A circus act? A college marching band?
A circus act? A college marching band?
Globetrotters.
Globetrotters.
Monster trucks. Might be hard to get the dirt on and off the field quick enough, though.
Set up a little track and we can watch Webb et al run a 5km.
I think they should just do away with it.
Cooperfield was there before the game, making Ben's reputation as a great QB disappear.
lol
Ninetonite wrote:
Set up a little track and we can watch Webb et al run a 5km.
That'd be pretty cool (to about <1% of the audience), but I bet some kind of sprinter vs football player showdown could get some attention.
Topless dancers are always a good idea.
How about a human sacrifice??
The halftime show is a parody of itself. It is a lose-lose for everyone, every time.
They ought to have a band, but have the band play three songs. It should be a relevant band. This year it could have been:
The Black Keys
Kings of Leon
The Roots
Eminem
Green Day
Kanye West
The Decemberists
...basically, anyone with a #1 album in the last 6 months.
The commercial hype is always going to get hammered by critics and the "bigger is better" attitude is just stupid. It is rarely better (unless you are China).
I think people would react better to a band playing honest tunes. Enough with the abridged songs. It is just annoying.
Had The Who just played 3 songs all the way through, it would have been epic.
Although I agree on playing fewer, complete songs, I think groups like BEP benefit from playing the memorable 20 secs that define each song (after all, they are extremely repetitive). The real problem was having them do something live that they can only do in a studio.
How about a stupid contest like lining up three random people from online contests (use your sponsors, NFL!) and do something like:
Throw a 30 yard pass, Punt a ball 30 yards and kick a 30 yard field goal all within 30 seconds. Hell, give them 30 seconds to complete each one.
Or get multiple people to play something like (again, thru a contest):
Kick a 20 yard field goal for $5,000 (one chance only)
Kick a 30 yard field goal for $50,000 (one chance only)
Kick a 40 yard field goal for $500,000 (two chances)
Kick a 50 yard field goal for $5 million (two chances)
You would have to make the previous distance in order to go longer in distance
souper wrote:
college marching band?
Blame Michael Jackson. Up until 1993, superbowl halftime shows had marching bands and few celebrity performers or Up with People. When Michael Jackson performed at halftime in 1993, the ratings were better than for the game. Since then, the name of the game has been to book a big celebrity act to get big ratings. But after seeing The Who struggle through a set, Kid Rock and Janet Jackson sending my kids into the other room and the Black Eyed Peas throwing in a political line to try to not look like the industry sell out they really are, I am ready to see a good marching band or two next year.
"...good marching band...."
Isn't that an oxymoron?
Eminem, heisasrealasitgets
Pee-Wee football.
Doped ?