Massachusetts Sports Betting Operators Can Now Offer Super Bowl Coin-Toss Betting

Should sports betting operators want, heads or tails betting is officially available in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts sportsbooks will now be able to offer several Super Bowl coin-toss markets thanks to a last-minute decision by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission on Thursday.

The Commission voted today to add the Super Bowl prop bets related to the coin toss, including coin toss result and the team to win the coin toss, to the Massachusetts legal sports betting catalog just days before Sunday’s Chiefs-Eagles showdown. The updated Massachusetts Sports Wagering Catalog can be found on our site: https://t.co/PjLB0i2eQK

After a 3-2 vote, the regulators approved Commissioner Brad Hill’s proposal to allow sportsbooks to offer coin toss odds for the coin-toss result, the coin-toss winner, the Super Bowl coin-toss winner winning the game, and the coin-toss call result markets.

“I think the patrons want it,” said Commission Chair Jordan Maynard, who voted in favor of the measure.

Massachusetts joins about a dozen U.S. states that allow several sportsbooks to offer these prop bets to the Super Bowl odds.

There was no proposal to add any other Super Bowl novelty markets, like the color of the Gatorade bath, which is also offered in multiple U.S. jurisdictions.

Patron requestThis decision was a course reversal for the MGC, which voted 3-2 before last year’s Super Bowl to not add wagering relating to the coin toss.

Hill, a basketball referee, said he brought it back to the table after a spectator, during a game he was officiating, asked if the coin toss would be available for Super Bowl LIX. A few days later, a different patron asked him the same question.

The commission said no Massachusetts operator submitted a formal request to add coin-toss wagers to the catalog.

Voting nayAmending regulations to the Bay State’s Super Bowl odds was hotly debated during the commission’s Thursday meeting.

Commissioners Eileen O’Brien and Nakisha Skinner were the two dissenting votes.

O’Brien didn’t want to add it because operators weren’t asking for it, and she said she didn’t think it would drive up revenue. O’Brien added that she didn’t believe disallowing coin-toss bets would force bettors to the illegal market or other jurisdictions to make these kinds of wagers.

Skinner, who voted against it in 2024, said nothing had changed concerning the measure, and she questioned if the commission should use its authority to add to the catalog without a more formal process.