Simone Biles made an unexpected appearance at Super Bowl LV - in cutout form
- Simone Biles was at Super Bowl LV — well, sort of.
- The superstar gymnast had a cutout at Raymond James Stadium Sunday.
- Her cardboard form was wearing a jersey from her hometown team — the Houston Texans.
Simone Biles was at the Super Bowl.
Well, sort of.
The American superstar - who has won five Olympic medals and collected more World Championship hardware than any other gymnast on the planet - made an unofficial appearance at Super Bowl LV in the form of a cardboard cutout.
Her two-dimensional likeness was "seated" on the aisle at Raymond James Stadium to watch the Super Bowl unfold on Sunday. During the first half of the highly-anticipated matchup, Biles posted a photo of her cutout to Twitter.
"My second Super Bowl appearance " she wrote.
And though the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the reigning champion Kansas City Chiefs were the two teams fighting for a Vince Lombardi Trophy, Biles wasn't cheering on either side. Instead, her cutout was wearing a blue and red No. 25 jersey to support her hometown Houston Texans.
Biles has long been a Texans fan and was even an honorary cheerleader for the team in 2017. But now she has even more stake in the game, as her boyfriend - Jonathan Owens - earned his first snaps as a safety for the squad this past season.
But even without her beau and her hometown squad in the mix, Biles was evidently following along with the 2021 Super Bowl as one of 30,000 cardboard fans in the stands down in Tampa Bay.