*Merged Super Bowl thread*

[swissvale72]

I'm voting for Ziggy Marley for next years halftime show. He checks the boxes, I think....sings in English with just a bit of Jamaican mixed in periodically, Not a US citizen, but neither was the Who, Paul McCartney, et al.

And....seen Ziggy twice and he puts on an absolute kick ass show. Dan Smith and 95?might even like it.

[Steelafan77]

The first halftime show featured the University of Arizona and Grambling State University marching bands.

How about we return to that tradition but, each season the nfl holds competitions for the halftime show.

One state college and One university that wins the best marching band performance gets to appear as the half time entertainment.

Competing against one another for the best marching band in the nation.

[swissvale72]

The first halftime show featured the University of Arizona and Grambling State University marching bands.

How about we return to that tradition but, each season the nfl holds competitions for the halftime show.

One state college and One university that wins the best marching band performance gets to appear as the half time entertainment.

Great idea!! Jeems, as a Penn State Blue Band alumnus, could be the rep of this esteemed website to the selection committee.

[Steelafan77]

As lame as it sounds it is politics free.

[Dan Smith--BYU]

I like Reggae and the general community vibe but I don't think the math works. Reggae as a genre completely died and there really is no following among young people.

If we're going to revive dead but fun genres, I'd go with hard bop but again there's no audience.

I'm going to stick with Dua Lipa but a more interesting choice is Olivia Dean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sur4BmjQt8

[955876]

I'm voting for Ziggy Marley for next years halftime show. He checks the boxes, I think....sings in English with just a bit of Jamaican mixed in periodically, Not a US citizen, but neither was the Who, Paul McCartney, et al.

And....seen Ziggy twice and he puts on an absolute kick ass show. Dan Smith and 95?might even like it.

I love Bob Marley.

[955876]

If this gets broken down to a very simple level can we ummmm have a SB performer perform their show in English?

Do we get a Somali superstar next year doin their thang in native tongue?

It would make sense to perform in Spanish if the Super Bowl was being played somewhere like Spain or Mexico.

Halftime is when I step outside and smoke a doobie.

If the NFL wants my eyes glued to the screen then they should schedule a wardrobe malfunction with some hot babes.

A good alternative broadcast could have a good old fashioned wet T-Shirt competition or naked mud wrestling.

Of course. But it isn’t. That’s why most didn’t approve.

Not because he’s brown.

[swissvale72]

If this gets broken down to a very simple level can we ummmm have a SB performer perform their show in English?

Do we get a Somali superstar next year doin their thang in native tongue?

It would make sense to perform in Spanish if the Super Bowl was being played somewhere like Spain or Mexico.

Halftime is when I step outside and smoke a doobie.

If the NFL wants my eyes glued to the screen then they should schedule a wardrobe malfunction with some hot babes.

A good alternative broadcast could have a good old fashioned wet T-Shirt competition or naked mud wrestling.

Of course. But it isn’t. That’s why most didn’t approve.

Not because he’s brown.

Is it factual that "most didn't aporove

[955876]

It would make sense to perform in Spanish if the Super Bowl was being played somewhere like Spain or Mexico.

Halftime is when I step outside and smoke a doobie.

If the NFL wants my eyes glued to the screen then they should schedule a wardrobe malfunction with some hot babes.

A good alternative broadcast could have a good old fashioned wet T-Shirt competition or naked mud wrestling.

Of course. But it isn’t. That’s why most didn’t approve.

Not because he’s brown.

Is it factual that "most didn't aporove

I was trying to say those that didn’t approve was because he doesn’t sing in English. Not because he’s brown.

The left paints disapproval due to race. The disapproval is due to having an artist for something as big as the SB that is going to sing in a different language.



Would viewers for a Mexican soccer match that speak Spanish want to see an artist singing in a language they didn’t understand celebrating something unrelated to what they were gathered to see?

[CKSteeler]

Of course. But it isn’t. That’s why most didn’t approve.

Not because he’s brown.

Is it factual that "most didn't aporove

I was trying to say those that didn’t approve was because he doesn’t sing in English. Not because he’s brown.

The left paints disapproval due to race. The disapproval is due to having an artist for something as big as the SB that is going to sing in a different language.



Would viewers for a Mexican soccer match that speak Spanish want to see an artist singing in a language they didn’t understand celebrating something unrelated to what they were gathered to see?

The Washington Post (where they know full well what he was saying in Spanish - they know what kind of music he makes) called that performance "wholesome."

Yea, they don't respect any of us. Intellectually or morally. They look down on US despite being devoid of anything resembling actual intellectualism or principles/morality.

[langer]

Marching bands don't include enough simulated anal sex for Roger Goodell and Jay Z.

Not enough low brow cultural debasement for those guys.

You have to think of the children, an important demographic for the Epstein crowd.

Here's Bad Bunny's setlist for the Super Bowl.

Wholesome as hell, really good stuff for the degenerate crowd of old white women and weird Democrat men that applauded without knowing what he was saying. Defining deviancy down.

Go look up the lyrics, very heady intellectual studies of humanity. Wholesome family entertainment from Roger Goodell.

What the fuck is going on in these people's brains. Completely deranged. The NFL used to have Christian ethics, players that preached and were good people, they are urinating on that legacy out in the open, with a high-tech expensive PR machine to make it stick.

It's a cult.

"Tití Me Preguntó"
"Yo Perreo Sola"
"Safaera"
"Voy a Llevarte Pa’ PR"
"Monaco"
"Die with a Smile" feat. Lady Gaga
"BAILE INoLVIDABLE"
"NUEVAYoL"
"LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii" feat. Ricky Martin
"El Apagón"
"Café Con Ron"
"DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS"

[zeke5123]

I'm voting for Ziggy Marley for next years halftime show. He checks the boxes, I think....sings in English with just a bit of Jamaican mixed in periodically, Not a US citizen, but neither was the Who, Paul McCartney, et al.

And....seen Ziggy twice and he puts on an absolute kick ass show. Dan Smith and 95?might even like it.

I saw him perform at 311 concert. He was fine. Nothing screamed SB half time show.

Just have Taylor and be done with it.

[Ice]

The first halftime show featured the University of Arizona and Grambling State University marching bands.

How about we return to that tradition but, each season the nfl holds competitions for the halftime show.

One state college and One university that wins the best marching band performance gets to appear as the half time entertainment.

Great idea!! Jeems, as a Penn State Blue Band alumnus, could be the rep of this esteemed website to the selection committee.

In a few years you'd all get bored of Ohio State playing every year. I'd be happy. They never show enough of TBDBITL during televised Buckeye broadcasts.

[CKSteeler]

This whole story is making me sound like some prudish conservative in general. But here's that left wing tool Florio on the subject after talking up the "big" numbers:

Yes, the TV audience for the Super Bowl halftime show dropped from last year (133.5 million) to this year (128.2 million). But that’s only part of the story.

The selection of global superstar Bad Bunny has sparked massive collateral numbers. Last week’s press conference, for example, attracted 68 million views within 48 hours, via Michael McCarthy of Front Office Sports.

Via NBC, total social-media consumption of the halftime show set a record with four billion views in the first 24 hours, a 137-percent increase over last year’s halftime show.

There’s still one number to be determined — global viewership of the halftime show. It’s possible (if not likely) that millions of non-football fans in other countries tuned in specifically (and only) for the halftime show, given Bad Bunny’s worldwide appeal.

Despite the fake outrage from some, as expertly crafted and delivered (per usual) by Jon Stewart, the halftime show seems to have been a success. And its overall message is undeniable.

The only thing more powerful than hate is love.

1. Bad Bunny seems to have done worse than last year's Super Bowl - at least in America.
2. Beyond subtle attempts at political statements, this was a halftime show that featured two male dancers grinding on one another at a point and then lyrics in a foreign language that would have many, many parents in an uproar if their kids could understand them. Or the parents themselves could. At least in the primary market for the game which is still the US.

I'm not seeing the message of "love" behind any of this. Just the typical sort of Marxist sexual degeneracy that they pass off as perfectly ok but which has undeniably in my view broken the fabric of society over time. Some guy singing about his dick and sticking it in dopey young starstruck girls from across the racial spectrum of the Hispanic world isn't exactly something I normally celebrate even if it's not something I normally waste time harping on, either, ya know?

I'm always skeptical of online numbers and views because they get counted different on different platforms. Some millions of Americans tuned out of the game and watched a show by some relatively washed up has-been rockers they normally would have no interest in. Perhaps as many as 25 million online alone.

When it comes to Bad Bunny, you have some number of foreigners who may have tuned in to watch online or people who looked out of morbid curiosity and they are selling that as some big win.

[Dan Smith--BYU]

These people can't read the fucking room because their mind is still brainwashed from the cancer of college.

The highest rated commercial was the Budweiser Freebird ad.

[swissvale72]

Of course. But it isn’t. That’s why most didn’t approve.

Not because he’s brown.

Is it factual that "most didn't aporove

I was trying to say those that didn’t approve was because he doesn’t sing in English. Not because he’s brown.

The left paints disapproval due to race. The disapproval is due to having an artist for something as big as the SB that is going to sing in a different language.



Would viewers for a Mexican soccer match that speak Spanish want to see an artist singing in a language they didn’t understand celebrating something unrelated to what they were gathered to see?

Thought you were talking about disapproval vs. approval of the halftime in general. Polling I had seen (i forget where), cited 59% general approval. Your info makes sense on reason for disapproval, as well as bad bunny with his continuing crotch-grabbing...never understood that.

[Dan Smith--BYU]

People are losing sight of the biggest legal issue.

On a major network, his lyrics are an FCC violation.

If he translated to English, he and the league would be heavily fined.

[955876]

People are losing sight of the biggest legal issue.

On a major network, his lyrics are an FCC violation.

If he translated to English, he and the league would be heavily fined.

Correction, if a white man said it he’d be fined.

Have some color to ya, talk bad about America, rile up the Orange man in the WH, and they’ll let you say whatever the hell you want. ESPECIALLY if you do it in another language. Nothing to see here folks.

[955876]

Despite the fake outrage from some

The opposite of this would be the fake celebration from the other side.

I’d be willing to bet John Hamm has never listened to Bad Bunny but there he was acting like his favorite artist of all-time was out there performing.

[.Kodiak]

There's no way Earth isn't the "Real Housewives" of the universe

[drmalba]

I'm staking the claim this is certainly the first time we've seen "Marxist sexual degeneracy" mentioned in a purported football thread. And without prof Lit no less.

Though I didnt watch the performance at the time (generally don't care about the lip sync showcase at super bowl halftime as a practice) The outrage over this is curious enough I decided to go back and see what the hoopla is about.. Beyond a bit of twerking and a few crotch grabs, it was vaguely interesting for the production ambition. I'm a metal/prog guy by practice. Though I can dig on both ragga and hip hop, reggaeton is boring and obnoxious to me for the most part and I'm certainly yelling at clouds every time the homeboys are bumping it and vibrating their car frames driving by my place at night. .

Biases aside, it was pretty PG-13 to me. Bad Bunny is about as dangerous as a hemorrhoid and doesn't stand out to me in a more or less already well overly sexualized pop landscape. I thought it was more shocking to me they let Kendrick Lamar call Drake a pedophile last year, regardless of how big of a hit it was.

Also, does this imply all these neo-puritans squirming out of the woodwork are also gonna start calling for the guillotine after the hot mics catch players repeatedly dropping the F-bomb In literally every single televised game? Or the elementary lip reading which the color commentators clown on all the time with coaches and players tearing into each other verbally on the sidelines and field? Or is it just when Latinos shake suggestively that feathers get ruffled.

[Louis Lipps Service]

Apple pays well over $50M per year to sponsor the NFL halftime show. They don't pay that amount of money to sit back and let the NFL pick whomever they want to be in that show without having a voice in the decision.

I've also read that the NFL pays a large sum of money to Jay-Z's Roc Nation to serve as the NFL's "entertainment strategist". Some sources even claim that Jay-Z actually has the final say on the decisions, although I haven't read that from a source I fully trust either.

Point being, the halftime show isn't just about fitting into the NFL's marketing strategy, it's, at the very least, also about fitting in with Apple's, and probably Roc Nation's as well, not to mention however many other decision makers are there behind the scenes and in that conversation.

Both Apple and the NFL are absolute marketing machines with enough audience analytics and marketing projections to make your head spin. Trying to simplify those analytics into "How many watched this or that internet stream" doesn't even fall in the same universe of trying to decipher either company's strategy around the halftime show.

And since Apple owns the rights to the halftime show through a long term deal, the NFL isn't going to be all that concerned if a few people switch off the game for 15 minutes to watch a different halftime show. It's not like they're losing any advertising revenue, and they know those people will come back for the second half. In fact, I'd bet they have the data that proves it. They'd happily let 25 million watch a different half time show if it meant that even 10 million new viewers were created via whatever halftime show they use. Cause out of the 25 million that changed channels, 24.5 million will come right back, which means you got a net gain of 9.5 million viewers (all numbers completely hypothetical, of course).

The people who did change the channel during the halftime show are the same people who complained about players taking knees during national anthems, and have been complaining for the past 10+ years about how the NFL has gone "woke" and/or ruined the game.

Guess what? Most of those people are still watching (the NFL finished with their highest ratings per game since 1989). That's the beauty of running a business that is a legal monopoly. Your audience might as well be captive. They'll bitch. They'll moan. But they'll more than likely be back to watch it all over again the next season.

Is there a straw that could finally break that camel's back? Sure. I'd bet the NFL and its sponsors have a very good idea of what that straw looks like and just how much of a risk it is to its bottom line. And if the camel's back does look about to break, then you'll see the marketing machine shift gears and strategy.

[Dan Smith--BYU]

Sam Darnold has to pay the state of CA 250K in taxes for playing the game there given proration of salary and bonus for winning.

I doubt that many of the usual suspects will pay that in state taxes during their entire lives.

[.Kodiak]

Holy crap.....Juicy Garrett is dating Beijing Barbie?

[Dan Smith--BYU]

no Chloe Kim the snowboarder

Genocide Barbie skis

[DumlinBumlinStumlin]

People are losing sight of the biggest legal issue.

On a major network, his lyrics are an FCC violation.

If he translated to English, he and the league would be heavily fined.

They still should be. I posted the lyric translations put out there

The love message is another up is down. Good is bad virtue signal

[Dan Smith--BYU]

"If your boyfriend doesn't eat your ass
He better fuck off"

Yeah that's love. Or something.

Find someone who loves you as much as Democrats hate the country that made them rich and spoiled.

[swissvale72]

"If your boyfriend doesn't eat your ass
He better fuck off"

Yeah that's love. Or something.

Find someone who loves you as much as Democrats hate the country that made them rich and spoiled.

Any bigger haters than that joke of an AG yesterday and her one-man audience??