NBC Apologizes for M.I.A.'s Super Bowl Middle Finger Moment
She's no stranger to controversy, and M.I.A. was back to her trouble-making ways in which throughout Sunday night's (February 5) Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis.
The 36-year-old singer was performing alongside Madonna and Nicki Minaj when she suddenly set to flip up her middle finger for the NBC cameras covering the Bridgestone sponsored halftime show.
With fines quite presumably on the manner, an NBC spokesperson issued an announcement immediately following the incident, because the rep remorsefully told, "We apologize for the inappropriate gesture that aired throughout halftime. it absolutely was a spontaneous gesture that our delay system caught late."
Placing complete blame on the tv network, the NFL conjointly commented on the family-unfriendly moment, because the league said, "There was a failure in NBC's delay system. The obscene gesture within the performance was fully inappropriate, terribly disappointing, and that we apologize to our fans."
Enjoy the images of M.I.A. working at the Super Bowl (February 5).
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