Super Bowl 2022: this is how we (re) discover America

To know, to know for sure, what America is, one must at least once in one’s life look at the S.uper Bowlwhere everything is larger than lifein that epic territory where the dream, the American Dream, is conquered with tenacity and strength, going head down towards destiny and trying to conquer it one piece at a time, as the cowboys did when they migrated to the Far West in search of a new world.

The 56th edition of the Super Bowl is scheduled for the Italian night between Sunday 13 February and Monday 14 February 2022, with live coverage on Rai1 (00.15) and Dazn (00.30), kick off at 00.30. In front of the winning team of the National Football Conference, the Los Angeles Rams against the best team of the American Football Conference, namely i Cincinnati Bengals.

It will certainly count who wins, but above all it counts to be there. Because the SuperBowl is a certified doc. It is not just competition, but entertainment. He is his greatest sportsman in the world: we are talking about over 130 million media viewers in recent years and almost two hundred connected countries. It is the Big Bang of the oval ball. IS the narrative structure that glorifies sport in its maximum power. And the show will be everywhere. This year the show will be staged at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles (the home of the Rams), costing 6 billion dollars and able to accommodate from 70 to 100 thousand spectators depending on the event.

Before, during (the famous Halftime Show), after. The wait is spasmodic, these are the hours in which we come to terms with how much the commercials have cost. Clarification: all the commercials, also this year, were made specifically for the Super Bowl. It’s an Oscar night, full of the brilliant idea. The costs, we said. Advertising spaces cost between 4 and 6 million, the most expensive this year reaches 8. These are figures that no other sporting event reaches (and not even remotely).

The new champions of this sport will compete on the pitch. And no, Tom Brady he will not be there (the American Football legend won last year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a few days ago he announced his retirement). The names? The two quarterbacks, two absolute champions. Joe Burrow, star of the Cincinnati Bengals and Matthew Stafford, game hub of the Los Angeles Rams. Favorite by bookmakers the Los Angeles Rams, but in American football anything is possible, just think back to the famous pre-match speech by Al Pacino in Every damn Sunday: «We are in hell now my lords. Believe me. And we can stay there, get slapped, or fight our way towards the light. We can climb the walls of hell one centimeter at a time ».

Parade of stars among the guests: Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar (in total there will be 43 Grammys on stage). National anthem sung by Mickey Guyton. Jhené Aiko will perform America The Beautiful while Mary Mary will perform in Lift Every Voice and Sing (the Black National Anthem).

All artists who go to revive the parade of big names who “stamped” the Super Bowl during the 2000s. The list is impressive: U2 (2002), Paul Mc Cartney (2005), Rolling Stones (2006), Prince (2007) ), Bruce Springsteen (2009)Lenny Kravitz (2015), Coldplay and Beyoncè (2016) Lady Gaga (2017), Justin Timberlake (2018), Shakira (2020). The NFL Grand Final is a game but it’s not just a game. In a scene from another film, “The Shadow Zone,” there is a line that perfectly captures the Super Bowl. “It really is a violent and unreasonable sport … but it is also Shakespeare“. So let it be Shakespeare.

Source: Vanity Fair

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