I dont watch, but am a bit curious how political it got? havent seen anything about it yet...
It didn’t get political.
Not even the slightest and that's why leftists are pissed as hell this morning. The way the media was hyping it up, it was supposed to be a big Colin Kaepernick circle jerk. In the end, Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine nixed all the politics and just put on a show.
Finally!
The cherry on top is all the leftists whining that Levine could bare his chest without getting in trouble unlike Janet Jackson. Yes people, boys and girls are different.
WaPo had a commercial about "Democracy Dies in Darkness", propping up whatshisname, Kashoggi, as a "journalist" KIA, insinuating... you know who is at fault...
Budweiser now pays for WIND POWER to brew their beer now, isn't that good with chips and salsa?
Oh, yeah, the NFL their own selves had a couple of spots about wonderful things the NFL is doing, community organizing for various leftist causes.
Elijah Cummings was on the field for the opening coin toss because ... Atlanta. But he didn't speak.
But the commercials were social justice garbage. Roger Goodell checked his white privilege by mingling with Civil Rights Leaders. Tom Hanks and the Washington Post preached to us about a free press (translation: believe our fake news!)
Most of the other commercials were more weird than anything else.
There was a recurring theme in the NFL spots about their players being social justice warriors in their communities (I like the community work but don't see the connection to being SJW)s. There were several spots about Atlanta being central in the fight for integration in the 60s (that fight not being done).
I found that stuff nauseating. There were a few clever ads, but not as good as previous years.
The game is described accurately above.