Super Bowl Betting

The Super Bowl is the culmination of the NFL season and easily the biggest single day sporting event on the planet, both in terms of the number of viewers who tune in and the volume of bets placed. Betting on the Super Bowl appeals to seasoned NFL gamblers as well as casual fans who are willing to bet on anything that happens during the course of the game. The normal NFL betting markets are still there of course, but for the Super Bowl a huge number of additional wagering opportunities are created by odds makers.

Super Bowl Props And Betting

Super Bowl props (short for proposition) betting markets are virtually unlimited with odds available on everything from the coin toss to an individual player's achievements during the course of the game.

Super Bowl Sunday is now an unofficial holiday of sorts in America and Super Bowl XLIV was the most watched American television program of all time, beating out that pesky last episode of M*A*S*H. As a side note please be aware that Super Bowls are numbered with Roman Numerals, which seems overly intellectual for a nation unable to find itself on a map and particularly inappropriate for a sport whose participants ain't that great at counting and stuff.

Super Bowl XLIV featured a memorable match up between the two number 1 seed teams from the AFC (Colts) and NFC (Saints) respectively, and was rare in the sense that the two best teams from the regular season made it through the playoffs to compete for the Vince Lombardi Trophy. There wasn't a dry eye in the house (except for those of us who had bet on the Colts) when the New Orleans Saints, a previously luckless franchise referred to as the 'Aints who played in arguably the most luckless city in the USA, rallied to win it all.

The NFL is all about parity thanks mainly to the league policy of clubs sharing in the revenue, so it is a very difficult sport to handicap in general and picking the Super Bowl teams is exceptionally hard to do. While certain franchises have plenty of Super Bowl championships to brag about (Steelers, Cowboys, and 49ers), another fifteen franchises have won at least one Super Bowl and all but four of the current teams have appeared in a Super Bowl.

One can bet on the Super Bowl winner before the NFL starts thanks to futures betting markets, and throughout the season these odds shift as teams assert their dominance in the most competitive league in American pro sports.

Super Bowl XLV Odds

Super Bowl XLV will take place on February 6, 2011 and will be held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

The odds to the right of this page is updated in realtime from various sportsbooks. Click on the logos to see their latest odds.