Patriots coin flip9/9/2023 ![]() The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. When is a coin flip not a 50-50 proposition When its the New England Patriots calling it in the air. SIEGEL: Plus, he says, it's pretty hard to deflate a coin.Ĭopyright © 2015 NPR. MCEVERS: But Steve MacEachern says the chance of winning or losing the toss will always stay at about 50-5. SIEGEL: Or does it? For the Pats, anyway, there's been some not-quite-serious speculation that the team has somehow turned the odds in their favor. MACEACHERN: Losing 11 in a row is, in fact, quite a feat, but I think probably one of those things that just happens. MCEVERS: The chances of that - 1 in 2048. Featured on the front is the Vince Lombardi Trophy as. In 2011, the Cleveland Browns lost 11 in a row. Coin is produced by Highland Mint and is licensed by the NFL. SIEGEL: On the other side of the proverbial coin is losing the toss a lot. And if instead of focusing only on the Patriots, you ask what's the chance that at least one of the teams win 19 out of 25, the the probability then is, of course, much larger. Heads, on the other hand, has only landed face-up 27 times. The tails side of the coin has landed face up in 29 of the previous 56 opening coin tosses. To date, the tails side of the coin has a slight advantage over the heads side. MACEACHERN: If we're thinking about professional football, there are a lot of teams. There have been 56 Super Bowls to date, which means there have been 56 total opening coin tosses. But while he says winning 19 times is unusual, it's not impossible. He's a professor of statistics at Ohio State University. ![]() STEVE MACEACHERN: That's about half of 1 percent. MCEVERS: Because the chance of winning that many times. ![]() Those odds defy probability, even for the four-time Super Bowl champs. After being held scoreless for the first 21 minutes and 10 seconds of the game, the Pats went into halftime down 10-3. There's Deflategate, the fact that they always win, and now this.įor the past 25 games, the Patriots have won 19 of their coin tosses. Whenever we get one-sided action, flags go up.It's not like we needed another reason to hate the New England Patriots. We started getting some pretty good action on it. “I don’t think a lot of thought went into it this year. “It’s a pretty standard Super Bowl prop,” Scott Cooley, a spokesman for Bookmaker, told the New York Times. Highland Mint New England Patriots 6-Time Super Bowl Champions 27'' x 20'' Deluxe Coin & Ticket Collection. Not realizing that, set the odds at even. Highland Mint New England Patriots Super Bowl XXXVI Flip Coin. A little-known fact is that the Patriots have called heads every time for the past two seasons. However, Super Bowl LI isn’t like past big games.īecause the Patriots are the visiting team, they get to call the flip. made that prop bet available, as most bookmakers do for the Super Bowl each year. Not just whether it’ll be heads or tails but which will be called by the visiting team – this year, it’s the Patriots. The one that probably gets more action than any other is the coin flip. They range from how long the national anthem will last to the odds that a kick or punt are blocked, with anything and everything in between. Even before the AFC championship game started, Patriots coach Bill Belichick made a statement by taking the ball first. One of the best things about the Super Bowl are the prop bets.
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