Tremendous Bowl week is a time for wacky bets, and we could have discovered the weirdest one in all all.
A bettor at Caesars Sportsbook in Nevada dropped $100 on the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs to attain precisely two factors throughout Tremendous Bowl 2024 at 10,000-1 odds.
If, in some way, the wager hits, the Caesars gambler would stroll away with a whopping $1 million.
No workforce has ever scored fewer than three factors in a Tremendous Bowl.
Solely twice has a workforce completed with precisely three factors — the Los Angeles Rams in 2019 and the Miami Dolphins in 1972.
Safeties themselves within the Tremendous Bowl are exceptionally uncommon.
There have solely been 9 safeties in Tremendous Bowl historical past, the final coming in 2014 when the Seattle Seahawks put up the primary factors of the sport after a foul snap sailed over the pinnacle of Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning into the tip.
FanDuel Sportsbook sees little probability there’s a security for both workforce on Sunday, pegging odds on one at +1260 as of this writing.
And the Chiefs, whereas they won’t be the offensive powerhouse of former years, are a tricky workforce to maintain off the scoreboard.
A Patrick Mahomes-led workforce has solely scored three or fewer factors in a sport as soon as all through his profession — Week 7 in 2021 throughout a 27-3 loss to the Tennessee Titans.
The Chiefs have completed with a single-digit level complete solely twice in video games Mahomes has performed in.
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The 49ers’ protection hasn’t precisely been stout throughout their playoff run, too.
San Francisco has given up a minimum of 350 yards to each the Packers and Lions en path to the Tremendous Bowl.
So until one thing adjustments, it gained’t be tough for Mahomes and Co. to breach the two-point marker, even when the Niners pull off the uncommon security.