Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, a $2 billion indoor stadium, hosts super bowl, which is about to award the title of football champion of the United States. Face each other San Francisco 49ers Hey Kansas City Chiefs. About 70,000 spectators are expected, an average attendance considering that in 2011, there were 103,219 fans at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Difficult to make a prediction. The game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs is “the rematch of 2020” when the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, defeating the Californians 31 to 20. Since then, Kansas has won another title, the year last, while the 49ers were reborn thanks to Brock Purdy, rejected by major colleges and becomes the protagonist of the season. To deal with it Patrick MahomesThe highest-paid player in the NFL, who signed a ten-year half-billion dollar contract in 2020, is considered the heir to the legend Tom Brady.
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Taylor Swift arrives from Tokyo (for love)
Beyond the challenge, which is in any case “the sporting event of the year” in the USA, the Super Bowl is many other things and generates enormous turnover: just think that It is traditionally considered the most watched television program after that of the Apollo 11 Moon in 1969. Last year, there were 120 million viewers watching television.
This evening, the record could be broken given the almost certain presence of Taylor Swift, who, for love, flew from Japan to Las Vegas. Swift's latest song was still ringing in the ears of thousands of fans at the Tokyo Dome when she rushed onto a private jet at Haneda Airport and then braved nine time zones to reach America and support, obviously, the Kansas City Chiefs, her boyfriend. Travis Kelce's team.
The story so fascinated her fans that the Japanese embassy in Washington posted a message on social media to reassure them, saying the pop star would arrive in time for the challenge.
The singer is fresh off her latest album: she was the first artist at the 66 Grammys to win best album of the year for the fourth time, surpassing stars of the caliber of Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and Frank . Sinatra who won three awards in this category, considered the most prestigious.
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Despite her commitments to her colossal world tour, which will also take her to Italy this summer, with tickets sold out for months, Taylor has almost never missed a match with her boyfriend. Here, she's wildly cheering as the Chiefs tight end hugs Mahomes' wife.
Handle Taylor Swift at her boyfriend Travis Kelce's game
Taylor Swift's presence at the Super Bowl also risks becoming a political affair. Many wonder if he will use the event to support Joe Biden in the run-up to the November presidential elections. Conservative networks have called on Tylor to stay out of politics and avoid comment. Most conspiracy theorists are convinced that the entire Super Bowl, as it unfolded this year, was the result of a conspiracy. The Chiefs will win, Swift will celebrate the triumph on the field with her boyfriend and together they will announce their support for Biden in front of the cameras ahead of the November election.
Two years ago, a post on the singer's Instagram was enough to push him in two hours thirty thousand young people to register on the electoral lists.
He expressed his opinion on the matter Asset in person. On his social network Truth, the former president wrote that “Taylor Swift could under no circumstances 'support Joe Biden in the US presidential elections, who is the worst and most corrupt president in the history of our country' and ' being disloyal to those who made him a lot of money” because “I signed and am responsible for the Music Modernization Act for Taylor Swift and all other artists” while “Biden did not Nothing has done for Taylor and will never do anything.”
Biden wishes a “happy Super Bowl”
As for Biden, the President of the United States posted a photo from 1987 with his two sons Hunter and Beau as they played football and wished Americans a “happy Super Bowl.” “I hope you can participate in the American tradition of eating good food, getting together with friends, and watching a great game,” he wrote on X, but he won't appear. He rejected, for the second year in a row, the invitation to the traditional pre-match presidential interview.
Usher leads a parade of stars
Taylor isn't the only star of this Super Bowl. Starting with the halftime show which will see singer and dancer Usher on stage. According to TMZ, the artist could bring Justin Bieber on stage. Usher, 45, born in Dallas, Texas, winner of eight Grammys, also owns the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA basketball franchise. He promised to recreate a sequence that went viral on social media in which he sings and skates. Stars such as Prince, Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez and Katy Perry have performed in the “halftime show.” Last year, it was Rihanna's turn, who led the show while she was pregnant, dancing and going wild despite her baby bump, causing more than one controversy. But it was ultimately an artistic and public success: his show was followed by 121 million viewers, the Super Bowl record.
There is also the opening show, another highly anticipated moment, country singer Reba McEntire will perform the American anthem. Post Malone will sing “America the Beautiful,” while Andra Day concludes the pre-race show with “Lift each vocice and sing.”
In the stands, among the various VIPs, the presence of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was announced.
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Lots of stars too in event advertising. After the commercial a year ago at the Super Bowl in which Ben Affleck appeared in the role of a donut seller, Dunkin recorded the next day's sales record in history. The ad had seven billion interactions on social media.
This year's commercials include Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer from “Friends”, Chris Pratt, Jason Momoa, while director Martin Scorsese shot a commercial in which he himself appears.
