The generational and societal dynamics of halftime entertainment over the past number of years have shifted dramatically. I guess the most polite way of assessing it is to say it's definitely gone 'urban'.
The last five Super Bowl headliners are Bad Bunny (2026), Kendrick Lamar (2025), Usher (2024), Rihanna (2023), and the collective performance of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar (2022), none of whom are probably on your Spotify stream. I could phrase that differently, but then I'd lose the blog, if ya know what I mean.
Compare that to the first five headliners for the Super Bowl. It was a bit more mundane - kinda middle-of-the-road kinda stuff. It all started out as a mix of marching bands and instrumentalists: the University of Arizona Symphonic Marching Band, the Grambling State University Marching Band, trumpeter Al Hirt, and the Anaheim High School Ana-Hi-Steppers Drill Team for Super Bowl I (1967); the Grambling State Marching Band for Super Bowl II (1968); the Florida A&M University band and Miami-area high school bands for Super Bowl III (1969); and a special celebration including various entertainers like Marguerite Piazza, Doc Severinsen, Lionel Hampton, and Carol Channing, along with the Southern University Marching Band for Super Bowl IV (1970).
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Maybe that was the subliminal reason for moving to Florida ten years ago. This place is flat as fuckall. Juss' sayin'...
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President Trump revealed that a Coast Guard missile destroyed a third Venezuelan speed boat in the Caribbean Sunday, sinking tons of cocaine.
It's the third coke shipment he's blown out of the water in three weeks. I didn't know the Coast Guard had missiles.
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Kamala Harris in her memoir 107 Days wrote she picked Tim Walz as her running mate over her preferred VP Pete Buttigieg. Kamala said it's because she thought the country wasn't ready for a black woman and a gay man running the country.
Hey, we were fine with the Obamas, weren't we?
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in Donegal County, Ireland and realized I had on quite similar
from our trip over in August.
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Let me tell you a little bit about these. I bought two for my kitchen cabinets.
They're rechargeable, held on by self stick magnets, and were real easy
to install (like five minutes). Trust me on these - they work great...
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Rome also used the circuses to keep the citizenry distracted while the empire collapsed. Don't fall for it.
ReplyDeleteWyden, really? What does Wyden know about Oregon? He lives in New York.
ReplyDeleteAs for the ChiCom bridge, knowing about their construction quality in that country, I think EVERYONE should be afraid to cross that bridge.
ReplyDeleteSuperbowl halftime is what I always skip. Sh*tshow after sh*tshow, year after year.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't even worth keeping on to watch the commercials anymore ... just wait until the next day and watch those on YouTube.
Football, last time I saw a game I was chasing cheerleaders & selling pot. I reckon that was going on 50yrs ago . Still have the cheerleader I caught.
ReplyDeleteMy theory, retribution for the Kirk assassination, Tyler Robinson was affiliated with the LDS church and somehow this guy did a 2+2=5 and thought shooting up an LDS church was a good idea.
ReplyDeleteAs much as the left was spinning BS out if the air after Kirk'e assassination, I figure we'll have to wait to see what really happened. I know I can trust the left wing media to tell the truth about the motives.
DeleteFootball is dead to me. I haven't watched a game since the NFL went along with the Colin Kaepernick kneeling crap.
ReplyDeleteAs for the halftime shows - they sucked for years even before the NFL went Ghetto WOKE.
Willow Run built B-24s, not B-17s. Suspect that is a photo from Boeing Plant 2 in WA.
ReplyDeleteSo does ICE still have the guy's phone? I suspect they could track down using that.
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