New Yorkers have been so rapt by the Tremendous Bowl LIX halftime present that they averted one other sort of bowl completely.
Massive Apple residents used the lackluster Eagles-Chiefs matchup as a welcome potty break to arrange for the actual star of the present: Kendrick Lamar’s halftime efficiency, The Put up has realized.
There have been a whopping 558,594 fewer bathroom flushes throughout Lamar’s blockbuster 13-minute live performance than within the first half of your complete sport, knowledge offered by the Division of Environmental Safety reveals.
The general water demand dropped from 1,125 million gallons to round 1,026 when the “HUMBLE” star took the stage.
Water demand was at its absolute lowest when the rapper burst into his Grammy-winning diss monitor “Not Like Us” at 8:38 p.m. — which means butts have been off the john and transferring within the air.
Flush knowledge was comparatively excessive for the primary half of the sport, indicating that followers weren’t too enamored by two-time champion Chiefs choking proper out of the gate. They went into the second half bizarrely trailing 24-0 behind the Eagles.
Flushes throughout the 5 boroughs remained low for the second half as viewers presumably watched in anticipation as Kansas Metropolis desperately tried to claw their approach again, an effort that went down the drain.
The Eagles confidently celebrated their victory earlier than the sport even ended — they dumped a bucket of Gatorade over head coach Nick Sirianni’s head three minutes earlier than Philaelphia sailed to its 40-22 win.
When the ultimate whistle blew near 10:17 p.m., about 250,000 New Yorkers hit the john, the DEP mentioned.
That quantity is considerably decrease than final 12 months’s water circulation surge — there have been about 467,881 flushes when the Kansas Metropolis-San Francisco nail-bitter lastly concluded in additional time.
The spikes in water utilization throughout the Tremendous Bowl are nothing new — audiences are sometimes glued to their chairs throughout the performs, commercials and halftime reveals and rush to the lavatory for the few small breaks they will discover throughout the extravaganza.
Within the hours earlier than the sport, water provide operators ship additional water all the way down to Hillview Reservoir within the north Bronx in preparation for the spikes.
“Just for reference, on a normal Sunday, the demand for water follows the typical daily patterns of the City— as night falls and more people go to sleep, the demand for water steadily goes down,” the DEP mentioned earlier this month.
“That pattern continues until people begin waking up, showering, brushing their teeth, making their coffee, and preparing for the day ahead.”
