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Will Danny Amendola win the Super Bowl in ballroom dancing?
The former New England Patriots star will make his dancing debut tonight on the premiere of “Dancing with the Stars,” and one sports betting website is already predicting his fate.
Sports betting website VegasInsider has released its odds for this season’s winner and Amendola is considered an early favorite.
In the latest season of the dance competition show, Amendola competes against some fellow New Englanders, including Ilona Maher of Vermont and Massachusetts native Stephen Nedoroscik.
This is Amendola’s chance.
Will Danny Amendola win Dancing with the Stars? Sports betting website releases odds
Sports betting website VegasInsider has calculated the odds of winning for all the contestants on this season of “Dancing with the Stars,” and two-time Super Bowl champion Danny Amendola is one of the favorites.
Experts at VegasInsider said Amendola is the third-best favorite to win the Mirrorball Cup at 6:1 odds. That means they believe Amendola has about a 14% chance of winning. The site’s top two favorites are Stephen Nedoroscik and Dwight Howard.
Alternatively, they predicted that the fake heiress Anna Delvey had the lowest probability of winning among the candidates, with odds of 30:1, or a 3% chance.
The website also revealed its predictions for the first contestant to be eliminated from the show, naming Delvey as the most likely culprit.
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How to watch Danny Amendola on “Dancing with the Stars”
“Dancing with the Stars” airs Tuesday nights and kicks off tonight with a two-hour premiere beginning at 8 p.m. EST.
The show can be watched live on ABC and Disney+, and will also be available to stream on Hulu the next day.
Who is Danny Amendola?
Danny Amendola is a former NFL wide receiver who played for the New England Patriots for five seasons, winning two Super Bowls with the team.
After his time in New England, he played for the Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions and Houston Texans before announcing his retirement in 2022.
Since retiring from the NFL, the 38-year-old has spent one season as an assistant coach for the Las Vegas Raiders and appeared on the military training show “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” in 2023.
He is originally from The Woodlands, Texas and graduated from Texas Tech.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misstated Amendola’s percentage odds of winning, which are about 14%, not 17%..
