As an honest to goodness fan of American football, I have to admit this year's Super Bowl was a snoozer. The best teams this year all were in the NFC, so the intra-conference championship, which is what the SB is, didn't pit the true top teams --and it showed.
But the buzz around Bad Bunny, a performer whose existence is a thumb in the eye to MAGA, was fun. And outside in Santa Clara, northern Californians got their digs in.
As Joe Garofoli explained in the San Francisco Chronicle:
Donald Trump lost the Super Bowl.
He didn’t even show up. Said it was “too far.” The guy who complains that pro football has gotten “too soft” was afraid to face the tsunami of boos that would have power-washed his fake tan.
Instead, he ceded the stage on America’s unofficial national holiday to performers like Green Day, whose lead singer told ICE agents to quit their jobs at a show earlier in the week and changed the lyrics of their song “American Idiot” to assert that “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda.” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Santa Clara, was outside the stadium (which is in his district) with activists to demand no new funding for ICE.
Longtime LGBTQ activist Brandi Carlile sang a lovely version of “America the Beautiful” pre-game. The halftime show featured cameos from other LGBTQ-positive performers in Ricky Martin and Lady Gaga. Activists passed out 25,000 towels outside the stadium that read “ICE OUT.”...
It's nice to see that Trump is also losing the Winter Olympics before a world audience. JDVance caught the boos.
Americans brought in their own opinions:
While Italians in the host country had plenty to say:
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