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The Teams With the Most Super Bowl Appearances

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Source: Statista

The Los Angeles Rams will face off against the Cincinnati Bengals in the LVI Super Bowl, taking place on Feb 13, 2022, at the Ram’s home stadium in Inglewood, California. While the Bengals are entering their third Super Bowl after an upset win against 2020 champs, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Rams are already on their fifth Super Bowl appearance.

This is just as many as the Green Bay Packers or the New York Giants have played. However, the Los Angeles Rams can so far only look back on one Super Bowl win – in 2000, when they were called the St. Louis Rams. While this is not a lot compared to other teams, it is not the worst performance in history. There are still four teams – the Cleveland Browns, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Detroit Lions and the Houston Texans – which have never played a Super Bowl, and 9 more teams which have competed only once or twice. Jacksonville and Houston only joined the competition in 1995 and 2002, respectively.

The New England Patriots are the team with most Super Bowl appearances, according to statistics published by ESPN, followed by the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos. Yet, the Patriots are the among the teams with below average wins to participation ratios, with only six wins out of 11 Super Bowls played. The most unlucky teams among the Super Bowl participants – apart from the Rams – are the Minnesota Vikings and the Buffalo Bills. They each played in the Super Bowl four times but failed to win any of those competitions.

With their unfortunate wins-to-participations ratio, the Rams might be itching to succeed again at the upcoming Super Bowl, but so are the Bengals. They are competing for the third time and have no wins at all under their belt yet.

Does Football Betting Pay Off?

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Sports betting has become omnipresent in professional football. While there has been a ‘whistle-to-whistle’ ban on TV advertising from betting companies for a few years in the UK, there are still plenty of other avenues being exploited by gambling companies. The most prominent of which is that of shirt sponsorship. Behind only perhaps the renaming of a stadium, the centre of a teams’ jersey is prime advertising real estate. As of the 2021/22 season, 9 of the 20 Premier League clubs have a main shirt sponsor from the industry.

So how widespread is betting on matches among football fans? The European Football Benchmark by Statista and Sportfive provides answers to this question. Of the 2,800 football fans surveyed in the UK, 37 percent said they place bets on matches. However, this only pays off for a minority. 30 percent of the gamblers say that they win money over the course of an average season. In a European comparison, UK fans are pretty average when looking at the countries host to the ‘Big-5’ leagues. The rate of football betting is highest in Italy – despite the fact that the fewest respondents there are on the winning side (or they’re just more honest). Either way, there is clearly still truth in the old adage: The house always wins.