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From my seat at Super Bowl LIX, the crowd’s disparate reactions to Swift and Trump felt like a chilling microcosm of our culture. …It was just a football game, people might say. Or Swift—who is famously dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce—got heckled by some rowdy Eagles fans excited to be at the biggest sporting event of the year. So? Don’t take it so seriously. …Perhaps the moment would have felt less visceral if not for the fact that less than an hour earlier the crowd had exploded—this time with applause—to see Trump on that same screen. As...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The Eagles victory was greeted joyously in our family. It’s always a high when you (or your team) come out on top. But in the final minutes of the Super Bowl, as the clock remained stuck on the two-minute warning for what felt like 20 minutes (at least for those of us eager to pop the Champagne), former quarterback-turned-TV-commentator Tom Brady filled the air time with lugubrious thoughts about how awful it is to be the loser. “The reality of a loss in this game,” he opined, “is you don’t ever get over them,” adding that he thinks about...

The NFL regrets picking Kendrick Lamar over Lil Wayne for this year's Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans, a league employee has reportedly admitted. Kendrick's performance at Caesars Superdome sparked controversy last weekend, with some fans branding it 'the worst Super Bowl halftime show ever' during the Philadelphia Eagles' 40-22 win over the Kansas City Chiefs.

Serena Williams made a surprise cameo during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX halftime show, as she was spotted dancing during the performance of "Not Like Us." Making an appearance for that song sparked some debate on social media, especially considering Lamar’s song is a diss track toward the rapper Drake, whom Williams dated in 2011. Many believed it was no coincidence Williams’ time to shine was during this track, and ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith thinks the same. It’s why, during his Monday edition of "First Take," he told his colleagues he would divorce her if he was her husband....

Rapper Cardi B ranted in a new video that President Donald Trump ruined her Super Bowl experience and should not have attended. Trump made history this past Sunday by being the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl. The event was hosted in New Orleans, just a month after the New Year's Day terrorist truck-ramming attack against Bourbon Street revelers killed 14 victims and injured 35 others, and security was tight. Cardi B, who supported then-Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election, emphasized in a social media post that the Secret Service went to great lengths to protect...

SNIP What is a Crip walk? The earliest videos of the dance known as a ‘Crip walk’ is from Henry ‘Crip’ Heard, a Harlem dance legend who lost an arm and a leg in a car accident. This was later adopted by The Crips, an alliance of California street gangs who are often defined by their deadly rivalry with The Bloods. Crip walking is an elaborate set of footwork which in many cases sees the dancer spelling out C-R-I-P with their feet. It was originally created by Crip members to communicate with one another but, over the years, has seeped...

We must be living in the Upside Down right now, because why is Taylor Swift being booed at the Super Bowl while Donald Trump gets cheers?Early into the first quarter of the 2025 Super Bowl, Swift was shown on the Jumbotron sitting next to Ice Spice, and was greeted with an immediate chorus of boos. The singer gave the camera a top-tier Jim Halpert side-eye and seemed to say to her seatmate, “What is going on?” Frankly, I have the same question.Last year, when Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship was new, certain NFL fans took bizarre umbrage with the pop...

The NFL 'immediately' sent a letter of apology to Lil Wayne after announcing last year that Kendrick Lamar had been chosen to perform the Super Bowl halftime show. Lil Wayne was denied the chance to headline this year's halftime show in New Orleans, a move which sparked outrage given his famous association with the Big Easy - where he was born and raised. And to add to the controversy, Kendrick's performance at the Superdome was heavily criticized by viewers who were left underwhelmed on Sunday night. The Not Like Us rapper, who included his famous diss track about bitter rival...

When Taylor Swift planned to attend this year’s Super Bowl, to cheer her boyfriend Travis Kelce, little did she know that she would be booed by the audience. Swift reportedly attended the big game on Sunday, February 9, 2025, in New Orleans as Kelce's team Kansas City Chiefs went head to head with the Philadelphia Eagles. According to a report in the Independent, when the Karma singer was flashed at the Caesars Superdome jumbotron, the crowd gave her loud boos. However, she laughed it off, and a video that has gone viral shows her smiling, and giving a side-eye to...

After President Trump’s near assassination, the Secret Service complained that it needed more money. My take was that this is what government officials always claim after a massive screw-up and that more money is not needed. Does the Secret Service actually need more money? It has a $3 billion budget. That’s around double what it was in 2000. Only about $1.2 billion of that goes to protective operations and only about $73 million gets spent on providing security at presidential campaigns. $138 million gets spent on training and professional development. ... I did a deeper dive back in December. The...

Hands down the best National Anthem ever to be sung at the Super Bowl. Yes, this even beats out Whitney Houston's version.

Democratic strategist David Axelrod criticized former President Biden for missing out on opportunities to reach American voters after he skipped the traditional presidential interview ahead of the Super Bowl during his final year in office. Ahead of Sunday’s game pitting the Kansas City Chiefs against the Philadelphia Eagles, President Trump sat down with Fox News host Bret Baier, where they talked about the game, Canada and the recent Trump administration actions. “A year ago, Biden refused the traditional Super Bowl interview and the unparalleled audience it would have yielded,” Axelrod posted to the social platform X. “That bewildering decision was...

The Philadelphia Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 59 on Sunday, Feb. 9. While the Chiefs look become the first team in NFL history win a Super Bowl three-peat, the Eagles look to reclaim the Lombardi Trophy for the first time since 2018. Before kickoff at the Superdome in New Orleans, Fox delivered all-star pregame ceremony that included Lady Gaga singing live from Bourbon Street and Trombone Shorty and Lauren Daigle delivering a special rendition of “America the Beautiful" inside the Superdome. To perform the national anthem, the network tapped 7-time Grammy Award winner, Jon Batiste,...

The UK Daily Mail covered this on their front page: --- Fans slam Jon Batiste's 'shameful' rendition of the national anthem at Super Bowl 2025 --- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-14378841/Fans-slam-Jon-Batistes-shameful-rendition-national-anthem-Super-Bowl.html So I went to the video to see for myself. Bring back Kate Smith!

A man with the Palestinian flag got onto the field at the Superdome during halftime but was tackled by security

Someone told me no one has one in three in a row.

Donald Trump launched a parting social media salvo at Taylor Swift as he bailed on the Super Bowl early after watching the Chiefs collapse against the Eagles. The president roasted the pop star for being booed while he was cheered at the New Orleans Superdome in a ruthless post on his Truth Social platform. Trump shared contrasting videos of the rapturous applause he received compared to the boos Swift received when she was shown on the big screen. His social media trolling only heaped more misery on the evening for Swift as she watched her boyfriend Travis Kelce's Kansas City...

Trump shows up at the Super Bowl, and the whole stadium goes wild. Trump is a real leader!

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson Trump just posted this reacting to Taylor Swift getting booed at the Super Bowl 🤣🔥 8:10 PM · Feb 9, 2025

OMG this sucks