Maroon 5 to incorporate SpongeBob's 'Sweet Victory' in Super Bowl halftime show

SpongeBob fans have spoken. The Super Bowl, it seems, has listened.

After months of hints, a petition that gathered more than 1.2 million signatures and cries from all corners of the “SpongeBob SquarePants”universe, it looks like Maroon 5 is planning to incorporate the iconic song, “Sweet Victory,” in their halftime show at the Super Bowl on Sunday in Atlanta.

Now, this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise — especially after the online petition took off — as we’ve been getting hints for months. Mercedes-Benz Stadium tweeted out a GIF from the “Band Geeks” episode of SpongeBob in December, and Maroon 5 even briefly put SpongeBob into their preview video last month.

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This week, though, it looks as if we have definitive proof.

While reporting outside of the stadium in Atlanta, WDEF reporters Angela Moryan and Jamal Williams caught a glimpse of the screens inside of the stadium showing a clip from the SpongeBob episode.

The song itself is extremely fitting for a halftime show — especially considering that SpongeBob and his “band” performed it during halftime of a football game in the episode itself. And, for even more reason, SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg died in November — which created the whole push for the song to be played in the first place.

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Need more proof? Just listen:

So even though this year’s halftime show is bad enough for a number of reasons, just know that the famous SpongeBob track is coming your way at some point on Sunday night.

That’s enough to save the show, right?

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