Millions of people watch the Super Bowl for the game, but millions more watch just for the commercials. Every year, the ads that air during the game are huge-budget affairs, and more and more, they’re getting the very biggest Hollywood stars to appear. Super Bowl 58 was no different. At $7 million per minute — […]
President Biden wasted no time after the Super Bowl to make a joke about conspiracy theories that the game would be rigged for the Kansas City Chiefs to win to benefit the president. Shortly after the game ended, Mr. Biden‘s X page showed a picture of the “Dark Brandon” meme that depicts the president with […]
A Super Bowl ad for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drew criticism from fellow Kennedy clan members, leading to an apology from RFK Jr. The 30-second ad from American Values 2024, a super PAC that supports Kennedy, adapted a campaign advertisement used by former President John F. Kennedy in 1960, right down to […]
Guess it all made sense: Las Vegas is, after all, the land of excess. But $60 for nachos? That’s what the Super Bowl treat cost on Sunday, when the San Francisco 49ers battled the Kansas City Chiefs in a game for the ages, going to overtime until the Chiefs won their second NFL title in […]
Post Malone belted out an unexpectedly folky version of “America the Beautiful” before Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas on Sunday. The musician’s soulful rendition of the patriotic anthem was pleasantly unpretentious — an interesting contrast to his heavily tattooed face and diamond-and-gold teeth grills. The 28-year-old donned a white dress shirt, brown blazer and […]
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized to his family for a campaign ad that featured his late uncle, President John F. Kennedy. The 30-second ad, a product of the American Values super PAC, displayed pictures and slogans from Kennedy‘s presidential campaign. “I’m so sorry if the Super Bowl advertisement caused anyone in my […]
President Biden used the Super Bowl to join TikTok and lean into MAGA-world conspiracy theories about Taylor Swift and possible support for his campaign, in a social media push that caters to the youth vote. The Biden campaign’s first post on TikTok, which has a Chinese parent company, is captioned “lol hey guys” and features […]
Viewed through a dispassionate lens, Super Bowl LVIII was one of the best of the 58 championship games played, with the underdog Kansas City Chiefs winning over the San Francisco 49ers, 25-22 after a slow start to the contest: The game was always close enough that every play was exciting. It was the second Super […]
For the better part of the past decade, the singing of the national anthem before a big game has been less of a patriotic moment that brings us together and more of a cultural landmine. Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his anthem-kneeling antics represented patient zero of this controversy during the 2016 […]
LAS VEGAS — The Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime in a Super Bowl unlike any other. Here’s a look at a few topics that will linger in the aftermath: BEST SUPER BOWL EVER? This Super Bowl will likely go down as one of the most memorable, given Taylor Swift’s […]
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