The list of Super Bowl novelty props literally begins with the coin toss and ends with the post-game Gatorade shower for the winning coach.
With Super Bowl 59 between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles on tap Sunday (6:30 p.m. ET, FOX) in New Orleans, we’re examining the latter here, breading down the current Gatorade shower color odds, recent trends and the celebration’s origin.
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Do note, though, that the Gatorade shower color, coin toss and other non-game-action novelty props aren’t offered in all states with legalized sports betting due to local regulations.
Purple Gatorade, Chiefs eyeing Super Bowl three-peat
Coach Andy Reid and the Chiefs could notch the first Super Bowl-era three-peat Sunday.
Purple Gatorade also could three-peat as well as Reid has been doused in that hue of sports drink following Kansas City’s Super Bowl 57 and 58 victories the past two Februarys.
Purple was the current favorite as of mid-week with top online sportsbook-consensus odds of +200 (see list below).
At BetMGM Sportsbook, the team color-aligned Red/Pink (+250) and Yellow/Lime/Green (+300) actually opened as the favorites, but Purple has surged into the lead after opening at +350.
For the record, Eagles head coach Nick Sirrianni was treated to a Yellow/Green/Lime shower following the team’s 55-23 win Jan. 26 over the Washington Commanders in the NFC Championship Game.
Following are the consensus Super Bowl 59 Gatorade shower color odds as of Wednesday at BetMGM, DraftKings Sportsbook and FanDuel Sportsbook:
- Purple +200 (best odds: +225 BetMGM)
- Yellow/Green/Lime +245 (+250 DK, BMGM)
- Orange +365 (+440 FD)
- Blue +600 (+700 FD)
- Red/Pink +640 (+850 FD)
- Clear/Water +915 (+1000 FD)
- No Gatorade Shower +2000 (+2500 BMGM)
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Orange has been most popular color since 2001
Our partners at The Lines have been tracking the Big Game Gatorade shower colors going back through Super Bowl 35 in 2001.
And in those 24 contests, Orange was the most frequent hue with five instances, most recently with the Chiefs’ Super Bowl 54 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in 2020.
Overall, though, it’s been a near-even distribution with Blue, Purple, Clear and None each occurring four times and Yellow/Green/Lime three times since 2001.
Prior to Reid’s back-to-back Purple showers, Blue was the Gatorade color of choice in three of the previous four Super Bowls.
Gatorade shower celebration has Giant-sized origins
Both The Lines and a recent Sports Illustrated article trace the Gatorade shower’s origins back to defensive lineman Jim Burt and the 1984 New York Giants.
Burt, in response to a hard week of practice and the personal motivational tactics employed by head coach Bill Parcells, let off some post-game steam following a big win over Washington that Sunday by dumping the contents of orange sideline Gatorade bucket on the New York coach.
It caught on a Giants tradition and gained national prominence two years later during the team’s Super Bowl 21 championship run as Parcells received a Gatorade bath after all 17 victories that season.
The NFL’s broadcast partners took notice, and late color analyst John Madden provided a the biggest bump, diagramming replays of sports drink showers with his on-screen telestrator.
In the decades since, celebratory sports drink and water baths have spread to baseball, basketball and soccer, among other sports.
But nowhere are they anticipated — and wagered on — more than Super Bowl Sunday.
