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Bettor Places Over $1 Million Wager on Chiefs vs. Steelers Christmas Matchup

One bettor is putting a lot of faith in the Chiefs to win on Christmas Day against the Steelers.

Peter Dewey

One bettor is putting a lot of faith in the Chiefs to win on Christmas Day against the Steelers.
One bettor is putting a lot of faith in the Chiefs to win on Christmas Day against the Steelers. / Ken Blaze-Imagn Images

The holidays are always interesting ... especially if you have a million dollars on the line.

That's right, one bettor at Caesars Sportsbook place $1.45 million on Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs to pick up a road win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Christmas Day.

Currently, the Chiefs are 2.5-point favorites on the road in this game, and they have odds of -165 (an implied probability of 62.26 percent) to beat the Steelers in Week 17.

So far this season, the Chiefs have only lost one game -- to the Buffalo Bills -- and they've also done a decent job when favored on the road, covering the spread in three of their five games in that spot.

However, the Steelers are an impressive 5-2 against the spread as underdogs this season, and since Mike Tomlin took over as the franchise's head coach in the 2007 season, the Steelers are the best team against the spread as an underdog in the NFL.

This bettor doesn't seem too worried about those trends, but opening gifts of Christmas certainly has a different meaning when one of them could be cashing a $1.45 million bet.

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Peter Dewey
PETER DEWEY

Peter is a senior editor for Sports Illustrated Betting. He has worked as a writer and editor for BetSided, NBC Sports, the Connecticut Sun and the Meriden Record-Journal covering the NBA, WNBA, NFL, MLB, and more. A New York City resident, he is a hoops fanatic with a soft spot for his New York Knicks.

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