Super Bowl 2023, where to see it and the times (including Rihanna’s halftime show) – Corriere.it

The time has come: in the night between Sunday and Monday, when it will be half past midnight in Italy, the kickoff of the Super Bowl number 57. It is played at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, and on the field to compete for the Vince Lombardi Trophy — a silver trophy made by Tiffany&Co. — and the NFL champions ring for this season will be i Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs
: there will be 70,000 spectators in the stands, with the average ticket price — down on last year — going over $6,000, with peaks of $30,000 on the sidelines.

Where to watch the Super Bowl on TV

In Italy the match will be broadcast live from Dazn — the streaming platform that owns the rights to the championship and that globally has just signed a ten-year agreement with the NFL for Game Pass International — and it will also be broadcast on Rai 2. The state TV will connect from a quarter past midnight, while the pre-match of Dazn will begin at 11.55 pm and the commentary will be entrusted to Matteo Gandini and Roberto Gotta, with the contributions of Federico Pasquini, Matteo Pella and Giorgio Tavecchio, former NFL kicker The streaming platform has prepared various contributions in preparation for the challenge: two episodes of tactical Like on the Philadelphia and Kansas City game, two episodes of Gotta know this (format in which Roberto Gotta will tell the city of Philadelphia and the history of the Kelce, Jason and Travis, the first two brothers to challenge each other in a Super Bowl) and The American Way Football & Politics, a new episode of the original Dazn miniseries in which Francesco Costa talks about American culture through football. Also on the app is Road to Super Bowl, the documentary film made by the NFL on how the Eagles and Chiefs reached the final act.

Rihanna’s halftime show

Like every year, on the sidelines of the match there is a large part of the evening dedicated to entertainment: in this edition the halftime show during intermission will be curated by Rihanna. The 34-year-old native of Barbados will christen the first Apple Music halftime show, which starting this season (with a deal worth about 50 million dollars a year) sponsors the halftime show, after ten years of Pepsi: When they asked me, I had been pregnant for three months and I wondered if I was sure — she told the singer during the press conference of the event — but when you become a mother you feel you can face everything, even one of the most important stages in the world like the Super Bowl, although I haven’t been on stage for seven years. The 13-minute show will retrace Rihanna’s seventeen-year career — nominated for an Oscar 2023 for best original song with Lift me up from the film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — and the singer, as always happens to the protagonists of this show, will perform for free. Why? Thanks to the extraordinary visibility that the Super Bowl offers, it has always been largely the most watched show in America.

Last year, TV viewers were nearly 100 million in the United States and over 200 million worldwide: this is why a thirty-second commercial (companies for the Super Bowl study the funniest and most original commercials) can cost up to 7 million dollars. The 13-minute halftime concert — with the NFL covering the production cost of between 10 and 15 million dollars — is an absolute promotion of the artist: as American investor Joe Pompliano recounts, after their respective halftime shows at the Super Bowl Justin Timberlake saw his music revenue quintuple, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira increased their followers by 3 million and The Weeknd sold a million tickets for his tour. Seventeen years ago the Super Bowl halftime show was made by the Rolling Stones: their following tour grossed 558 million dollars. Before the game, the US anthem will be performed by country guitarist and songwriter Chris Stapletonwinner of eight Grammy Awards, while Babyface will sing America the beautiful and actress Sheryl Lee Ralph will interpret Lift every voice and sing, a song that is considered the anthem of black people that the NFL has been performing in cartel competitions since 2020.

Two African American quarterbacks, Mahomes versus Hurts

On the field there will not only be the unprecedented challenge between the Kelce brothers, stars of their respective teams, but it will be there first time a confrontation between two African-American quarterbacks in the Super Bowl: on the one hand the twenty-seven year old Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, on the other the twenty-four year old Jalen Hurts of the Philadelphia Eagles. a special moment – ​​Mahomes admitted – I thought a lot about the African American quarterbacks who played before me in this role and who inspired me. It happens in all sports, just think of what Jackie Robinson represented in baseball. At 51 years and 337 days old, they are also the youngest starting quarterback pair to ever play in a Super Bowl. (they beat the greats Joe Montana and Dan Marino by 13 days, in Super Bowl number 19): Mahomes has already won a Super Bowl with the Chiefs three years ago — and the following year he lost against Brady’s Buccaneers — and he will have to dispel the negative tradition that sees the last nine mvp of the regular season (appointment arrived two days ago for Mahomes) defeated in the Super Bowl. First big dance, however, for Hurts, who led the Eagles to a high level season and to a playoff which, thanks also to a little luck, went without a hitch. So far the Chiefs and the Eagles have not been behind even a minute in the playoffs and for both quarterbacks – very different in style: a lot of air play for Mahomes, Hurts knows how to run very well – there will also be aches and pains to beat, given that Mahomes has been battling for weeks with a painful sprained right anklewhile Hurts at the end of the regular season had some problems with his right shoulder, the throwing one.

A little bit of Italy on the bench

The generational challenge between the two coaches is also amusing: the sixty-four year old Andy Reid of Kansas City against the 41-year-old Nick Sirianni of the Eagles. A comparison with many intertwinings: from 1999 to 2012 Reid was the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles (with whom they lost a Super Bowl in 2005), before moving on to the Chiefs from 2013. Upon his arrival, the Kansas City wide receivers coach was the very young Nick Sirianni, whom Reid fired, having already a man for the role on his staff: I really appreciated the way he spoke to me, explaining even the most painful part of this job. It cheers me up and has shown me to be a person of value, in addition to the coach, Sirianni told Super Bowl Media Day. Che then went to San Diego and met his mentor Frank Reich with whom he made a career in Indianapolis as offensive coordinator, up until the call of the Eagles two years ago as head coach. His appointment was taken with skepticism in Philadelphia, but last year’s playoff qualification (then beaten by Tampa Bay) and especially the year of 14 wins and 3 defeats in this regular season has turned everything upside down. Sirianni of clear Italian origins and initially the jokes were wasted (Philadelphia has a new Italian stallion, with reference to the movie Rocky): his father Francis was born in the United States into a family with distant Calabrian origins and in this Super Bowl the head coach of the Eagles will experience a small Italian derby with the defensive coordinator of the Chiefs Steve Spagnuoloanother technician of remote Italian origins who married his partner Maria in the Vatican in 2005.