{"id":763343,"date":"2026-02-19T23:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/763343\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:20:25","slug":"big-bet-on-big-blue-1-bettor-will-win-over-2-million-if-new-york-giants-win-super-bowl-lxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/763343\/","title":{"rendered":"Big bet on Big Blue: 1 bettor will win over $2 million if New York Giants win Super Bowl LXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there were certainly some reasons for optimism surrounding the New York Giants&#8217; 2025-26 campaign, it ended like eight of the previous nine seasons have in East Rutherford: with a losing record and without a playoff berth.<\/p>\n<p>After firing Brian Daboll during the season and hiring John Harbaugh this offseason, though, one bettor is convinced next season will be much better for Big Blue.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A bettor at DraftKings placed a $29,347 wager on the Giants to win Super Bowl LXI at 80-1 odds, which would win $2.347 million if New York won its first Super Bowl since 2012. The Giants beat the New England Patriots 21-17 in Super Bowl XLVI.<\/p>\n<p>New York is down to 66-1 to win the Super Bowl at <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/mediaserver.betmgmpartners.com\/renderBanner.do?zoneId=1734022\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BetMGM;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BetMGM<\/a> sportsbooks.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants finished 4-13 last season, despite winning their final two games, which also bumped their potential first-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft from No. 1 overall to No. 5. First-round pick QB Jaxson Dart showed promise, but also suffered several concussions. Top wide receiver Malik Nabers suffered a season-ending knee injury in Week 4 and rookie running Cam Skattebo dislocated his right ankle in October, also ending his season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>New York went 9-8 against the spread last season and was an underdog in 15 of the 17 games. The Giants went under their preseason win total of 5.5 \u2014 the eighth time in the last nine seasons that New York has gone under its preseason over\/under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While there were certainly some reasons for optimism surrounding the New York Giants&#8217; 2025-26 campaign, it ended like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2067],"tags":[200,746,3350,7,519,13,2909,4126,249,1917,56,2321,2469,6,505,102634,38153],"class_list":{"0":"post-763343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-brian-daboll","9":"tag-cam-skattebo","10":"tag-east-rutherford","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-giants","13":"tag-jaxson-dart","14":"tag-john-harbaugh","15":"tag-malik-nabers","16":"tag-new-england-patriots","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-giants","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkgiants","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-super-bowl","23":"tag-super-bowl-lxi","24":"tag-super-bowl-xlvi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116099863387831688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}