Here at Polygon, we’re not the kind that scoff at caring concerning the Super 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 totally different.
With Usher making Jujutsu Kaisen references, Taylor Swift jetting in from tour, and the blockbuster summer season film season approaching, Super Bowl LVIII seems prepared to uphold the occasion’s timeless relevance for at the very least one other 12 months.
Here’s what the workers 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 house.
- 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 Super Bowl halftime reveals not often going to artists with out a decade or two of dependable mass attraction beneath their belts, you’ve acquired 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 at the very least 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 Super Bowl information, it looks like precisely the form of factor Deadpool 3’s advertising would need to benefit from.
- Cringe Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional reference: Has Apple’s $3,500 swing at the world of virtual reality — sorry, “spatial computing” — made sufficient of a splash to make it to the large recreation?
- M&Ms referencing final 12 months’s controversy: Final 12 months’s M&M Super Bowl advertising stunt broke containment when it occurred to coincide with conservative punditry.
- Not a single crypto advert of any type: 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 Super Bowl bingo card this 12 months?
