Grab your game day gear and your favorite snacks: the NFL’s 2023 Super Bowl is finally here. This year, the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs will face off on Sunday, February 12th at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. No matter which team takes home the Lombardi Trophy, history has been made. Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes are the first two black starting quarterbacks in history to face off in the annual NFL championship game. Meanwhile, Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce will also become the first brothers to play on opposing teams. Whether you're watching Super Bowl LLVII storylines, football games, star-studded commercials, or Rihanna's halftime show, here's where you can catch all the action.
The 2023 Super Bowl will kick off at 6:30 PM ET on FOX, but pregame festivities will begin before then. (The Super Bowl can also be streamed live on the Fox Sports website as well as Hulu.) The network's telecast begins at 1:00 pm ET and concludes with three pregame musical performances. Babyface will perform "America the Beautiful," Abbott Elementary star Cheryl Lee Ralph will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing," and finally Chris Stapleton will sing the national anthem. They will be joined by CODA Academy Award winners Troy Kotsur, Colin Denny and Justina Miles, who will perform songs in American Sign Language on behalf of the National Association of the Deaf.
Rihanna will headline the first-ever Apple Music Super Bowl halftime show, but it's hard to predict when she'll start performing a medley of her hit songs. Games consist of 15-minute quarters, but this does not take into account timeouts and suspensions due to penalties, injuries and coaching challenges. However, fans can expect halftime to begin around 8pm ET, with Rihanna's performance set to last a total of 13 minutes after she takes the stage after preparation time.
"The setlist was the biggest challenge. That was the hardest, hardest part, deciding how to maximize the 13 minutes and still celebrate it," the nine-time Grammy winner told reporters on February 9, according to Rolling Stone reports . "That's what that show is about. It's going to be a celebration of my catalog and putting it together in the best way we can. . . . You want to cram 17 years of work into 13 minutes, so it's very Difficult. So we had to lose some songs, which was OK, but I think we did a good job narrowing it down to about 39 versions of the set list.”
As mentioned before, the end time of the Super Bowl is also unpredictable, especially considering the possibility of overtime. However, Fox currently plans to move the game to 10:00 PM ET, with postgame coverage and presentation of the Lombardi Trophy to the winning team ending at 10:30 PM ET. Still, expecting the celebrations to be postponed is hardly a gamble at all.
