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It's hard enough to win with your Super Bowl prop bets backing a safety to occur. It's even harder to win with a safety being the first score of the game. The payout is a cool $3750 on a $100 bet. Typically a safety being scored at any time during the Super Bowl pays around $800 to $900 on a $100 bet.
Oh but the stars did align in Super Bowl 48, not too long ago.
Running back Knowshon Moreno recovered the ball and smartly took a knee, putting Seattle up, 2-0, in what was the fastest scoring play in Super Bowl history. That play might have appeared to have killed the books with the safety being the first score paying 60-1 odds.
The reality is that few people were brave enough to bet that prop. Those that did weren't likely to lay more than $100. And, because this is typically one of the most popular prop bet with more than 95% of the action on either a touchdown or field goal being scored first, the books still made out like bandits.
To this date, a safety has been scored in the Super Bowl nine times, or one every 5.89 Super Bowls.
- Dan Shapiro, Gambling911.com
