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The Super Bowl 60 coin toss was won by the New England Patriots after the Seattle Seahawks called tails and the coin came up heads; New England chose to defer to the second half.

Quick Scoop: Super Bowl Coin Toss

• The coin toss is the first “decision point” of every Super Bowl and a massively popular novelty bet.

• For Super Bowl 60 (Patriots vs. Seahawks), Seattle called tails, the result was heads, and the Patriots won the toss and deferred, so they got the ball to start the second half.

• Across the first 59 Super Bowls, the team winning the coin toss had gone on to win the game 26 times, which is well under half and reinforces that the toss itself offers no real predictive edge.

Heads vs. Tails Over the Years

Looking at historical data up through Super Bowl 59, the split between heads and tails has been very close, with a slight edge to tails: one detailed review noted that heads had appeared 28 times and tails 31 times by that point. This is consistent with the basic expectation that a well-made coin behaves close to a fair 50–50 random event over many flips.

Some sportsbooks and fan sites publish complete tables listing each Super Bowl, the matchup, who won the toss, and whether it was heads or tails. These tables are often used to feed storylines like “tails never fails,” even though the actual data show only a tiny, likely random tilt toward tails rather than a meaningful edge.

Betting, Myths, and Forum Talk

The Super Bowl coin toss is often called the most popular novelty prop bet on the board, largely because it’s simple, fast, and feels like a pure luck sweat. Bettors often split into “team heads” and “team tails,” with slogans like “tails never fails” popping up repeatedly in forum discussions.

On betting forums, people share light‑hearted “strategies” ranging from always backing tails to letting their intuition (or even their pre‑game mood) decide, but these are more about fun than math. Stat‑minded fans sometimes simulate the coin themselves or look at long‑run records, yet the consensus remains that there is no reliable way to beat a fair, ceremonial flip.

TL;DR: Super Bowl 60’s coin toss went to the Patriots on a heads result after the Seahawks called tails, with New England deferring to the second half. Historically, heads and tails have come up at almost the same rate (tails slightly ahead), and the team that wins the toss has only won the game a bit over a third of the time, so the coin toss stays what it looks like: a high‑profile, essentially random pre‑game ritual.

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