2025 Super Bowl 59 Prop Bets: Gatorade colour odds
It’s not just the Kansas City Chiefs going for an unprecedented three-peat at Super Bowl 59. The Gatorade shower is arguably the most popular Super Bowl novelty bet and the colour purple has been the winner in back-to-back years. Will it be purple for a third year in a row?
Let’s take a look at the Gatorade colour odds and history ahead of Super Bowl 59 on Feb. 9 in New Orleans.
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Super Bowl 59 Gatorade colour odds
It’s no surprise purple is the favourite after cashing in back-to-back years and it should be a popular pick with Kansas City advancing to their third straight Super Bowl. Yellow is neck-and-neck with purple, but it’s on a six-year losing streak and it’s hit the least of all colours all-time.
Orange offers great value. It’s the most common Gatorade shower colour in Super Bowl history and it was the right call when Patrick Mahomes and co. won Super Bowl 54. My personal pick is blue at +650. Blue didn’t hit for the first time until Super Bowl 49, but it’s been the right pick in three of the last six Super Bowls. Plus, let’s be honest, blue is the best Gatorade flavour, end of story.
Super Bowl Gatorade colour history
| Gatorade Colour | Appearances |
|---|---|
| Orange | 5 |
| Purple | 4 |
| Clear | 4 |
| None | 4 |
| Blue | 4 |
| Yellow | 3 |
Orange has made the most appearances for the Gatorade shower, but it’s a pretty split field overall. One reason I’m hesitant on purple this year is colours generally don’t show up three years in a row. The only time it’s happened is when clear showed up in Super Bowls 39, 40, 41 and 42.
| Super Bowl | Gatorade Colour | Winning Team |
|---|---|---|
| 35 | Yellow | Baltimore Ravens |
| 36 | None | New England Patriots |
| 37 | Purple | Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 38 | None | New England Patriots |
| 39 | Clear | New England Patriots |
| 40 | Clear | Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 41 | Clear | Indianapolis Colts |
| 42 | Clear | New York Giants |
| 43 | Yellow | Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 44 | Orange | New Orleans Saints |
| 45 | Orange | Green Bay Packers |
| 46 | Purple | New York Giants |
| 47 | None | Baltimore Ravens |
| 48 | Orange | Seattle Seahawks |
| 49 | Blue | New England Patriots |
| 50 | Orange | Denver Broncos |
| 51 | None | New England Patriots |
| 52 | Yellow | Philadelphia Eagles |
| 53 | Blue | New England Patriots |
| 54 | Orange | Kansas City Chiefs |
| 55 | Blue | Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 56 | Blue | Los Angeles Rams |
| 57 | Purple | Kansas City Chiefs |
| 58 | Purple | Kansas City Chiefs |
Super Bowl Gatorade trends
Winning Super Bowl coaches sometimes escape the Gatorade shower and to no one’s surprise, professional fun-sucker Bill Belichick avoided the shower in Super Bowls 36, 38 and 51. John Harbaugh also avoided the Gatorade shower when Baltimore won Super Bowl 47.
And don’t think cold weather will keep a coach safe. The temperature was nearly freezing when Seattle crushed Denver at Super Bowl 48, but that didn’t deter Seahawks players from dumping yellow Gatorade on Pete Carroll.
If you really want to dig into the numbers, you should know orange has been a favourite of NFC teams. Just ask Mike McCarthy and the Green Bay Packers or Sean Payton and the New Orleans Saints.
Super Bowl Gatorade tradition
Former New York Giants nose tackle Jim Burt is credited with starting the Gatorade shower in 1984, but it had nothing to do with celebrating his coach. In fact, it was the opposite.
Burt often clashed with head coach Bill Parcells and he dumped Gatorade on him following an October win over Washington because Parcells had been particularly hard on Burt at that week’s practice.
The Gatorade shower became a team tradition over the next few seasons, including during the Giants’ 1986 Super Bowl-winning season.
