New England Patriots Player’s Sister Turned $5 Into $18,000 With The Most Ridiculous Super Bowl Bet
This article was originally published on Total Pro Sports.
Anyone who was wise enough to put a wager on the New England Patriots winning Super Bowl 60 at the start of the year will be crossing their fingers on Sunday.
The Patriots were a longshot to win the Super Bowl at the start of the season. This once-proud franchise hadn’t won a playoff game since 2019 and was coming off a third straight losing campaign.
But here we are during Super Bowl week. The New England Patriots have landed in the Bay Area, where they’ll take on Sam Darnold’s Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl 60 on Sunday.
Regardless of the outcome, the sister of one Patriots player is already a big winner. That’s because she just took home a lucrative payday by hitting on her $5 Super Bowl bet.
During an interview on KJR 93.3 FM (via ESPN’s Mike Reiss), Patriots fullback Jack Westover said his sister put a $5 bet on a New England-Seattle Super Bowl in training camp. The payout? A shiny $18,000.
“She has her second baby on the way, so she’s happy about that,” Westover said.
ESPN’s computer model picks Seattle to beat the Patriots in Super Bowl 60. The NFC champions enter Super Bowl 60 as a slight favorite over Drake Maye’s Patriots.
New England Patriots & Seattle Seahawks Meet In A “Super Bowl Rematch”
Sunday’s big game will mark just the 10th Super Bowl rematch. The Patriots are no strangers to SB rematches, having faced the St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants twice apiece in the big game during the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick era.
Though Super Bowl rematches are rare, this is the third straight year we’ve had one. The previous two Super Bowls, as the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers (Super Bowl 54 and 58) and Chiefs and Eagles (Super Bowl 57 and 59) had also met previously in the big game.
Super Bowl 60 is a rematch of the epic showdown from 11 years ago, with Malcolm Butler picking off Russell Wilson at the goal-line to clinch Super Bowl 49 for the Patriots.
