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Worst Super Bowl ever? From awful ads to a divisive halftime show to a boring game, 10 things to forget. [Video]

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Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Just how bad was Super Bowl LIX?

Try 2024 Chicago White Sox bad.

Will Smith Oscars punch bad.

Pauly Shore movie catalogue bad.

So bad they might have to change the name from Super Bowl LIX to Super Bowl SUX.

There have been worse games, perhaps, than the Philadelphia Eagles’ 40-22 rout of the Kansas City Chiefs, a snoozer from the second quarter on. But this dull game was complemented by a pregame show in which the U.S. president spoke of annexing Canada, a halftime show that needed a Gen Z translator and a batch of overwrought corporate commercials preaching religion, patriotism and the NFL.

Capping it all off was Tom Brady doing what he does worst: talking.

Here are the 10 worst things about this year’s Super Bowl:

1. The Chiefs

They came dressed to kill, then got undressed by the Eagles defense. Quarterback/product endorser Patrick Mahomes padded his stats in garbage time, but when it mattered in the first half, he …

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