Super Bowl bet winner giving money to charity - The Jewish Chronicle

An Orthodox Jewish sports fan who won $50,000 on a bet before the Super Bowl has announced that he will donate the money to charity.

New Yorker Jona Rechnitz is a lifelong fan of the Giants, and decided to place a $1,000 bet on his team before the biggest match in the American football calendar.

With odds of 50 to one, he was astounded when the team scored the first points with a move called a "safety" – as his bet said they would.

Mr Rechnitz, who was at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel when he made the bet, told TMZ that he placed just one bet a year.

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