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      Anti-War Voices Accuse Super Bowl of 'Hijacking the Pat Tillman Story'

      One journalist reminded readers that the NFL star and Army Ranger "called the Iraq invasion and occupation 'fucking illegal' and was killed by friendly fire in an incident the military covered up and tried to hide from his family."

      Brett Wilkins
      Feb 12, 2023

      Advocates of peace, truth, and basic human decency on Sunday excoriated the National Football League's "whitewashing" of former Arizona Cardinal and Army Ranger Pat Tillman's death in Afghanistan by so-called "friendly fire" and the military's subsequent cover-up—critical details omitted from a glowingly patriotic Super Bowl salute.

      As a group of four Pat Tillman Foundation scholars chosen as honorary coin-toss captains at Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona were introduced via a video segment narrated by actor Kevin Costner, viewers were told how Tillman "gave up his NFL career to join the Army Rangers and ultimately lost his life in the line of duty."

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      Buffalo Bills players and staff kneel together

      Damar Hamlin and the Super Bowl's Big Hit

      Tonight's the big game, but can we even watch any longer? I'm not sure that I can.

      Robert Lipsyte
      Feb 12, 2023

      The echoes still linger from that national sigh of relief last month when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, slammed into cardiac arrest during a game on January 2nd, was declared out of danger. It was a justified sigh. A vibrant young life had been spared.

      But was that really what the nation was relieved about? If football fans had been so invested in the health and safety of the players, why were some 23.8 million of them watching that game in the first place?

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      Eminem, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, and Snoop Dogg perform onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show

      NFL Embraces Hip-Hop, Despite Its Conflicted History

      Super Bowl halftimes have come a long way since Andy Williams and marching bands.

      Tony Norman
      Feb 15, 2022

      Sometime in the summer of 2023, the musical genre and lifestyle known as hip-hop will officially hit the half-century mark.

      The difference now is that they've made their peace with hip-hop's critique of white privilege, its nonconformity, its own problematic narratives around gender and violence, its uncompromising Black aesthetic, its joy of innovation and its unpredictable irreverence.

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