Super Bowl 59 National Anthem Prop Bets

National Anthem prop bets work just like any other prop bet. Bets must be placed before the beginning of the event, so make sure and check with your sportsbook to see what time the cutoff is for placing a wager. The sportsbooks we recommend cut off betting action between 5:50 and 6:00 pm on game day, depending on which bookmaker you choose. Be sure to check the deadlines ahead of time.

The Super Bowl features the most prop bets on a single football game each year. The popularity of prop bets on the Super Bowl began in 1986 when a betting line was created for whether William "The Refrigerator" Perry, a defensive lineman for the Chicago Bears, would score a touchdown during the game. Since then, Super Bowl prop bets have become incredibly popular, including the props for the National Anthem.

Sportsbooks will post betting lines on the National Anthem performance as soon as the singer has been announced. In recent years the artist has been announced on the Thursday prior to conference championship weekend, 17 days before the Super Bowl, but it is not unheard of for the artist to be announced as early as November.

LVII - Chris Stapleton (2:02)
LVI - Mickey Guyton (1:51)
LV- Jazmine Sullivan and Eric Church [2:16]
LIV – Demi Lovato [2:11]
LIII – Gladys Knight [2:01]
LII – Pink [1:52]
LI – Luke Bryan [2:04]
L – Lady Gaga [2:09]
XLIX – Idina Menzel [2:04]
XLVIII – Renee Fleming [1:54]
XLVII – Alicia Keys [2:35]
XLVI – Kelly Clarkson [1:34]
XLV – Christina Aguilera [1:54]
XLIV – Carrie Underwood [1:47]
XLIII – Jennifer Hudson [2:10]
XLII – Jordin Sparks [1:54]
XLI – Billy Joel [1:30]
XL – Aaron Neville and Aretha Franklin [2:08]
XXXIX – U.S. Military Academy Choirs and the U.S. Amy Herald Trumpets [1:52]
XXXVIII – Beyoncé [2:09]
XXXVII – Dixie Chicks [1:36]
XXXVI – Mariah Carey [1:56]
XXXV – Backstreet Boys [1:50]
XXXIV – Faith Hill [2:01]
XXXIII – Cher [1:55]
XXXII – Jewel [1:27]
XXXI – Luther Vandross [1:53]
XXX – Vanessa Williams [1:35]
XXIX – Kathie Lee Gifford [1:40]
XXVIII – Natalie Cole [2:33]
XXVII – Garth Brooks [1:45}
XXVI – Harry Connick, Jr. [2:06]
XXV – Whitney Houston [1:56]
XXIV – Aaron Neville [1:35]
XXIII – Billy Joel [1:25]
XXII – Herb Alpert (trumpet) [1:33]
XXI – Neil Diamond [1:02]
XX – Wynton Marsalis (trumpet) [1:20]
XIX – San Francisco Boys/Girls Chorus, SF Children’s Chorus, and Piedmont Children’s Chorus [1:21]
XVIII – Barry Manilow [1:35]
XVII – Leslie Easterbrook [1:28]
XVI – Diana Ross [1:38]
XV – Helen O’Connell [1:22]
XIV – Cheryl Ladd [1:22]
XIII – The Colgate Thirteen [1:19]
XII – Phyllis Kelly [1:28]
XI – Vikki Carr (*sang America the Beautiful instead of the national anthem) [n/a]
X – Tom Sullivan [1:54]
IX - Grambling State University’s Tiger Marching Band [1:22]
VIII – Charley Pride [1:14]
VII – Little Angels of Chicago’s Holy Angels Church [1:12]
VI – U.S. Air Force Academy Chorale [1:10]
V – Tommy Loy (trumpet) [1:13]
IV – AL Hirt [1:26]
III – Lloyd Geisler of the Washington National Symphony Orchestra [1:27]
II – Grambling State University’s Tiger Marching Band [n/a]
I – The Pride of Arizona, Michigan Marching Band, and UCLA Choir {1:16]

Before Super Bowl 53, Gladys Knight sang the word "brave" twice at the end of her rendition of the national anthem. Sportsbooks decided to officially end the timing for the song at the end of the first mention of the word brave, which placed the duration of the song under the betting line.

Had the timing included the second mention of brave, it would have been placed in the over betting line. This result caused such an outrage that sportsbook BetOnline paid out to bettors who laid money on both the over and the under.

The year before, during Super Bowl 52, Lady Gaga sang the words "the brave" twice at the end of the anthem. Similar to Gladys Knight's performance, this placed the duration of the song in the over and the under, depending on how it was timed.

Most sportsbooks ruled in both cases that the end of the song was after the complete lyrics of the Anthem have been mentioned, and do not include the time of any repetitious words used after that. Take the time to read the fine print regarding the wager before placing any National Anthem prop bets.