even though the parameters of the bet has changed, history shows us that Trump doesn’t tweet much on the day of the Super Bowl.

Super Bowl Prop Bet #4: UNDER 6 (EVEN)

Coin Toss Result

No prop bet list is complete without the obligatory Heads/Tails bet on the coin toss. Unlike the other bets in this series, there isn’t a whole ton of thought process to back me up on this one.

Last year was the first Super Bowl since 2013 that my “tails never fails” philosophy came back to bite me, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let one-off year mess with the juju. “Tails never fails” is a saying for a reason, plus, if tails is good enough for Randy Moss, it is good enough for me:

Super Bowl Prop Bet Pick #5: Tails (-105)

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