"National Tight Ends Day" Was National Hit a Parlay Day at Hard Rock Bet

The NFL season brings plenty of action to our best sports betting sites as bettors load up with their weekly NFL picks. In addition to prop bets and point spreads, many folks also turn their attention to long-shot parlays, praying for a big payday from a small investment. 

Sunday of Week 8 brought us National Tight Ends Day, and from that the parlays nearly built themselves as bettors flocked to touchdown picks for the big men. 

While parlays are usually big money-makers for our best sports betting apps, over at Hard Rock Bet, National Tight Ends Day also became a big money-maker for the bettors.

The bets

The report from Hard Rock Bet lists five parlay tickets that customers hit at the operator on Sunday, and when the smallest odds of the five are 93-1, you know some folks had a great day. 

It took just four tight ends (Kyle Pitts, Evan Engram, David Njoku, and Sam Laporta) to turn $20 into almost $2,100 on one bettors ticket. That slip was aided by a profit boost of 10%, one of the excellent promos available at the sportsbook you get after signing up, and you don't even need a Hard Rock Bet promo code.

Another bettor needed 10 legs to hit their 180-1 ticket, but outside of three touchdown scorers (Cade Otton, Mark Andrews, and Laporta), they focused on receptions and receiving yards to turn $125 into $22,622.50. 

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A winning $5 wager became a little mor than $1.5 K after some familiar names from earlier slips (Njoku, Pitts, Engram, Laporta) came through, joined by Dalton Kincaid. 

One user probably has enough to increase their unit size after turning $1 into $570 with Laporta, Otton, Njoku, and Kincaid finding paydirt along with Tucker Kraft and Travis Kelce. 

But the big payday? A 7,446-1 wager that hit on $20 and resulted in a payday just shy of $150,000. It took just eight regulars finding paydirt to become a reality: Kraft, Engram, Pitts, Otton, Andrews, Njoku, Laporta, and Kincaid. 

Surely next year will see plenty of users join in the fray and jump on National Tight Ends Day parlays. 

Where did it come from? 

It's a relatively new "holiday" as it goes. While pro football has been associated with Thanksgiving since the 1890s, National Tight Ends Day has only been a reality since 2018, although it's growing in popularity. 

It grew from the San Francisco 49ers in Week 2 of the 2018 season, when former quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo was chatting with George Kittle and Garrett Celek. Kittle recalled the QB asking, "What is it, like National Tight Ends Day?" 

By 2019 the league had gotten wind of the occasion, and set it for the fourth Sunday in October. 

"I celebrate 'National Tight Ends Day' every Sunday," Kittle said. "I root for every single tight end across the league to do very, very well because I want to watch tight ends succeed. Except for the one that I'm playing that Sunday. 

How can I take part next year? 

Well, first, set a reminder if your phone for the fourth Sunday of October. In 2025, that's Oct. 26. 

Second, make sure to join one of our sites with the best sportsbook promos. 

If you take part in the Arizona sports betting, Florida sports betting, Illinois sports betting, Indiana sports betting, New Jersey sports betting, Ohio sports betting, Tennessee sports betting, or Virginia sports betting markets you can try your luck at Hard Rock Bet and see if you join the list like the tickets mentioned abovee.