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What time is the Super Bowl?
A: The official kickoff time is listed as 6:30 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, although the bonanza of pregame coverage begins at 1 p.m. on Fox and several eternities earlier in other corners of sports television.
The scheduled kickoff time translates to 5:30 p.m. Central time, 4:30 p.m. Mountain time, 3:30 p.m. Pacific time and 1:30 p.m. Hawaii time.
Q: Where is the Super Bowl?
A: The game will be played at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, northwest of downtown Phoenix. It looks like a spaceship in the middle of the desert and usually hosts Arizona Cardinals games.
Q: What channel is the game on?
A: The game will be broadcast on Fox in English and Fox Deportes in Spanish. Streaming is available on the Fox Sports app, the Fox Sports website and Fubo. Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen, a former NFL tight end, will provide the commentary.
Among the broadcasters worldwide are Seven Network (Australia), CTV (Canada), L’Équipe (France), DAZN (Germany), A1 Max (Bulgaria) and ITV1 (Britain).
Q: Who is playing?
A: The Kansas City Chiefs, playing in their third Super Bowl in four seasons, went 14-3 in the regular season and slipped past the Cincinnati Bengals to win the AFC championship. The Philadelphia Eagles, who also went 14-3, advanced to their second Super Bowl in six seasons by walloping the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC title game.
This is the first time in five years that the top seeds from both conferences have reached the Super Bowl. The winner will have won more games at State Farm Stadium this season (two) than its main tenant, the Arizona Cardinals (one).
Q: Who will perform at halftime?
A: The NFL found its headliner in a hopeless place. Rihanna had rebuffed past invitations in support of Colin Kaepernick, the former 49ers quarterback who accused the league of blackballing him because he protested police brutality and racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem.
Rihanna is scheduled to perform publicly for the first time since the 2018 Grammy Awards. Her presence is quite the coup for Apple Music, which has replaced Pepsi as the primary sponsor of the halftime show.
Q: What time is the halftime show?
A: It depends on how long the first half of the game takes, but probably around 8 p.m. Eastern. We fully understand that the concert is the main event for plenty of people.
Q: How much are tickets?
A: A lot of money. Like, a lot. Like, thousands of dollars. One ticket marketplace, Vivid Seats, is listing its cheapest seats at $3,863.
Q: Has either team won a Super Bowl?
A: Kansas City won its first Super Bowl in 1970 and its second in 2020, when quarterback Patrick Mahomes became our benevolent overlord. The team has also lost two Super Bowls, the first one in 1967 and another in 2021.
Philadelphia has also lost in the Super Bowl twice, in 1981 and 2005. It won its lone Super Bowl in 2018, inspiring a victory parade that lasted approximately nine weeks and four days.
Q: Will history be made?
A: We’re glad you asked. This is the first Super Bowl to feature two Black starting quarterbacks, a celebratory — and overdue — moment for a league that for decades teemed with inequities.
