Super Bowl 57 is one of the biggest sporting events of the year. The Super Bowl always generates buzz for the game, commercials and its halftime show. Google Trends Expert Annanya Raghavan joins me to speak about some of the top searched trends by fans.

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Super Bowl 57 Transcription

[00:00:00] – Announcer: Mason Vera Paine.

[00:00:02] - Mason Paine: Super Bowl 57 was one of the biggest sporting events this past weekend. Millions of fans watched the game commercials in Half Time Show. Google trends expert Annanya Raghavan speaks about some of the top trends during the big game. Thanks for joining me, Ananya.

[00:00:16] - Annanya Raghavan: Yeah, thank you for having me.

[00:00:18] - Mason Paine: All right, we just went through Super Bowl 57. I have to ask, were you excited about it?

[00:00:23] - Annanya Raghavan: I was super stoked coming into it because I'm an Eagles fan. So it's always great when your team is playing in the big game. Obviously, not the result I would have wanted, but I got to admit, it was a great game.

[00:00:39] - Mason Paine: Oh, man, I'm not a Chiefs or an Eagle fan, but I had to choose because obviously, if your team doesn't make it, you have to make a choice. And I put all my money, my fictional money, obviously, on the Eagles because I thought that they were going to win. I was like, they had a phenomenal season. They looked really good going in. I was like, There's no way the Chiefs are going to it, and they won.

[00:01:03] - Annanya Raghavan: The Eagles felt like a team of destiny coming into it. And I guess not. Guess I read the cards wrong, but it's all right. It was a great game. Half off to the teeth.

[00:01:17] - Mason Paine: Man, I have to say that last call, though, one of the things that I looked up is the NFL rigged. Did that trend at all or was that just for me?

[00:01:27] - Annanya Raghavan: No, we actually did see huge spikes in search interests. Not necessarily rigged, but is the NFL scripted, especially after I believe it was Arian Foster had his comments on the radio heading into Super Bowl Week that the NFL is scripted and pre planned out. So especially when you get a controversial call like that, I think people are going to wonder. But my two cents are that the Chief just played an overall better game and they deserve to win.

[00:02:02] - Mason Paine: Absolutely. They got that win. They did deserve it. I just as a sports fan, when a ref makes a call like that towards the end of the game, I feel like it impacts the game more than if they had made those types of calls in the beginning. And maybe as a ref should slow down a bit on calls like that and just let things play out. I don't know.

[00:02:25] - Annanya Raghavan: No, I agree. And like you said, with seeing those trending searches after the game, that's not what you want the conversation to be about because it takes away from what was otherwise a fantastic game of football.

[00:02:42] - Mason Paine: Absolutely. And I think Mahomes, he got the MVP for it, right? I mean, that wasn't even on there. I had to look it up.

[00:02:48] - Annanya Raghavan: Yeah, he did win Super Bowl MVP. He was also the top search player from that game, followed by his teammate, Travis Kelsey.

[00:02:56] - Mason Paine: Oh, wow. That's nice. When it comes to the commercials, I have to ask, what is the number one trending commercial?

[00:03:04] - Annanya Raghavan: So the number one commercial based on Game Day views on YouTube was the booking. Com, Melissa McCarthy, Somewhere Anywhere. Following that, number two was T Mobile's New Year New Neighbor commercial with John Travolta.