Written by :
Published on :
Will there be a safety scored in this year's Super Bowl?
CLAIM YOUR SIGNUP BONUS UP TO $1000 - CASH OUT WINNINGS ANY TIME SOON
The YES pays as much as $90 for every $10 bet. The NO is priced too high to bet.
The safety has been unusually common in some of the more recent Super Bowls.
To this date, a safety has been scored in the Super Bowl nine times, or one every 5.78 Super Bowls, with the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants each being involved in three such instances, with each scoring a safety in two instances and giving up a safety in another.
Since 2009, there have been four safeties scored in a Super Bowl. Prior to this time there were only five scored.
Scroll down for more...
From Wikipedia:
Super Bowl XLIII
In the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLIII between the Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals, Steelers center Justin Hartwig committed a holding penalty in the Steelers own end zone, wiping out a 20-yard Ben Roethlisberger pass to Santonio Holmes on third-and-10. The automatic safety cut the Steelers' lead to 20–16 (and subsequently put them behind 23–20 after Larry Fitzgerald caught a 63-yard touchdown pass by Kurt Warner on the Cardinals' ensuing drive after the free kick), but Pittsburgh went on to win 27–23. It was the first time that a safety in the Super Bowl was the result of a penalty.
Super Bowl XLVI
In the first quarter of Super Bowl XLVI between the Giants and the New England Patriots, New England quarterback Tom Brady was called for intentional grounding in his own end zone after he threw the ball toward the center of the field while under pressure and where no receivers were on his team's first offensive play of the game. This was the second time after Super Bowl IX that the first score of the game was a safety, and the second time in a Super Bowl that a safety was the result of a penalty (the first was in Super Bowl XLIII). The Giants went on to win 21–17.
Super Bowl XLVII
In the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLVII between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers, with the Ravens ahead 34 – 29 and having the ball with 12 seconds remaining, punter Sam Koch ran the clock for 8 seconds in the end zone before being run out of bounds for a 49ers safety. The Baltimore Ravens would go on to win the game 34-31 with the 49ers being unable to return the ball in the remaining 4 seconds.
Super Bowl XLVIII
On the first play from scrimmage of Super Bowl XLVIII between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos, Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning was shifting forward from shotgun formation when the ball was snapped past him and was then recovered in the Broncos' own endzone by Denver halfback Knowshon Moreno to prevent a touchdown, resulting in a 2-0 lead for the Seahawks. This was the fastest score ever in a Super Bowl with just 12 seconds ticking off the clock before the safety. (A penalty was called against Manning for illegal motion, but it was declined and the safety counted.) The Seahawks won the game 43-8.
- Mary Montgomery, Gambling911.com
