You can feel there is an energy in the air in the United States for this year's Super Bowl. The 2021 game in Florida had a reduced capacity because of pandemic rules.
Sunday's match between the LA Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals will be played in front of 70,000 spectators at the SoFi stadium, a new $5 billion (€4.4 billion) arena in Los Angeles, California. Local heroes Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar will serve up a halftime show.
On paper, the Super Bowl is ready to deliver. In a world of pandemics, culture wars and geopolitical uncertainty, it should provide a few hours of respite to our complicated lives.
Yet Sunday's game will be played under some enormous low-hanging social clouds.
Accusations of institutional racism in the NFL
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Opinion: Dark clouds hang over this year′s Super Bowl | Opinion | DW | 12.02.2022
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2/3/20
Super Bowl Miami: Jennifer Lopez & Shakira Rock Miami for Super Bowl Halftime Show
Jennifer Lopez and Shakira
just brought Miami to its knees with a Super Bowl Halftime performance
for the ages ... one which Shak opened, and J Lo tied up in the end.
The two Latina singers were co-headliners Sunday during the big game, and things kicked off with Shakira taking the stage with a crew of dancers behind her and the color red flooding the space. She ran through a medley of her hits fairly quickly, but with flash to spare.
Some of her songs she touched on ... "She Wolf," "Empire,"
"Whenever, Wherever" and eventually ... "Hips Don't Lie." Latin rap star
Bad Bunny came out to join her at one point.
Note EU-Digest: the half-time show was not only a great spectacle, but also a fantastic promotion for its great variety of ethnic groups, which make Miami one of the most vibrant cities in the US, and a popular tourist destination for people from all over the world, with its tropical climate, beautiful beaches and super cuisine.
Read more at: Jennifer Lopez & Shakira Rock Miami for Super Bowl Halftime Show
The two Latina singers were co-headliners Sunday during the big game, and things kicked off with Shakira taking the stage with a crew of dancers behind her and the color red flooding the space. She ran through a medley of her hits fairly quickly, but with flash to spare.
Note EU-Digest: the half-time show was not only a great spectacle, but also a fantastic promotion for its great variety of ethnic groups, which make Miami one of the most vibrant cities in the US, and a popular tourist destination for people from all over the world, with its tropical climate, beautiful beaches and super cuisine.
Read more at: Jennifer Lopez & Shakira Rock Miami for Super Bowl Halftime Show
2/1/15
USA Super Bowl XLIX -- New England Patriots 28, Seattle Seahawks 24
A ball tumbles off Jermaine Kearse's crotch, and Seattle is going to
have one of the greatest last-minute drives to win a Super Bowl ever,
and Pete Carroll and the Seahawks' coaching staff forgets about Marshawn
Lynch and a mind-numbing interception by Malcolm Brown instead gives
Bill Belichick and Tom Brady their fourth championship ring -- 28-24 in
Phoenix.
It's the Pats who were the clear black hats entering today's Super Bowl, which some think might set a record for most viewers and highest share of TVs. So who says scandal doesn't sell?
Of course, we had to have a megablog for an event like this. So we had all the big plays from Phoenix on America's unofficial national holiday
Read more: BBC News - Greece economy: Merkel rules out more debt relief
It's the Pats who were the clear black hats entering today's Super Bowl, which some think might set a record for most viewers and highest share of TVs. So who says scandal doesn't sell?
Of course, we had to have a megablog for an event like this. So we had all the big plays from Phoenix on America's unofficial national holiday
Read more: BBC News - Greece economy: Merkel rules out more debt relief
The Super Bowl: Things you need you know about the Super Bowl that have nothing to do with football
Tens of thousands of people are expected to descend upon Glendale,
Arizona for Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday, but one of America’s most popular
events has become much more than a simple sports game.
While the main attractions remain the football game, the halftime
show, and the millions of dollars spent on creative commercials,
not everything about the event is as fun to digest as a plate of
fried food and ice-cold beer.
With some 60,000 people packing into the University of Phoenix Stadium and tens of thousands of others visiting the Glendale and Phoenix area, the Super Bowl has become a genuine security concern for the American government. At the same time, serious questions have been raised about everything from the use of taxpayer funds to a potential spike in sex trafficking.
None of these security measures come cheap, however. Although it’s hard to say exactly how much it costs taxpayers to secure the Super Bowl area, it easily requires millions of dollars. According to NJ.com, estimates put the price tag for last year’s event in New Jersey at $36.9 million in taxpayer funds. That money went towards security and transportation, and it’s likely Arizona will pay a hefty price as well.
Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers estimates the city itself will spend $3 million hosting the Super Bowl – cash that won’t be reimbursed by the NFL or offset by the $1 million-plus expected in tax revenues. Proponents of the Super Bowl say the event boosts local economies by packing hotels, restaurants and bars, but these benefits may very well be overstated.
In 2008 – the last time Glendale hosted the big game – the city lost $1.6 million overall.
Frustration with the NFL – listed as a non-profit organization – has resulted in a set of proposals aimed at stripping away that status. A new bill in Congress and the New York State Assembly would remove its non-profit status and subject the organization to more taxes.
Read more: Things you need you know about the Super Bowl that have nothing to do with football — RT USA
While the main attractions remain the football game, the halftime
show, and the millions of dollars spent on creative commercials,
not everything about the event is as fun to digest as a plate of
fried food and ice-cold beer.With some 60,000 people packing into the University of Phoenix Stadium and tens of thousands of others visiting the Glendale and Phoenix area, the Super Bowl has become a genuine security concern for the American government. At the same time, serious questions have been raised about everything from the use of taxpayer funds to a potential spike in sex trafficking.
None of these security measures come cheap, however. Although it’s hard to say exactly how much it costs taxpayers to secure the Super Bowl area, it easily requires millions of dollars. According to NJ.com, estimates put the price tag for last year’s event in New Jersey at $36.9 million in taxpayer funds. That money went towards security and transportation, and it’s likely Arizona will pay a hefty price as well.
Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers estimates the city itself will spend $3 million hosting the Super Bowl – cash that won’t be reimbursed by the NFL or offset by the $1 million-plus expected in tax revenues. Proponents of the Super Bowl say the event boosts local economies by packing hotels, restaurants and bars, but these benefits may very well be overstated.
In 2008 – the last time Glendale hosted the big game – the city lost $1.6 million overall.
Frustration with the NFL – listed as a non-profit organization – has resulted in a set of proposals aimed at stripping away that status. A new bill in Congress and the New York State Assembly would remove its non-profit status and subject the organization to more taxes.
Read more: Things you need you know about the Super Bowl that have nothing to do with football — RT USA
2/2/14
US Economy: Show Me The Money: What Super Bowl Economics Means From Coast To Coast - by Michelle FlorCruz
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| MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J |
There’s no doubt the public will be paying inflated prices if you have any plans of attending the Super Bowl this year, but do the numbers really add up to as much as the NFL claims?
The Super Bowl, one of America’s greatest pop-culture phenomena, has transformed from just a football game into a major economic event. This year’s Super Bowl XLVII -- to be held at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J this evening February 2., will be no different, drawing attention and dollars from all corners of the country.
Read more: Show Me The Money: What Super Bowl Economics Means From Coast To Coast By International Business Times
2/9/13
US Infrastructure In Shambles: What the Superdome Blackout Says About American Competitiveness
"What happened on Sunday night isn’t about New Orleans. It speaks more to the pressing challenge of ensuring our infrastructure is capable of enabling America to be competitive in a global economy. Infrastructure facilitates the smooth, efficient and profitable maintenance of commerce. It helps ensure public safety, and both human and environmental health.
It’s all around us, from our electrical grid to telecommunications to water and sewage systems. Our roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, dams, ports, trains and mass transportation systems also work together to ensure that in this vast land of more than 300 million people we can produce more and have a better quality of life. The United States once led the way in the development or advancement of all the elements of modern infrastructure. Not since ancient Rome had a civilization have such an impact on the way the world works.
Infrastructure projects have also long been a major catalyst for jobs, particularly for immigrant workers and the middle class. The massive projects were once a route into the middle class for countless millions in the 19th and 20th centuries and made the American Dream possible. And yes, they were largely funded by the government with tax dollars.
That time is unfortunately long gone, unless a new model for funding projects is adopted in this country. It costs more to build a bridge, or tunnel or dam here in the U.S. that anywhere else in the Western world thanks in no small part to onerous environmental regulations, redundant authorities and rising labor costs – also impacted by government overreach. You can all but forget about building a power plant.
As a result, the state of the US national infrastructure is today falling behind that of other nations. Just take a look at Europe’s light rail system, the Middle East’s airports, and Asia’s bridges. Despite the fact that we continue to invest tax dollars by the billion, it is clear the old funding model isn’t working. Spend ten minutes at Newark or JFK airports. That’s real cause for embarrassment.
In 2011, the World Economic Forum ranked the U.S. 15th in the category of infrastructure, behind the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, the UK, and Canada. It is estimated that our nation’s critical needs for maintaining and upgrading our various systems and arteries will cost more than $2.2 trillion, but we’ve seen a 50% decline in U.S. infrastructure investment as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product since 1960. While the Obama Administration promised both jobs and infrastructure improvements with its colossal, trillion-dollar stimulus program, only roughly $70 billion went to critical projects.
Even Michael Mandel of the Progressive Policy Institute lamented last year that Obama’s allocation of stimulus funds did little to help solve the problem because too much money was spent elsewhere.
The old, taxpayer financing model clearly needs to give way to far more aggressive private sector investment model."
Read more: What the Superdome Blackout Says About American Competitiveness - Forbes
It’s all around us, from our electrical grid to telecommunications to water and sewage systems. Our roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, dams, ports, trains and mass transportation systems also work together to ensure that in this vast land of more than 300 million people we can produce more and have a better quality of life. The United States once led the way in the development or advancement of all the elements of modern infrastructure. Not since ancient Rome had a civilization have such an impact on the way the world works.
Infrastructure projects have also long been a major catalyst for jobs, particularly for immigrant workers and the middle class. The massive projects were once a route into the middle class for countless millions in the 19th and 20th centuries and made the American Dream possible. And yes, they were largely funded by the government with tax dollars.
That time is unfortunately long gone, unless a new model for funding projects is adopted in this country. It costs more to build a bridge, or tunnel or dam here in the U.S. that anywhere else in the Western world thanks in no small part to onerous environmental regulations, redundant authorities and rising labor costs – also impacted by government overreach. You can all but forget about building a power plant.
As a result, the state of the US national infrastructure is today falling behind that of other nations. Just take a look at Europe’s light rail system, the Middle East’s airports, and Asia’s bridges. Despite the fact that we continue to invest tax dollars by the billion, it is clear the old funding model isn’t working. Spend ten minutes at Newark or JFK airports. That’s real cause for embarrassment.
In 2011, the World Economic Forum ranked the U.S. 15th in the category of infrastructure, behind the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, the UK, and Canada. It is estimated that our nation’s critical needs for maintaining and upgrading our various systems and arteries will cost more than $2.2 trillion, but we’ve seen a 50% decline in U.S. infrastructure investment as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product since 1960. While the Obama Administration promised both jobs and infrastructure improvements with its colossal, trillion-dollar stimulus program, only roughly $70 billion went to critical projects.
Even Michael Mandel of the Progressive Policy Institute lamented last year that Obama’s allocation of stimulus funds did little to help solve the problem because too much money was spent elsewhere.
The old, taxpayer financing model clearly needs to give way to far more aggressive private sector investment model."
Read more: What the Superdome Blackout Says About American Competitiveness - Forbes
2/4/12
Madonna Pre-US Super Bowl Video Gets Some Cred From NFL - by Chris Willman
The video includes an infant carriage, baby doll, cutaway taxicab and tommy gun, among other accoutrements. Then there are the biggest props of all: the NFL, Nicki Minaj, and M.I.A.Madge uses the “Luvin’” video to remind the world not just of her Super Bowl-worthiness, with its chorus lines of anonymous football players, but the fact that all the cool kids on the pop block still want to play ball with her, whether they represent radical chic (M.I.A.) or cartoonish commerciality (Minaj).
Gone are the days of Madonna chasing after the edgiest trends in icy electronica. Both the “Luvin’” single and video were released at 9 a.m. ET this morning (no sleepy-time midnight iTunes unveilings for this high-profile girl), and amid the froth overload of both, what was most immediately apparent was that the cred Madonna would now really like to appropriate is … Katy Perry’s.
For more: Madonna Pre-Super Bowl Video Gets Some Cred From NFL, Nicki Minaj, M.I.A. | Reuters
The Super Bowl - "Panem et Circenses" - US In Party Mode As Super Bowl Spending To Hit $11 billion
That means the event could generate significant consumer spending as sports fans head out to buy food, decorations, and perhaps even a new television to watch the two teams go head to head. According to a survey from the Retail Advertising and Marketing Association conducted by BigInsight, the average game-watcher will shell out $63.87 on game-related merchandise, apparel and snacks, up from $59.33 last year.
About 5.1 million people are planning to buy a new television, specifically to watch the football game, according to the survey. Last year, BigInsight estimated 4.5 million people were planning to buy TVs. That means total Super Bowl spending is expected to reach as much as $11 billion.
And as for that other Super Bowl tradition — the commercials — nearly three-quarters of the viewers say they see them as entertainment."
2/6/11
USA: Reality of storms and Egypt unrest trumps Super Bowl - by TOM MAURSTAD
This might be remembered as the week that reality trumped the Super Bowl. In ordinary times, the week before the Super Bowl is all buildup to the big game. The media is abuzz as national and international press descend on Super Bowl City to generate colorful features about fashion, food and celebrity-filled fun.
But this past week has been anything but ordinary. Look out your window and you see evidence of the extraordinary times North Texans have been slip-sliding through — ice and frigid temperatures for several days, topped by a blanket of snow on Friday. And instead of Super Bowl frivolity filling television screens all week, news broadcasts have been a continuous stream of images of Egypt erupting in street warfare. That is, when they weren’t showing the snow-swept effects of the “monster storm” that blew over 30 states and 100 million people, shutting down airports and burying city streets.
The result: Reality has upstaged the showiest show of the year in America, the Super Bowl. Not the game itself, which, pitting two tradition-rich teams, has all the makings of a classic match-up. What has been upstaged is the Mardi Gras-style, made-for-media event of the days building up to the Super Bowl. If there are 12 days of Christmas, there are at least five or six days of Super Bowl. “In the best of times, the Super Bowl is a national obsession,” said Adam Hanft, social trends expert and co-author of Dictionary of the Future. “But we’ve been in this huge, intense news cycle — not just Egypt and the storm but also the shootings in Tucson, the debate over health care.
For more: Reality of storms and Egypt unrest trumps Super Bowl | Super Bowl XLV News - Sports News for Dallas, Texas - SportsDayDFW
But this past week has been anything but ordinary. Look out your window and you see evidence of the extraordinary times North Texans have been slip-sliding through — ice and frigid temperatures for several days, topped by a blanket of snow on Friday. And instead of Super Bowl frivolity filling television screens all week, news broadcasts have been a continuous stream of images of Egypt erupting in street warfare. That is, when they weren’t showing the snow-swept effects of the “monster storm” that blew over 30 states and 100 million people, shutting down airports and burying city streets.
The result: Reality has upstaged the showiest show of the year in America, the Super Bowl. Not the game itself, which, pitting two tradition-rich teams, has all the makings of a classic match-up. What has been upstaged is the Mardi Gras-style, made-for-media event of the days building up to the Super Bowl. If there are 12 days of Christmas, there are at least five or six days of Super Bowl. “In the best of times, the Super Bowl is a national obsession,” said Adam Hanft, social trends expert and co-author of Dictionary of the Future. “But we’ve been in this huge, intense news cycle — not just Egypt and the storm but also the shootings in Tucson, the debate over health care.
For more: Reality of storms and Egypt unrest trumps Super Bowl | Super Bowl XLV News - Sports News for Dallas, Texas - SportsDayDFW
1/27/09
Examoner.com:: Football, American football, soccer and Super Bowl 2009
For the complete report from the Examiner click on this link
Football, American football, soccer and Super Bowl 2009
Tuscans and Italians in general gladly embrace sports among their passions.. In Italy, as in many countries around the world, "American Football"* fans are getting ready to watch the Super Bowl Americano. You have to be a really dedicated fan to watch the live Super Bowl in Italy - the sports event plays there in the middle of the night. Until this year, Italians needed to subscribe to their Sky (cable) channel in order to see the Super Bowl. This year, Super Bowl XLIII will be shown live on RAI 2, one of Italy’s major networks and does not require a subscription. In fact, RAI 2 has been showing NFL games since November. Italian fans are delighted.
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