In light of the recent Super Bowl, MSE students’ football opinions are as important as ever. Who did they want to win, and how did they feel about the outcome?

A Google Form gauging peoples’ ideas about the Super Bowl was sent out to members of The Echo. The results were as follows: 53.3% wanted the Eagles to win, 26.7% wanted the Chiefs to win, and 20% did not have an opinion or wanted neither to win. A common reason newspaper students reported wanting the Eagles to win was mostly just because they did not want the Chiefs to win; reasons ranged from the Chiefs being their team’s “nemesis” to simply being “tired of hearing about the Chiefs.” They also reflected on how “the Eagles’ owner is a Democrat” and the Chiefs’ owner is not. The 26.7% that wanted the Chiefs to win were largely Chiefs fans and the 20% that were undecided largely didn’t follow football in general.

So, all of this begs the question, how do MSE students (outside of The Echo) feel post–Super Bowl? Max Drill (‘27) “thought it was a boring game.” He was rooting against the Eagles. Kate Reifowitz (‘25) “wasn’t really rooting for either team” but knows “a lot of people are happy that the Eagles won.” When asked about the halftime show, they both enjoyed it and appreciated the messages about politics and racism that Kendrick Lamar incorporated. Ms. Boylan also appreciated the cultural symbolism of the halftime show: Kendrick Lamar expressed his ideas through his music, the casting of Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam, and the stage’s game controller–like setup. She linked it to what her sophomores are studying about Realism and African American literature and said to talk to her about a related extra credit opportunity! 

Overall, my survey sample wanted the Eagles to win, but the halftime show seems to have stood out more than the actual game did.