Super Bowl LVII: CBS gets date wrong on its live broadcast of the Chiefs-Bengals game

CBS producers have landed in trouble after sensationally getting the date of this year’s Super Bowl wrong during live coverage of the Kansas City Chiefs-Cincinnati Bengals game on Sunday night.

Video from the broadcast showed a group of teams playing in the AFC and NFC championship games over the weekend with the Philadelphia Eagles already mentioned as one of two teams in Super Bowl LVII after the team’s victory. by 31-7 over the San Francisco 49ers.

CBS got that update right, though the network’s chart showed the wrong date for America’s most-watched sporting event, showing February 29 instead of February 12.

CBS incorrectly displayed the date of this year’s Super Bowl as February 29 instead of February 12

Also, February 29 is an additional date that only exists in leap years. The next leap year to come is 2024.

Super Bowl games are also traditionally held on Sundays and if February 29 were a date on this year’s schedule, that would mean the Chiefs and Eagles would meet on Thursday night.

However, some traditions change over time, while others don’t, and Super Bowl LVII will be played on the second Sunday in February in Glendale, Arizona. Fox will have the rights to broadcast the game instead of CBS.

Meanwhile, Rihanna will take center stage as the headlining act of this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. With sales of more than 250 million records worldwide, Rihanna ranks as one of the best-selling female artists of all time. Her most recent album was 2016’s ‘Anti’.

Rihanna last performed publicly at the Grammy Awards in 2018.

The Philadelphia Eagles will face the Kansas City Chiefs after their 31-7 victory over San Francisco

Kansas City will be in its second Super Bowl in three years after beating the Cincinnati Bengals

The singer said she turned down a similar opportunity for the 2019 Super Bowl that was ultimately headlined by Maroon 5. At the time, many artists expressed their support for Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who protested the police brutality against blacks and minorities. kneeling during the national anthem in 2016.

Country music star Chris Stapleton will sing the national anthem, while R&B legend Babyface will perform ‘America the Beautiful.’

The Pro Bowl will also get a big makeover this year after the NFL scrapped its full-contact all-star game and replaced it with week-long skills competitions and a flag football game.

The contest will take place on February 5 in Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium, a week before the Super Bowl.

Rihanna will be this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, two years after turning down the opportunity