Players could not manage the performance anxiety due to excitement days before Super Bowl.
Health experts noticed an increase in flu infection or deaths during the season of America's biggest football event.
The Super Bowl, after all, is one of the greatest sporting spectacle in the planet which attracts the most number of viewers in television every year. Just last year, Nielsen estimates that Katy Perry's Super Bowl performance recorded the highest viewership for the halftime special raking in an impressive 121 million viewers. And just before that, the 2014 halftime performance of Bruno Mars has held on to the previous record of 115 million, which now currently stands at the second spot, according to E! News.