Coin Toss Prop Betting Lines: Super Bowl XLVI

A prop bet that always get glossed over as just a 50/50 proposition wager is the opening coin toss of any Super Bowl. While it’s theoretically true, with just two betting options, there’s a lot of history to draw from if you are participating in this guess wagering on SB XLVI.

Don’t forget to get this wager in well prior to kickoff which is scheduled for 6:29 PM ET on Sunday, February 5, 2012, from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN.

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NFC Dominates The Annual Super Bowl Coin Toss

Though the title may seem a little exaggerated – until you realize that the National Football Conference has a record of 31-14 when it comes to coin toss wins, including the last 14 in a row.

That record of 14 in a row is almost mind boggling as it means the AFC has been wrong on seven straight calls, while the NFC has been correct on their last seven calls. The NFC can make it 15 straight as the Giants get to call the flip prior to Super Bowl XLVI.

New England was the last team from the American Football Conference to get the coin toss right as they called “HEADS” prior to Super Bowl XXXI against the Green Bay Packers.

In that contest the Patriots won the toss and elected to receive – they ran five plays with QB Drew Bledsoe at the helm and punted. Green Bay, led by QB Brett Favre then went 55 yards in two plays to go up 7-0 and never looked back in a 35-21 throttling of New England.

Heads Or Tails: You Make The Call For Super Bowl XLVI

Conventional wisdom states a coin tossed 100 times has a chance at landing either side up 50% of the time. That is also fairly factual when it comes to the Super Bowl coin flip.

Over the past 45 Super Bowls, Tails has come up 23 times and Heads 22 times – including the last three tosses. Neither side has had a run greater than four years in a row as Heads has done it once and Tails twice.

Prior to the three straight wins by Heads, Tails had run off a 9-2 record including four straight wins twice. The recent run by Heads is their third 3-peat (not counting their run of four straight) and Tails stopped the streak of the previous two runs.

It’s not rocket science but we’ll go with the Giants being wrong with a call of TAILS, the Patriots deferring, and New England kicking off to New York to get Super Bowl XLVI underway.

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