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Good morning.

Today is the Super Bowl, and we’ve


got a guide to the game.

Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Doug Mills/The New York Times

A national holiday
Nothing brings together more Americans — not awards shows, not television
series finales, not even presidential debates — than the Super Bowl.

Will this year’s game, between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco
49ers, be the most watched ever? By one measure — the total number of
people watching — it seems likely to be. Last year’s game set the record, with
115 million viewers in the U.S., and it did not have Taylor Swift.

Swift’s expected presence at the game, to cheer on her boyfriend, the Chiefs’
tight end Travis Kelce, has the potential to help it break the 1982 record for
the highest proportion of Americans who watched: 49 percent.

In the rest of today’s newsletter, we’ll tell you what you need to know about
this year’s Super Bowl; the teams, the strange bets, the halftime show and
more.
The teams
Kansas City Chiefs: If you’re someone who watches football only on Super
Bowl Sunday, it may seem unremarkable that the Chiefs are playing today.
They’ve reached the Super Bowl in four of the past five seasons. Yet this
season was not a great one for the Chiefs. They lost six games, the most they
have since Patrick Mahomes took over as starting quarterback. Their offense
struggled with turnovers and dropped passes. Kelce’s performances seemed
to falter even as his celebrity grew; he failed to score a touchdown in the final
six games of the regular season.

Since the playoffs began, though, the team has looked more like the Chiefs of
old. Kelce has scored three touchdowns in the past two games. And the
defense has been excellent all season.

San Francisco 49ers: The 49ers, on the other hand, were great during the
regular season, but have looked beatable in the playoffs.

The star of their offense is Christian McCaffrey, a running back who led the
league in rushing yards and touchdowns, and who is also an option on
passing plays. The team is full of such multiskilled players: George Kittle, a
tight end who is also a great blocker; Deebo Samuel, whose ability to both
catch and run led him to create a new name for his position, the “wide back.”

At the center of the operation is the quarterback, Brock Purdy. Less than two
years ago, the 49ers drafted Purdy 262nd — making him the last pick in the
last round, a distinction known in the N.F.L. by the nickname “Mr.
Irrelevant.” Now, after a season in which he was, by some metrics, the
league’s best quarterback, Purdy will be the first Mr. Irrelevant to lead his
team at the Super Bowl.

The setting
Las Vegas is hosting its first Super Bowl today. The city has a fraught history
with professional sports because of its association with gambling, and
leagues have kept teams away to maintain their sports’ appearance of
integrity. That changed in 2018, when the Supreme Court cleared the way for
legalized sports betting. Vegas officials, eager to boost tourism, lured
professional baseball and football teams to the city. Hosting the Super Bowl
is a crowning achievement.
Not everyone is happy about the transformation, though. Officials provided
$750 million in subsidies to help build Allegiant Stadium, where the Super
Bowl will take place, even as the city’s public schools have languished. “It
just represents that we don’t care,” LaTasha Olsen, who works at a local
elementary school, told my colleagues Ken Belson and Jenny Vrentas.

The halftime show


Usher, the headline act at halftime, is a showman made for the Super Bowl.
He sings, he dances, he boasts a three-decade-long catalog that makes for
recognizable medley fodder. But tonight’s performance is more than a
nostalgia trip. Usher has experienced a recent renaissance, prompted by a
Las Vegas residency. (Last year, videos of him serenading celebrities,
including Keke Palmer and Issa Rae, spread widely on social media.)

Usher has framed his performance as a celebration of his career. It’s also a
moment in the spotlight for his genre: “This night was specifically curated in
my mind to have R&B take the main stage,” he told Vogue.

The bets
Industry experts expect this year’s Super Bowl to be the largest sports betting
day in American history, with more than 67 million people wagering on the
event. The most traditional type of bet is predicting the victor, with the
underdog — in this case, the Chiefs — spotted a few points. But a growing
trend in recent years has been making so-called prop bets, which allow you
to gamble on just about anything, including:

 Whether the game’s shortest touchdown play will be under 1.5 yards.

 Whether it will take Reba McEntire under 90.5 seconds to sing the
national anthem.

 Any number of Swift-related uncertainties: Will her lipstick be red?


How long will it be before she appears onscreen? And which of her
songs will the announcers refer to first? The favorite is “Bad Blood.”

The Athletic put together its own prop bets, which you can play along with
here without risking your money.

What to cook
Editors from Cooking suggest three recipes, depending on where you’ll be
watching.

 If you’re hosting a Super Bowl party: This turkey chili from


Pierre Franey has over 15,000 ratings — and is ready in under an hour.

 If you need a dish to bring to a friend’s party: Show up with


charred scallion dip with lemon and herbs.

 If you’re watching at home: Whip up a tray of baked Buffalo


wings. They come out of the oven crisp and tender, as though they
were deep fried.

More Super Bowl coverage

Bark Purdy, right, and Athena. Animal Planet

 The other big game: This year is the 20th outing of the “Puppy Bowl.”
A Times reporter went behind the scenes to learn how the Animal
Planet show comes together.

 The Athletic asked N.F.L. coaches to predict who would win. They gave
the edge to the Chiefs.
 The N.F.L. promised to compensate former players for medical
problems stemming from concussions. But the settlement routinely
fails to deliver money and care, a Washington Post investigation
found.
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