Some Super Bowl bettors will pay more attention to what Peyton Manning says at the line of scrimmage than what he does after the ball is snapped.
Online sportsbook Bovada.lv is taking wagers on the number of times the Broncos quarterback yells “Omaha” as one of his presnap calls during the Feb. 2 game against the Seattle Seahawks.
The over-under is 27½ and is among a series of more than 400 proposition bets, or props, announced Thursday by Bovada.
“I guess it goes to show that people will bet on almost anything,” said David Brown, president of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce in Nebraska.
Other Super Bowl props include the length of opera singer Renee Fleming’s rendition of the national anthem before the game (over-under of two minutes, 30 seconds) and the temperature at the time of the opening kickoff at MetLife Stadium (over-under of 34 degrees). Yet the Manning-Omaha prop might be among the most unusual.
If a bettor chooses the “over” and Manning says Omaha 28 times or more during Fox’s telecast of Super Bowl XLVIII, he wins the same amount he wagered. He loses his bet in the same situation if Manning says Omaha 27 times or fewer. Manning said Omaha 31 times in the AFC title game, resulting in donations of $24,800 for his Peyback Foundation from Omaha businesses. Bloomberg News
