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Remember when Rihanna shunned the Super Bowl over Colin Kaepernick?

By Tom Joyce

Published September 27, 2022 3:59pm ET

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Remember when Rihanna shunned the Super Bowl over Colin Kaepernick? — Rihanna attends an event for her lingerie line Savage X Fenty at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles on on Aug. 28, 2021. Rihanna is set to star in the Super Bowl in February 2023, the NFL announced Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. | (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Rihanna will headline the Super Bowl LVII halftime show next February. The move is surprising because in 2019, she claimed she rejected an offer to perform the Super Bowl halftime show to show solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. With the Kaepernick saga further in the past, she must have stopped caring about him.

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