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Super Bowl 59 props, picks by NFL expert: Coin toss, National Anthem, plus Kendrick Lamar halftime show

Super Bowl 59 props, picks by NFL expert: Coin toss, National Anthem, plus Kendrick Lamar halftime show
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From offices and house parties to the biggest sportsbooks and online sports betting platforms in the world, the Super Bowl is annually one of the most wagered-on events, and a big reason for that has nothing to do with the action on the field. Although the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Philadelphia Eagles in the 2025 Super Bowl on Sunday provide football bettors with a near-endless amount of Super Bowl prop bets during the game, such as total yards, touchdowns and total points, there are plenty of off-field Super Bowl props as well that can entertain those who have no interest in the winner. Grammy award winner Jon Batiste will sing the National Anthem and Kendrick Lamar will star in the Super Bowl 59 halftime show and both performances have multiple entertainment prop bets.

The Chiefs have a chance to win their third straight Super Bowl, and if that happens, a popular Super Bowl prop bet could win for a third straight year as well. One Super Bowl tradition is the winning coach being doused in Gatorade following the victory and in each of Kansas City’s last two Super Bowl wins, the Chiefs dumped purple Gatorade on Andy Reid. Purple (+210) has the lowest odds of any Gatorade color in Super Bowl 59 prop bets. What are the best 2025 Super Bowl props to jump on for the halftime show, the National Anthem, coin toss and more? Before betting any NFL props for Super Bowl 59, you need to see the best 2025 Super Bowl prop picks from SportsLine’s R.J. White.

White, a Fantasy and gambling editor for CBS Sports, consistently crushes against-the-spread picks and has gone 643-543-34 on his ATS picks from 2017-23, which returned more than $4,600 to $100 players. He also went 101-84-4 (+1366) on all NFL spread picks last season and is on a 29-15 roll (+1323) on his NFL picks this season. Anyone who has followed him could be way up.

White also has also had past success betting Super Bowl entertainment props, particularly the National Anthem. Last year, White said to play Over 89.5 seconds for anthem singer, Reba McEntire, and it landed at 94 seconds. He’s now nailed the National Anthem prop in four straight Super Bowls.

After digging into the hundreds of props offered for Super Bowl LIX, White has identified a handful of epic NFL props worth backing. That includes his attempt to nail the length of the “Star-Spangled Banner” for a fifth consecutive season and a must-see play on Kendrick Lamar’s potential set list for the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show. You can only see his Super Bowl prop picks here.

2025 Super Bowl coin toss props

Millions of dollars will be exchanged before the kickoff of Super Bowl 59 as one of the most popular annual Super Bowl prop bets comes with a true 50/50 probability. The coin toss. The results of the first 58 Super Bowl coin tosses closely follow the mathematical odds with heads winning 30 times (52%) compared to tails 28 times (48%). If you subscribed to the “Tails never fails” mindset of picking a coin toss over the last four Super Bowls, your wallet wouldn’t reflect that mantra with heads winning three of the last four years.

Some sportsbooks will allow you to combine the coin toss winner with the team who wins the game as well. For example, the Chiefs to win the coin toss and win the game is priced at +255, while the Eagles to win both is +320. The Chiefs won the coin toss each time in their back-to-back Super Bowl victories, leaving that as an intriguing bet to consider in your 2025 Super Bowl prop bets. See White’s Super Bowl coin toss prop play here since he’s banking on a recent coin toss trend.

Kendrick Lamar halftime show props for Super Bowl 59

There is no shortage of props available for the Super Bowl 59 halftime show, which is headlined by rapper Kendrick Lamar. The 37-year-old is already one of the most decorated hip-hop artists of all-time and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner is now a 17-time Grammy winner after adding five more awards this past Sunday on CBS. The California native previously appeared at Super Bowl LVI alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Mary J. Blige.

At that Super Bowl halftime show, Lamar performed four songs, including two of his originals (“M.A.A.D. City” from his second studio album and “Alright” from his third). Now his Drake diss track “Not Like Us” is the +550 favorite to be the last song performed during the Super Bowl LIX halftime show after it cleaned up at the Grammy’s on Sunday. The over/under for total number of songs performed is 10.5 and Lamar’s cousin Baby Keem is a +110 favorite to make a guest appearance during the Kendrick Lamar halftime show. Click here to see White’s detailed breakdown of Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show picks at Super Bowl LIX.

Jon Batiste National Anthem props for Super Bowl LIX

Five-time Grammy winner, and New Orleans native, Jon Batiste will perform the Star-Spangled Banner, with a number of National Anthem props available for his rendition. The over/under is 120.5 seconds, and the last three times the Super Bowl anthem had an O/U of at least two minutes, the Under hit every time. Batiste previously sang the anthem at the 2017 NBA All-Star Game, also in New Orleans, and it came in just under two minutes.

That performance came with Batiste on the piano, and that is another Super Bowl prop available for Sunday. “Yes” has prop odds of -400 that Batiste will be on the keys, with “No” at +290. The anthem ends with “The home of the brave”, and one could make predictions on how long Batiste’s note for “brave” will last. The over/under is 3.5 seconds, and it has even odds of -113 for both sides. Thus, doing a fair share of research on Batiste, and his past performances, could result in a lucrative payout with Super Bowl National Anthem props. Check out White’s surprising pick for the length of Jon Batiste’s national anthem here, all from the expert who has nailed this prop four straight years.

Taylor Swift and other Super Bowl 2025 prop markets

Taylor Swift is expected to be at the Superdome rooting on beau Travis Kelce. Last year, there were Super Bowl prop odds of +920 on Kelce proposing to Swift after the game. With another year of being a couple under their belts, those odds have moved to +750, per the latest 2025 Taylor Swift Super Bowl props. The star tight end not proposing to Swift is still the heavy favorite, with “No” having odds of -1500.

Outside of Swift, the Gatorade color that the winning coach gets doused in will also be followed. Purple is the betting frontrunner at +210, as the Chiefs showered Andy Reid in that Gatorade color the past two seasons. Yellow and green, for the Eagles, is +300, while red and pink, for Kansas City, is +350. The biggest longshot for this NFL prop is there being no Gatorade dump, which has happened just once over the last 11 years, at +2500. Check out some of the 2025 Super Bowl props available and let White help guide you with his NFL picks here.

How to make Super Bowl LIX prop bets for Sunday, Feb. 9

White has examined a number of entertainment-related Super Bowl 59 props and released his top six bets. He’s done a deep dive on Jon Batiste’s history of performing the National Anthem to make his over/under pick and also has plays for Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show and what color Gatorade will be dumped on the winning coach. You can see what they are at SportsLine

So how long will Jon Batiste’s version of the national anthem be? And what other epic Super Bowl 59 props are must-bets during Chiefs vs. Eagles? Visit SportsLine now to see the top Super Bowl LIX prop bets to cash in big, all from the expert who is on a 29-15 roll with NFL picks this season and has nailed four straight National Anthem props, and find out.  

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Author: CBS Sports Staff
February 7, 2025 | 11:46 am

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