What Color Gatorade Was Dumped on Bill

What Color Gatorade Was Dumped on the Winning Coach of the Super Bowl? Answers for Each Year

Updated February 7th, 2021

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Among the thousands of Super Bowl props that sportsbooks open each year, there are a few consistently popular ones year-after-year. One of those is the color of Gatorade dumped on the winning coach after the game ends, or the Gatorade bath, if you will.

This year, bettors are wondering whether the Kansas City Chiefs have another cooler of orange Gatorade ready for Andy Reid, and trying to decipher which color the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would go with should Bruce Arians get a bath following Super Bowl 55.

Before you lock any bets in for the 2021 Super Bowl, have a look back at the past colors of Gatorade that have been dumped on winning coaches below.

Gatorade Color Dumped on Winning Coach of Super Bowl

Super Bowl	Winner	Color	Coach
21	New York Giants	Orange	Bill Parcells
22	Washington Football Team	None	Joe Gibbs
23	San Francisco 49ers	None	Bill Walsh
24	San Francisco 49ers	None	George Seifert
25	New York Giants	None	Bill Parcells
26	Washington Football Team	None	Joe Gibbs
27	Dallas Cowboys	Clear	Jimmy Johnson
28	Dallas Cowboys	Clear	Jimmy Johnson
29	San Francisco 49ers	Clear	George Seifert
30	Dallas Cowboys	Clear	Barry Switzer
31	Green Bay Packers	None	Mike Holmgren
32	Denver Broncos	None	Mike Shanahan
33	Denver Broncos	None	Mike Shanahan
34	St Louis Rams	None	Dick Vermeil
35	Baltimore Ravens	Yellow	Brian Billick
36	New England Patriots	None	Bill Belichick
37	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Purple	Jon Gruden
38	New England Patriots	None	Bill Belichick
39	New England Patriots	Clear	Bill Belichick
40	Pittsburgh Steelers	Clear	Bill Cowher
41	Indianapolis Colts	Clear	Tony Dungy
42	New York Giants	Clear	Tom Coughlin
43	Pittsburgh Steelers	Yellow	Mike Tomlin
44	New Orleans Saints	Orange	Sean Payton
45	Green Bay Packers	Orange	Mike McCarthy
46	New York Giants	Purple	Tom Coughlin
47	Baltimore Ravens	None	John Harbaugh
48	Seattle Seahawks	Orange	Pete Carroll
49	New England Patriots	Blue	Bill Belichick
50	Denver Broncos	Orange	Gary Kubiak
51	New England Patriots	None	Bill Belichick
52	Philadelphia Eagles	Yellow	Doug Pederson
53	New England Patriots	Blue	Bill Belichick
54	Kansas City Chiefs	Orange	Andy Reid
55	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Blue	Bruce Arians

The Gatorade dumped on Tampa Bay Buccaneers' head coach Bruce Arians in Super Bowl 55 was blue.

As mentioned, the most recent Gatorade bath was given to Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, and it was of the orange variety. When you see "clear" in the table above, it generally means water. But the prop is not what type/flavor of Gatorade, just the color. This is why water gets lumped in as "clear".

Trends in Gatorade Color Dumped

• The Gatorade dumped has been orange in five of the last 11 Super Bowls
• Clear holds the record for most consecutive years used, getting dumped four straight years on two different occasions – Super Bowls 27-30 and 39-42
• Red is the most common color of Gatorade that has never been dumped on a winning coach
• There have been three back-to-back champions in the Gatorade dumping era, with only one of those defending champions using the same color Gatorade in both games – the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowls 27 and 28
• Clear is also suffering the longest drought among colors that have been dumped, not having been used since Super Bowl 42

You can see how often each color has been used in the table below:

Number of Times Each Gatorade Color Has Been Dumped

Color	Number of Times Dumped	Most Recent Use
Clear	8	Super Bowl 42
Orange	6	Super Bowl 54
Yellow	3	Super Bowl 52
Purple	2	Super Bowl 46
Blue	2	Super Bowl 53

Am I the only one who feels the only logical answer for blue not being used more is because it's everyone's favorite, and therefore the first cooler that runs dry?

Super Bowl 55 Gatorade Color Odds

Color	Odds
Orange	+125
Red/Pink	+200
Yellow/Green/Lime	+300
Clear/Water	+350
Blue	+700
Purple	+800

The sportsbooks are favoring Kansas City to either run it back with orange again in Super Bowl 55, or for Tampa Bay to keep the orange trend going.

How Did the Gatorade Shower Start?

The answer to this depends on who you ask. But it is commonly accepted that the New York Giants started this tradition in 1984. Jim Burt, a defensive lineman for the Giants at the time, was apparently upset with the way head coach Bill Parcells had treated him that week, and decided to dump the cooler of Gatorade on Parcells after beating Washington.

It didn't immediately become a tradition, though. It wasn't until those same Giants gave Parcells a Gatorade bath after each win during their 1986-87 season that ended in New York hoisting the Lombardi Trophy. This is the first entry you'll see in the table at the top of this page.

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After working in TV, Matt turned his focus towards numbers, specifically odds. He has been with us since 2016 and serves as SBD's Editor-in-Chief, credited with creating our futures trackers, SBD's score predictor, SBD Sharp, and his own model for calculating NFL SOS, among other products.

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After working in TV, Matt turned his focus towards numbers, specifically odds. He has been with us since 2016 and serves as SBD's Editor-in-Chief, credited with creating our futures trackers, SBD's score predictor, SBD Sharp, and his own model for calculating NFL SOS, among other products.

What Color Gatorade Was Dumped on Bill

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