I didn’t watch the game and have no opinion about the halftime show, but seriously ... the answer to this sort of thing is to change the channel, or maybe even turn off the tv, for the entire duration of the halftime.
The streamers know exactly when you bail on one program, and what you watch next. Skip the halftime. Go to YouTube and watch a Jordan Peterson piece of appropriate length.
In fact, watch a good YouTube video that extends ten minutes into the second half. Only go back to the game when that is over.
Monitor something else on another channel and switch to it for a quick update at every commercial break. A soccer game would be great for this — even if you don’t care about soccer — because it is continuous action game.
If 50 million people started bailing on halftime shows, the networks would get the message.
I was a rabid 50 year NFL fan, and beginning in 2016 with all the kneeling and wokeness crap, it began to fall apart for me. By the time 2020 came around, I was done with it. I did my homework, too, in depth. My first forays into that looked at data from the NFL’s contributions and associations up to around 2014 or so, and they weren’t giving money or time to racist organizations. But that all changed around 2016, especially with their embrace of BLM and the kneeling.
So, last night, I wrote letters to people I am trying to stay in touch with, then read some more of my brother’s gigantic encyclopedia of the work of “Calvin and Hobbes” for another hour or two.
THAT was time “well spent”.
My wife watched the game, and wanted to talk to me about it this morning, but I have divorced it from my interests. I will watch a game here and there going forward as a social event with friends who are still into it, but lacking that reason, I don’t watch at all anymore.
All you need to do is look at the advertising and peruse their support of racist organizations such as Black Lives Matter, and you can clearly understand, if you are like me, the NFL doesn’t want your business.
They will absolutely take your money if you give it to them, but they flip you the finger as they do so.
I won’t give them any more money.