Remember playing a drinking game when you were a teenager where you had to take a sip every time a word was said in a movie?
Stopping at nothing to get things done, we decided to create our own version while watching the Super Bowl.
The objective? Taking a sip every time Taylor Swift came on screen.
Well, let’s say we took a sip of ginger ale because we’re on duty and it was meant to be a rigorous exercise after all.
It’s going strong
It started off with a bang when we saw Taylor during Post Malone’s very sensitive rendition of America the Beautiful. It’s very pretty in our opinion.
Then the young singer was again seen during the national anthem sung by Reba McEntire. At that point, we thought we were brilliant for opting for the ginger ale because it heralded an evening of many sips.
Ultimately, the scoring was sparse during the first half as Taylor appeared once in the first quarter and twice in the second quarter. We could see that she was in a dressing room with some familiar faces, including singer Lana Del Ray and actress Blake Lively, as well as Travis’ mother Kelce and his brother Jason, who wore a jersey and toque of the Chiefs even though he is a member of the Philadelphia Eagles.
We stopped counting towards the end of the fourth quarter because deadline was approaching, but we saw the singer a good half-dozen times, often after important Chiefs plays.
But she wasn’t the only one attracting the cameras because we also saw Paul McCartney, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, LeBron James, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton, chef Gordon Ramsay and Jimmy Kimmel.
Games are made
If drinking ginger ale isn’t really your thing, maybe you’ve opted for a bet. Because you can bet on just about anything when it comes to a match of this importance.
Take for example the national anthem. You could bet on how long Reba McEntire’s performance would last. Book reviewers favored a short anthem under 91 seconds. It lasted 102.
This means that if you had bet for a duration greater than 91 seconds, the odds were set at 102. In other words, you would have pocketed $102 per $100 bet.
In short, you would have had to pay $1,000 to be able to buy a tipped beer at the stadium with the winnings from the bet.