The Philadelphia Eagles and the two-time reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs will face off in Super Bowl LIX on Sunday in New Orleans in a highly anticipated rematch of the Super Bowl two years ago, as artists including Kendrick Lamar, SZA and Jon Batiste are slated to perform.
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The Eagles and Chiefs will take on one another at the Caesars Superdome two years after their previous Super Bowl match, in which the Chiefs beat the Eagles in a 38-35 nail-biter.
Should the Chiefs win, they would become the first NFL team to pull off a three-peat by winning three consecutive Super Bowl championships—the Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 last year.
The Super Bowl will also draw some of music’s biggest stars, including Kendrick Lamar and SZA, who will take the stage during halftime, as well as Post Malone, who will headline the pre-game YouTube Tailgate Concert.
Kickoff for Super Bowl LIX is at 6:30 p.m. EST on Sunday, Feb. 9. The game will air on Fox, and will stream on Tubi and NFL+.
The Chiefs are 1.5-point favorites over the Eagles, according to FanDuel odds. The Chiefs had the better regular season of the two teams, going 15-2, while the Eagles went 14-3.
Super Bowl fans could wager about $1.7 billion in legal bets on the big game this year, according to estimates shared with Forbes by financial services firm Macquarie Group. The estimate assumes of the 160 million American adults with access to legal gambling, about 11% of those will place bets, averaging $100.
Rapper Kendrick Lamar will headline the halftime show, one of the most lucrative (yet unpaid) gigs in music. Apple Music, the show’s sponsor, confirmed Lamar’s frequent collaborator SZA will join him as a special guest, though it’s unclear if any other artists will join them. After the NFL announced in September Lamar would headline the show, he told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement: “Rap music is still the most impactful genre to date. And I’ll be there to remind the world why.” Lamar has not confirmed what songs he’ll perform, but the Super Bowl will take place just one week after he won five Grammy Awards, including both Record and Song of the Year for “Not Like Us,” the biggest song from his months-long feud with rapper Drake. The feud has moved from a war of diss tracks to a legal battle as Drake sued his label, Universal Music Group (and not Lamar), alleging the label’s release and promotion of “Not Like Us” is defamatory because Lamar accuses Drake of pedophilia in the song. Attorney and First Amendment litigator Ken White told the Los Angeles Times he believes Lamar performing “Not Like Us” at the Super Bowl—possibly calling Drake a pedophile in front of more than 100 million viewers—would pose a low legal risk because Drake’s lawsuit targets UMG, not Lamar. “Does middle America listening to Kendrick at the Super Bowl really damage Drake’s reputation more than it’s already been damaged? Probably not,” White said. Lamar’s performance comes just two months after he released his new album “GNX,” on which SZA joins him for two duets.
Grammy Award winner Jon Batiste will perform the national anthem before the Super Bowl. Fellow New Orleans native Trombone Shorty will perform “America the Beautiful” with Louisiana singer Lauren Daigle. New Orleans singer Ledisi will perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” also known as the Black National Anthem, a song that has previously stirred controversy among conservatives, though the NFL has included it as a pre-game performance at the Super Bowl since 2021. Post Malone will headline the Super Bowl YouTube Tailgate Concert, which will stream live on YouTube beginning at 4 p.m. EST.
President Donald Trump will attend the Super Bowl, multiple news outlets reported Tuesday morning. His planned attendance follows his public clash with the Eagles during his first term, in which he called off the team’s invitation to the White House to celebrate their 2018 Super Bowl victory, as most players did not want to attend. Taylor Swift, the billionaire pop star who is dating the Chiefs’ Travis Kelce, has not confirmed she will attend, but she appeared at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl game last year and at several games this season.
The NFL will remove the “End Racism” slogan in the end zone of Caesars Superdome and replace it with “Choose Love,” marking the first Super Bowl in three years that will not have the “End Racism” phrase, The Athletic reported Tuesday. NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy told The Athletic the NFL feels “Choose Love” is an “appropriate statement for what the country has collectively endured, given recent tragedies,” including the New Orleans terrorist attack in January, the Los Angeles wildfires and the Washington, D.C., plane and helicopter collision. The change comes one day after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reaffirmed the NFL’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
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