Are you ready for Super Bowl LX? Get caught up on MND’s coverage

The large time is astir here: Super Bowl LX. Are you excited?

Well, earlier you settee successful for the clash betwixt the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks — and each the associated hoopla — drawback up with our caller Super Bowl-related sum that puts a distinctly Mexican twist connected the large game!

Avocados From Mexico ditches US $8M Super Bowl advertisement for AI ‘Guac Guru’

In a departure from accepted high-stakes Super Bowl advertising, the Mexican manufacture enactment Avocados From Mexico (AFM) has again traded its iconic 30-second Super Bowl LX tv spot for an interactive integer acquisition for fans.

This year, alternatively than spending US $8 cardinal connected a fleeting TV commercial, the enactment is doubling down connected the “second-screen” habits of modern fans with the motorboat of the “Prediction Pit” — an online level for Super Bowl LX that offers interactive integer activities and features a hyper-realistic AI avatar of Rob Riggle calling itself the “Guac Guru,” which offers unrecorded shot predictions utilizing real-time information from SportsDataIO.

Bad Bunny’s sold retired circuit is bringing large bucks to Mexico City

Need to cognize much astir the Super Bowl’s halftime headliner, Bad Bunny? Check retired sum of his wildly fashionable amusement successful December.

Despite disapproval by members of the Trump Administration implicit his enactment for the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show, the NFL has stood by Bad Bunny, says ESPN, due to the fact that he’s portion of their maestro program to triumph implicit much Spanish-speaking fans successful Latin America.

How fashionable is the Puerto Rican superstar among Mexicans? Our nonfiction talks astir however his amusement astatine the GNP Seguros Stadium was 1 of Mexico City’s most-sought-after tickets successful caller memory. It really boosted CDMX’s section economy.

El Jalapeño: Bad Bunny moving 2nd displacement connected taco basal successful Mexico City aft mediocre sales

Bad Bunny is, successful fact, truthful fashionable successful Mexico that we couldn’t defy taking a humorous jab astatine however overmuch Mexicans emotion him.

For a satirical instrumentality connected Bad Bunny’s popularity successful Mexico, cheque retired our El Jalapeño piece, with its lingua firmly successful cheek, reporting connected the Puerto Rican superstar becoming a nighttime taco vendor connected Mexico City’s streets successful bid to marque ends meet.

Opinion: Could Mexico marque America large again? The bilateral agriculture relationship

Mexican avocados are, of course, ace important to the Super Bowl each year. If you’ve ever wondered conscionable however galore Mexico imports to the U.S. each twelvemonth — spoiler alert: it’s astir surely going to beryllium different record-breaker this twelvemonth — cheque retired American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico CEO Pedro Casas Alatriste’s sentiment portion connected however Mexico could marque America large again done the Mexico-U.S. cultivation relationship.

By the way, if you’re funny successful learning however to marque your ain guac for the large game, cheque retired this older portion by MND writer Sandra Gancz Kahan connected however to marque authentic guacamole — successful a accepted molcajete nary less!

An overlooked past of Mexicans successful the Super Bowl

The NFL is making efforts to summation its Latino fanbase — work astir that present — but 1 of the things moving against the U.S. nonrecreational shot league is the NFL’s comparative deficiency of Latino players.

But of the ones who person made it into the NFL, galore person been notable, particularly those from Mexico: MND writer Alan Chazaro has done immoderate digging done past and precocious told our readers astir the large Mexican-born and Mexican American players who each helped instrumentality their NFL teams to astatine slightest 1 Super Bowl — not to notation immoderate existent Vince Lombardi trophies.

And if you’re wondering wherever born-and-raised Mexican shot players came from successful a state that’s been successful unabashed emotion with the different fútbol for a century, successful 2024, Leigh Thelmadatter talked to Mexicans from Mexico City to Tijuana astir however they recovered their emotion for American shot and however the NFL began much earnestly scouting for players successful Mexico successful 2017.

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