Worst Halftime Show Ever!

[WildBB]

Bruce is known as "The Boss"...so I guess he was giving himself a shout out??

Dunno though; I didn't watch it.

Little Steven from the E-Street Band gave him the shout out not Bruce himself.

Look for all you others, if you haven't seen him/them perform in the past, you have no idea what his shows are about and have no clue. This halftime show could not come close to bringing this out. It's a symbiotic fan band experience. He takes you on a journey.

 

[Jetstream Green]

the key word is "the past", Bruce is rock legend and should be but I'm sick of seeing these old guys now perform in the here and now and suck air towards the end of just the first song. I have a lot of his lps, thought he was amazing live back in the day but now...

 

[cardsfanmd]

It was horrible IMO.

I would rather watch kids participate in a punt/pass/kick competition or something. Have two good Pee Wee teams slug it out for 20 minutes or something. Kids always entertain.

Anything but watching these old mean show their age. Bruce is an arrogant clown and every member of that band look like a gypsy pedophile.

What the hell is wrong with my father's generation?

 

[Southpaw]

I'd have found the sausage race characters more entertaining.

Maybe James Harrison could have punched them out, instead of Francisco.

 

[ajcardfan]

He needs to stop running around like an idiot. He's too old for that crap.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

It was horrible IMO.

I would rather watch kids participate in a punt/pass/kick competition or something. Have two good Pee Wee teams slug it out for 20 minutes or something. Kids always entertain.

Anything but watching these old mean show their age. Bruce is an arrogant clown and every member of that band look like a gypsy pedophile.

What the hell is wrong with my father's generation?

The kids they put in the world...

 

[Renz]

Bruce on lp is great, Bruce before he was 100 yrs old live was great but he was terrible live at his age, I thought Tom Petty was weak. Great musicians in their genre but damn...age is a factor in a performance and old farts sucking air is hard to watch...the mighty Mic Jagger was pathetic at his age...Prince though, I thought was great and I like hard rock

I got to go to the game last year and Petty was awesome live. I don't know how he came across on TV.

Prince was great, I thought.

 

[football karma]

I know that to many, this is heresy

but I find Springsteen to be incredibly overrated

 

[Russ Smith]

I switched to ABC for Wipeout.

 

[Mulli]

17-7 instead of 14-10 ruined any halftime show.

Prince and Petty were better than Bruce. And I love Bruce (his old stuff).

 

[Renz]

I know that to many, this is heresy

but I find Springsteen to be incredibly overrated

He's a lot like the Steelers. He gets mad props because he's a "blue collar" guy.

 

[TucsonDevil]

The thing is this... I grew up in the 80s and never once met anyone that was a Bruce fan. Yet, some claim he is as great as the greatest. That to me is a mystery, who listens to his music? I like a few of his songs, and think that "Radio Nowhere" is a good, recent song... but seriously, can you put this guy on the same level as Paul McCartney, Elvis, Prince, U2, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, etc? Yet, some do... it must be an "East Coast" thing.

 

[Hughc]

It doesn't matter who is on at halftime, the majority of people won't like whatever act is chosen. Between age/generation differences and music having become so splintered in to so many genres, there will be more people griping about who is on rather than their favorite band and no consensus as to a good choice. Even if next year the NFL had four stages with four completely different acts each playing one song, there would still be complaints about the other "bad" performers.

 

[stewdog1]

Two bands I would love to see do half-time.

1. Foo Fighters - One of the biggest rock bands right now.

2. R.E.M - yes they are older, but still relevant and have a huge following. Their latest album proves that.

 

[AZZenny]

I always felt Bruce is overrated, he's done a couple great songs, but like the Grateful Dead, I think he made his enormous and enduring rep mainly on his live shows, which were legendary for energy, length, and interaction with the crowds.

 

[Syracusecards]

I think his popularity is due more to a Kevin Bacon thing. There are 137 members in the band and with all of their families that probably adds up to like a million fans of his music.

I still don't get it. Born in the USA and Born to Run are good. The rest of it is just mediocre music you can hear in any bar on any weekend.

 

[conraddobler]

The thing is this... I grew up in the 80s and never once met anyone that was a Bruce fan. Yet, some claim he is as great as the greatest. That to me is a mystery, who listens to his music? I like a few of his songs, and think that "Radio Nowhere" is a good, recent song... but seriously, can you put this guy on the same level as Paul McCartney, Elvis, Prince, U2, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, etc? Yet, some do... it must be an "East Coast" thing.

That's a perfect post on the subject, it's a mystery.

I think it was the 25 somethings that were partying then that he was popular with or something because I grew up right in the middle of the 80's too and didn't even have two thoughts about the guy.

 

[Hughc]

That's a perfect post on the subject, it's a mystery.

I think it was the 25 somethings that were partying then that he was popular with or something because I grew up right in the middle of the 80's too and didn't even have two thoughts about the guy.

He was living off past success by the 80's - and still does to this day. By the mid '80's he was doing nothing of any importance or worth listening to, despite the popularity of Born in the USA, which doesn't come close to his earlier albums. His popularity came about from albums and concerts from '73 - '80. Springsteen was on top of the rock and roll world in the mid to late 70's, but that was thirty years ago.