Category: Super Bowl 55

Bettor places $2.3M wager on Buccaneers through BetMGM

A massive wager has come in on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The bettor is backing the Bucs to the tune of $2.3 million.

There is one bettor out there who didn’t wait for Super Bowl week to declare his intentions. And he went big as in huge.

BetMGM has taken a $2.3M wager on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The wager was on the Bucs +3.5 (-115). If Tampa Bay covers the spread against the Kansas City Chiefs, the bettor would win a net of $2 million.

Per ESPN.com: 

According to company spokesperson Elisa Richardson, the bet was placed on BetMGM’s mobile app and is the largest Super Bowl wager any U.S. sportsbook had reported as of Friday morning.

The wager went in the opposite direction of most of the early action on the game, which has favored the Kansas City Chiefs, who are looking to go back-to-back.

“This was a bet we were very happy to receive,” Jason Scott, vice president of trading for BetMGM, told ESPN. “We had previously written several other six-figure bets, all on Kansas City, and the public is certainly behind Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes.”

The Chiefs remained consensus 3-point favorites and were attracting 74% of the point-spread bets at Caesars Sportsbook by William Hill. FanDuel and DraftKings also reported lopsided action on the Chiefs, with greater than 75% of the early money backing the defending champions at each sportsbook.

 

Early storylines for Super Bowl LV

Tom Brady versus Patrick Mahomes. Travis Kelce versus the Tampa Bay defense. COVID. These are a few of the storylines for Super Bowl LV.

Super Bowl LV is set. Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will square off against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. The beauty of the Super Bowl is the fact that we have two weeks to build up to the game, which offers no shortage of storylines each year. This Super Bowl will be no different. Here is a look at some of the early storylines for Super Bowl LV.

Who is the Super Bowl LV halftime performer?

The Weeknd has been announced as the halftime act for Super Bowl LV.

Attendance will be smaller in-person but that only means the viewing audience for Super Bowl 55 on television will be larger. It was announced on Thursday who the halftime performer will be for the game that scheduled for Feb. 7 at Tampa Bay’s Raymond James Stadium.

And the winner is: The Weeknd.

“We can’t wait to welcome multi-award winning artist The Weeknd to the Pepsi Super Bowl LV Halftime Show stage,” said Adam Harter, senior vice president of PepsiCo’s Sports, Media and Entertainment division.

The Canadian rapper (real name Abel Makkonen Tesfaye), 30, also announced his Super Bowl debut in a Thursday tweet, which read: “performing on the iconic stage. see you 02/07/21.”

“We all grow up watching the world’s biggest acts playing the Super Bowl and one can only dream of being in that position,” The Weeknd said. “I’m humbled, honored and ecstatic to be the center of that infamous stage this year.”

The Weeknd is a three-time Grammy Award winner whose 2020 album “After Hours” is the most-streamed R&B album of all time.