Right here at Polygon, we’re not the type that scoff at caring concerning the Tremendous Bowl — why, a few of our favourite coworkers love soccer! It’s simply that there’s a lot else on the largest U.S. tv occasion of the 12 months that piques our curiosity, and this 12 months is not any completely different.
With Usher making Jujutsu Kaisen references, Taylor Swift jetting in from tour, and the blockbuster summer season film season approaching, Tremendous Bowl LVIII seems able to uphold the occasion’s timeless relevance for no less than one other 12 months.
Right here’s what the employees of Polygon are placing our (metaphorical) cash on:
- Taylor Swift within the stands and on the cam: If we had a bingo card, this might be the… clean area.
- Usher’s halftime present makes a reference to anime: He’s already confirmed off his appreciation for anime followers.
- The identical however video video games: With Tremendous Bowl halftime reveals not often going to artists with out a decade or two of dependable mass enchantment underneath their belts, you’ve bought to do one thing to get the youth’s consideration.
- Trailers for a number of sequels: Each Inside Out 2 (June 14) and Twisters (July 19) are due for full size trailers earlier than their summer season debuts.
- Deadpool 3 will get a title and a trailer with no less than one MCU character in it: Dare I dream of Deadpool Beats up the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
- Taylor Swift as Dazzler within the Deadpool 3 trailer: Rumors of this mashup have been swirling for ages, and with Swift within the Tremendous Bowl information, it looks like precisely the type of factor Deadpool 3’s advertising and marketing would need to benefit from.
- Cringe Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional reference: Has Apple’s $3,500 swing on the world of digital actuality — sorry, “spatial computing” — made sufficient of a splash to make it to the massive recreation?
- M&Ms referencing final 12 months’s controversy: Final 12 months’s M&M Tremendous Bowl advertising and marketing stunt broke containment when it occurred to coincide with conservative punditry.
- Not a single crypto advert of any variety: The tip of an period…
- Compulsory reference to the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake halftime present: It’s been 20 years because the world was launched to the phrase “wardrobe malfunction.”
What’s in your Tremendous Bowl bingo card this 12 months?