Suspicious: Super Bowl Streaker Bet
The Claim
The Super Bowl streaker won $374K by betting that there would be a streaker during the Super Bowl.
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Emerging story
A screenshot of a photo and text message has gone viral, appearing to show two men together in a restaurant, with one of the men being the Super Bowl streaker. The text message appears to be from the second man, claiming he met the Super Bowl streaker at a restaurant in Tampa the day after the Super Bowl and that the streaker had “bet 50k on a prop bet at +750 that there would be a streaker at the Super Bowl.” He added that it “Cost him 1k to get out of jail so he cleared 374k on the bet!”
This was shared all over Instagram by popular accounts resulting in hundreds of thousands of likes, with many questioning if this could even be possible.
Slightly different versions have also appeared, like this one claiming that he only paid $500 to get out of jail.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar’s investigation found this claim to be suspicious.
The streaker was 31-year-old Yuri Andrade, and he was charged Sunday night with trespassing after running across the field at the Super Bowl in a pink leotard. The Hillsborough County Arrest Database shows Andrade posted a $500 cash bond and was released Monday just before 8 a.m. This shows that one detail in the more widely shared version of the story ($1000 bond) is already incorrect.
On Twitter, sports betting experts weighed in, saying that “No book in their right mind would take $50K limits on that. Nowhere close." One expert, @kellyinvegas, explained that it can be difficult to get a $200 prop bet and that if a certain prop bet starts to get really big, a sportsbook will take it down. She used the anthem prop bet as an example of this logic, disproving an alternate theory that Andrade was able to get hundreds of people to bet smaller amounts, adding up to a $50K total bet.
Lastly, there is no evidence of a bet slip or a receipt of the $50K bet supposedly made by Yuri Andrade. This claim is extremely unlikely to be true. However, there is no evidence to completely discredit it just yet.
