The Big Issue

Game on

The Super Bowl is always the biggest event on America’s sports calendar, but this year’s will be more than significant than ever, as a nation never more divided comes together for the first time after months of political uncertainty, racial tension and pandemic.

“Football in America is more popular than all the other sports combined,” says Osi Umenyiora, sports pundit and Super Bowl winner with the New York Giants in 2008 and 2012. “So when the best teams play, the entire country comes to a halt.

“There’s so much

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