NBC & NFL apologize for M.I.A,'s "inappropriate gesture" during the Superbowl

I don’t understand why people still care about a finger, but EW says:

During the Super Bowl half-time show, singer M.I.A. flipped off millions of viewers during TV’s most-watched telecast of the year. She made the obscene gesture during a performance of Madonna’s new single, “Give Me All Your Luvin.'” M.I.A. also seemed to say an expletive (“I don’t give a s***”), but it wasn’t really audible.

NBC and the NFL issued dueling press statements. First, the network released an apology and called the moment a “spontaneous gesture” — a phrase that might go down in history alongside “wardrobe malfunction.” “We apologize for the inappropriate gesture that aired during halftime,” the network said. “It was a spontaneous gesture that our delay system caught late.”

The NFL issued a statement blaming NBC’s monitoring system and condemning the incident. “There was a failure in NBC’s delay system,” the NFL said. “The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing, and we apologize to our fans.”

M.I.A. is such a “bad girl“! Video of the “incident” below…

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