🎉 Who won?: The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime, making them the back-to-back Super Bowl champs.
📺 If, like me, you’re programmed to ignore commercials: The Hill’s Nick Robertson compiled a list of the five best Super Bowl ads Sunday. They’re my favorite part of the game, but I habitually ignore commercials, so I kept forgetting to pay attention! Does anyone else have that problem? 📺 The five best Super Bowl commercials
⏱️ Rewatch the game in 21 minutes: Aside from going into overtime, Sunday’s game wasn’t exactly the most thrilling of the season. The NFL’s game highlight reel
💋 This sure helped the ratings: Here are photos of Taylor Swift celebrating boyfriend Travis Kelce’s Super Bowl win. (People)
🖥️ Notice all the Temu ads? What is it?: It’s an e-commerce site with low-priced products. It’s also a “sister company” of a massive Chinese firm. (WGN explainer)
📺 RFK Jr. ruffled some feathers: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running an independent presidential bid, apologized to his family members after a super PAC ad that ran during the Super Bowl heavily relied on imagery from former President John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign. (The Hill)
🍻 Chug, chug, chug: Watch Taylor Swift chug her drink on the jumbotron.
🧽 The Nickelodeon broadcast was unmatched: Nickelodeon showed a kid-friendly broadcast of the Super Bowl, with commentary from SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star, explainers from Dora the Explorer and celebrity fish.
- This woman’s explainer of the Nickelodeon broadcast had me in tears: “It’s a good time. We’re having a good time,” she says. 📺 Watch
- And so did this man’s description of the celebrity attendees: 📺 Watch
- Some of the celebs: Herring Styles, LePrawn James, Fin Diesel and Billie Eelish — 📺 See the celebrity fish
- SpongeBob posted a behind-the-scenes look at the commentary: Watch the TikTok footage of the person behind Patrick Star’s commentary.
- Watch the Nickelodeon halftime show
🎢 This made me laugh: X user @alexachorn photoshopped Jason Kelce, Taylor Swift and others into a Disney World action shot. 😃 The photo
👋 Hi, Jeff!: X user @Romi_Bean posted a video of actor Jeff Goldblum appearing on the jumbotron. “Jeff Goldblum looks like a fan who’s on the big screen for the first time in his life.”
🏆 So, you follow a football team and then they win the Super Bowl?: Sounds easy! “Swifties really started watching football in October. And they already won the Super Bowl,” @jackmacbarstool said on TikTok. “This is not how this works,” he said, speaking as a New York Jets fan. Watch