Los Angeles Rams wide receiver and 2022 Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp holds the MVP trophy during a press conference following the NFL football team's Super Bowl win over the Cincinnati Bengals Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, in Los Angeles.
And the approved list doesn't include all the sports that the betting companies asked to be able to take bets on. Commissioners voted to exclude, at least for the initial in-person launch next week, betting on chess, cornhole, e-sports, jai alai, and much of the Olympics. The catalog was assembled based on a joint request of the three facilities that will be allowed to offer in-person betting starting Tuesday: Plainridge Park Casino in Plainville, MGM Springfield and Encore Boston Harbor in Everett.
Betting companies can petition the Gaming Commission for additions to the catalog and commissioners said this week that they want the operators to come back to them with more information on some events, particularly the Olympics, before they would approve them. That reconsideration could happen before mobile betting launches in March.
"The MVP of the Super Bowl is like one of the biggest bets you're going to see, and let's be honest about that," Hill said. He added,"If I was a bettor and I couldn't bet on that, I'd hightail it up to New Hampshire where I could. I'd hightail it over to Rhode Island where I could. And I think our citizens deserve the right to be able to bet on that particular bet, on that issue.