03 Feb 2004 | Tim said...

I hate to say it, but perhaps they know their audience better than we do. Prehaps it does appeal to quite a few people, just not us.

03 Feb 2004 | lisaB said...

i agree -- and why the music from, i don't know, 1988!
i was having high school flash backs.

03 Feb 2004 | DC said...

The only thing that I took away from the halftime letdown was that Kid Rock should be the next singer for Van Halen. Seriously.

03 Feb 2004 | pb said...

Bring back u2, sting and gwen.

03 Feb 2004 | Benjy said...

They also forgot an act to appeal to the 50+ year old women. No Tom Jones, no Neil Diamond, no Barbara Streisand. Other than that, they pretty much included everyone... I wish they'd go back to the original Super Bowl halftime shows -- college marching bands. The Super Bowl Sunday is about football. Save the multi-pop star, pyrotechic-laden,breast-baring, over-the-top monstrosity for the Grammys.

03 Feb 2004 | blake said...

Atleast the game (the real reason behind the whole spectacle) turned out great.

03 Feb 2004 | Don Schenck said...

I watched Meet The Press during halftime; Dean was on.

03 Feb 2004 | Tim said...

One of the boston.com post-superbowl(tm) articles yesterday was something akin to "Local Professors Discuss, Debate Superbowl Commercials." There something (not so surprising) to be said when we eagerly await a bunch of commercials with more anticipation and discussion than, say, the State Of The Union address.

I'd link to Boston.com, but it seems they are getting hammered because they promised to air live video of the Patriots' celebration parade here. "Cannot find server..."

I'd vote for a tipsy Joe Namath over Kid Rock any day.

03 Feb 2004 | Tim said...

Oh yes, did anyone else notice...

...during that initial Aerosmith "We're Astronauts, and we rock" sequence where the band was, apparantly, up in space, orbiting. The segue from that to the actual Aerosmith show at the stadium was a bizarre "rocket re-entry" effect...which ended up looking like Aerosmith's Space Shuttle just...crashed...to...Earth...and exploded.

Struck me as poor juxtaposition immediately before the "tribute to our fallen astronauts" with Josh Grobin.

03 Feb 2004 | monkeyinabox said...

That halftime show is a tasteless insult to our country. Put Marilyn Manson on stage already!

04 Feb 2004 | Erin said...

I found the Aerosmith/astronaut more tasteless than Janet's flash dance.

I know Houston is a very space-oriented city, but on the one year anniversary the Columbia astronaut's perished? So what if the graphics and special effects looked cool -- it felt unsettling given the date.

04 Feb 2004 | s said...

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04 Feb 2004 | steve, another steve or steve denver said...

it felt unsettling given the date

I totally agree. I felt that it trivialized the space shuttle astronauts.

04 Feb 2004 | pek said...

I as really hoping for A) a full orchestra backing a rap or metal star during one of their songs or B) maybe a guitar or rock legend sharing the stage with a rap star - since neither of these concepts have EVER been done before.

05 Feb 2004 | Bill Pettit said...

Janet! Janet! Janets breast is all we hear; I think its revolting. Not because of what she did, but because THE WHOLE HALF-TIME PROGRAM WAS REVOLTING. Janets breast was just the cherry on top the Sodom-and-Gomorra cake. Male singers pumping and grabbing their crouches!!!!! And what about Janets whole act, the way she and her male singer were humping each other? Get over her exposed breast and put the focus on where it should be the whole bloody half-time show!

05 Feb 2004 | Bill Pettit said...

Janet! Janet! Janets breast is all we hear; I think its revolting. Not because of what she did, but because THE WHOLE HALFTIME PROGRAM WAS REVOLTING. Janets breast was just the cherry on top the Sodom-and-Gomorra cake. Male singers pumping and grabbing their crouches!!!!! And what about Janets whole act, the way she and her male singer were humping each other? Get over her exposed breast and put the focus on where it should be the whole bloody half-time show!

05 Feb 2004 | Bill Pettit said...

Janet! Janet! Janets breast is all we hear; I think its revolting. Not because of what she did, but because THE WHOLE HALFTIME PROGRAM WAS REVOLTING. Janets breast was just the cherry on top the Sodom-and-Gomorra cake. Male singers pumping and grabbing their crouches!!!!! And what about Janets whole act, the way she and her male singer were humping each other? Get over her exposed breast and put the focus on where it should be the whole bloody half-time show!

05 Feb 2004 | Darrel said...

she and her male singer were humping each other

Fake humping is bad, but millionaire jocks playing violent sports while being sponsored by sexists beer ads and erectile dysfunction medication? ;o)

The whole spectacle of pro football (and some other sports) is rather vulgar, as is TV. It's America. We love it. What's the big deal?

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