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Super Bowl LX: The New England Patriots (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/sport/mike-vrabel-patriots-super-bowl) and Seattle Seahawks (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/sport/seattle-seahawks-shadow-boxing-super-bowl) will play for the NFL’s ultimate prize tonight at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The game kicks off around 6:30 p.m. ET.
Tale of two quarterbacks: Patriots signal-caller Drake Maye (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/sport/drake-maye-patriots-super-bowl) is an ascending star who developed into an MVP candidate in just his second season. Veteran Seahawks QB Sam Darnold (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/sport/sam-darnold-seahawks-super-bowl) is looking to complete a yearslong reclamation project after stumbling as a top prospect.
Bad Bunny bowl: Puerto Rican music mega-star Bad Bunny will headline a highly anticipated halftime show. He’s adored by fans (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/entertainment/bad-bunny-nfl-super-bowl-halftime-show) and set to make history with a Spanish-language performance (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/entertainment/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-spanish), but Bad Bunny’s selection has also drawn conservative backlash (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/sport/football-roger-goodell-bad-bunny-green-day-analysis) — even before he spoke out (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/entertainment/bad-bunny-grammys-speech-ice) against ICE at the Grammys last weekend, where he won album of the year.
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Green Day’s Super Bowl pregame performance is now underway in Levi’s Stadium.
The legendary punk rock band formed in California’s East Bay and was a seminal part of the early 1990s Bay Area music scene before going on to massive mainstream success.
The band is known to be outspoken, especially frontman Billie Joe Armstrong — whether that’s disapproval of President Donald Trump or displeasure at how much time his band has been given (https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/entertainment/green-day-announces-massive-world-tour-for-2024) at a radio concert.
That has fans wondering if the band might choose to use their platform today (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/sport/football-roger-goodell-bad-bunny-green-day-analysis) to make a statement.
A year ago, Cooper Kupp could barely hide his heartbreak: The Los Angeles Rams, the only NFL team he’d ever played for, made it clear they were done with him.
A February 3, 2025, post on X by the wide receiver (https://twitter.com/CooperKupp/status/1886568755138101654?refsrc=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1886568755138101654%7Ctwgr%5E054f5b166f16546118ed65ea7e1290d4c0cdeed2%7Ctwcon%5Es1&refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fnfl%2Fstory%2F%2Fid%2F43682761%2Frams-seeking-trade-highly-motivated-cooper-kupp) revealed the Rams were trying to trade him. Kupp was the MVP of Super Bowl LVI (https://www.cnn.com/sport/live-news/super-bowl-2022-rams-vs-bengals) who hauled in the winning touchdown to deliver a championship to the Rams on their home field. He was Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford’s go-to option for years. He was the cornerstone of their franchise, still producing despite injuries that limited the years after the Super Bowl win.
And, as of that first week of February 2025, he was done in LA. The Rams eventually released him, simply cutting him loose — a franchise icon cast out into the cold.
Kupp is back in California this week, about 300-some-odd miles away from his old stomping grounds, preparing to play in Super Bowl LX for the Seattle Seahawks – another NFC West team that had been game-planning against him for eight years.
The team Seattle beat to get to the game’s biggest stage? (https://www.cnn.com/sport/live-news/nfl-playoffs-patriots-broncos-rams-seahawks-01-25-26) Well, the football gods have a sense of humor.
“It was a tough ending in LA, and so to be able to get here to have the opportunity to play in the Super Bowl — and I mean, just for the scriptwriters to put the Rams in the NFC Championship against the Seahawks, that was a pretty dastardly thing by them,” Kupp said on Monday with a laugh.
Read more here (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/sport/football-cooper-kupp-profile)
Grammy-winning singer Coco Jones just finished performing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at Super Bowl LX.
The song is known as the Black national anthem (https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/09/us/lift-every-voice-and-sing-trnd/) and the lyrics describe the hopes and struggles experienced by Black Americans at the turn of the 20th century.
Just took a few moments to wander around the area near Levi’s Stadium here in Santa Clara and let me just say: Seattle is here.
Granted, it was well before game time when I got out of the media center outside the stadium, but I would say seven in every 10 fans I saw were wearing green and blue. Chants of “SEA-HAWKS” are ringing out around the area and the New England fans were a little sheepish from what I could tell. Seattle fans, known as The 12s, are among the loudest in football and will be making some noise tonight.
The weather here is actually gorgeous.
It’s warm in the sun without being hot, a bluebird sky with just a little bit of wind here in the Bay Area. This Super Bowl has been a logistical nightmare — Santa Clara is more than 40 miles from San Francisco, where most of the fans and media are staying and the East Bay traffic has been truly nightmarish all week — but you can’t argue with this kind of scenery.
Of course, your humble reporter won’t exactly be soaking in that weather too much the rest of the day. Only a select few of the hordes of media members that descend on the Super Bowl are actually allowed in the stadium on game day — hi, Hannah Keyser (https://www.cnn.com/profiles/hannah-keyser)! — and I am stationed in the media center tent that is just outside of the stadium, watching the pregame festivities on TV.
That makes the little walk to soak in this Super Bowl — the bright colors, the palm trees, the looks on faces as they walk toward Super Bowl LX — just priceless.
The luckiest fan I saw? The extremely tiny baby strapped into a carrier and sleeping as its parents walked toward the game. What a memory that will be for that family.
Jarran Reed, the Seattle Seahawks (https://www.cnn.com/sport/live-news/nfl-playoffs-patriots-broncos-rams-seahawks-01-25-26) veteran defensive tackle, was asked something about his favorite part of Super Bowl week. But just then, a battle was breaking out on a podium just a few yards away.
Derick Hall had climbed up onto the dais where Ernest Jones IV was seated for the team’s media availability to challenge his fellow linebacker to a quick game of shadow boxing.
“Hey! Hey, you saw that, Spoon?” Reed shouted across the convention center ballroom to cornerback Devon Witherspoon. It was worth paying attention to because a surprising upset was taking place.
Hall had just beaten Jones in shadow boxing and – admittedly CNN Sports’ source for this is Jones himself – Hall was 2-12 against Jones during the season.
“Like, he’s terrible,” Jones said.
And that is Reed’s favorite part of Super Bowl week: The shadow boxing.
“Oh it gets real,” Reed said.
Wait, what?
Read more about the craze sweeping the Seahawks locker room here (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/sport/seattle-seahawks-shadow-boxing-super-bowl)
Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl isn’t just a flex — it’s a statement.
The politics in Bad Bunny’s songs don’t show up just when he directly mentions the government, gentrification or the history of Puerto Rico. It comes before: in singing from Puerto Rico to Puerto Rico, using his language and his Caribbean rhythm without adapting them to external consumption.
That is seen in the local slang that he sprinkles throughout his lyrics: words like “Boquete” (one of the songs from his most successful — and most political — album “DeBÍ TiRaR MáS FOToS”), which in Puerto Rico means “pothole in the street” and is used by the singer as a metaphor for a past love.
In “CAFé CON RON” (Coffee with Rum, in English), a collaboration with the Puerto Rican group Los Pleneros de La Cresta, you can hear typical slang such as “loquera,” (party craziness), or “beber un galón,” (drink excessively).
Puerto Rico is not just the backdrop for Bad Bunny’s songs. It is a territory marked by economic hardship, political corruption, immigration, social disparity, and an ambiguous — and uneven — relationship with the United States. All of that is displayed in his lyrics.
In “LA MuDANZA,” Bad Bunny sings, “This is Puerto Rico, people were killed here for raising the flag,” a reference to the 1948 Gag Law, which criminalized the possession or display of the national flag – even inside one’s own home – turning it into grounds for persecution after Puerto Rico had already become a US territory.
Here’s more on what you need to know to understand Bad Bunny’s songs (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/entertainment/bad-bunny-how-to-understand-songs-intl-latam#openweb-convo).
Seattle Seahawks running back Kenneth Walker III might have had the greatest college football season that didn’t result in a Heisman nomination – and that snub still drives him today.
In the fall of 2021, the Michigan State University Spartan had a season for the ages. He ran for 1,636 yards, averaged 136.3 yards per game and scored 18 touchdowns. He was named a consensus All-American and won the Walter Camp Player of the Year award – the annual prize bestowed on the best player in college football as determined by the game’s coaches and sports information directors.
Even still, Walker wasn’t even a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, the most high-profile honor in college football that is voted on by a group of journalists, previous Heisman winners and fans. He finished sixth in the voting.
When asked about learning that he wouldn’t be a finalist by CNN Sports (https://www.cnn.com/sport), a look crossed Walker’s face that showed he was still in disbelief at the snub.
“I felt some type of way, but then after that, I just knew not to play for awards,” Walker said. “I guess it taught me not to really play for awards or being invited to nothing. You know, just play ball and what happens, happens.”
The highlight game of that season for Walker was a five-touchdown performance against Michigan as the Spartans defeated their archrival in a matchup between two top-10 teams. Walker had to think for a second about whether the Super Bowl surpassed that game.
“Yeah brother, it’s bigger,” Walker said after a pause to consider. “Especially because it’s the present time, right now, and like, you know, a lot of people aspire to be in a Super Bowl in this position. So, it’s just a blessing to be in this position.”
Our intrepid colleagues went to the frigid streets of New York to ask a simple question: Who’s playing in the Super Bowl?
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Shopping for this year’s Super Bowl brings news that’s worthy of a touchdown dance: hosting a party might not break the bank.
A spread for 10 people with many of the common Super Bowl fixings this year will cost $140 on average, just 1.6% higher than last year, according to an analysis (https://www.wellsfargo.com/com/insights/agri-food-intelligence/superbowl/) by the Wells Fargo Agri-Food Institute, thanks to increased production and stronger harvests. That’s a slower rise than the overall cost of groceries, which is up 2.4% from a year ago, according (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm) to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Read more: CNN broke down a winning Super Bowl food table (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/business/super-bowl-food-inflation-vis), including what costs less, more and stayed the same.
When you’ve played in five Super Bowls and retire as one of the game’s biggest stars and most well-known players, Super Bowl week becomes an annual thing.
Rob Gronkowski (https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/08/sport/kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-gronkowski-intl-spt) is always busy in February, whether it was when he was on the field as a player or now as a broadcaster/popular sports personality. Many football players would do anything to get to experience this week just once – Gronk gets to do it basically every year.
“The game of football means everything to me. I’ve been playing football my whole life. I’ve been playing sports my whole entire life. The game of football represents who I am. The game of football is why I am where I am today, why I am to the point that I got to because of the game of football,” he told CNN Sports (https://www.instagram.com/cnnsport/?hl=en) on Saturday.
“Being able to go out there and prepare and be the best possible player that I can be – the game has given me so much, and I love to get back to the game as well. And Super Bowls just mean so much for me, so many great memories with my teammates.
“Winning Super Bowls with the greatest organization, winning three with the New England Patriots, and then going down to Tampa and winning one there. So, I wouldn’t be where I am today without the game of football. It just means everything to me.”
Mike Vrabel (https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/12/sport/mike-vrabel-new-england-patriots-head-coach-spt-intl) made his name in the NFL as a crunching outside linebacker, delivering punishment to opposing offenses and blowing up their plays
