The best half time show in years!

[Gambit]

Good halftime. Bad commercials. Bad weather. Really bad Bears team. I loved it.

Co-sign

 

[Cardiholic]

They must bring back Bud Bowl.... that would be awesome!

Yeah, I miss that. Those beer bottles might have had a chance against the Bears offense.

 

[blindseyed]

Pictures? jk Prince in high heels and makeup really screamed "football halftime" to me.

Well it screams something!

 

[vinnymac]

i bet gay community enjoyed the halftime show. i hoping for black sabbath with ozzy for superbowl 42. if the superbowl going to have over the hill guys playing in the superbowl then at least get some one who can still rocks.

 

[phillycard]

Prince was amazing. Showed why he's a legend.

 

[MadCardDisease]

Good halftime. Bad commercials. Bad weather. Really bad Bears team. I loved it.

My thoughts exactly!

 

[40yearfan]

Good halftime. Bad commercials. Bad weather. Really bad Bears team. I loved it.

I wonder if this is going to cement future SB's being in an enclosed stadium?

 

[Louis]

Pictures? jk Prince in high heels and makeup really screamed "football halftime" to me.

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[Russ Smith]

See, that's where we disagree.
I thought that it was brilliant that he went from Jimmy Hendrix to the Foo Fighters then to Purple Rain.

as was pointed out to me this morning, he didn't cover Hendrix he covered Bob Dylan. I'm not old enough to remember that Hendrix's hit was a cover of a Dylan song.

 

[Lloydian]

Loved the halftime show. I've been to one Super Bowl, XXII in San Diego in '88. We were treated to Chubby Checker and 88 pianists. Worst halftime show ever.

 

[nurnay]

Better then the Stones, better then McCartney!

Prince re-affirms his Purple Badness!!!!!!!

Agreed. Prince still rocks the house.

 

[O]

as was pointed out to me this morning, he didn't cover Hendrix he covered Bob Dylan. I'm not old enough to remember that Hendrix's hit was a cover of a Dylan song.

Absolutely right. Although his intrepertation was along the lines of Hendrix and not Dylan.

 

[Russ Smith]

Absolutely right. Although his intrepertation was along the lines of Hendrix and not Dylan.

That was my excuse too although in my case I honestly didn't remember it was a Dylan song first, you never hear the dylan version.

 

[blindseyed]

I just watched it on TIVO cuz I missed it, his guitar is out of tune on the Purple Rain solo

 

[D-Dogg]

Prince is awesome. That is all.

 

[Mulli]

Prince is awesome. That is all.

I was just going to post that.

 

[Louis]

Super-Size or Cry: Real Men Have Long Diagonals

By Dave Barry
Sunday, February 4, 2007; D07

It's Super Bowl Sunday at last. Finally -- after all the hype, all the parties, all the talk -- we will get to see what the Super Bowl is really, in the end, all about: the TV commercials.

There will be a lot of them, because the total Super Bowl broadcast package runs longer than the administration of the late Gerald Ford, having begun two weeks ago with the pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pregame show "Peyton Manning: The Early Bowel Movements." You will not want to miss a single hour of this coverage.

SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR MEN: I assume you will be watching on a brand-new, high-definition TV with an 11-foot diagonal screen delivering a picture so enormously lifelike that, to comprehend what you are seeing, you have to watch from your driveway. I hope you did not allow anybody -- defined as "your wife" -- to convince you that you don't need a new TV, because your current TV still works fine, or you need the money for your child's insulin, or some other lame excuse. You do not want to be known in your neighborhood as "the guy with the small diagonal."

The Super Bowl is today; the electronics stores are open RIGHT NOW. You need to step up and be a MAN, by clipping out the following newspaper article and giving it to your wife:

SMALL TVS

CAUSE CANCER,

STUDY SHOWS

NEW YORK OR BOSTON (AP) -- A scientific study, done by scientists, has shown that small television screens cause cancer.

"If your TV set is not the size of, at minimum, a Toyota Camry, you are taking a serious medical risk," stated Dr. Harold Gropenfinger, a scientist. "A person who would deliberately expose her family, including children, to a smaller TV is, in my scientific opinion, scum."

Dr. Gropenfinger won the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize for Science for discovering that beer prevents heart disease.

* * *

Aside from the commercials, the highlight of the Super Bowl broadcast package is expected to be the Pepsi Or Coke "They Taste Essentially the Same" Halftime Show, headlined by a name that has long been virtually synonymous with pro football: Prince.

Prince held a press conference Thursday at the Miami Beach Convention Center; he told the press that, while he admired the potency of the Indianapolis offense, he expected the Bears to neutralize the Colts' deep-strike air attack by dropping seven men into coverage.

Ha! I am of course joking.Prince -- who is, physically, smaller than the average NFL player's protective cup-- did not talk about football, or anything else. Instead he brought his band and his hot women dancers, and they did some songs for the media, expressing the theme: "I may be tiny and sexually ambiguous, but you will notice that these hot women dancers are writhing against me, as opposed to you, loser media person."

The big question on everybody's mind, of course, is: What is the danger that we, as a nation, will be exposed to Prince's nipple? I regret to report that, judging by the press conference, the danger is very real. Prince wore an unbuttoned shirt, and when he writhed around, there was definite visible nipplage. However, because he is Prince, we are talking about extremely small nipples. However, if you have purchased a doctor-recommended cancer-preventing large-diagonal TV, even Prince's nipple will appear in your family room to be the size of a dinner plate.

What I'm saying is, be ready.

The Super Bowl pregame show will feature another name that has strong football associations: Cirque du Soleil (French for "Strap of the Jock"). We got a small taste of the pregame show at the press conference, and all I can say is, if you like mimes, you will love this show! It includes people dressed as sexually ambiguous referees riding on giant flamingos, just as the late Vince Lombardi used to do.

Also appearing at the press conference was Billy Joel, who will sing the national anthem with both nipples fully covered. One of the many bets you can place in Las Vegas on the Super Bowl this year -- I am not making this up -- is whether the anthem will go over, or under, one minute and 42 seconds. Joel was asked at the press conference how long he expects to take, and he replied: "I don't know. I'm only saying that because I might be betting myself."

GAME ADVISORY: The football-game part of the Super Bowl is currently projected to start sometime either late tonight or tomorrow morning. Tickets are no longer available, but U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo has invited everybody to watch the game with him at his winter getaway home in Hialeah, "Casa Tancredo." He promises to "ride the flamingo," whatever that means.

2007Dave Barry Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services

 

[Rivercard]

i bet gay community enjoyed the halftime show. i hoping for black sabbath with ozzy for superbowl 42. if the superbowl going to have over the hill guys playing in the superbowl then at least get some one who can still rocks.

Prince rocked about 5 times harder than Tommy Iommi could ever dream of.

 

[AzCards21]

Prince sucked. My wife agreed and she is a halftime show expert as that is really the only reason she watches.

Verdict is in, discussion over.

PRINCE sucked

 

[Rivercard]

Prince sucked.

Any reasons why you felt that way? Was it too raw (i.e. not perfect and/or lipsynched)?

 

[Mulli]

You must be thinking of Billy Joel. Prince rocked.

 

[Rivercard]

You must be thinking of Billy Joel.

lol. That anthem was painful.

 

[AzCards21]

Any reasons why you felt that way? Was it too raw (i.e. not perfect and/or lipsynched)?

I don't think he put much effort into it. It looked loosly rehearsed like he could just wing it. The whole show seemed like it was just off, tuning seemed flat, he either turned down his guitar for the last solo or the sound man turned him way down.

A ten minute show for that many millions of people I would expect to be much tighter.

 

[D-Dogg]

You must be thinking of Billy Joel. Prince rocked.

Dead on.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

I thought Prince was mediocre. Glad that he did Purple Rain, but disappointed that we did not hear, 1999, or Little Red Corvette, or When Doves Cry.