{"id":149360,"date":"2025-02-10T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/actually-serena-williams-won-the-super-bowl-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T20:57:00","slug":"actually-serena-williams-won-the-super-bowl-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/actually-serena-williams-won-the-super-bowl-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Actually, Serena Williams Won the Super Bowl 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">On Sunday, Feb. 9, 65,719 people piled into Caesars Superdome in New Orleans to watch this year\u2019s Super Bowl 2025, according to the venue\u2019s official count. The Philadelphia Eagles dominated, 40-22 over the Kansas City Chiefs, but the true victor of Super Bowl LIX was <strong>Serena Williams<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A huge swath of the Super Bowl\u2019s audience could take or leave the game itself\u2014they\u2019re in this thing for the camaraderie, the ads, the halftime show, the <em>drama<\/em>. We knew the last category would provide, by virtue of having two of the world\u2019s most-discussed individuals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a> and <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, in attendance, but all-time tennis great Williams can add an accolade to her resume, right alongside those 23 career Grand Slams.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd jSwmTa iXWezO caption__text\">Serena Williams performs during the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome on February 9, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.<\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd cvffOM fNaHcW caption__credit\">Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Williams made an instantly iconic surprise appearance on the field during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/kendrick-lamar-halftime-show-super-bowl-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kendrick Lamar<\/strong>\u2019s halftime performance<\/a>, offering up a scene-stealing C-walk while he performed \u201cNot Like Us.\u201d It was a reprise of sorts for Williams: Lamar\u2019s fellow Compton native did the same dance to celebrate her 2012 Olympic gold medal win at Wimbledon after she bested <strong>Maria Sharapova<\/strong>. <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.essence.com\/news\/real-talk-serenas-c-walk-is-it-really-that-deep\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.essence.com\/news\/real-talk-serenas-c-walk-is-it-really-that-deep\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.essence.com\/news\/real-talk-serenas-c-walk-is-it-really-that-deep\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williams was criticized<\/a> at the time for the move, also known as the \u201cCrip walk\u201d for its association with the gang of the same name, but it has become a common hip-hop dance move. \u201cIt\u2019s just a dance,\u201d Williams emphasized in a press conference in 2012. She hasn\u2019t forgotten the backlash: In a <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/serenawilliams\/status\/1888768019179901104\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/serenawilliams\/status\/1888768019179901104&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/serenawilliams\/status\/1888768019179901104\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video posted to social media<\/a> after her performance Sunday, Williams commented, \u201cMan, I did not crip-walk like that at Wimbledon. Oh, I would\u2019ve been fined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">And then there\u2019s the <strong>Drake<\/strong> of it all, which can be summarized as \u201csalt, meet wound.\u201d Lamar\u2019s song, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/grammy-winners-2025-full-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scooped up five Grammys a week ago<\/a>, is, among other things, a diss track about the Canadian rapper. In a performance stuffed with Taylor Swift-worthy Easter eggs referencing Drake, Williams was one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Williams and Drake were rumored to have been a couple in 2015, though they never publicly confirmed it. Drake was spotted at several of Williams\u2019 tournaments throughout that season, and has said that his song \u201cToo Good\u201d is about her, and he also called her husband <strong>Alexis Ohanian<\/strong> a \u201cgroupie\u201d on 2022\u2019s \u201cMiddle of the Ocean.\u201d Lamar\u2019s \u201cNot Like Us&#8221; drops the line \u201cbetter not speak on Serena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI died a little,\u201d <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/serenawilliams\/status\/1888767368005812602\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/serenawilliams\/status\/1888767368005812602&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/serenawilliams\/status\/1888767368005812602\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williams wrote in a tweet<\/a> of her Super Bowl appearance.<\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"social media post\" class=\"TwitterEmbedContainer-ggEzfU fHwbKp\">\n<div class=\"MessageBannerWrapper-krrtvl ilxjKE ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ\" data-testid=\"message-banner\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MessageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd hfDfPc lbXvvx\">\n<h4 class=\"ConsentBannerTitle-lgaGAH gOfech\">X content<\/h4>\n<p>This content can also be viewed on the site it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/serenawilliams\/status\/1888767368005812602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Opens in a new window\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLink-dJZMSz iUEiRd hfDfPc joAuXZ\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/serena-williams-won-super-bowl-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Feb. 9, 65,719 people piled into Caesars Superdome in New Orleans to watch this year\u2019s Super Bowl 2025, according to the venue\u2019s official count. The Philadelphia Eagles dominated, 40-22 over the Kansas City Chiefs, but the true victor of Super Bowl LIX was Serena Williams. A huge swath of the Super Bowl\u2019s audience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54,227,214,10649,1169,2039,34,53,8531],"class_list":{"0":"post-149360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-drake","10":"tag-grammys","11":"tag-halftime-show","12":"tag-kendrick-lamar","13":"tag-serena-williams","14":"tag-super-bowl","15":"tag-taylor-swift","16":"tag-vanities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}