Super Bowl: How the NFL's biggest game became a cultural and political battlefield

Glitzy $1.5bn Mercedes-Benz stadium set in the home of the civil rights movement is symbolic of America’s fractured society

When the NFL selected Atlanta to host this Sunday’s Super Bowl, the league reasoned it was awarding the contest to a well-connected major city with a revitalised urban core and one of the world’s most impressive new stadiums.

A couple of months later in 2016, the then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, began to protest police brutality and racism by kneeling when the Star-Spangled Banner was played before games.

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