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Super Bowl halftime show may be cancelled for 2014
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Posted on 02/04/2013 10:34:31 AM PST by Perdogg

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To: ConorMacNessa

Amen to that! How about the Fightin’ Aggies Band....


21 posted on 02/04/2013 10:51:39 AM PST by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: KarlInOhio
Why not just go to Green Bay and be done with it?

Ann Arbor. You can get over 100k in there.

Or, as I put it to the SEC and PAC-10 snobs about the Big-10's poor performance in bowl games: bring your warm-weather pampered butts up to Ann Arbor on Jan 1, and we'll see who wins that game.

22 posted on 02/04/2013 10:51:46 AM PST by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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To: ConorMacNessa
"I'd rather see a couple of good college bands..."

I've been saying this for a long time. The halftime shows have gone from bad to worse to embarrassing. Just when you thought nothing could be worse than Black Eyed Peas, here comes the garbage they put on yesterday.

Football is an American tradition and marching bands on the field would be treat for all.

It would be a great marketing tool for people to watch college games all season and rate bands on their performances and pick two 'winners'.

23 posted on 02/04/2013 10:52:23 AM PST by Baynative (I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I can't put it down.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

They can bring back the marching bands.


24 posted on 02/04/2013 10:53:04 AM PST by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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To: Perdogg
The NFL wants primetime ratings for their sponsors.

It's a Sunday -- even if they started 2 hours earlier it's still starts early afternoon on the west coast.

Better yet -- make it a Saturday.

25 posted on 02/04/2013 10:54:09 AM PST by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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To: a fool in paradise
“It’s not only the acts and the singers, but also the crews that have to put the stage together"

A reasonable concern, if you axe me. Putting the stage together in the cold would certainly affect the singers' voices and the dancers' muscles, so then how would they lip-sync?

26 posted on 02/04/2013 10:55:17 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: hoagy62
That used to the rule. It limited the Super Bowl to LA/Pasadena, New Orleans, Miami, Houston, and Dallas. The first fifteen games were held in one of these cities. It wasn't just about the venue for the game, it was about the convenience of the fans and media. It's no fun battling a blizzard to leave your hotel for a party at some other location in the days before the game.

I guess the owners of other teams and the mayors for cities they play in got jealous of the revenues the games generated and demanded they get a slice of the pie too. So in 1982 Pontiac, Michigan became the first cold weather site. Still, through 2014 only five Super Bowls have been awarded to truly cold weather locations- Pontiac, Minneapolis, Detroit, Indianapolis, and East Rutherford, New Jersey.

The really insane part of that last choice is it's an outdoor stadium.

27 posted on 02/04/2013 10:55:58 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Perdogg
While Mrs. Dawgg and I were waiting for the 2nd half to start (we were reading our Kindles) I looked up at all the undulating and caterwauling that apparently passes for a "live" pop music performance these days and asked her. “I don't think this will ever replace entertainment, do you?” She giggled and turned the sound down and we went on reading.
28 posted on 02/04/2013 10:56:01 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Made In The USA
Yesterday had a classy cover of our National Anthem...

On that, we differ. Alicia Keys is an Obama supporter who "performed" at his lavish, over-the-top inauguration. Any "artist" who so overtly praises the individual now illegally occupying the White House lacks discernment and, ergo, class.

Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce Knowles are likewise no-talent hacks whose support for the usurper in chief immediately disqualifies them from those with true class such as Hank Williams, Jr. and Charlie Daniels, both of whom are pro-American, pro-gun and, of course, pro-God.

29 posted on 02/04/2013 10:56:24 AM PST by re_nortex
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To: kevkrom

PAC-10 snobs ???


30 posted on 02/04/2013 10:56:45 AM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: Baynative; ken5050
Sadly, you don't get much of that even when watching college games. You get a bunch of talking heads over-analyzing the game and a wrap-up of nationwide scores.



Keep Faith with the Fallen of Benghazi! Let the Obama Regime, for once, tell the Truth!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

31 posted on 02/04/2013 10:57:23 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: ConorMacNessa

“... a couple of good college bands out on the field..”

Once again, Conor, you are the voice of intelligence in a world of stupidity. I love your idea!


32 posted on 02/04/2013 10:57:31 AM PST by momtothree
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To: Perdogg

Never watched a single one, so who gives a shiite....


33 posted on 02/04/2013 10:58:43 AM PST by doorgunner69
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To: hoagy62

I would love to see a Super Bowl played in a heavy snowfall.

And Super Bowl halftime shows are there for the part of the Super Bowl audience that doesn’t like football.


34 posted on 02/04/2013 10:59:25 AM PST by kidd
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To: Perdogg

You mean no women with see-thru underwear for all our children to ogle?????????? Las Vegas ok, football game - my kids want to watch too.

And the worst porn of all - the pregame force feed from the WH.


35 posted on 02/04/2013 10:59:46 AM PST by Hattie
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To: momtothree
Thanks for the kind words, Mom!



Keep Faith with the Fallen of Benghazi! Let the Obama Regime, for once, tell the Truth!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

36 posted on 02/04/2013 11:00:57 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: SoCal Pubbie
The really insane part of that last choice is it's an outdoor stadium.

IT'S A FOOTBALL GAME.

37 posted on 02/04/2013 11:04:06 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Perdogg

Gee, maybe we could see a few decent marching bands. That’d be nice.


38 posted on 02/04/2013 11:05:32 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: ConorMacNessa; Baynative
Watch, listen, and just enjoy..the absolute best there is:

"Fightin' Texas Aggie Band"

39 posted on 02/04/2013 11:06:27 AM PST by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: Perdogg

Best news in a long time. That is the main reason I didn’t watch this years.


40 posted on 02/04/2013 11:06:59 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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