You Can Gamble on How Many Times Bud's Super Bowl Ad Says 'Dilly'
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For those who enjoy wagering on pro football, one of the high points of any NBC game is when veteran sportscaster Al Michaels drops a not-entirely-surreptitious nod to gambling into his play-by-play patter. If a garbage-time chip-shot field goal nudges the combined score of an otherwise meaningless game north of Vegas’s set line, count on Michaels to slip in a jocular remark about how “overwhelming” the kick was.
As the only active network broadcaster who acknowledges that an awful lot of people seem to enjoy wagering on NFL games, it only stands to reason that Michaels should be the subject of a number of Super Bowl prop bets. (For the uninitiated, a prop bet is a novelty wager placed on highly specific and often trivial outcomes.) The online sportsbook BetDSI posted a rather comprehensive list of props for Super Bowl LII, which Michaels and his booth mate Cris Collinsworth will call on Feb. 4.
Five of the BetDSI props have to do with the likelihood of Michaels uttering one of a series of words that are, in some circles, freighted with a certain degree of significance. Degenerates and discerning gamblers alike may place their bets on whether Michaels at any point during the NBC broadcast will say “underdog” or “odds”; less likely props invite fans to speculate on the plausibility of hearing him chime in with “point spread” or “sportsbook.” To give you a sense of how much of no-brainer it is to expect Michaels to say “underdog” at least once during the game, if you go with “yes” on that score, you’ll have to bet $1,000 to win $100.
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