I t was a brief but blockbuster cameo. For less than five seconds in the closing moments of the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show, as headliner Kendrick Lamar performed his Grammy-award winning Drake diss track “Not Like Us,” the camera flipped to the corner of the stage to show 43-year-old tennis all-time-great Serena Williams crip walking.

“End of story.” The payoff resulted in Williams crip-walking in front of a lamp post on the Caesars Superdome field while Lamar sang his Grammy-winning Drake diss track “Not Like Us.”

Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian further defended his wife against critics of her Super Bowl Crip Walk, referring to the significance of the moment after she received backlash a decade earlier.