The odds of a Powerball player striking it rich are 1 in 292.2 million The odds of National Football League owners striking the Mother Lode are 1 in 1. The truck driver, teacher, store clerk, farmworker, or janitor seek billions at the corner store paying $2 a ticket out of their own pocket to chase long odds. The NFL money takes money out of the pocket of truck drivers, teachers, store clerks, farmworkers, and janitors — and anyone else taxed for the “common good” — to parlay their hills of money into mountains of cash.