Super Bowl Cash Prize

Patriots World Champions banners at Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Massachusetts, USA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For Super Bowl 2019 on Sunday, February 3, each player on the winning team gets a $118,000 bonus, which is double what the Super Bowl losers make ($59,000). Super Bowl bonus money may seem paltry compared to the multimillion dollar salaries awarded to the NFL’s highest-paid players, but the earnings can add up if you make it to the Super. As the New England Patriots prepare to play the Los Angeles Rams at the Super Bowl, kicking off at 6.30 p.m. ET on February 3, retailers, broadcasters and sponsors will be waiting to cash in on.

When you win the Super Bowl, you get a big ring and your team takes home a giant trophy. But for most guys out on the field, there’s a bigger prize waiting elsewhere. There are financial incentives associated with winning the big game. Some of them are direct, while others come later, in ways that most people will never see. The financial incentives are even different for coaches, players, and the owners who already have billions of dollars anyway. So how do the finances of the Super Bowl shake out?

A Direct Bonus

When Seahawks coach Pete Carroll threw away the Super Bowl, he cost his players and coaches a significant amount of money. Each player from the winning team receives $97,000 as a bonus. The losers are not left empty-handed, of course. They make off with a cool $49,000 each. Still Carroll’s mistake cost his players $48,000, as they had to settle for the consolation prize.

Endorsements Galore

Where things really get interesting is when one considers the marketing gains that players make when they become Super Bowl champions. The calculations are necessarily very indirect when talking about things like sponsorship value, but there is definitely some benefit to winning the big game. In the wake of winning the Super Bowl in 2014, Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman signed endorsement deals with Campbell’s, Nike, and Microsoft. Running back Marshawn Lynch used his Super Bowl win to propel him to a deal with Skittles.

It’s difficult to know just how value the Super Bowl win was to these players and their financial futures, but it’s clear that winning the big game elevates players in the marketing sense.

Ownership Rewards

Super Bowl wins work out well for owners, too. The New England Patriots have won four big games over the last 15 years. In doing so, Tom Brady and company have turned the franchise into one worth over $2 billion. In addition, the Patriots “brand value” alone is worth $350 million. Some of these gains would have happened without wins in the big game, but it’s clear that taking home trophies helped the franchise grow in value.
What’s in it for coaches?

Winning a Super Bowl is the brass ring for coaches, and they are often defined by their ability or inability to take home a ring. When Pete Carroll led the Seahawks to last year’s Super Bowl victory, he was signed to a five-year extension that made him the NFL’s highest paid head coach at around seven million bucks per year. While he might be the goat in this year’s Super Bowl for his horrific goal line call, he’s living proof that if you can win the Super Bowl at least once, you can cash in on financial rewards in a big way.

There’s something to be had for nearly everyone when a Super Bowl win is in the offing. This year, the Patriots will get to enjoy those rewards. Next year, it’s bound to be some other team, some other coach, and some other owner.

The DraftKings Super Bowl Squares contest is back! And once again you can compete for cash prizes (for free) from wherever you live in the US.

Super Bowl Prize Money Per Player

For the upcoming 55th edition of The Big Game, DraftKings is putting its own unique spin on the tried-and-true favorite of Super Bowl betting. The company’s aptly named Squaresis free to play and features a prize pool of $55,000.

You don’t have to be located in a legal sports betting market to play. The game exists only on the sportsbook and the daily fantasy app. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app today and pick your square!

DraftKings Super Bowl Squares

Once you’ve signed up for a DraftKings sportsbook account, click “Promotions” on the app home screen. You’ll find the Super Bowl squares promo on that page. Click PLAY FREE and get started!

Participants get access to one square, which remains attached to that player for all quarters, including any overtime period (s).

Super Bowl Cash Prizes

The nuts and bolts of the contest are as follows:

• Before the Super Bowl kicks off, a player selects a square on a blank digital “board” that emulates that of a traditional money-based squares contest.
• Once the game begins, the numbers assigned to each square will be revealed.
• If the final digit of both team’s score at the end of each quarter matches the numbers on the participant’s square, that participant wins a cash prize.
• Each square on the board naturally can and will be selected by multiple users. All entrants with the winning square will share the prize pool for that quarter.

All prizes will be added to your DraftKings account. Here’s the breakdown of the payouts:

• First quarter: $8,250
• Halftime: $16,500
• Third quarter: $8,250
• Final score: $22,000

Sign up for DraftKings Sportsbook today and select your square for the FREE Super Bowl 55 contest!