The game was created as part of a 1966 merger agreement between the NFL and the competing American Football League (AFL) to have their best teams compete for a championship. The day the game is played is often referred to as " Super Bowl Sunday" or simply "Super Sunday". Due to the NFL restricting use of its "Super Bowl" trademark, it is frequently referred to as the "big game" or other generic terms by non-sponsoring corporations. Winning teams are awarded the Vince Lombardi Trophy, named after Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi who won the first two Super Bowls. Prior Super Bowls were played on Sundays in early to mid-January from 1967 to 1978, late January from 1979 to 2003, and the first Sunday of February from 2004 to 2021.
Since 2022, the game is played on the second Sunday in February. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game. The Super Bowl is the annual final playoff game of the National Football League (NFL) to determine the league champion. More crucially, she transformed one of the biggest events in sports, corporate synergy, and entertainment into a distinctly political act.Display of the rings given out to all the teams who have won the Super Bowl In short, Beyoncé dominated the show the minute she stepped onto the field, from her knowing smirks during meticulously choreographed dances to the moment when she joined Coldplay and Mars onstage to make sure everyone knew she could smoke them while sharing the screen. Putting black America center stage smack dab in the middle of Coldplay's set was a significant move right from the start, but it is especially poignant in the context of the song's defiant social commentary, the constant criticism against black Panthers quarterback Cam Newton for so-called excessive arrogance, and a $1.5 million donation from Tidal - Jay Z's ever-halting streaming service - to nonprofit social justice organizations like Black Lives Matter on February 5, the day Trayvon Martin would have turned 21.
She's since announced a new fund to help the children of Flint, Michigan, during the city's current water crisis.īeyoncé performing "Formation" at the Super Bowl is a huge, purposeful statement. To top it all off, the second the broadcast cut away from all the shiny happy people singing Coldplay's finale to go to commercial, the first ad was for Beyoncé, announcing a new Formation world tour. And by the time Bruno Mars challenged Bey to a dance-off, she'd stolen the show once and for all. So there was, as there always is, a little more than met the eye during Beyoncé's performance. The day before the Super Bowl, Beyoncé debuted the song by dropping one of her best and boldest videos yet. But there was far more behind Beyoncé's performance of her brand new single "Formation" than her shutting down the dance floor - which she did, even in a dance-off with Mars that included a gracefully swerved stumble. It's not surprising that Beyoncé slayed in 2013, she gave one of the best Super Bowl performances in the game's history. Still, both Martin and Mars seemed to be having a hell of a time.Īnd then the drum line parted, and there was Beyoncé. It looked great unfortunately, the audio was so mangled that viewers at home could barely hear anything above the screaming crowds. Then 2014 Super Bowl headliner Bruno Mars slid out to perform songwriter Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk" with a slick line of dancers. The whole thing felt as if it was unfolding underneath one of those rainbow kindergarten parachutes. The band's Technicolor trappings paired with Martin's enthusiasm made for one of the most earnest halftime performances in recent memory. Lead singer Chris Martin started the proceedings on the field, surrounded by fans, and then performed songs like "Viva La Vida" and "Adventure of a Lifetime" with a giant grin on his face and a hyperactive spring in his step. To be fair, Coldplay gave it their eager best. It was also kind of expected that Beyoncé might outshine them.
When the NFL first announced that Coldplay would be playing the halftime show, a couple simple assumptions emerged: 1) They'd have to pay lip service to past Super Bowls (which they did, via a montage of past performers set to "Fix You"), and 2) Beyoncé would be joining, since Coldplay and Beyoncé had only recently released their collaboration song, "Hymn For the Weekend." Coldplay headlined the Super Bowl 50 halftime show, but it was Beyoncé who came to play.
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