Rihanna’s dad found out she was pregnant at Super Bowl

Rihanna’s dad was just as surprised as the rest of the world when the “Umbrella” singer revealed her baby bump during the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show last weekend.

Ronald Fenty, who flew from Barbados to attend the game in Glendale, Ariz., told TMZ that he had no idea his daughter was expecting her second child with A$AP Rocky.

“Oh my God! My baby girl looks pregnant,” he recalled saying to this partner while in the stands at State Farm Stadium.

Ronald also noted that he hopes the Fenty Beauty mogul, 34, will welcome a baby girl this time around – after giving birth to a son last year.

Page Six has reached out to reps for Rihanna but did not immediately hear back.

As previously reported, the “Disturbia” singer, born Robyn Rihanna Fenty, has had a rocky relationship with her father through the years.

Rihanna’s dad didn’t know she was expecting her second child until the Super Bowl halftime show.
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Rihanna during the Super Bowl Half Time show.
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Rihanna’s dad didn’t know she was expecting her second child until the Super Bowl halftime show.
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Ronald divorced Rihanna’s mom, Monica Braithwaite, amid alcohol and drug issues when the singer was just 14 years old.

Rihanna later accused her father of misusing her name to benefit his own entertainment company. However, she eventually dropped the lawsuit she brought against him in September 2021.

Ronald recently spoke to Page Six about being a grandfather to Rihanna’s first child, who was born in May 2022.

Ronald Fenty noticed his daughter’s baby bump from the stands at the Super Bowl.
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“She’s loving it. She’s a very overprotective mother,” he said, noting the “Rude Boy” singer had visited her home country with the youngster twice so far.

“Everybody says [the baby] looks like me, but you know, babies change, faces change. He [resembles] a lot of Rihanna and Rocky together,” he went on.

Ronald, who joked that Rihanna would “have [his] head” if he divulged the bub’s name, also said that Rocky, 34, was “a cool guy.”

Rihanna’s dad also revealed he’s a fan of A$AP Rocky.
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“[He’s] very respectable. He’s taking to fatherhood very well,” Ronald said.

However, he “doesn’t know” whether the couple will ever tie the knot.

“I don’t know about marriage, I really don’t know.”

Rihanna and Rocky, who are the British Vogue March cover stars with their baby boy, started dating in late 2020, after being friends for years.

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the Chiefs don’t deserve an apology

Now that the Super Bowl is done and dusted, Americans are tuning into our true national sport: public penance.

Within the pigskin universe, we recently saw one person who had absolutely nothing to atone for give a thoughtful but unnecessary mea culpa — and another who has a lot to learn about the concept of grace call for one.

And the bookend examples say a lot about the current state of apologies. They’re rarely offered from the heart, and instead bitterly demanded or coerced to satisfy a tiny, offended class.

The first instance came courtesy of Buffalo Bills miracle Damar Hamlin, a modern-day Lazarus who was barely five minutes from his resurrection when he was called out for an imaginary offense.

Before the Super Bowl, Hamlin, 24, took the field to celebrate with the medical staff who saved his life after he collapsed at a game in early January.

What should have been a triumphant moment that united all football fans was later turned into a nitpicky and cynical questioning of his Christian faith. All because his blue varsity jacket, a collaboration between rapper Travis Scott and artist Takashi Murakami, featured an abstract depiction of Christ.


Damar Hamlin offended Adrian Peterson with his jacket.
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Of all people, former running back Adrian Peterson, who was suspended for the entire 2014 season after beating his young son with a switch, called Hamlin’s jacket “blasphemous,” adding, “You should be thanking God son!”

Others on Twitter soon piled on.

Despite the whole affair being so absurd it could have been scripted by the creators of “South Park,” Hamlin offered a contrite explanation on Twitter.

“After talking with my parents I understand how my coat could have offended some people. It was never my intentions to hurt or disrespect anyone, the coat is abstract art to me. It says Eternal which I am Eternally thankful to my Savior! My beliefs and Relationship with God is not tied to symbolic images. I will learn from this and continue to walk in Love as I ALWAYS have. Matthew 7:1-5.”

Hamlin, who is clearly a self-reflective type, didn’t owe anyone anything — especially Peterson, who forgot the ol’ Christian wisdom: “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.”


Brittney Mahomes demanded people apologize to the Chiefs.
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Intent should matter and he was obviously making a fashion statement, not a religious one.

Then, on the other side, we have the aggrieved Brittany Mahomes. The wife of supremely talented quarterback Patrick Mahomes wanted Chiefs naysayers to grovel in the aftermath of the team’s Super Bowl win.

“I think a lot of people need to apologize for what they said about this team at the beginning of this season,” she tweeted with the bravado of a wrestling heel. Instead, it conveyed the delusional entitlement of a grown woman in a “wine o’ clock” shirt asking to speak to the manager.

Forget winning with dignity or enjoying the glow from the Lombardi Trophy in your hands. No, she’s looking for subjugation and media consensus by pushing a make-believe storyline that her husband’s team was disrespected.

Mahomes, who has appeared in three Super Bowls, has two championship rings. This victory is fodder for a “30 for 30” on the Chiefs dynasty — not the next big Hollywood underdog flick.


Brittney Mahomes celebrated her husband’s Super Bowl victory and then demanded an apology from naysayers.
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The team was not Rocky Balboa fighting Apollo Creed at the Spectrum in 1975; or Hickory taking on the South Bend Central Bears; or even the sad-sack Buffalo Bills of the early ’90s.

She’s as unsympathetic as Prince Harry blasting his family in a yearlong campaign, then telling them they need to apologize.

As a Catholic, I’m well-practiced in the art of contrition. But the act has become a hollow gesture. So I tend to defer to the problematic 21st century philosopher, Conor McGregor, who once said:

“I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, I’d like to take this chance to apologize … to absolutely nobody.” 

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Whoopi Goldberg Asks for Snacks on ‘The View’: “Where Are My Chips?”

Whoopi Goldberg got a little salty on this morning’s episode of The View. The co-host, who was leading a Super Bowl recap show at the Hot Topics table, halted her own introduction to make sure she and her co-hosts would be served some previously promised snacks before they got too deep into the day’s chat.

After welcoming the viewers to Monday’s episode and congratulating the Kansas City Chiefs on their Super Bowl win, Goldberg looked off camera and made a quick request.

“Anyhoo, where are my chips? Where’s all my chips and stuff?” she asked.

A voice off camera (presumably View executive producer Brian Teta) assured the co-host, “They’re coming, they’re coming. We got ’em.”

Goldberg objected, replying, “this is the beginning of the show,” but sure enough, a staffer appeared onstage carrying all sorts of snacks.

“Let’s go, yeah!” Goldberg exclaimed as she and the rest of the Hot Topics table were presented with an array of chips, popcorn and other snacks.

Pleased with the bounty of treats, Goldberg carried on with that morning’s show, launching into a discussion about the Super Bowl.

Goldberg said she tuned into last night’s game, but couldn’t seem to focus on anything but the field at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

“It was so hard to watch. The grass really upset me. I can’t even explain,” she said, referring to the turf issues that plagued players throughout yesterday’s game as they slipped and slid across the field.

“It really upset me because I thought, if they slip and pull and they hurt themselves, you know, for no reason, then somebody didn’t put the turf down the right way.”

Sunny Hostin turned the conversation to a brighter note by pointing to the two quarterbacks who played last night — Patrick Mahomes with the Kansas City Chiefs and Jalen Hurts with the Philadelphia Eagles — both of whom are Black.

“Finally, we know that Black quarterbacks can lead teams, and are smart enough to lead teams,” she said to applause. She added, “How about some Black owners?”

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Chiefs’ Harrison Butker overcomes miss to seal Super Bowl 2023 win

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Harrison Butker grew up an Adam Vinatieri fan, and anyone with a firm grasp of the early Patriots dynasty understood that Vinatieri, the kicker, was always one of the toughest players on Bill Belichick’s team. 

So there Butker was in the final seconds of Super Bowl 2023, the score tied and the world waiting to see if he could boot the Kansas City Chiefs to a championship. One of the NFL’s most reliable kickers, Butker had injured his ankle in the season opener in this very building, State Farm Stadium, causing him to miss some games and to tweak his technique. 

“The only reason he had problems [this year] was the high ankle sprain, and that’s rough on a kicker, especially on that front leg,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “And so it was a matter of just getting through that, and the tweaks that that thing presents to you really for the rest of the season from when he was hurt.” 

Overcoming all of that was one thing. Overcoming an early field-goal miss in the Super Bowl is quite another. 


Harrison Butker kicks the game-winning field goal in Super Bowl 2023.
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But sure enough, on his first field-goal attempt against the Eagles, Butker pulled his 42-yarder and bounced if off the left upright, leaving him to confront an unforgiving truth on the sideline. 

“You’ve got to focus on the next kick, and that’s what I was doing,” Butker said. “You do look at the scoreboard and think, ‘Wow, if I did make that field goal, we’d have three more points.’ But is that going to help me make the next kick? Probably not. You’ve got to get that out of your mind and just focus on the process and the next opportunity you get.” 

And that opportunity came when the Chiefs executed their decisive drive in the final minutes, refusing to take the touchdown that was there and choosing to bleed the clock and try the field goal instead. It was only a 27-yarder, a gimme. But with the Super Bowl on the line, try telling a kicker who had missed an earlier attempt that anything is a gimme with 100 million or so people watching. 

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Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker celebrates with his children.
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Butker handled the pressure like the pro’s pro he is. He nailed the kick, and soon enough the Chiefs were celebrating and the confetti was flying. 

“I didn’t grow up a kicker, but it’s hard not to notice a kicker like Adam Vinatieri,” Butker said. “And as a kicker, that’s how you get noticed — those big kicks and those big moments. It’s just very surreal to be sitting here right now to have won a second Super Bowl in six seasons and to have it come down to a field goal.” 

Why did Butker have the poise to win a Super Bowl in Vinatieri form? 

“Normally the kickers aren’t the toughest guys,” Reid said. “But this one here, he’s a tough nut, man.”

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Nick Sirianni had Eagles on brink of Super Bowl 2023 title

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Before kickoff, Nick Sirianni shed more than a few tears.

By the end of the night, it was Andy Reid who had the last laugh.

There is no doubt the Eagles play the way Nick Sirianni coaches. There is an “I don’t give a damn’’ attitude that permeates his team and all of that attitude was needed Sunday night during a wild and tense Super Bowl 2023 battle at State Farm Stadium.

Sirianni, the 41-year old in his second year as a head coach, got his team out of the gate fast but could not get his team across the finish line first. The Eagles dominated the first half but got overrun in the second half, losing 38-35 on a late field goal by Harrison Butker.

As country singer Chris Stapleton was singing the national anthem, Sirianni could be seen getting quite emotional, tears flowing down his cheeks. During the week, Sirianni predicted standing on the sideline before the game would lead to an introspective moment.

“I’ve been dreaming of this since I’ve been 2 years old,’’ Sirianni said afterward. “I was telling the guys some of you have been dreaming about this since you’ve been 2 years old. We’ve all been dreaming of it. Growing up in the family of a football coach, this is what you dream of being in this moment, just emotional in that moment.’’


Nick Sirianni’s aggressive play-calling had the Eagles offense rolling, but his team couldn’t quell the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes-led attack.
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The Eagles were dominating the game but not the scoreboard, tied at 14 after Jalen Hurts dropped the ball for a fumble that Chiefs linebacker Nick Bolton scooped up and returned 36 yards for a touchdown. On the next Eagles offensive series, Sirianni showed either the aggressiveness or the arrogance that has come to define the sensational start to his NFL head coaching tenure.

The Eagles were on the Kansas City 45-yard line and faced a fourth-and-5. Clearly, they were not in field-goal range and this was not a short-yardage situation. Sirianni certainly could have called for a punt and no one would have questioned his decision. If he opted to go for it on fourth down and failed, he would hand Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs the ball near midfield — not an attractive option.

Sirianni does not think much about failure. He never hesitated at all as he kept his offense on the field. Hurts made his head coach look smart, taking advantage of a gaping hole up the middle to scoot 28 yards to the Chiefs’ 16-yard line.

Three plays later, Sirianni did it again. It was fourth-and-2 on the Kansas City 8-yard line, a chip-shot field goal for Jake Elliott. No chance. Not for Sirianni. He goes for the jugular. The Eagles, the most lethal team in the NFL in converting quarterback sneaks, never had to snap the ball. Defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi was called for a neutral-zone infraction, handing the Eagles a first down. Hurts ran untouched into the end zone from 4 yards out and it was 21-14.

Sirianni was on the ball late in the second quarter, alertly calling his first timeout with 1:33 remaining before halftime before the Chiefs lined up to punt, realizing he should save some time for a final scoring thrust. Sirianni used two more timeouts during the possession, leaving just enough time for Jake Elliott to hammer home a 35-yard field goal for a 24-14 lead at the break.


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At the finish, though, Sirianni — a guy who make his reputation as an offensive assistant — did not have the answer on how to prevent the Chiefs from piling on 17 points to take the game.

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Bradley Cooper shows Eagles fandom all over Super Bowl 2023

One of the Eagles’ top A-list fans has been an active participant in Super Bowl 2023 against the Kansas City Chiefs. From a Super Bowl commercial to a meme-worthy moment with some nachos, Bradley Cooper has been everywhere.

The 48-year-old is a lifelong Eagles fan, growing up outside Philadelphia in Abington Township. His links to the city don’t stop there. The nine-time Oscar-nominated actor had a lead in “Silver Linings Playbook” — a film set in Philly that features several game-day moments — and he was the voice for an Eagles apology to Santa Claus in an ESPN promo for the infamous snowball-throwing incident.

Cooper has made a number of appearances at Lincoln Financial field over the years, sporting notable fashion pieces including an Allen Iverson shirt and vintage Eagles bomber jacket sitting alongside team owner Jeffrey Lurie.

For the year’s big game, Cooper called up his mom to act opposite him in a T-Mobile commercial, advertising their 5G services. The ad opens with T-Mobile explaining they tried to create a commercial with the mother-son duo, with Cooper as a company rep while his mom plays a customer. The commercial shows the two’s endless laughter as they mess up several takes.

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Cooper’s mother opens up with “I don’t like the way you look” after he asks how he can help her.

Cooper was also the narrator for Sunday’s game introduction and was the voice behind one of the Eagles’ hype videos.

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“We have an obsession around here,” Cooper opens with between flashes of video of the team, Eagles fans, and the city itself. “To stay in the moment. To focus on every single detail. The next minute. The next meeting. The next practice. The next game.”

Cooper is in attendance at State Farm Stadium for the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, wearing an Eagles shirt. He even fueled up on some pregame nachos to cheer on his hometown team.

“Together, we’ve got one goal: Bring that Lombardi Trophy back home,” he concluded in the hype video.



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JuJu Smith-Schuster wears kilt to Super Bowl 2023

JuJu Smith Schuster turned heads when he arrived to Super Bowl 2023.

The Chiefs wide receiver rocked a light green kilt as he strolled into State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. on Sunday.

Smith-Schuster, who’s known for his eye-popping fashion choices, paired the knee-length skirt with a white collared shirt with long sleeves and black boots. He accessorized with a black hat and sunglasses and carried a black bag.

“This sh-t not for everybody,” the 26-year-old wideout wrote on his Instagram Story, including a photo of his pregame look. He added a graphic that said, “Paris.”

The Chiefs captioned their post: “JuJu on that Super Bowl beat 😮‍💨.”

Meanwhile, Smith-Schuster’s quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, looked dapper in a patterned suit and mirrored Oakley sunglasses. The two-time NFL MVP joins Tom Brady as the only quarterback all-time to start three Super Bowls in their first six seasons.


Chiefs wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster arrives at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona for Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12, 2023.
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Chiefs wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster arrives at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona for Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12, 2023.
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Smith-Schuster made a fashionable entrance to play in the first Super Bowl of his career.

The receiver, who signed a one-year $10.75 million max deal with the Chiefs this past offseason, will earn an extra $1 million if Kansas City defeats the Eagles in Super Bowl 2023 and he plays 50 percent of the snaps.

Smith-Schuster finished his first season with the Chiefs with 933 yards and three touchdowns. 

The former Steelers receiver, who’s set to become a free agent in the offseason, told NFL Network’s Mike Giardi on Saturday that he’s hoping to remain in Kansas City.

“Yeah, I want to come back,” Smith-Schuster said. “Of course, man. Look where I’m at? I want to come back to this.”



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Eagles and Over is way to go

Richard Witt predicts the winner of Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs:

Eagles -1.5 over Chiefs, Over 50.5

We find it hard to stray too much away from the fundamentals of the Chiefs-Eagles matchup. We’re more comfortable where we stand than we were just a few days ago, but our basic perspective has not radically changed.

Do we respect Patrick Mahomes and the monstrous, versatile Kansas City offense, even against a defense as good as Philadelphia’s? For sure, but to not respect the defensive proposition in a game this significant would be folly, unless multiple significant injuries come into play in short order.

We continue to suspect the offenses will maintain a meaningful edge versus the defenses they’ll be facing. The two worthies you’d expect to garner the bulk of the MVP attention (those top-drawer quarterbacks) continue to draw numerous hearts and eyeballs. It’s a challenge to tear your attention away from Mahomes and the Eagles’ Jalen Hurts.

The four most recent Supes have trended toward more moderate Over/Under ledgers, with the last quartet featuring 43, 40, 51 and 16 points. The last two scoring explosions came when the Eagles made the most of their opportunities and took out the Patriots, 41-33, in the Super Bowl LII overtime hard-knocker.


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The Chiefs are blessed with a multiplicity of talented athletes on both sides of the ball. Even more impressively, they displayed an uncanny improvement advantage during the course of the season, though much of that could be attributed to their facing lesser quarterback talent during the final third of the campaign.

We’ll also readily agree that the Chiefs have proven themselves to be effective in varying defensive sets — not the least of which is their broad effectiveness when playing many varieties of zone defense, which has posed the Eagles’ offensive talent sustained difficulties. And when you’re talking about Hurts, you’re talking about a quarterback who has been less than bulletproof when attempting to make optimal throws to his right, causing him considerable discomfort on multiple occasions.

At first glance, I was considerably optimistic and bullish about the Eagles in this affair — especially if they came to the game relatively healthy, with most of the major players in reasonably good form and optimistic about the likely outcome from their sides’ perspective.

I currently believe that I was simply too optimistic about the level of stalwartness of the Eagles’ defense during my early research, especially when you consider the degree of schedule (not all that tough, boys and girls) the Eagles found themselves coming up against during the course of the long, hard season.


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Bottom-lining this, I can’t deny that the Eagles could turn out to be excruciatingly vulnerable to the size, type and style of offense that the Chiefs are likely to pitch at them for well over three hours on national television.

I can still envision the Eagles winning, but they’re going to have to get off to that snappy start that many of the optimists expected they will generate. When they have wrested early command, they have been the devil to beat, but when many things don’t quite go precisely as they’d like, they’re not quite the locks to overcome all obstacles we originally envisioned.

Last week: 1-1
Season: 124-118-3.

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Kansas City Chiefs ‘tomahawk chop’ protested by Indigenous activists

Native American groups are expected to protest the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, calling for the AFC champions to drop their name and logo as they take on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 57.

The Chiefs wear the arrowhead logo on their helmet and use a large drum to kick of their home games, as fans routinely engage in what’s known as the “tomahawk chop” chant, all of which critics say draw on offensive and racist stereotypes.

This is their third trip to the NFL title game in four years and Kansas City fans can be heard throughout Phoenix singing the “tomahawk chop” chant. It is a jarring contrast to the displays of Native American culture and pride that Super Bowl hosts have invited to participate in the days leading up to the game.


Massive crowd of Kansas City Chiefs fans doing the tomahawk chop at Arrowhead Stadium on Sept. 11, 2016.
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Dancers from Indigenous Enterprise performed at Monday’s Opening Night festivities, becoming the first Native Americans to perform at the annual media mega event.

In a strange juxtaposition, they took the stage minutes after Kansas City fans in attendance at the Footprint Center joined together in a loud rendition of their “tomahawk chop” chant.

“What the NFL is doing inside Phoenix, by bringing in indigenous dancers and artists, that’s celebrating the authentic, which is wonderful,” said Cher Thomas, an artist, community organizer and member of the Gila River Community. She will be among those outside the game on Sunday protesting.

“However, the NFL simultaneously condones Kansas City’s team and their names and monikers and their derogatory traditions.”


Cher Thomas speaking during a news conference by Native American advocacy groups, on Feb. 9, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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The NFL did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Chiefs supporter Benny Blades, 55, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, said he admired the team for “sticking to their guns” as he stood in Scottsdale’s Old Town, where fans broke out into spontaneous “tomahawk” chants on streets lined with shops selling Native American arts and crafts.

“We can’t say anything now because you’re gonna offend one or two percent of the people in the United States,” he said.

Scottsdale is directly adjacent to the Salt River-Maricopa Indian Community of more than 7,000 residents, one of Arizona’s 22 federally recognized tribes.

At Sunday’s preshow, when singer Babyface performs “America the Beautiful,” Navajo Colin Denny will provide North American Indian Sign Language interpretation.

Chiefs fans are all but assured to perform the “tomahawk chop” cheer loudly in the minutes before kickoff, as they did prior to the game in their previous two Super Bowl appearances.

The Chiefs did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


Former KC Chiefs placekicker Jan Stenerud leading the “tomahawk chop” before the Chiefs faced off against NFL the Los Angeles Chargers on Dec. 16, 2017.
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Ak-Chin Indian Community, the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and the Tohono O’odham Nation, who are partners with the Super Bowl host committee, did not respond to multiple interview requests. Another partner, Gila River Indian Community, did not make leadership available.

It is far from the first time the Chiefs name and traditions have come under fire.

In 2019 the Kansas City Star called for an end to the chanting and chopping hand gestures.

Months later, in the days before the Chiefs’ Super Bowl triumph over the San Francisco 49ers, the team told Reuters it had “engaged in meaningful discussions with a group comprised of individuals with diverse Native American backgrounds and experiences” over the previous six years.

But amid a nationwide reckoning over race propelled by the Black Lives Matter Movement, their name and the majority of their traditions remained intact, even as the Washington Redskins dropped their nickname in July 2020. The Washington team later replaced the nickname, widely seen as a racist slur, with the Commanders.


Patrick Mahomes and other Kansas City Chiefs players do the tomahawk chop during the Kansas City Chiefs Victory Parade on Feb. 5, 2020 in Kansas City, Missouri.
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A month later the Chiefs announced they would ban the wearing of headdresses at Arrowhead Stadium, where the words “end racism” were painted in the end zone and emblazoned on helmets in a nod to racial justice.

“They use that hashtag #EndRacism and it’s on their helmets. And it’s tone deaf,” said Rhonda LeValdo, an Acoma Pueblo journalist who founded the Not in our Honor coalition in 2005, to advocate against the use of Native American imagery in sports.

“I don’t even understand what you guys are saying and you have the Chiefs logo and you guys are doing the chop.”

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Jennifer Coolidge studied mortuary makeup before acting

Paulette Bonafonté may have been closer to Jennifer Coolidge’s real life than previously expected.

The “Legally Blonde” actress — who starred as the nail tech and makeup guru in the film — recently spoke to Vogue about her new Super Bowl commercial for e.l.f. Cosmetics and along with sharing her love for the retailer’s affordable makeup, she shared that her career almost took a very different path.

“I sort of thought that maybe I’d be a makeup artist, but I was not the best in the class, and who wants to be sort of mediocre at something if you pick that as a career?” Coolidge told Vogue.

She attended the Joe Blasco School in Los Angeles to study “special effects, fashion and beauty” in “a curriculum that included a mortuary makeup class” — though there were no cadavers included in class.

While she didn’t end up going the funeral home route and chose acting instead, the “White Lotus” actress did learn a thing or two during beauty school.

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“If you have dark under your eyes, like black or blue, you can actually mix orange makeup in with your concealer, and it will completely cover the blue, or yellow to cover redness,” she shared.

Coolidge — who recently had a ball with her “Shotgun Wedding” co-star Jennifer Lopez at the movie’s after party — said she was attracted to the e.l.f. brand because of her commitment to animal rights, just like Elle Woods’ crusade against animal testing in the sequel to “Legally Blonde.”

“A lot of the lines sort of fake you out, and when you really read between the lines you realize that they aren’t completely cruelty-free,” she said. “The thing I love about the e.l.f. stuff—it really is like, vegan. And it’s extremely affordable.”

Coolidge is passionate about supporting brands that are cruelty free and vegan.

The movie star is the face of e.l.f. Cosmetics’ very first Super Bowl commercial.


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The actress looked glam in black lace at the Season 2 premiere of “The White Lotus” last fall.

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In a teaser for the brand’s Super Bowl ad — which was co-written by Mike White, co-creator of “The White Lotus” — Coolidge tries out the e.l.f. “Power Grip Primer” ($10), saying “get ready for prime time.”

After applying the smoothing, gel-based product, she exclaims, “Oh my God. It looks like I came from the sea! I look like a dolphin … a baby dolphin!” and even makes dolphin noises in the hilarious clip, seemingly a reference to her viral Golden Globes clip declaring her dream role would be to star as the aquatic animal.

It seems life has already imitated art for Coolidge.

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