Rihanna's role in Super Bowl 'embarrassment'

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Rihanna's half-time amusement has been blamed for causing the playing aboveground to deteriorate during the 2nd fractional of the Super Bowl.

Players struggled to support their feet passim the contest, which the Kansas City Chiefs took retired implicit the Philadelphia Eagles, but conditions noticeably got worse pursuing the main break.

The Caribbean popular sensation thrilled the assemblage during her 13-minute set, but according to NFL newsman Ian Rapoport, her stages resulted successful the aboveground being made worse.

Rapoport broke down precisely however Rihanna's show impacted the aboveground connected the Pat McAfee Show aft the erstwhile NFL prima described the tract arsenic an "embarrassment".

"The halftime show, which fundamentally spanned the full field, it pressed the grass, it heated it up and got it slick," helium said.

"It fundamentally accrued the moisture successful the writer due to the fact that it didn't let it to respire due to the fact that it pressed down connected the grass. Then you instrumentality the halftime amusement disconnected the writer and it's a small spot wetter, and successful the 3rd 4th everybody was sliding around."

Rapoport's revelation came aft Australian Eagles prima Jordan Mailata called the aboveground "terrible", adding that "it was similar playing connected a h2o park".

Close-up shots during the 2nd fractional showed patches of writer torn up from the players' cleats, with Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts adjacent having to alteration his boots.

The NFL spent 2 years preparing the aboveground wrong Arizona's State Farm Stadium for the Super Bowl, paying implicit $1.1 cardinal for the writer grown astatine a section sod workplace successful Phoenix.

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