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NFL 'regrets' Super Bowl halftime choice after Kendrick Lamar backlash: 'A mistake was made'
Daily Mail ^ | February 16, 2025 | Oliver Salt

Posted on 02/16/2025 5:15:49 PM PST by artichokegrower

The NFL regrets picking Kendrick Lamar over Lil Wayne for this year's Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans, a league employee has reportedly admitted.

Kendrick's performance at Caesars Superdome sparked controversy last weekend, with some fans branding it 'the worst Super Bowl halftime show ever' during the Philadelphia Eagles' 40-22 win over the Kansas City Chiefs.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: football; halftime; music; nfl; sports; superbowl
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Get rid of the rap crap.Bring back college marching bands and frisbee dogs
1 posted on 02/16/2025 5:15:49 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

AMEN.


2 posted on 02/16/2025 5:16:32 PM PST by drwoof
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To: artichokegrower

They could have had either the Southern University or The Grambling Marching bands, they always put on a good show.


3 posted on 02/16/2025 5:17:56 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: artichokegrower

Jumbo tron. Prince. Whitney. Marching band on the field. Back to football


4 posted on 02/16/2025 5:18:08 PM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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Should have just played ymca, the crowd would have gone CRAZY! Read the room NFL (I read a similar comment on truth social)


5 posted on 02/16/2025 5:18:26 PM PST by wiseprince (Me)
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To: artichokegrower

Awesome. So we can expect the return of high school bands next year?

Maybe they can start with some all-black high school bands just to keep the all-black tradition and theme going. Then they can slowly add a few token whites to the ensemble in the following year.

Perhaps a couple of the all-black high school bands could get into a shoot-out in the parking lot after the game just to keep the festivities jolly and light-hearted.


6 posted on 02/16/2025 5:19:48 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole.)
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To: wiseprince

Who cares?

It’s over.


7 posted on 02/16/2025 5:19:58 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: artichokegrower

Yes, it was the worst halftime show I have ever seen in the Super Bowl.


8 posted on 02/16/2025 5:20:30 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: wiseprince

Great idea. Would have been epic.


9 posted on 02/16/2025 5:20:39 PM PST by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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To: dfwgator

The days of marching bands at the Super Bowl are over. I don’t know why some people want marching bands.


10 posted on 02/16/2025 5:21:59 PM PST by moviefan8
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To: artichokegrower

It’s not a matter of picking one broke down coke head Rapper over another broke down coke head Rapper.
Enough ghetto/ white hating/ law hating ‘rap’ nonsense!
There are many other kinds of music, most not nearly so trashy. DEI or racial pandering should not dictate the only approved choices.


11 posted on 02/16/2025 5:22:22 PM PST by lee martell
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Why do they want rap “artists”?


12 posted on 02/16/2025 5:22:36 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I always thought Weird Al would be a great halftime show.


13 posted on 02/16/2025 5:23:14 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: artichokegrower

Reportedly those that watched “didn’t get it”. I didn’t cause I didn’t see it.


14 posted on 02/16/2025 5:23:32 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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Some of the most memorable superbowl halftime shows involved basic rock music. They should consider bringing back music. Wow music. What a radical idea.


15 posted on 02/16/2025 5:23:41 PM PST by plain talk
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I will respectfully disagree.

I didn’t like music, but he had a lot of patriotic stuff, no satanism, and the women were clad.

The men too for that matter

There has been much worse. So while I didn’t like it, and he had some audio issues, it was far from the worst show.


16 posted on 02/16/2025 5:24:56 PM PST by redgolum
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We are calling it NEWS because of some unnamed employee and Skip Bayless?

I will tell you why The Powers That Be want you to think this was a terrible HT show. Kendrick Lamar’s performance had the following awesome qualities that people are missing for the most part:

1. Unlike the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, Lamar’s performance wasn’t a demonic bacchanalia.

2. No transvestites.

3. For people who still treasure morality, there wasn’t an armada of girls with their chests and butts spilling into your family’s living room. No Madonna, no Shakira, no JLo, no Lady Gaga, no Beyoncé, no wardrobe malfunction!

4. There was more red, white and blue than in most of the boring commercials.

5. Lamar didn’t have a tricked-out ride onstage- he had a 1987 Buick GNX. A BUICK!

6. Samuel L. Jackson was the emcee….he’s been in movies grossing about $12.5 billion. Forget TSwift - she’s a piker compared this guy.

7. Security tackled the pro-Palestine protester.

Now, we can debate rap music, though in all honesty there hasn’t been an acceptable musical group at the SB since The Who in 2010, or an entertainer since Bruno Mars in 2014 (The Weeknd was ok, and the 2022 HT show had fun props and set designs). I also suspect Lamar may not be in FR - but I doubt he’s on DU, either.

But with 2025, Kendrick Lamar signaled that the filthy, anti-American pornographers et al that had been in charge of the halftime show, blinked.

We won.

They lost.

If Lamar’s HT show is thrown under the bus, we will get more disgusting HT shows.


17 posted on 02/16/2025 5:25:23 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: dfwgator

Or the Texas A&M band.


18 posted on 02/16/2025 5:25:26 PM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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Get rid of the rap crap.

Either that, or stage a Gangsta Rap shootout at the 50 yard line once and for all and be done with it.

And then paint "Up With People" in the end zones for next year.

-PJ

19 posted on 02/16/2025 5:26:49 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: artichokegrower

Pretty big mistake.


20 posted on 02/16/2025 5:27:01 PM PST by McGruff (Biden will go down in history as the worst president ever.)
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