It’s the most wonderful time of the year for degens – Christmas and New Year’s and your birthday all rolled into one. Super Bowl LIX (aka Super Bowl 59) goes down this Sunday evening from the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it’s a rematch of Super Bowl LVII. That game was a barnburner, with the Kansas City Chiefs eking out a 38-35 win over the Philadelphia Eagles. So the burning question heading into this Sunday is – who ya got? Heads or tails?! Here is your Super Bowl 59 coin toss bets’ preview.
Super Bowl 59 Coin Toss Bets
The Super Bowl is the degen high holy day because you can bet on absolutely EVERYTHING! Even random, two-outcome things like the coin toss. It’s either going to land heads or tails – is any analysis needed? Since I still have about 400 more words to write, I certainly hope so. There are actually three different ways you can bet on the coin toss, which we’ll get into.
Coin Toss Outcome
The most important thing to remember if you are betting on the Super Bowl 59 coin toss is that it is a 50-50 proposition. Past results DO NOT MATTER! The coin being tossed by the referee on Sunday doesn’t know or care what his predecessors did when tossed (someday we’ll surely have sentient coins, but I don’t know of any in circulation currently). However, if you are into vibes and taking a non-scientific approach to betting the coin toss, here is some historical data.
Team Tails is the historic winner thus far, leading Team Heads 30-28 over the previous 58 incarnations of the Super Bowl. Tails is on a hot streak, as well, winning six of the last 10 Super Bowl tosses.
But, as mentioned above, this is a 50-50 bet, so make sure you shop around and are getting the best odds for it: +100 for Tails, +100 for Heads. Accept no less.
Coin Toss Winning Team
Another 50-50 prop bet is which team will win the coin toss, the Philadelphia Eagles or the Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs are the defacto road team in New Orleans on Sunday, so they will be the team calling Heads or Tails when the coin is in the air. But the history is on the Eagles’ side, as the NFC dominates the coin toss, for some reason. The NFC has won 37 of the 58 coin tosses in Super Bowl history. Once again, a totally random event and something that you’d expect to revert to the mean, but perhaps mystical things are afoot. Especially in New Orleans, you can’t discount the juju.
Team to Win Coin Toss and Win Game
The third way to bet on the Super Bowl 59 coin toss is not a completely random 50-50 play. Half of the play is, but the other half is not. But you get far better than +100 odds if you hit it.
This, of course, would be what the subheading to this portion of the article alludes to: Team to Win Coin Toss and Win Game. Simply put, if whichever team wins the coin toss also wins the Super Bowl, and you bet on them to do both, you win.
This is basically a parlay play – you’re betting on the coin toss outcome plus the game’s winner, so you should consider it as such when figuring out which odds are playable for you. With the Chiefs around -120 on the moneyline and the coin flip at +100, you want +267 or better if you are betting the Chiefs to win the game plus the coin toss; for the same situation with the Eagles, you’re looking at +300 or better.
So what’s my advice for betting on the Super Bowl 59 coin toss? Don’t do it! Well, don’t do it for a serious chunk of your bankroll, at least. If you are a true degen and need action on everything, have some fun with it.
