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Super Bowl sets stage for controversy-plagued halftime show
France24 ^ | 2/1/19 | AFP

Posted on 02/01/2019 5:05:38 AM PST by raccoonradio

Edited on 02/01/2019 8:11:49 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

The US Super Bowl halftime show, one of pop music's most visible gigs, this year went from highly coveted to largely unwanted, leaving the NFL scrambling for takers as a cultural firestorm over social justice rages.

Prominent artists including Rihanna, P!nk and Cardi B reportedly turned down the offer to headline Sunday's championship game between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams, amid the controversy over racially charged police brutality protests spearheaded by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.


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KEYWORDS: belongsinchat; football; kneeling; maroon5; nfl; superbowl; superbowlliii
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To: raccoonradio
"Prominent artists including Rihanna, P!nk and Cardi B"

Barf.

61 posted on 02/01/2019 6:10:08 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: ClearCase_guy

“city of Atlanta, the capital of hip hop innovation.”

Are they sure about this? Are they sure thats not just a tv show?


62 posted on 02/01/2019 6:10:49 AM PST by Celerity
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To: raccoonradio

The current iteration of professional sports is not going to survive the tidal wave of demands for ‘racial justice”.

Since the 1960s, courtside seats in the NBA and crazy fan behavior at NFL venues has been a way for the white stockbrokers and surgeons to act out being down with the struggle.

Once the players make it clear that the people who pay the bills are their enemies, and once cable systems no longer send hundreds of billions to ESPN from households that don’t watch sports, what we have now is not going to work any more.


63 posted on 02/01/2019 6:14:44 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: 4yearlurker

I was speaking to a friend whose band had a gig opening for Coe. At a biker bar.

When their set finished and the Coe fans showed up the band fled the premises immediately. And so did the bikers!


64 posted on 02/01/2019 6:18:45 AM PST by relictele
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To: CedarDave

One might - MIGHT - think that such tactics are the very reason the FCC exists to resolve.


65 posted on 02/01/2019 6:19:59 AM PST by relictele
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To: Enterprise
"Prominent artists including Rihanna, P!nk and Cardi B"

Who?

66 posted on 02/01/2019 6:20:09 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: relictele

I still have a few DAC cassette tapes from the early 1980s. Since I quieted down a bit and got my yahs yahs out,the are just sitting in a shoe box.


67 posted on 02/01/2019 6:22:28 AM PST by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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To: raccoonradio

Never watched a Half Time show...and never will.


68 posted on 02/01/2019 6:24:27 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: raccoonradio

“Jay-Z....”I said no to the Superbowl/You need me, I don’t need you,”
Why he thinks the Super Bowl needs him?
When I turn on the game, it’s because I want to watch the game. During half time I’m usually doing something else.


69 posted on 02/01/2019 6:30:38 AM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: kaktuskid

“Isn’t “Up With People” available?”

Geez, you must be old like me. In 1967 UWP was meant to show that young people hadn’t all gone hippie freaks or New Left.

“Which way, America?”, and “What color is God’s skin?” were their trademark tunes.

“Which way to Vietnam?” was more my theme.


70 posted on 02/01/2019 6:37:04 AM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: Sirius Lee

They could get Milli Vanilli.


71 posted on 02/01/2019 6:39:44 AM PST by certrtwngnut (4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
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To: raccoonradio

Why not The B-52’s. They’re a Georgia band with LGBTXYZ members (the ones who haven’t died from AIDS that is) and I’m sure they’d be up for poking Trump in the eye.


72 posted on 02/01/2019 6:42:24 AM PST by 762X51
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To: rstrahan
I have never been a professional football fan. College football, sometimes, yes. But the pros is about business, not about sport.

Sunday is my birthday and I will spend it celebrating with my family, eating homemade tacos and playing with our granddaughter. Supposed to be 72 degrees here on Sunday.

The Super Bowl, a mostly hyped and over-rated game every year, will not be watched. No one in my family cares, including myself.

More important things do.

73 posted on 02/01/2019 6:44:09 AM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: HotHunt

I much rather watch the UEFA Champions League final.


74 posted on 02/01/2019 6:47:04 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

They made up for that by getting two foul-mouthed rappers.


75 posted on 02/01/2019 6:49:05 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: raccoonradio

Why do they need a band? Why not Dave Chappelle?


76 posted on 02/01/2019 6:54:08 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: mewzilla

$19.95! But if you order right now, you get two for the price of one!


77 posted on 02/01/2019 7:18:53 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: relictele

I saw him at Billy Bob’s in Ft. Worth once. He started his show by reciting his prison identification number from when he was incarcerated. Guy next to me started reciting his as well. Heck of a concert, though. Afterwards, he signed autographs for anyone that wanted one.


78 posted on 02/01/2019 7:19:59 AM PST by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither. Democrats are the party of sore losers and pedophiles.)
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To: 762X51
Why not The B-52’s.

And get REM to reunite.

79 posted on 02/01/2019 7:21:07 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I was just thinking the same. Everyone switched over to watch those “In Living Color” shows back then because THEY WERE FUNNY. Now, heads would explode because they made fun of gay people, and everybody else. Even Jim Cary was on that show as Fireman Bob.


80 posted on 02/01/2019 7:29:46 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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