J-Lo Deletes Political Message About Super Bowl Halftime Show: TRAINA THOUGHTS

Did Jennifer Lopez use Super Bowl halftime show to send political message?

1. Politics and the NFL just can't seem to have a full breakup.

While many people focused on Jennifer Lopez and Shakira shaking all sorts of body parts during their halftime show at Super Bowl LIV on Sunday, some people wondered if a political message was being sent by Lopez when her daughter joined her on stage from inside a cage-like contraption before singing a snippet of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A.

Lopez seemed to confirm that there may have been something there in an Instagram caption on Monday, writing, "Other people can try to build walls, keep us out or put us in cages. We are proud to recognize that all of us together are what makes this beautiful country truly great."

Love JLo’s political statement about children in cages during last night’s #HalftimeShow “Other people can try to build walls, keep us out or put us in cages. We are proud to recognize that all of us together are what makes this beautiful country truly great." -@JLo 🙌🏿❤️ pic.twitter.com/qpnmZNP2Np

— Makho Ndlovu (@makhondlovu) February 4, 2020

However, Lopez later deleted the, "Other people can try to build walls, keep us out or put us in cages." portion of the caption

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Did Lopez delete the line because she didn't want backlash from the NFL? Did Lopez delete the line because she didn't want backlash from Pepsi, which sponsored the halftime show? Did she delete the line because she just didn't want to deal with trolls in her Instagram comments? 

It's hard to say, but deleting the sentence makes you think someone got in her ear.

2. Here are some Super Bowl ratings tidbits. Once again, the halftime show had a larger audience than the game.

This marks the 9th straight year that the Super Bowl halftime show has drawn a larger audience than the game itself. https://t.co/CKtBOnD7HI

— Michael Mulvihill (@mulvihill79) February 3, 2020

FOX's pregame show was up 26% over last year's pregame show on CBS.

Coverage of #SBLIV jumped out to a strong start on FOX 💪 pic.twitter.com/M7inVlmklF

— FOX Sports PR (@FOXSportsPR) February 3, 2020

Not fake news.

TRUMP's Hannity-hosted monologue on Super Bowl Sunday drew 10.3M viewers, per Fox. That's DOWN from his 2017 chat with O'Reilly (12.2M) and LOWER than all of OBAMA's SB interviews, which drew between 16.4 and 21.9M (but also aired a bit closer to the game), per Variety 2/6/17

— TVMoJoe (@TVMoJoe) February 3, 2020

3. This is one hell of a stat.

Patrick Mahomes on 3rd and 15+ yards this season (including playoffs):

13-17, 299 yds, 3 TD, 0 Int pic.twitter.com/K6C3EA9tFL

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) February 4, 2020

4. Watch until the end.

This is so wholesome 🙌 (via @ATLHawks) pic.twitter.com/JGhlmM1JMF

— ESPN (@espn) February 4, 2020

5. Julian Edelman is pulling out all the stops to get Tom Brady back in New England.

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6. A new SI Media Podcast will drop Wednesday morning. Recent guests have included Kevin Harlan, Brent Musburger, Chris Long and Curt Menefee. Catch up by subscribing and downloading on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Play.

7. RANDOM YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THE DAY: The end of the NFL season begins the countdown to the start of the MLB season. So here's what might be the most famous baseball commercial of all time.

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