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U2 to Headline Halftime Show on Netflix’s Thanksgiving Eve NFL Game

The band's first NFL appearance since Super Bowl thirty-six lands in the league's first Thanksgiving Eve game, kicking off at eight Eastern; the Rams are two and four.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorU2 will headline halftime of the first NFL game ever played on Thanksgiving Eve, streaming live on Netflix from SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on November twenty-fifth.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorKickoff is eight Eastern, five Pacific, and it's the Packers against the Rams.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt's also the band's fiftieth year since forming in Dublin in nineteen seventy-six.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd they play twelve days after their sixteenth album, Carnaval de Luz, comes out.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorTheir last NFL halftime was Super Bowl thirty-six, in two thousand two. The Rams lost that game to the Patriots.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe same Rams who are two and four this year.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA treaty with a history of poor outcomes for one party. I would watch the halftime very closely.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNetflix's co-CEO Ted Sarandos says U2 don't just perform, they deliver iconic moments audiences remember forever.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNetflix has done Beyoncé and Snoop Dogg. Nobody has said what U2 will play.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNot even the setlist?

  11. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorClutchPoints says it's unknown. It's also their first show at SoFi, which opened in September twenty twenty.

  12. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFifty years as a band, and they still get to leave at halftime.

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