Do you really want to put your money on a team that would earn a Vince Lombardi Trophy with the second longest preseason odds ever?
Longshot National Football League teams sometimes crack the playoff field, less often win a postseason game and once in a great while advance to the Super Bowl. But win it? Not so much.
The longest game day odds for a Super Bowl winner was the New York Jets over the Baltimore Colts to complete the 1968 season. But, the Jets were among the best teams in the American Football League, and when they met the Colts as a 19 point underdog in the third AFL/NFL World Championship Game, it was more a reflection on the perceived stoutness of the two leagues than the overall strength of the Joe Namath led Jets.
The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger in 1966 which included the two leagues becoming one with two conferences beginning in 1970, while the two leagues would initiate a championship game series in the 1966 season. The National Football League Green Bay Packers won the first two title games with relative ease, beating the Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders by 35-10 and 33-14 scores respectively.
The Colts were expected to run up a similar result against the Jets before New York pulled the upset, 16-7.
The Cincinnati Bengals opened this season with the likes of the Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Giants and New York Jets, all five teams with the longest odds to win Super Bowl LVI at 100 to 1. Only one team in history, the St. Louis Rams in 1999, won a Super Bowl with longer preseason odds.