Best US Online Sportsbooks Reveal Super Bowl XLIV Odds

Posted: February 4, 2010

Updated: October 4, 2017

Super Bowl XLIV, the biggest American football event of the year, is set for kickoff just after 6 p.m. Sunday evening in

Super Bowl XLIV, the biggest American football event of the year, is set for kickoff just after 6 p.m. Sunday evening in the Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The game pits the Indianapolis Colts against the New Orleans Saints, who are appearing in their first ever Super Bowl.

Sunday will also see Americans put down billions of dollars in bets, rooting for one team or the other. Only a small percentage of these bets will be placed in Nevada, the only state where sports betting is officially legal. Most bets will be casual wagers among friends, or will happen at underground bookmakers or at online sportsbooks in the USA.

Online sports betting in the United States is tricky business. Ever since 2006, when a bill called the UIGEA was put into action, people have been going around calling online gambling “illegal”. Strictly speaking, this is not true. What the bill actually does is to go after banks, forbidding them from processing payments associated with online gambling.

The reason for this round-about approach to halting internet betting in the United States is that all of the online sportsbooks that accept US players are not physically in the US. Instead, they are operated out of other countries, where online gambling is fully legal. The upshot of this is that the US government can’t go after these companies, because they lie far beyond the government’s jurisdiction.

To make a long story short, there are some excellent internet sportsbooks that well accept Super Bowl bets from US players. Many have already published the odds they are offering. Below, the bets offered by the top US online sportsbooks are summarized. Be sure to visit each site for full details.

Bodog Sportsbook

• More than 120 specials, each one focusing on a different player

• Standard bets include Win, Point Spread, and Total Points

• 10% sign-up bonus, no limit

Bookmaker

• 51 game props, 23 player props, and 22 special props

• Super Bowl Special deposit bonuses before the big game

• 20% sign-up bonus, $500 limit

Intertops

• Dozens of Futures and Ante-posts

• 27 game props covering everything from coin-toss to penalties

• Standard bets include Win, Point Spread, and Total Points