Super Bowl XLIV: Bet on the Intangibles

Intangibles, you can’t see them and you can’t touch them yet everyone talks about them. We see the single most important intangible being the Saints ability to handle the brightest lights on the biggest stage. Will the Saints reward bettors who trust them with their money or will the Colts provide an “I-told-you-so” performance rewarding all of those sports bettors who prefer to take the safer outcome? While QB Peyton Manning and the majority of the Colts return to the site of their Super Bowl XLI victory, this is uncharted territory for most of the Saints players. While considering your Colts vs Saints wagers for this February 7th Super Bowl XLIV, a few intangibles must be taken into consideration.

This will be the 10th Super Bowl played in Miami. In the first nine games, the favorite is 8-1 straight up and 6-3 against the spread. The total has gone OVER in five of the nine games in Miami. The Colts won and covered (29-17) as seven point favorites against the Bears while the total fell one point short of the 47 point Over/Under.

Sun Life Stadium, the site of Super Bowl XLVI, is also an intangible as both these teams play the majority of their games under a dome on artificial turf. The Colts were a perfect 6-0 on grass this season while the Saints were 3-1 with the only loss being Week 17 at Carolina. Both teams played the Dolphins and won at this venue in the regular season. The Colts won 27-23 in Week 2, while the Saints had a come from behind 46-34 win in Week 6. Super Bowl experience and familiarity with the playing surface gives the Colts a distinct advantage when it comes to the intangibles.

The rise in popularity of Fantasy Football has given sports bettors another factor to consider when making their wagers. This game features two of the most Fantasy talent-laden teams in the NFL. The Saints finished the season with the most Fantasy Points (FP) scored at 2,018 while the Colts finished seventh with 1,852 FP. When it came to giving up FP these teams were very evenly matched. The Saints allowed 1,337 FP while the Colts allowed 1,399 FP to the skilled Fantasy positions (QB, RB, WR and TE). During the regular season, teams with a slight Fantasy Factor advantage posted a 30-34 record. The Saints hold a slight advantage when considering the Fantasy Factor.

With those stats in mind, and with all of the other info we provide in our detailed sportsbook reviews, it’s time to pick the sportsbook that’s right for you, and that will add unmeasurable amounts of excitement to what is shaping up to be the best Super Bowl in years. So why not lay a few dollars down on which team will challenge the referee’s play call first, or whether the coin toss will be heads or tails and yes, the payout for head and tails is equal, even if we all know that “tails never fails”.