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By Casey Dyer
For many of those who aren’t in tune with the sports world, Super Bowl Sunday is nothing but another football game to ignore.
Despite this, each year, the Super Bowl produces hours of entertainment that has little to do with sports.
Before the game even started, the official Super Bowl LX Tailgate Concert was held. The concert was opened by rapper and California native LaRussell. The concert’s headliner was pop and R&B singer Teddy Swims.
The Super Bowl officially began with a performance from California pop punk band Green Day. They played a medley of their greatest hits from their album American Idiot, including “Holiday”, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, and rounded off with the title track, “American Idiot.”
The band, known for their political activism kept quiet during the performance, much to the dismay of many fans.
Hayden Strepp, junior, said “The performance was good, but I was hoping they would bring up more politics like they do at their normal shows.”
A Super Bowl tradition is always the National Anthem. Every year, a famous singer opens the game with the anthem. This year, Charlie Puth, famous pop star, sang the anthem.
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Bad Bunny during his halftime show appearance at Super Bowl LX. The flags throughout the performance symbolize and call for unity between America and its territories.
The Halftime show was headlined by Puerto Rican rapper and pop star Bad Bunny.
This performance came off of his winning of the Album of the Year award at the 68th Grammys. The performance paid many odes to the Spanish speaking territories of the United States and the Hispanic population in the continental United States.
A highlight was when Bad Bunny gave his grammy to a hispanic child. This child was five-year-old Lincoln Fox Ramadan, meant to symbolize future success.
Though he is known for his rap and pop music, even people who don’t care for that genre enjoyed the show.
Kevin Levan, junior, said “I really liked the half time show. I didn’t mind the music because the props and visuals were so entertaining.”
Sync Williams, senior, said “It wasn’t my type of music, however the message behind it was great and people need to hear.”
Other than music, another of the biggest parts of the Super Bowl each year is the commercials. Each year, companies spend millions of dollars on advertising and this year was no different.
One of the most popular commercials aired was for Dunkin. The commercial, starring Matt Damon and Jennifer Anniston, parodied 90s pop culture. Other than the star studded cast, Dunkin, to celebrate the commercial, released a code for people to get a free iced coffee on February 9.
There were also many commercials aired that promoted more awareness for certain issues. One of these commercials, featuring Mike Tyson, called for Americans to focus on better nutrition.
Another, funded by Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots and CEO of the Kraft Group, spoke out against antisemitism and hate.
For the first time, many commercials were AI generated. Levan said “I didn’t think any of the commercials were offensively bad, but I did notice a lot of AI, which I did not like."
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