Super Bowl Game Day Theories and Props

by Bodog Sportsbook | Jan 29 2008

The Super Bowl has essentially become a national holiday and with it comes all the prep work one would expect to see for a holiday like Christmas. So like every year during the weeks before the Super Bowl, the can of theories has been opened for the amusement of us all.

One of the biggest theories has Wall Street hoping that the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots, even if only by one point. Legend has it that yearly stock market trends are predicted by the winner of the Super Bowl. If the NFC team wins, it’ll be a good year for the stock market. If the AFC team wins, it’ll be a down year. NFC odds for this theory are higher because a team from the AFC qualifies as an NFC team if it was part of the original NFC league before the 1970 merger.

This prediction method was invented years ago by Leonard Koppett, a sportswriter for the New York Times, and it’s been accurate 31 of 41 times.

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How will the Winning Conference of the Super Bowl impact Wall Street?
AFC Wins/Market Down    1/2
AFC Wins/Market Up         3/2
NFC Wins/Market Down    5/1
NFC Wins/Market Up        7/1

Another Super Bowl theory is whether or not the coin toss winner will also win the game. In the last 11 Super Bowls, the coin toss winners have only won twice. The NFC has won the last 10 coin tosses but the last time an AFC team won, it happened to be the New England Patriots. Maybe luck will be on their side at Super Bowl XLII. This year, the New York Giants will call the toss as they’re the road team. They’ve never called the toss before but are 1-2 in Super Bowl coin toss wins. The Patriots are 1-4 in Super Bowl coin toss wins, but have called it twice and both times have called heads.

There’s another legend based on the premise of hype and that teams win or lose depending on how they handle the hype of the big game. The New England Patriots have appeared at the Super Bowl six times and the New York Giants four times. It may not matter that the Pats have more Super Bowl experience because they have been pretty hyped up all season and still haven’t broken under the pressure. The New York Giants on the other hand, although on a winning streak, obviously not of the same magnitude as that of the Pats, may fold on game day due to Eli Manning’s shakiness under pressure.

So will any of these game theories hold true? I guess we’ll find out come game day.

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