Posted on 09/09/2005 5:25:56 AM PDT by schaketo
FOXBOROUGH -- Green Day played a long set when it headlined in front of 40,000-plus fans at Gillette Stadium last Saturday. Last night, the group did just one song and it was a safe choice: ''Boulevard of Broken Dreams," though it wasn't perhaps the most cheerful track to spice a pre-game show featuring the unveiling of another championship banner for the New England Patriots.
It also was curious to see Green Day wedged into a small, hideaway end-zone stage (Elton John was put on the same stage at last year's pre-game show but at least was allowed to do two songs). Which, of course, raises the question: What are the politics of these pre-game shows all about? Why did Santana get to perform two songs last night from a flashily lit, midfield stage where everyone could see the band -- with cheerleaders drumming up excitement all around them -- while Green Day was shunted into a lonely balcony in back of an end zone? . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
I really wanted to see some pro ball last night, but I wasn't sitting through that crap to get to it.
I didn't find it "disconcerting" at all. I hoped the booing said, Hey, we're not all idiots in New England.
They should have pelted him with rocks and garbage.
Nashville star Trisha Yearwood ended the hour by singing the national anthem but the performance was marred by fireworks shot off during the line ''and the rockets' red glare."
Here IN Nashville, they've done this right from the beginning at Titans games. They shoot off VERY QUIET streaming fireworks during that line, and same the loud ones for team introductions and when the team scores a tough down.
What about that Kayne West guy...I missed his act. Just how LOUDLY was he booed?
I'm sick of all this pop-culturization of football. Heck, football was one of the few escapes from that garbage.
YEah, see, everyone, not all of us New Englanders are liberal scum!
Bring back "Up With People!"
Ummm, 'cause Green Day sucks?
Football has been into pop culture since the late eighties. It was just a different pop culture then.
Boo-frickety-hoo, Mr. Morse. What's "disconcerting" for you is great news for me. West deserved it.
Santana has sucked since "Abraxas."
I actually like Green Day, but I wouldn't buy their stuff or pay to see them. But if they come on the radio, I enjoy listening to their music.
That would have been something to see.
And we got remotes of rapper Kanye West and pop rockers Maroon 5 from a generic-looking, red-white-and-blue stage in Los Angeles.
Bush's fault.
Perhaps the article should have been titled:
"Pats fans don't care about Kanye West"
or
"Bush bashers get no love in Boston"
Seeing the behavior of the NFL and the Pats fans is refreshing -- they know that this is crap, and they are reacting accordingly.
MJ
Why would any sports fan want to see a bunch has beens and drugged out fools? I'd love to go to a Pat's game but I wouldn't want to be forced to watch or even listen to that crap. Even though the Sox lost I was more than happy to watch them instead of that junk.
>>>Ummm, 'cause Green Day sucks?
I like Green Day. You wanted to know that right? lol
I think there are more conservatives up here than anyone thinks. The problem is that the morons that hold office are so corrupt and powerful, they run virtually unopposed every election, so the true will of the people is never realized.
Of those seven, three have written nasty songs directed at the President, one of whom has verbally attacked the President, another one has openly campaigned against the President and for John Kerry, another one is an definite leftist, one may be a normal American and one is in his own drug-abuse induced haze.
Disconcerting? I guess we know where this writer stands. I want to say thanks to Patriot fans for booing.
We turned the game on late thereby missing all the "fun." If I want music I'll watch MTV.
Just play football!!
Oooops, that should read 'to perform'...ugh, need more java! :)
Today's half time shows stink, except for college games with marching bands.
More Green Bay, less Green Day.
We turned the game on late thereby missing all the "fun." If I want music I'll watch MTV.
You are out of touch aren't you? Music on MTV?
I didn't see it, but I doubt it was political. Green Day is punkish, their hit song is a downer, but they do appeal to younger white audiences, so you put em on the show, but don't feature them. Santana is kind of a slut; he will seemingly do ANY gig, which maybe lowers his cache a bit, but I think he is STILL riding the energy from that amazing Supernatural album. He's colorful, ethnic, happy, energetic. Much better music for the midfield hoopla. You gonna have cheerleaders dance to "Blvd of Broken Dreams?" Don't think so.
I feel like the NFL does a disservice by having these so called "entertainers" performing. During the half-time, they had Ozzie Osborne, I couldn't stand looking at him, he looked stoned. I don't think these people represent the NFL at all.
How could Steve Morse of the Boston Globe find Kanye West's comments about the President "disconcerting?" Does he agree with him? Inquiring minds want to know.
Tom Brady is a God in MA. I truly believe there isn't one person up there that doesn't like him. With that said, he has vocally supported Bush and Republicans. Do the math, because I don't think the NFL did.
And the Kennedy Family Newspaper (aka The Boston Globe) is so revered as a Boston tradition that people fail to question anything they print. Saying something against the Globe is akin to treason and dissing the Sox.
AMEN!!!
I had never heard of "Green whatever" or Kenya whoever until I read what he had said on TV! That crap they sing is not music.
Just my opinion, of course.
MA is the most corrupt state in the union. The libs rule this place with an iron fist. It's tough to survive.
Oh, was there a pre-game show? I thought they were just vamping and shooting off drunken fireworks while they waited for the Sox game to end. Sorry I missed it...
Just like California. Gerrymandering has created a legislature that is totally out of sync with the views of the public - and can't be removed without redistricting.
Kudos to all the red-blooded, America-lovin, Patriots fans. High fives and kudos. They do not appreciate their country or their president being trashed with lies.
Did they really boo him ??? YES~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ozzy's guitarist, Zakk Wylde, has been an outspoken proponent of the Iraq war.
You and me both. It's clear that garbage isn't for the fans in the stadium. They don't need to be entertained during half time. They can banter and argue back and forth or go get food during the down times. The garbage is to draw in the Gen X'ers who might be flipping the channels and see their favorite groups performing and stick with the show long enough to be advertised to a few dozen times.
We've taken to just videotaping many of the games we want to watch, then watching them later, FF'ing through the ads.
We turned the game on late thereby missing all the "fun." If I want music I'll watch MTV.
Just play football!!
"Just how LOUDLY was he booed?"
LOUD enough and LONG enough to basically wreck his song, so it seems from the article.
WAY TO GO BEANTOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sick of all this pop-culturization of football. Heck, football was one of the few escapes from that garbage.
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I agree. All the sacchrin saturating the grit of football is giing me a belly ache. Pretty soon football players will be viewed as sensitive diverse metrosexuals ie., girlie men. Yack
geez, I don't know about that... not AS GOOD maybe (althought the last one had some that came VERY close)
Abraxas was an incredible masterwork of art- hard to equal that every time.
Sort of like asking an athelete to set a new world record EVERY time he runs...
"...except for college games with marching bands."
But they never show them on TV, they always have those annoying half-time reports.
Did Green Day drop the F-bomb when they sang "Boulevard of Broken Dreams?"
If they had tried this in say at an opener in Dallas, I dare say that might have happened, at least with rotten vegs and fruit. West would certainly not have been heard for the whole song. Fans have free speech too, Kenye...so eat it!!
Memo to all entertainers: Shut the *%$# up and entertain. Keep your socialist stupidity to yourself.
Old addage goes: Keep your mouth shut and people will only guess you're stupid. Open your mouth and remove all doubt.
So? Everyone knows that Patriot fans hate blacks!
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