Wright Community Shares Reactions to Super Bowl and Halftime Show

Superbowl LX officially ended on Sunday and with no surprise to many of the fans and viewers who watched this year’s game the Seattle Seahawks, who were favored, beat the New England Patriots. The final score was 29-13. New England only was able to score 2 touchdowns during the whole game, whereas Seattle scored two touchdowns in addition to kicker Jason Myers’s record breaking 5 Super Bowl field goals. 

Regarding the matchup itself, student Joseph Guzman said, "I lost a lot of money because I was betting. It was probably one of the most boring super bowls I’ve watched.”

Student Saul Ayala said, “I enjoyed it a lot. I didn't watch the fourth quarter because I saw it was practically already done.” 

 Brian Mckinney, who is a fitness trainer at Wright, shared what he thinks the game should have been like this year. Mckinney said, “It would have been nice to see the Broncos or Baltimore Ravens play at the championship.”

Joe Reaves, director of the Career Center, said, “I wasn’t rooting for anyone, I kind of felt Seattle had a better defense. I never root for the Patriots in the Superbowl because of the Patriots in 86.” Reaves added about the game, “Honestly I started watching it and after the first quarter I fell asleep 'cause they were hitting field goals and it was slow.”

One of the reasons a lot of people that don’t usually watch sports during the regular season watched the game was for the Super Bowl Halftime Show. In this year’s performance the artist Bad Bunny performed in the midst of both positive and negative reactions, becoming the first artist to perform an entire Super Bowl Halftime set in Spanish.  Reaves said, “It’s just entertainment and music and we need that to be more inclusive.”

 “I particularly enjoyed the halftime show,” Ayala said. “I like how for most of the show it looked similar to how Puerto Rico would look with all the sugar cane fields and telephone poles, the aesthetics. The idea of it being about us coming together as Americans is not a difference of north and south but America as a whole continent,” Ayala said.

Librarian Jeanette Bruno, who ran a session for the Center for Teaching and Learning on using Bad Bunny's newest album in the classroom, shared how like Bad Bunny she’s Puerto Rican and that she only watched the Halftime Show and skipped the rest of the game as she said she’s not into sports that much. 

Bruno said, “Bad Bunny is always fun, people gave a lot of responses with Bad Bunny, saying he’s not American and of course Puerto Ricans are American citizens. So the ignorance around was just concerning but not surprising.”

About the show Bruno also said, “I really enjoyed it, I thought that there were a lot of cultural points he made during the show, I thought it was really joyful. I did not know what Lady Gaga was doing there. I did not know why she was picked outside of maybe Apple Music wanting to sell the new salsa music version of the Bruno Mars song that she sang. Other than that I thought it was a lovely showcasing of joy.”

This year’s Superbowl showed a lot of where the sport of football is as far as competition and also where the music diversity is in America today. 

The Seahawks beat the Patriots 29-13 in Super Bowl LX. Photo Credit: Kyle Chmielowski.