THE Tremendous Bowl nationwide anthem, carried out by signer Jon Batiste on Sunday night time, has left sportsbooks in disarray.

The seven-time Grammy Award-winning Batiste prolonged the music, which has triggered sportsbooks to have completely different interpretations of when he really completed his efficiency at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.

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On the finish of Batiste’s Star-Spangled Banner, Batise sang “o’er the land of the free” 3 times.

The New Orleans native additionally held “the courageous” for near eight seconds, and the ultimate instrumentals of the music could not be heard because of the sound of the flyover jets over the stadium.

So a couple of sportsbooks timed their guess based mostly on when Batiste completed his vocals, whereas others stopped the time when the music ended.

The anthem prop guess went over on FanDuel (120.5 seconds) whereas the props on DraftKings (119.5) and BetMGM (120.5) had been underneath.

The three sportsbooks above supplied the prop guess solely in Ontario, Canada, resulting from rules.

Bettors within the US had been solely capable of guess on the nationwide anthem on offshore websites like Bovada and BetOnline.

The 121-second over hit on Bovada, whereas BetOline reportedly took away the guess earlier than the sport resulting from an obvious rehearsal leak.

Followers shared their disagreements with their respective betting websites in regards to the anthem prop.

“Final time I guess the nationwide anthem with Bovada,” one wrote.

“Baptist repeating “land of the free” at the very least 3x value me that prop guess,” one other wrote.

Nonetheless, Batiste’s anthem efficiency was praised on social media.

He performed the piano whereas belting out the music.

“Bro killed it,” one commented.

“That is lovely,” a second said.

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The music even triggered Kansas Metropolis Chiefs star defender Chris Jones to interrupt down in tears.

The 30-year-old, nevertheless, has cried throughout each nationwide anthem earlier than Chiefs video games throughout their playoff run.

Jones was additionally seen dropping to his knees earlier than placing his palms to his suits throughout a sequence of the Chiefs’ eventual 40-22 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Final yr’s Tremendous Bowl additionally noticed sportsbooks break up on the nationwide anthem prop guess.

Earlier than the showdown, Reba McEntire added an additional “the courageous” on the finish of the efficiency and created confusion.

The music went previous the road of 90.5 seconds and BetMGM paid out betters who put the cash on each the over and the over.