Super Bowl 2023 national anthem betting: How long will Chris Stapleton sing?
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By Dan Santaromita
3h ago
The national anthem is a fixture in American sports and gets special treatment during the Super Bowl. Many party prop sheets for the Super Bowl will include an over/under for the length of the national anthem, the color the singer wears or some other silly prop related to the singer. Chris Stapleton is the singer for this year’s game between the Eagles and Chiefs.
Stapleton is a country star with eight Grammys on his resume. All four of his albums were No. 1 on the country charts, and his first album, “Traveller” in 2015, was a Billboard No. 1. Singles “Starting Over” and “You Should Probably Leave” topped the country charts.
When it comes to the national anthem, there’s not much public history for Stapleton. That’s the opposite of last year with Mickey Guyton, who had numerous high-profile anthem performances. She had developed a reputation as a quick anthem singer, which played a factor in betting lines. Ironically, Guyton took longer than usual and sang for 1 minute, 51 seconds.
This year we’re flying mostly blind. So what does that mean for Stapleton’s anthem time?
Since 1990, 14 singers have gone two minutes or longer, but the recent trend has been even longer than that. Eight of the last 10 singers reached the two-minute mark. Does that make two minutes a reasonable over/under line?
The totals are trending a bit higher than that, with lines ranging from 121.5 seconds to 125 seconds. While the lower end of those numbers seems like a fair line, 125 is getting up there. Only eight times since 1990 have singers gone past that number; even in recent years when singers have tended to go longer, only three of the past 10 have gone over 125. Five more singers in the past 10 years finished in between 120-124 seconds.
Let’s go fishing for some info on Stapleton’s tendency to shorter or longer songs. His first album only featured two songs, out of 14 tracks, shorter than four minutes, but the shortest was still 3:42. His next two albums featured shorter tracks, with six of the 18 songs on those albums passing the four-minute mark and two dipping just below three minutes. The album “Starting Over” came out in 2020, and the average track length was just under four minutes.
Does this mean we should expect a somewhat longer performance from Stapleton? The anthem doesn’t feature repetition, it’s just one verse of a longer song, but Stapleton isn’t typically rushing through short tracks with his own music.
He’s not some diva likely to hold the last note for a long time, but nothing in Stapleton’s history gives us much reason to think he’d blitz through the anthem in 100 seconds. This is one that you’ll have to keep an eye on the line you get. I’d be going under on 125, but much lower than that, and it feels like a toss-up.
Super Bowl national anthem history
2022
Mickey Guyton
1:39
1:51
Over
2020
Demi Lovato
1:55
1:49
Under
2019
Gladys Knight
1:47
2:01
Over
2018
Pink
2:00
2:00
Under
2017
Luke Bryan
2:09
2:04
Under
2016
Lady Gaga
2:22
2:22
Over
2015
Idina Menzel
2:02
2:04
Over
2014
Renée Fleming
2:23
2:03
Under
2013
Alicia Keys
2:15
2:36
Over
2012
Kelly Clarkson
1:34
1:34
Push
2011
Christina Aguilera
1:54
1:53
Under
2010
Carrie Underwood
1:41
1:47
Over
2009
Jennifer Hudson
2:04
2:10
Over
2008
Jordin Sparks
1:47
1:54
Over
2007
Billy Joel
1:44
1:30
Under
2006
Aaron Neville, Aretha Franklin
N/A
2:09
N/A
2005
U.S. military choirs
N/A
1:53
N/A
2004
Beyoncé
N/A
2:09
N/A
2003
Dixie Chicks
N/A
1:33
N/A
2002
Mariah Carey
N/A
1:56
N/A
2001
Backstreet Boys
N/A
1:49
N/A
2000
Faith Hill
N/A
2:00
N/A
1999
Cher
N/A
1:55
N/A
1998
Jewel
N/A
1:27
N/A
1997
Luther Vandross
N/A
1:53
N/A
1996
Vanessa Williams
N/A
1:35
N/A
1995
Kathie Lee Gifford
N/A
1:40
N/A
1994
Natalie Cole
N/A
2:33
N/A
1993
Garth Brooks
N/A
1:45
N/A
1992
Harry Connick Jr.
N/A
2:06
N/A
1991
Whitney Houston
N/A
1:56
N/A
1990
Aaron Neville
N/A
1:25
N/A
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Responses:
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2023 Super Bowl Gatorade odds, predictions: Orange and yellow favored, but maybe blue should be?
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crash davis
Feb 6, 07:58
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This is one prop that has really shot up, since it posted this year—it’s currently at a time where I wouldn’t bet it…was ridiculously low
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Flavorize
Feb 6, 07:50
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It’ll be 1:27 but feel like 3 hours.
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Will Hunting
Feb 6, 07:49
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3:12.50 -- nm
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Spawn
Feb 6, 07:35
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I'm looking forward to Rihanna's set almost as much as seeing Mahomes in another SB -- nm
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mud
Feb 6, 07:31
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I hope HBS appreciates that I brought National Anthem analytics to the board. He so loves analytics -- nm
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crash davis
Feb 6, 07:23
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gut says under. -- nm
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Reagen
Feb 6, 07:22
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