I love how the NFL wants to "end racism" yet before the game and halftime there were no white people performing…accept harry connick

The debate about the halftime performance is the NFL's version of the OJ verdict. Pretty predictable on the likes & dislikes.

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So no commercials were really noteworthy this year? I didn't watch but seems crazy with $ spend that maybe only 1 or 2 commercials got mentioned.

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Yeah, not a whole lot that was very memorable in my opinion

• Hardee's/Carls Jr had a classic ad with a bonafide hottie, but I'm not sure when it aired. I think the girl was a TicTok/Instagram/OF THOT.
• Budweiser with a classic themed ad using the Clydsdales
• Bud Light with an all white suburban dads stereotype that hit the right marks for their place in the beer market. (Won't win drinkers back, but they've gotten back in their lane)
• Duracell had a humorous "Tom Brady is battery powered" spot. Not much too it, but ok.
• The Duracell with Tom Brady bit ran on the heels of a spot that all famous people are aliens and it took me a second to realize it wasn't a continuation of the same spot. Don't recall what that one was marketing.
• Disney has a new Lelo and Stitch coming out and the critter was on the field.

Which ones did I forget?
Oh and Snoop and Brady hate each other but realize they don't know why or they only had dumb reasons so they're cool now.

Mountain dew ad with seals singing seal song with seal being a seal and seal being in the boat had me lol. That's the only one I remember

Thanks. Just felt like commercials were a bigger deal but it seems to be muted. Maybe people are over advertised these days.

Hill08 said:

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I love how the NFL wants to "end racism" yet before the game and halftime there were no white people performing…accept harry connick

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It took place in New Orleans, which is a predominantly black city. Something like 55% black. Really not a big surprise.

PhatMack19 said:

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1st ever Bama player to score a TD in the Super Bowl

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And Worthy became the first teasip to ever score in a Super Bowl as well last night.

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Hill08 said:

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I love how the NFL wants to "end racism" yet before the game and halftime there were no white people performing…accept harry connick

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It took place in New Orleans, which is a predominantly black city. Something like 55% black. Really not a big surprise.

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Add to that with conservatives saying for days before the game that they weren't going to watch the game, it seems like they (NFL) had nothing to lose by going the route they did.

texagbeliever said:

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Thanks. Just felt like commercials were a bigger deal but it seems to be muted. Maybe people are over advertised these days.

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It was alluded to elsewhere, maybe in this thread...
I think advertisers are TERRIFIED to not just push the limits, but to even attempt to be funny or edgy. The woke/politically correct or whatever you want to call it mob is SO ravenous that many are stuck in a paralysis over it.

The good news is I think it's starting to turn around. Some say it started with the election. I think the election was a symptom of a larger cultural re-expression. It wasn't a cultural shift, it was a brief cultural tolerance (it was never an acceptance). But the woke crowd pushed too hard and now the classic culture is pushing back hard.

My kids had to explain the halftime show to me- then I thought that was pretty good. Lol… a minor.

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The debate about the halftime performance is the NFL's version of the OJ verdict. Pretty predictable on the likes & dislikes.

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Except for the almost universal love for the Snoop, Dre, Mary J. Blige, Fitty, Eminem Show. And Prince being mostly considered the best show of all time.

I disliked this one because 1) I couldn't understand the lyrics, 2) it was pretty boring, uninspiring "music". I don't think that's a black-white thing, because if you rolled out holograms of Tupac and Biggie doing a rap battle I would be all in.

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Trump got massive cheering during National Anthem for the few seconds on screen, that was awesome

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The singing was NOT amazing however!

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Nothing will top Carrie Underwood singing 'America the Beautiful' for a long time.

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Lauren Daigle could have done just as well, but they jazzed up her performance. She is much too talented to give her that arrangement. What a waste.

Super Bowl was a bust.

Just awful!

PabloSerna said:

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My kids had to explain the halftime show to me- then I thought that was pretty good. Lol… a minor.

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See, that's the thing.
I've got a younger friend on FB that graduated from A&M about 3 years ago. So she's probably ~25 right now. So a younger Gen Z? I consider myself the last of Gen X or a Zenial, so there's a gap between her and I. She shared something this morning about not getting the angst over the show and what this and that meant, and blah, blah, blah.

Cool! That's great. A good show, just like a good joke, should not have to be explained.

From deciphering posts on X the halftime show was only for ghetto black America which is why everyone with an above room temperature IQ knows it was garbage. Then there is some beef with Drake so they disses him. I couldn't tell if it was because they don't consider him ghetto enough or just some stupid rapper quarrel.

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Amazing that Trump is the first acting President to attend a Super Bowl.

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All others realize it is a colossal waste of money for a sitting president to attend the super bowl. So much for government efficiency.

Just flat out the worst Super Bowl in memory. Game sucked, commercials sucked, halftime sucked.

PabloSerna said:

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My kids had to explain the halftime show to me- then I thought that was pretty good. Lol… a minor.

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Unless you're the minor

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I stood for the anthem as always. Trump saluting is $. It's nice to have a president that puts America first.

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It was Super Dull LIX! The Chiefs didn't show up and were overwhelmed. Nfl refs abandoned them in their hour of need, I guess. I've never rooted for the E G L E S in anything, so it was hard to start now. It was nice to see Taylor get booed and BF Kelce drop Just about every pass thereafter. I guess the tears in his eyes for Taylor clouded his vision.

I hope Roger "newsome'" Goodum understands that nfl casual observers are tired of Taylor swift showtime at chiefs game. He can also get rid of "end racism" in the end zones. Maybe put "end government waste" and "end taxpayer theft" in the end zones next year.

The post game celebratory victory riots were more entertaining.

SB Ads were terrible and getting worse every year.

Halftime was a big WTF so we muted the tv, and what remained resembled a bunch of illegal migrants headed to the airport. For some reason I was thinking they would have a New Orleans Bourbon street flavor to halftime. You know promote the community after the terrible terrorist attack

The game aside, I think most of us can agree that the Buick Grand National was a sight to see.

I remember loving that car as a kid. It's good to see the younger generation appreciate some of the 80s cars the way we (Gen-X) appreciated the cars of the 60s and early 70s.

GN was about the only car from the 80s that was admirable. As I recall, with the turbo V6, it was quicker through the 1/4 mile than a Corvette of the same vintage

Will someone please explain the Halftime show to me?

The only words I could make out were from Samuel Jackson and it came across as "America is racist therefore play music America will tolerate".

I've been informed that those who didn't get all the symbolism and hidden digs and jabs and Easter eggs in that best ever masterpiece is racist and exactly who they intended to mock with that amazing all time classic performance.

First, you couldn't make out everything he was saying. Rap live never has been good when it comes to that.

Second, some of the statements were straight forward. But others you had to understand his song, the lyrics and everything they did in those few seconds to pick up on it. Similar If it takes you 5 minutes to explain the 15 second joke. Then it's not funny. In this case it missed the point.

Finally, it just wasn't that great. It was ok but it's music. Whatever, he is an artist. He duct taped a banana to the wall. Do it at the Grammy's. The Super Bowl is for entertainment.

Im a big rap fan, a big Kendrick Lamar fan, and even I thought his halftime show sucked. He didnt perform alot of his well known hits and it was just overall a little boring. Everyone keeps talking about the hidden messages he had in his performance, but who the heck wants that, we just want to be entertained for a halftime show.

read some of the intellectuals' writings and musings about the half time show, aside from all the Drake disses.


https://cloakinginequity.com/2025/02/10/tv-off-what-kendrick-lamar-was-really-saying-at-the-super-bowl/

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one of the most interesting halftime shows in yearsprecisely because its message required a level of sophistication that likely sailed right past the NFL censors. This is the same league, after all, that quietly scrubbed "End Racism" from the end zones before kickoff.


Lamar set the tone from the very beginning: "40 acres and a mule. This is bigger than the music."

For those unfamiliar, this is a reference to the unfulfilled promise made to formerly enslaved Black people after the Civil War. A promise that was quickly rescinded. A wound that has never healed. A debt that has never been repaid.


At one point, he even remarked that the performance was too ghetto. A throwaway line? Hardly. It was a self-aware acknowledgment of how Black art and expression are constantly policed, questioned, and deemed inappropriate for mainstream audiences.

And then came the crowda sea of coordinated wristband lights flashing a final warning: WRONG WAY.

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SLJ was mocking conservatives with his character accusing kendrick of not being patriotic enough

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Holy ****, this entire thing between Samuel L Jackson and Kendrick is ****ing genius. This performance is such a rich text. What a gift and a **** you, all in one. I went full English teacher on that performance. So many layers!

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Biggest thing was saying to get your assess out and protest/resist, you chose the wrong guy, pedophiles

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https://www.buzzfeed.com/karltonjahmal/kendrick-lamar-super-bowl-halftime-show-review

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The President of the United States attended Super Bowl LIX, making him the first sitting president to do so. Our tax dollars at work, y'all! While Trump did announce his intention to attend the event way after Kendrick had already arranged his setlist, it still felt as if certain pieces of the show were a subliminal message to MAGA as a whole. The most prominent of these messages was legendary actor Samuel L. Jackson playing Uncle Tom. While many assumed Jackson was portraying Uncle Sam, his commentary shows that he represented Uncle Tom.

Samuel L. Jackson, as Uncle Tom, chided and goaded Kendrick with lines like "Too loud, too reckless, too ghetto. Mr. Lamar, do you really know how to play the game?"

During the 2024 election season, Donald Trump found support among many Black men, and gained more of their votes than any Republican candidate in nearly a quarter century. I couldn't help but feel like Samuel L. Jackson's Uncle Tom was a direct reference to this fact.

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more excerpts:

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Kendrick's stage featured the popular shapes seen on a PlayStation controller, and it also reminded me of Squid Game. This all tied in deeply to the ongoing message throughout his performance of revolution. The double entendre was flawless, highlighting "the game" Samuel L. Jackson referred to earlier in the set. Also, the idea of the rich watching the poor suffer for their own entertainment (like in Squid Game) is a message that really hits home as the richest man in the world assumes a position of power in the current administration.

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Next year they should bring out a black country artist with a tejano backup band. Then everyone will be happy. Bonus points if somebody is gay.

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It was a self-aware acknowledgment of how Black art and expression are constantly policed, questioned, and deemed inappropriate for mainstream audiences.

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Good Lord.

Does it get any more mainstream than performing at halftime of the Super Bowl?

I had no idea I witnessed such a defining moment in history on Sunday.

Time magazine has a very long deep dive on how amazing and thoughtful that performance was
https://time.com/7214228/kendrick-lamar-super-bowl-halftime-show-analysis/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/arts/music/kendrick-lamar-super-bowl-halftime-review.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/02/09/kendrick-lamar-super-bowl-halftime-show-review/78290811007/

https://ew.com/kendrick-lamar-super-bowl-2025-halftime-show-review-8788707

https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/kendrick-lamar-super-bowl-halftime-show-review-1235896868/