1.Fox Sports put purple carpeting on Bourbon Street, which, if you know anything about Bourbon Street…yuck:
2.Travis Kelce’s pre-game outfit was so ’70s that it hurt:
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3.T-Mobile promoted their partnership with Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service — right at the time that Musk isn’t exactly a beloved figure in American politics:
4.Taylor Swift was booed by the Superdome crowd:
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Which, of course, led to this happening…
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5.Snoop Dogg appeared in an anti-hate ad for Foundation to Combat Antisemitism — a month after catching a lot of backlash for playing during Trump’s inauguration weekend:
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6.Tyla spoke out against people editing her Super Bowl look photos:
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7.Kendrick Lamar ended up doing “Not Like Us” during his Super Bowl halftime show, with the entire audience singing along to the “A MINOR” line…
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8.On top of that, a protester held up a flag in support of Gaza and Sudan during the halftime show:
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9.And what would the annual Super Bowl awkward moments roundup be without a very strange Scientology ad:
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