Highlights The Super Bowl is the biggest day on the annual sporting calendar, so it’s no surprise that it has been a day rife with controversy in years past
Controversies range from shocking ads, to broadcast mishaps, to bold guarantees, to wardrobe malfunctions
These controversies have resulted in lawsuits, investigations, and even a couple of instances where the FBI got involved
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For millions of spectators, players, and fans around the high-octane spectacle, the Super Bowl is the annual gift that just keeps on giving. For an entire week famous athletes, celebrities, and pumped-up fans gather in a city for revelry and entertainment, with the rest of the world eagerly watching on. What could possibly go wrong? Well, we’re glad you asked. Here is the list of the 10 wildest Super Bowl controversies ever, ranked.
10 Super Bowl Ad From Hell
The advertising gods must have been crazy, very crazy, to allow the airing of this absolutely shocking ad for shoe and sportswear retailers Just For Feet during Super Bowl XXXIII, a matchup between the Atlanta Falcons and Denver Broncos. The ad begins with a group of white soldiers exuberantly tracking down a barefooted black long-distance runner, in a scene eerily reminiscent of a safari-style hunt. It only got worse from there. Inside the vehicle, a humvee branded with a Just For Feet license plate, the hunting party are busy mixing a JFF-branded tranquilizer concoction, which is later handed to the runner as a cup of water.
After drinking the mix, the runner gets dizzy and passes out, awakening to find that a pair of running shoes had been forced onto his feet. The runner, while protesting with a loud long
10 wildest Super Bowl controversies ever, ranked
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