Bettor gets crazy, puts nearly $10,000 on Buccaneers to win Super Bowl LI

If the Bucs beat 60-to-1 odds, one lucky person will walk away with $540,000 in winnings

By John Breech

May 20, 2016 at 6:40 pm ET • 2 min read

Apparently, Leicester City fever has hit Las Vegas.

Dozens of bettors in England won big after the 5,000-to-1 underdogs won the Premier League title earlier this month and now, everyone's looking for the next underdog that will hit it big.

One bettor in Vegas thinks he's found that underdog in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Bucs aren't even the odds on favorite to win the NFC South, but don't tell that to this guy, who dropped a $9,000 bet on Tampa Bay to win Super Bowl LI.

That's called putting your money where your mouth is. Some people might also call it being crazy, especially considering that the Bucs haven't even made the playoffs since 2007.

According to Michael Grodsky of the William Hill Sports Book, the $9,000 bet was placed on Thursday at the Tuscany Hotel in Vegas. I once won a bet there, so maybe this guy will have the same luck.

The Bucs are 60-to-1 longshots to win Super Bowl LI, which means that if they pull it off, the bettor will walk away with $540,000 in profit. The bet on the Bucs is the largest Super Bowl LI bet that's been placed so far at any of William Hill's 105 locations in Nevada.

To put the Bucs bet in perspective, the Panthers were 40-1 to win Super Bowl 50 last season. No, they didn't win, but you could've made some serious money hedging your bet since they made it all the way to the big game.

Before the 2015 season started, I predicted the Broncos would win it all (because I'm smart), and although I'm not going to give you my 2016 prediction now, I will give you one prediction: Our Buccaneers bettor is going to lose his money.

Anyway, here's the latest Super Bowl LI odds from William Hill.

New England Patriots: 13-to-2

Seattle Seahawks: 7-to-1

Green Bay Packers: 8-to-1

Pittsburgh Steelers: 8-to-1

Arizona Cardinals: 10-to-1

Carolina Panthers: 10-to-1

Denver Broncos: 13-to-1

Minnesota Vikings: 15-to-1

Dallas Cowboys: 18-to-1

Cincinnati Bengals: 18-to-1

Oakland Raiders: 20-to-1