Super Bowl Odds – Tales Of Super Bowls And The Heisman – Mike Garrett And Super Bowl I

Those people who are going to be betting the Super Bowl odds on Sunday are going to hear a lot of stories about Joe Burrow, the Heisman Trophy winner from LSU, going after a championship ring, and as we tell these tales of Super Bowls and the Heisman we will see that the association with Heisman winners goes all the way back to the beginning. The Super Bowl is scheduled for Sunday at 6:30 PM ET at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA, the Los Angeles Rams are four-point favorites over the Cincinnati Bengals, with a total of 48.5 points.

 

Super Bowl Odds

SUPER BOWL LVI

Cincinnati Bengals (13-7 SU & ATS) at Los Angeles Rams (15-5 SU, 10-10 ATS)

Live at SoFi Stadium

Inglewood, CA

Sunday, February 13 — 6:30 PM ET

TV:  NBC

 

Super Bowl Odds at BetOnline

 

Los Angeles Rams -4

Cincinnati Bengals +4

 

Over 48.5 Points -110

Under 48.5 Points -110

 

Way back in the first Super Bowl, which was then referred to as the “NFL/AFL Championship Game,” there was a connection to the Heisman Trophy that, as it turned out, was very important to the marketing of the game itself.

 

People who haven’t been following Super Bowl odds for that long must understand that having a championship game between the two leagues was rather uncharted territory. We were in the days when the game was not a guaranteed salable commodity, and indeed, ticket sales lagged greatly. Because It was scheduled for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, it was highlighted in the local media that Kansas City Chiefs running back Mike Garrett was involved. Garrett was a charismatic star and a real “get” for the younger league; he had won the Heisman a couple of years before while playing for the USC Trojans, who, as you are undoubtedly aware, used the Coliseum as their home field. As a result, he was well-known locally and offered a pretty good reason for L.A.-area fans, who hadn’t seen him play like a pro (remember, the Chargers moved out of the city in 1961) to watch him, although his team was a considerable underdog in the Super Bowl odds.

 

On the other side, there was another Heisman Trophy winner, who in a way had a more satisfying experience, although that satisfaction didn’t extend to actually playing in the game. Green Bay running back Paul Hornung, who won the 1956 award when he was playing quarterback at Notre Dame, was scratched from the game with a pinched nerve in his neck. It didn’t hurt the Packers, who were big favorites in the Super Bowl odds, as they went on win and cover by a 35-10 score.

 

Hornung, by the way, never played a down for the Packers again. He was left unprotected in the 1967 expansion draft and taken by the New Orleans Saints, and when that happened Vince Lombardi, who may not have been expecting it, cried. Jim Taylor, the fullback who started alongside him in executing the vaunted Green Bay power sweep, later joined him in New Orleans, as the torch was passed on to “bonus babies” Donnie Anderson and Jim Grabowski, who finished third and fourth, respectively, in the 1965 Heisman balloting.

 

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