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☆ Super Bowl betting in Nevada drops nearly 15% from record set in 2022
  + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Feb 14 (Reuters) - The value of bets placed in Nevada sportsbooks on this year's Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles was 14.8% below the record set last year, according to unaudited figures provided by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Nevada sportsbooks kept a combined $11.3 million from Super Bowl bets for a hold percentage of 7.4% compared with last year when they kept $15.4 million for a hold percentage of 8.6%. The twice Super Bowl winner also ran for 44 yards, including a 26-yard scramble that helped set up the game-winning field goal. Next year's Super Bowl will be held at the home of the Las Vegas Raiders and many experts are expecting betting around that game to reach new heights. "The Nevada Gaming Control Board looks forward to Allegiant Stadium hosting Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas next year," Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairman Kirk Hendrick said in a news release.
☆ Down-to-the-wire Super Bowl draws game's second-largest audience, Nielsen says
  + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Lisa Richwine | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Nielsen's figure includes people who watched on the Fox or Fox Deportes TV networks (FOXA.O) or streamed the game on Fox digital properties or NFL+. Football - NFL - Super Bowl LVII - Half-Time Show - State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona, United States - February 12, 2023 Rihanna performs during the halftime show REUTERS/Caitlin O'haraThe Super Bowl draws the biggest audience on U.S. television each year. The most-watched Super Bowl took place in 2015, when an average of 114.8 million people watched the New England Patriots defeat the Seattle Seahawks. Viewership rose roughly 11% from last year, when Nielsen reported an audience of 101 million people. Fox said the audience increased during the halftime show starring pop and R&B superstar Rihanna, averaging 118 million people on TV and digital platforms.
☆ Philadelphia’s Jalen Hurts: In Defeat, an Appreciation
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Jason Gay | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Glendale, Ariz.I’ll admit this isn’t the ordinary move—an appreciation of the losing quarterback on the morning after the Super Bowl. The usual drill is to rudely step over the losing team, and wrap our love and superlatives around the champions. Within minutes of the confetti drop, the loser is relegated to history. By sunrise, it’s like they didn’t exist.
☆ Eagles lead Chiefs 24-14 at halftime of Super Bowl
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
GLENDALE, Ariz, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Jalen Hurts ran for two touchdowns and passed for another as the Philadelphia Eagles led the Kansas City Chiefs 24-14 at halftime of the Super Bowl on Sunday. An entertaining opening half ended in a cliffhanger when Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes appeared to re-injure his right ankle that had been a major worry entering the National Football League championship game. Kansas City answered right back with Mahomes hitting his favorite target Travis Kelce with an 18-yard pass to cap their own 75-yard drive. The fireworks continued into the second when Hurts, on the first play of the quarter, spotted A.J. Eagles kicker Jake Elliott kicked a 35-yard field goal on the final play of the half to send Philadelphia into the break 24-14.
☆ Super Bowl betting sets records for sportsbooks
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Contessa Brewer Jessica Golden | Contessa Brewer | Jessica Golden | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
FanDuel expected to handle more than 17 million Super Bowl bets. GeoComply , a company that verifies the locations where gamblers are betting, saw 100 million sports betting transactions this Super Bowl weekend, an increase of 25% over last year. It was a record-breaking Super Bowl for sportsbooks as gamblers ponied up across the United States. "This was BetMGM's most successful Super Bowl and most bet on single game sporting event ever," the company told CNBC. Already, sportsbooks are accepting wagers for next year's Super Bowl, which, for the first time, will take place in America's gambling capital – Las Vegas.
☆ Twitter suffered an outage during Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime show — its 2nd in a week — despite Elon Musk's directive to maximize stability
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime performance coincided with nearly 1,000 reports of a Twitter outage. It came just four days after "a massive outage" saw users left unable to tweet. Nearly 1,000 users reported on Downdetector that they were having problems with Twitter, peaking as the Super Bowl halftime show started around 8:30 p.m. The apparent outage came just four days after Wednesday's "massive" one left users unable to tweet. The platform did not suffer any outages then, despite a larger viewership and Musk's similar emphasis on keeping Twitter running.
☆ Super Bowl MVP Mahomes says ankle injury will not affect availability to Chiefs
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
[1/2] Feb 12, 2023; Glendale, Arizona, US; Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) talks to the media during a press conference after winning Super Bowl LVII against the Philadelphia Eagles at State Farm Stadium. "I'll for sure be ready for OTAs (organized team activities) and everything like that," he told reporters on Monday after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell presented him with the Super Bowl MVP trophy. In visible pain, Mahomes gingerly walked off the Super Bowl field in what initially appeared to be a worst-case scenario for the Chiefs, but the 27-year-old quarterback said he knew it was something that he would play through. Mahomes completed 21 of 27 passes during the game for 182 yards and three touchdowns, including two in the fourth quarter. The twice Super Bowl winner also ran for 44 yards, including a 26-yard scramble that helped set up the game-winning field goal.
☆ Las Vegas betting reputation as party capital on Super Bowl
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
PHOENIX, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Las Vegas will put its reputation as the world's party capital on the line next year when the United States's biggest sporting party comes to Sin City with everyone predicting a Super Bowl supernova. Sam Joffray, CEO of the Super Bowl Las Vegas Host Committee told Reuters high expectations come with the territory when you are talking about Las Vegas and because of that they are well aware that they will need to up their game. The Super Bowl will be held at the $1.9 billion Allegiant Stadium, home of the Las Vegas Raiders, in 2024. "Vegas has no shortage of experience hosting big events but the Super Bowl - we need to up our game. The Super Bowl may have some competition for biggest weekend honours with Formula One also making its Las Vegas debut a few months earlier in November.
☆ Patrick Mahomes' wife Brittany Mahomes has built her own sports empire as a professional soccer player, part owner of a women's soccer team, and a fitness guru
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Kelly Mclaughlin | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Meredith Cash | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is celebrating his latest win with his wife Brittany. The Kansas City Chiefs selected Patrick in the first round of the NFL Draft in April 2017. Her team won its league in September 2017, according to her Instagram, and by October 2017 she was in Kansas City. I think the people are what we love the most about Kansas City," Mahomes said. He took the Chiefs to their second-consecutive Super Bowl in February 2021, though the team lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
☆ Magician Mahomes shows steely side as Chiefs QB named Super Bowl MVP
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Amy Tennery | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
The 27-year-old led the Chiefs to a 38-35 win over the Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl 57, throwing for 182 yards and three touchdowns at State Farm Stadium. But Mahomes showed he still had the magic touch after the break, engineering an extraordinary comeback by throwing two touchdown passes and scrambling 26 yards late in the fourth quarter. read more"I told you all this week there's nothing that's going to keep me off that football field," said Mahomes. "We challenged each other to win this football game so shout out to my team mates - we're Super Bowl champs." Reporting by Amy Tennery in Glendale, Arizona, additonal reporting by Steve Keating and Rory Carroll; Editing by Peter RutherfordOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Fans soak up Super Bowl glow as 'Valley of the Sun' takes spotlight
  + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/6] Feb 12, 2023; Glendale, AZ, USA; Fans arrive Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Patrick Breen/The Republic via USA TODAY SportsGLENDALE, Ariz., Feb 12 (Reuters) - Fans dressed in Kansas City Chiefs red and Philadelphia Eagles green excitedly bounced up the walkway to State Farm Stadium on Sunday, as the curtain lifted on a tough-to-predict Super Bowl 57. The NFL said it expected the Glendale, Arizona, stadium's retractable roof to remain open. Mahomes has the benefit of experience over his 24-year-old rival Jalen Hurts, featuring in the Super Bowl for the third time in four years. Super Bowl 57 is set to kick off at 4:30 p.m. MT (2330 GMT).
☆ You still can get a ticket to the Super Bowl on game day, but it'll cost you
  + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( Aidan Pollard | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Insider checked out a few last-minute Super Bowl ticket options and found some of the cheapest seats available. StubHub cracks the $3,000 barrierSuper Bowl tickets on StubHub StubHub/ScreenshotThe lowest Super Bowl ticket price before fees on StubHub Sunday morning was $3,035. Prices over the yearsSuper Bowl ticket data from VividSeats VividSeats/screenshotSuper Bowl ticket prices have dropped significantly in the past two years, according to VividSeats, but remain far above the cost of a ticket in the 2010s. The average ticket price for Super Bowl LVII rings in at $6,024, according to VividSeats data, slightly less than the price in 2022. The average cost for 2021's game — Tom Brady's final Super Bowl — was nearly $9,500.
☆ Meet Justina Miles, Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime show ASL performer
  + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
As millions tune in to watch the Philadelphia Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs at the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, this Sunday, Justina Miles will be making history. She will also be the first female deaf performer for the Super Bowl's halftime show. More than 120 million viewers watched the Super Bowl halftime show in 2022, which featured Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar. It was the first Super Bowl halftime show to feature ASL performers, including rappers Sean Forbes and Warren "WaWa" Snipe. Super Bowl pre-game coverages starts Sunday at 1 p.m. EST on Fox, and kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m. EST.
☆ Super Bowl 2023: Eagles, Chiefs, Rihanna and a ton of commercials take center stage
  + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( Sarah Whitten Lillian Rizzo Mike Calia | Sarah Whitten | Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Kickoff for Super Bowl LVII is at 6:30 p.m. The Super Bowl is advertising's biggest stage, with companies jockeying for a limited supply of spots to get their products in front of millions of consumers' eyeballs. Fox said it raked in a record amount of Super Bowl ad revenue this year. Absent this year will be crypto companies. Last year, four cryptocurrency companies shelled out millions for commercial spots during the big game.
☆ Want the S&P 500 to gain 10% this year? A Super Bowl win by the Philadelphia Eagles may be your best bet
  + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( Carla Mozée | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs will face off in Super Bowl LVII on Sunday in Arizona. An analyst said historic data suggests a win by an NFC team will produce a 10% return for the S&P 500 this year. Maybe not," Detrick wrote about this year's Super Bowl. From that viewpoint, stock investors may want to see the Chiefs win their third Super Bowl. Before Sunday's game, the S&P 500 has risen about 6% in 2023, and there's been a rotation in market leadership since 2022's dismal end.
☆ For fans Super Bowl no longer a game, it's an 'experience'
  + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
PHOENIX, Feb 11 (Reuters) - In just a half-century of evolution the Super Bowl has gone from sports event, to America's biggest party, to a week long and very expensive immersive "experience". Next year it will almost certainly make another leap when "immersive experience" and "party" morph into one big Super Bowl supernova in Las Vegas, as Sin City hosts the game for the first time. "If you go back 10 years ago Super Bowl was only about the game and now it is much, much more," said Wilder. For John Wegman, a businessman from Rochester and a Buffalo Bills season ticket holder, seeing a Super Bowl was on his bucket list. "Super Bowl with my father, my mother, my brother was a bucket list thing and we are doing it in style."
☆ One Owns the Kansas City Chiefs. The Other, the Philadelphia Eagles. But Who Owns the Best Homes?
  + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Libertina Brandt | Sarah Paynter | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Clark Hunt, an owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, left, and Jeffrey Lurie, right, the owner of the Philadelphia EaglesThis weekend, Clark Hunt, an owner and the chairman of the Kansas City Chiefs, and Jeffrey Lurie , owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, will watch their teams battle it out in Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. While both the Hunt family and Mr. Lurie have helped build championship-worthy teams on the field, off the field they have built up impressive multimillion-dollar real-estate portfolios.
☆ Super Bowl showdown to provide betting bonanza
  + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Frank Pingue | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Feb 11 (Reuters) - The Super Bowl has long been the single biggest sports betting event of the year in the United States and Sunday's showdown in Glendale, Arizona could reach new heights as wagering on the NFL's championship game has exploded in popularity. "The fact that the Super Bowl is being played in a state where you can legally bet on sports was almost unthinkable five years ago," American Gaming Association (AGA) President and CEO Bill Miller told Reuters. "There is important symbolism and economics around the fact that a Super Bowl is being held in a state where sports betting is legal, no question about that." A survey by the AGA, a trade group for the U.S. casino industry, showed a record 50.4 million American adults, or about 20% of the population, are expected to bet $16 billion on the Super Bowl. "It isn't necessarily something new as far as the Super Bowl but I think we are paying more attention to it now because more people have access to bet."
☆ The 2023 Super Bowl Ads Will Feature Booze, Betting and Jesus
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Megan Graham | Patrick Coffee | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +10 min
The Super Bowl ads on Sunday are poised to promote an unusual mix of alcohol brands, gambling and Jesus. The Super Bowl still regularly draws an audience of around 100 million people, making it TV’s biggest event of the year and advertising’s biggest night. Planters’ Super Bowl ad features comedians mocking Mr. Peanut. The ads are likely to strike a lighter tone than the occasionally somber messages of Super Bowl ads in recent, highly politicized years or the early pandemic, said Anjali S. Bal, an associate professor of marketing at Babson College. Many Super Bowl advertisers have again released their ads well before Super Bowl Sunday to increase their chances of being seen.
☆ Biden's Super Bowl: Home alone, with ice cream and guacamole
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - With first lady Jill Biden attending the big game, President Joe Biden says he plans to watch this coming Sunday's Super Bowl at home on television, with a bowl of ice cream. The first lady's beloved Philadelphia Eagles play the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, and she is planning to attend with her grandson. The Super Bowl, played every year since 1967, decides who is the best team in the U.S.'s National Football League, and draws tens of millions of viewers. When the interviewer suggested he have some guacamole to eat during the game, Biden said "exactly right," and added:"Ice cream. A little chocolate chip ice cream afterwards."
☆ With record Super Bowl wagers expected, here are Wall Street's top sports-betting stocks
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
The names were a member of Roundhill Sports Betting & iGaming ETF , VanEck Gaming ETF , and/or iBet Sports Betting & Gaming ETF . Of the gaming companies on the list, Caesars Entertainment has the most upside to the average analyst price target, 26.2%. Caesars gaming empire includes Caesars Sportsbook, which came out of the company's 2021 $4 billion acquisition of William Hill . MGM Resorts follows with 23% upside to the average analyst price target. The stock, which has gained nearly 6% so far this year, has 11% upside to the average analyst price target.
☆ A manager of 95 Phoenix Airbnbs is stunned that half his homes are empty over Super Bowl weekend. Is it the latest Airbnbust?
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Phoenix Airbnb hosts were expecting to be fully booked over Super Bowl weekend. Take a prime three-bedroom two-bathroom home that Kenworthy manages in Scottsdale, a suburb of Phoenix that actively prepped for a wave of Super Bowl visitors. The Super Bowl is being held at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesThere are even signs of a recent surge in listings in response to the Super Bowl hype. While Phoenix will continue to be a popular vacation spot, Harvey predicts the Super Bowl disappointment will motivate some owners to sell their short-term-rental properties.
☆ Super Bowl LVII kicks off on February 12 with the Chiefs facing the Eagles — here's how to livestream the big game
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Kevin Webb | Video Game Reporter | Read More | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs are playing in their third Super Bowl in the past five seasons. How to watch Super Bowl LVIIYou can watch Super Bowl LVII on Fox starting at 6:30 p.m. Matt Sayles/APRihanna headlines the Super Bowl LVII halftime show with her first live televised performance since the 2018 Grammys. There's no set time for the Super Bowl halftime show, as it depends on the pace of the game. Who's singing the national anthem at Super Bowl LVII?
☆ How Much Will It Cost to Stay in Greater Phoenix for Super Bowl Weekend? (Hint: Much More Than Last Weekend)
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Jessica Flint | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The average ticket price to attend the 2023 Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, in the greater Phoenix area, is hovering around $9,000, according to secondary market ticket platform TicketIQ. If it costs that much to get in the door to watch the Philadelphia Eagles play the Kansas City Chiefs, how much will fans be ponying up to stay in a vacation rental near State Farm Stadium? According to short-term rental analytics firm AirDNA, the average booked rate in Glendale in advance of Super Bowl weekend was around $740 per night. This is compared to last weekend, when travelers could book a short-term rental in Glendale for closer to $225 per night.
☆ How Much Will it Cost to Stay in the Phoenix Area for Super Bowl Weekend? (Hint: Much More Than Last Weekend)
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Jessica Flint | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The average ticket price to attend the 2023 Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, in the greater Phoenix area, is hovering around $9,000, according to secondary market ticket platform TicketIQ. If it costs that much to get in the door to watch the Philadelphia Eagles play the Kansas City Chiefs, how much will fans be ponying up to stay in a vacation rental near State Farm Stadium? According to short-term rental analytics firm AirDNA, the average booked rate in Glendale in advance of Super Bowl weekend was around $740 per night. This is compared to last weekend, when travelers could book a short-term rental in Glendale for closer to $225 per night.
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