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A proposition bet, commonly known as a prop bet, is a wager on minute aspects of the game that are often disconnected from the final score. Some of the most popular prop bets can seem frivolous: Will the coin toss be heads or tails? How long will the national anthem run? What color Gatorade will the winning coach be bathed in? Other prop bets are tied to the game, including who will be the MVP, who will score the first touchdown, and whether the combined final score will be over or under a certain number of points...
Props are usually the domain of sharps, or professional bettors, but “dumb money,” a less polite way to refer to recreational gamblers, dominates the market on Super Bowl Sunday. Bill Krackomberger, a veteran professional sports gambler, has been slowly getting six figures down on the Big Game over the last week through various prop bets. One of his last big prop wins came in June when he bet that Duke freshman Paolo Banchero would be the NBA’s first draft pick. He bet $10,000 and won $115,000. But Krackomberger doesn’t think that props are risky for the books. “I don’t buy it,” he says. “The public loves betting these and most don’t have a clue how to beat these types of bets.”
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The first prop bet, it is said, was created in January 1986 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas before Super Bowl XX. Art Manderis, then the director of the sportsbook at Caesars, posted a wager at 20-to-1 odds that the charismatic Chicago Bears’ defensive lineman William “The Refrigerator” Perry would score a touchdown. The Fridge got his TD, many gamblers who took those odds won big, and Caesars took the loss.
But the prop bet has grown over the years to become a crucial way
sportsbooks increase their offerings, entice gamblers to spend more and
grow their bottom line. As Americans are expected to wager up to $16 billion on the game, many sportsbooks across the country derive more than half their handle off props. . .
Super Bowl LVII Prop Bets: Off the Field
• Heads or Tails: For bettors looking to gamble on the coin toss, heads and tails are both at –101 at Caesars. DraftKings is offering +100 for heads and tails.
• Gatorade Bath: What color will the winning team’s Gatorade be when the players pour it on the head coach? Yellow/Green is at +165, while purple is +750 at DraftKings.
• National Anthem Length: How long will it take country singer Chris Stapleton to sing the “Star Spangled Banner”? FanDuel set the over/under at 119.5 seconds.
• Halftime Show: What song will Rihanna sing last during her performance? “Diamonds” stands at –125 odds at FanDuel, while “We Found Love” is at +1,000.
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Place safe and legal bets on the Super Bowl with DraftKings Sportsbook. ... The Philadelphia Eagles are favorites to win the 2023 Super Bowl at -125 odds.
✓ Super Bowl mainstay State Farm for the second year in a row opted out of buying an ad in favor of a TikTok campaign, this time led by popular influencer Khaby Lame, that will combine paid and unpaid posts on the app. The central ad in the effort, which was released one week before the game, played on the idea that the insurance company doesn’t need to run a broadcast ad because it has naming rights on the game venue in Glendale, Ariz.
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“The big game came to us this year, and we knew early on we wanted to lean into our naming rights with State Farm Stadium,” said Kristyn Cook, State Farm’s senior vice president and chief agency, sales and marketing officer.
✓ The stakes are high for advertisers, as ever. The Super Bowl still regularly draws an audience of around 100 million people, making it TV’s biggest event of the year and advertising’s biggest night.
Fox this week said it has sold out of advertising for its Super Bowl broadcast, with some 30-second slots selling for more than $7 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. Some ad slots sold for as low as $6 million, the person said, because some advertisers have multiyear deals and are big sports spenders, while average unit price was around $6.5 million per 30-second spot. Fox Corp. Chief Executive Lachlan Murdoch said on the company’s earnings call Wednesday that the company expects to gross $600 million in ad revenue from its Super Bowl coverage. Fox Corp. and Wall Street Journal parent News Corp share common ownership.
The 2023 Super Bowl Ads Will Feature Booze, Betting and Jesus
Megan Graham and Patrick Coffee
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The Super Bowl ads on Sunday are poised to promote an unusual mix of alcohol brands, gambling and Jesus.
"Alcohol is a newly competitive arena in the Super Bowl after Anheuser-Busch InBev gave up its long-running exclusive rights to promote the category in the game. Sunday’s telecast on Fox will include AB InBev commercials for Bud Light, Michelob Ultra and Busch Light, now joined by ads promoting Diageo PLC’s Crown Royal whisky, Rémy Cointreau Group ‘s Rémy Martin cognac and Heineken NV’s Heineken 0.0, which the company says is the first nonalcoholic beer to get a Super Bowl appearance.
Miller Lite and Coors Light owner Molson Coors Beverage Co. will also advertise in the game, teaming up with online betting site DraftKings Inc. to let consumers predict the contents of the brewer’s commercial and earn money if they guess correctly.
DraftKings’ own ad will face off against a live commercial from rival Flutter Entertainment PLC’s FanDuel Group, in which football great Rob Gronkowski will attempt a 25-yard field goal to win bettors a potential share of $10 million.
And “He Gets Us,” an ad campaign introduced last year to
reintroduce Jesus, will run 90 seconds of advertising time at a cost of
around $20 million, according to Jason Vanderground, president of Haven,
the creative agency that works with the campaign..." Read more
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Sex-Traffic @ Arizona Super Bowl LVII??
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In anticipation of the Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced a statewide media campaign to raise awareness of sex trafficking. Advocates for sex work say those workers and trafficking victims are distinct, and anti-trafficking campaigns that encourage arrests do more harm than good.
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1 day ago · In anticipation of Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced a nationwide media campaign to raise awareness of sex trafficking.
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1 day ago · The crowd at the Super Bowl will be a star-studded group filled with A-list celebrities, ... Doug Ducey, her pro-business Republican predecessor.
OFFICIAL TIMELINE Chinese Balloon
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Tensions are on the rise after the U.S. shot down a Chinese balloon. China’s defense ministry now refused to take phone calls from Pentagon, saying it’s irresponsible for the U.S. military to use excessive military forces to attack a civilian airship. The U.S. accuses China of spying, and China accuses the U.S. of waging a public opinion war. Here is a timeline of how the dramatic dispute escalated over the past 10 days.
Wednesday, Feb. 1
China balloon was first spotted by the public over Montana when former Billings Gazette newspaper editor Chase Doak spotted the object above after seeing reports that the airspace around Billings was closed.
Flights at Billings Logan International Airport are halted for nearly two hours.
Thursday, Feb. 2
The Pentagon publicly discloses the high-altitude Chinese balloon has been flying over the mainland United States for several days.
U.S. lawmakers criticize President Biden for not shooting it down. A second Chinese balloon is reportedly spotted over Latin America.
Later on Thursday, Canada’s defense department said it was tracking “a potential second incident,” without elaborating. The White House declined to comment on the Canadian statement.
Friday, Feb. 3
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning says China has no intention of violating the territory and airspace of any sovereign state.
Mao says, “China regrets that the airship strayed into the United States by mistake.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called it a “clear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law.” Blinken said he postponed his scheduled trip to China.
China said neither Beijing nor Washington had announced Blinken would visit China, saying it was all media reports based on undisclosed sources. But China said it respected the U.S. decision and called for the U.S. to handle the situation calmly.
U.S. politicians like House Speaker McCarthy urged President Biden not to “be silent” on China’s balloon. China said some U.S. politicians and media organizations are hyping the incident.
Saturday, Feb. 4
China’s senior diplomat Wang Yi had a phone conversation with Blinken, and said China is a responsible country and will handle the situation calmly with the U.S.
The U.S. shot down the balloon with an air-to-air missile fired by an F-22 fighter plane from Langley Air Force Base.
Federal Aviation Administration temporarily halts flights in and out of some airports in North Carolina and South Carolina, as the downing took place.
The U.S. military launches recovery efforts.
China’s foreign ministry reiterates the airship was conducting meteorological research and unintentionally entered into U.S. airspace due to “force majeure,” unforeseeable circumstances.
Sunday, Feb. 5
The U.S. military continues to collect remnants of the balloon in 15 meters of water (50 feet) scattered over an 11-kilometer area (seven miles) off the coast of South Carolina.
China condemned the U.S. for shooting down a civilian airship with military forces and requested the U.S. to return its debris to Beijing.
Chinese military said it’s an overreaction to shoot down a civilian airship with military forces and said it reserves the right to “handle a similar situation with necessary means” in the future.
Monday, Feb. 6
Washington accused China of using the balloon to spy on the U.S.
China’s foreign ministry reiterated that it’s for weather purposes and urged the U.S. to stop sensationalizing the issue.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said the incident of the balloon’s unintended entry into U.S. airspace is a test of how sincere the U.S. is in improving ties and handling the crisis with Beijing.
Wednesday, Feb. 8
The U.S. said its defense chief wanted to speak on the phone with his Chinese counterpart but was refused.
Thursday, Feb. 9
China confirmed it had declined a proposal from the United States for a telephone call between their two top defense officials.
“The U.S. persisted in using force to attack China’s civilian unmanned airship, which seriously violated international practices and set a very bad precedent. In view of the U.S. side’s irresponsible and seriously wrong practice, which had failed to create a proper atmosphere for dialogue and exchange between the two militaries, China didn’t accept the U.S. proposal for a phone call between the two defense chiefs,” PLA Senior Colonel Tan Kefei, spokesperson for China’s Defense Ministry, said.
When asked which company the balloon belonged to, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said that China has no information to offer.
She said Beijing had explained multiple times that the airship is for weather purposes and its entry into U.S. airspace was unintentional, but the U.S. insisted to overreact and used military forces excessively to attack a civilian airship.
“The U.S. side said this balloon is part of China’s spying system. Perhaps such rhetorics are part of U.S. public opinion warfare against China,” Mao said Thursday, saying the international community knows which country is the biggest spying power in the world.
“This type of rhetoric from the U.S. is extremely irresponsible and runs counter to basic diplomatic etiquette,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said.
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