Performing with Madonna on their new single Give Me All Your Luvin’ during the halftime show at Super Bowl XLVI, singer M.I.A. faced the camera and held up a middle finger Sunday night.

The gesture instantly lit up Twitter, with some wondering if it would become this year’s “wardrobe malfunction.”

NBC, the network that aired the game, said in a statement: “We apologize for the inappropriate gesture that aired during halftime. It was a spontaneous gesture that our delay system caught late.”

The National Football League, although in charge of the content of the show, blamed the network for not catching and censoring it.

“There was a failure in NBC’s delay system,” the league said.

“The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing, and we apologize to our fans,” said Brian McCarthy, spokesman for the NFL, which produced the show.

M.I.A. also may have said “I don’t give a s***,” but it was hard to hear. The singer has a long history of provocation, both onstage and on her albums, but who knew she’d out-controversy Madonna? It was the first rude halftime show gesture since 2004, when Janet Jackson’s breast was exposed.

In that case, the television network was fined $550,000 for indecency by the Federal Communications Commission. Only last year did they win an appeal.