Super Bowl
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Black Twitter Tells Some Dude Named Michael Rapaport to Keep Janet Jackson’s Name Out of His Mouth
As one of the foremost repositories for metadata in the burgeoning sociological science of wypipology, Black Twitter often provides empirical evidence that validates certain collectively assumed hypotheses as actual fact. Today we examine the theory of line stepping. While this concept might sound like the ritual dances performed at Que parties when the DJ plays…
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America Will Not Stop Until Martin Luther King Jr. Is Completely Rebranded as a Slice of Avocado Toast
America’s progressive distilling, dissolution and dissolving of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and the accompanying appropriation of his words is truly a wonder to behold. It is like watching someone pour themselves a shot of Jack Daniels—but in a gallon jug instead of a shot glass. And then watching them add more and more ice…
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Eagles Fans Tear Down Property and Act a Fool After Super Bowl Win, but Police Show Restraint. Amazing
Philly, this is why you don’t get nice things. The city celebrated its first Super Bowl victory (I mean, congratulations) and gifted us with the image of forlorn New England Patriot Tom Brady sitting on the football field, fresh off of fumbling the damn ball (and we are ever grateful). Both of these things—but especially…
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‘Long Live the King’ Black Panther Commercial Wins the Super Bowl
King T’Challa, also known as the Black Panther, came all up through the TV screen during Super Bowl LII, and hands down, the ad won. The commercial uses the set from the film, in which we hear actor Chadwick Boseman’s lilting voice as T’Challa, reveling in all his coolness in the spot featuring the all-new…
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It’s a Week Before the Super Bowl, and the Biggest Story in Sports Is a … Draft for the NBA All-Star Game?
Football is still America’s most popular sport. And the NFL our biggest and most popular sports league. But while the NFL’s status as the king of America’s sports hill remains, I don’t remember its position ever being as precarious. To wit, each of the biggest NFL-related stories of the year has been extremely unflattering to…
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Saints’ Cam Jordan Gifts Super Bowl Ticket to 108-Year-Old World War II Vet
WHO DAT?! New Orleans Saints defensive end, and the Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee, Cam Jordan is showing up and showing out for the culture, gifting beloved local veteran and Saints fan Lawrence Brooks tickets to the Super Bowl. Brooks is not your average Saints fan. He is an esteemed World War II…
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Justin Timberlake Is a White Man
My favorite scene in the surprisingly rewatchable Lethal Weapon 2 involves Detective Murtaugh (Danny Glover) going to the South African Embassy in America to inquire about taking a vacation there—a conversation that serves as an elaborate ruse so that Detective Riggs (Mel Gibson) can sneak into the building and investigate and annoy the murderous Afrikaner…
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That Makes 3: Another Black Patriots Player Isn’t Going to Trump’s White House
Dont’a Hightower is the latest member of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots to pass on going to President Ass Hat’s White House. The Pro Bowl linebacker told ESPN Wednesday: “Been there, done that.” Hightower is the latest African-American member of the championship team to pass on going to Ass Hat’s lair. Outspoken tight…
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Idiots Can’t Even Boycott Beer Correctly
In today’s “We’re gonna boycott something because it reeks of diversity” news, a group of soggy and hateful people are all in their feelings because of Budweiser’s Super Bowl commercial that highlighted Anheuser-Busch co-founder Adolphus Busch’s journey to the U.S. in the mid-1800s, and the prejudice the German immigrant encountered. In the commercial, an American…