At a time when every news alert seems to deliver a seismic jolt about the world, these ads mostly touch on safe subjects we expect in Big Game commercials: Nostalgia. Comedy. Celebrities. Patriotism.

To drive his point home, Unny cited the flood of cartoons featuring Gandhi during the tension caused by the Babri Masjid ...

• Philadelphia offensive coordinator Kellen Moore saved his play-action deep-shot call to really put the game away with 2:40 ...

In the same week it was revealed that the slogan would be missing from the field at the Super Bowl, the N.F.L. commissioner defended the league’s diversity efforts. But what’s really at stake ...