Super Bowl jersey color historical trends (How to bet Super Bowl 57 based on jersey color)
When it comes to betting on the Super Bowl, just about everything has a trend, including the color of each team’s jerseys in the big game.
This season, the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles face off in Super Bowl 57, and the Chiefs will be wearing their white jerseys while the Eagles wear dark green.
As ESPN’s Adam Schefter mentioned, the team wearing white jerseys has dominated in the Super Bowl lately. Not only have they won 15 of the last 18, but going back 21 years, the team in white jerseys has won 18 times.
Last season, the Los Angeles Rams wore their white jerseys in their Super Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.
Does jersey color really matter? Probably not, but it’s worth diving into the historical significance of it ahead of the Super Bowl.
How many Super Bowl champion teams have worn white jerseys?
There have been 36 teams that have won the Super Bowl wearing white jerseys, with the Rams in Super Bowl 56 being the last team to win in white.
Eight of the last 10 Super Bowl Champions have worn white jerseys, with the only winners in the last 10 years to wear dark jerseys coming in Super Bowl 54 (Kansas City) and Super Bowl 52 (Philadelphia).
As crazy as it is, the last two teams to win in colored jerseys in the Super Bowl are facing off this season…
How many Super Bowl champion teams have worn dark jerseys?
In Super Bowl history, only 20 teams have won the game while wearing dark-colored jerseys.
Is this the year that the white jersey trend starts to change?
Chiefs vs. Eagles odds, spread and total for Super Bowl 57
The Chiefs come into this game as underdogs, but if the jersey trend holds, Kansas City could be due to pull off an upset as a short moneyline underdog.
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs won the Super Bowl against the San Francisco 49ers while wearing their red jerseys, but they also lost in red against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
This is a new look, and the Chiefs and their fans hope it’s a winning one on Super Bowl Sunday.
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