So, Super Bowl 60 happened.
The Seattle Seahawks thumped the New England Patriots 29-13, in a game that can most kindly be described as a spectacle for fans of near faultless defenses and record-breaking kicking. Everyone else stayed tuned in for Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny’s intricate half time show and the ads.
The Birds may not have been at the game this year, but Philadelphians definitely made their presence known in this year’s Super Bowl coverage (and at home, where Philadelphia Zoo chicken Chick Pea weighed in on who would win).
Here’s the list of local representation from Sunday night.
Philly in the Fields
Bad Bunny’s performance was packed with several cultural nods and plenty of props, including a field of about 500 sugar cane bushes — played by people covered in the leafy costume.
After the show, Philly local content producer Andrew Athias revealed that he was one of the sugar cane actors and gave Insider a detailed account of his experience of flying across the country to San Francisco, rehearsing in the 40-pound grass suit and keeping all the details about the performance under wraps because of the non-disclosure agreement he had to sign.
I can FINALLY let the cat out of the bag….or the grass
I flew all the way from Philly to be grass in the Bad Bunny halftime show 🌿
AMA pic.twitter.com/HQROAJtC4K
— The Reese’s Guy⁷ (@AndrewAthias) February 9, 2026
In the ads
The Eagles bald eagle mascot Lincoln — the team’s actual bird, not Swoop — not only starred in this year’s Budweiser commercial, but also made a live cameo at Levi’s Stadium during the game, along with his Clydesdale horse co-star.
Comedian Shane Gillis paired up with rapper Post Malone for another Bud Light commercial, which drew inspiration from the annual Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Roll in Gloucester, England.
Jason Kelce featured in two ads this year, one with his wife Kylie for Youtube TV, the other for his own Garage Beer brand. The beer ad had a not-so-subtle nod to Budweiser.
Bucks County native Sabrina Carpenter had a whirlwind romance with “Pringleleo,” a man she made out of Pringles chips, before eating some of his destroyed remains.
Bradley Cooper was in another UberEats commercial with Matthew McConaughey, playing the naysayer to the conspiracy theory that football is just an elaborate ploy to get people to want food.
Philly-based Xfinity brought back most of the adult stars of 1993 dinosaur caper “Jurassic Park,” digitally de-aged them and imagined how everything would have gone smoothly with the company’s services in place — or if Dennis Nedry’s attempt at corporate thievery seemingly didn’t take place.
