Here's a little somethin' from a West Virginian......
go pick on a blue state, buddy
Posted on 02/04/2005 4:19:38 AM PST by beyond the sea
Yesterday the league scheduled a news conference to announce the most complex halftime show ever attempted ,then, in a moment so genuine it barely belonged to this week or any other in the Super Bowl's manic history, someone introduced Paul McCartney.
Bounding on stage in a faded red sweatshirt and jeans, Sir Paul offered a respectful salute and took questions. A thousand crabby, jaded journalists looked transported.
"Questions for Paul?"
What? Questions for Paul McCartney?
"Paul, what band will you be performing with?"
"My band."
"No, what band?"
"I have a band; it's called 'my band.' "
McCartney allowed a certain conceit that he's probably here as the anti-Janet, promised to keep the show mammary free, and acknowledged, "I don't have a wardrobe to malfunction, so no worries on that score."
A young woman asked, since he was wearing red and blue, was he a Patriots fan.
"This is just slung on, honey."
With the same breezy manner that was just as infectious yesterday as it was in 1964, McCartney figured that even though we're here hyping this thing eight days a week, he might be here to put a global audience totaling close to 1 billion back in touch with something grandly simple.
"The message of my music is generally peace, love and come together," he said, "and that's as good a message as I can deliver. It's the same old one, but I can't think of anything better."
This is probably just me, but shouldn't there be a Paul McCartney news conference before every game? Not just every Super Bowl, every single game. That'd make next year's Pitt-Youngstown State fray a little more palatable, wouldn't it?
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Here's a little somethin' from a West Virginian......
go pick on a blue state, buddy
I wonder how the superbowl or more specifically American Football "rates" amongst other sports when it comes to a global tv audience?
My guess for annual global audience in sport would be
1) Football (soccer)...I'm certain of this one:-)
2) Cricket
3) Golf
4) Tennis
5) Formula 1
NB.In certain decades, Boxing would have easily made top the 5.
As for "events", I would go for this top 3.
1) The world Cup (soccer)
2) The summer Olymic Games
3) The cricket world cup (depending on the finalists)
Same here. Halftime is supposed to last 20 minutes, not the half hour that it expands to in this game and various college bowlgames. I played football in high school, and invariably, we were ready to go again after about a 10 minute break. In college and the pros, I can see 15 to allow for coaches to make adjustments and trainers to take care of the players, but when you drag it out so long, it kills momentum, and players start losing their edge.
Not to mention the fact that televised football games are getting closer and closer to 4 hour marathons with all the commercials. I usually watch the SEC game on CBS during the college season, and it starts at 2:30 CST. More than often, it runs past 6. And anybody who's seen an entire Monday night football game knows the pain...
Y-town is usually presented as half and half but I think the meter is tilting towards the Stillers based on the absence of the Browns and the people currently impersonating NFL players in Cleveland.
I think the Super Bowl should be played on Saturday instead of Sunday. I know it goes against tradition but if the game was on a Saturday night people wouldn't have to worry about getting up to go to work the next day.
Tell me about it! I forget what number it was, but Elway and the Broncs beat the Packers in a great game. I was at my sister and brother-in-law's and we had a keg. I was so hungover the next morning it wasn't even funny. I still don't know how I made it to work.
I agree.
BTW - love your tag line
Exactly. Halftime is for refreshing your drink, enjoying a cigar or a pipe outside on the porch, getting some chow, etc. If you actually watch the halftime show, odds are you're half a faig!
The game used to be played in the middle of the afternoon but the networks figured they could get more viewers with the game being played at night.
see post # 34
The nets also use it to trot out some show that they want to draw a big audience to. If it's not a new show, it's always one of their bulwarks that they want to highlight. I remember a 1 hour "Friends" a few years ago with Jean-Claude van Damme after one of them, but usually, I've switched to either the History Channel, ESPN, or Fox News once the game is over.
Yup. Which is another reason why they should consider moving the game to Saturday night. People would be willing to stay up and watch those shows they want to push if they didn't have to get up early the next day.
Yep, that's one of the main reasons why extended halftimes are a really bad idea. Muscles start tightening up again, and that leads to needless injuries. I wonder if the NFLPA or even the league itself has ever studied this, because I'd bet that dollars to donuts that the majority of hamstring pulls and other muscle related injuries occur early in the third quarter following extended halftimes.
I'd bet that dollars to donuts that the majority of hamstring pulls and other muscle related injuries occur early in the third quarter following extended halftimes -- sounds right to me.
Belichick has talked about this issue and he can't stand the extended halftime.
But using Rush's pc test...
the eagles are noble animals and the patriots are racists, sexists homophobes. Therefore, the eagles are going to win.
I can only figure that the league and the nets figure that ratings would be down on a Saturday night, leading to less revenue from advertisers. Guess they've never seen what people watch in bars and restaurants during college football season.
I live about an hour from Baton Rouge, but I've been there enough on Saturday nights to know that EVERY TV in EVERY restaurant is on ESPN or Tigervision when LSU is playing, and it's the same in New Orleans for the Saints. People will watch it, but they haven't figured that out yet.
the eagles are noble animals and the patriots are racists, sexists homophobes. Therefore, the eagles are going to win.
LOL! I love his predictions, and I think you're right in which way he'll go on this, but I think Belichick and the Pats are going to win on Sunday. Closer than 7 points, but they always find a way.
Well, if the college presidents would withdraw their heads from their rectums, they would allow for a playoff using the bowls. One suggestion was to have the championship on the Saturday before the Superbowl. I think the ratings would be eye-popping for everybody.
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