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While we are on the threshold of starting spring training, apparently the NFL has something going on today in which Madonna is involved.
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Why must the halftime show always be an old, classic artist why past their prime?
Why not just an actually good current band? Black Keys, etc?
Taylor Maricle - February 5, 2012
Name value.
silverwidow - February 5, 2012
But comically bad actual value.
Taylor Maricle - February 5, 2012
Mostly inoffensive, plays in middle america.
regfairfield - February 5, 2012
Look at the dustup when Arcade Fire won at the Grammys a few years back. 99% of people who pay attention to the Grammys said, “Who?!”
And that is the Grammys. The Super Bowl captures a much larger audience.
Humma Kavula - February 5, 2012
Except that Arcade Fire sucks and isn't even a diamond in the rough type low popularity band.
Taylor Maricle - February 5, 2012
When the Black Keys won for "Tighten Up" last year
Everyone i know that saw it was just like “FINALLY”. They’ve been good forever.
Taylor Maricle - February 5, 2012
ive never ever heard of Arcade Fire or Black Keys in my life…. Ive heard of Alicia Keys though….but point is if ive never even heard of these bads before, they arent a big enough name for the Super Bowl halftime show… You gotta be a household name.
uschris0304 - February 5, 2012
Grammy-winning band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpaPBCBjSVc&ob=av2e
Taylor Maricle - February 5, 2012
You need Proven Veteran Leadership™ to play halftime in the Superbowl.
StolenMonkey86 - February 5, 2012
I can’t believe they don’t just have the Foo Fighters play. Classic rock style and they have actually made good music in the last decade.
fbihop - February 5, 2012
Another great choice.
They’d, you know, be good.
Taylor Maricle - February 5, 2012
The Super Bowl gave the halftime show to Up With People for years and years and years.
Humma Kavula - February 5, 2012
That said, I completely agree that the Halftime Show Death March of Aging Pop Stars is ridiculous.
Humma Kavula - February 5, 2012
you guys seem to be forgetting how terrible the halftime shows used to be before they had any pop stars doing it.
court168627 - February 5, 2012
They have?
Pure Azure - February 5, 2012
They tried the black eyed peas last year
nolander - February 5, 2012
Yeah, but they are terrible.
fbihop - February 5, 2012
do you think the people who make these decisions can tell the difference when talking about modern popular music?
nolander - February 5, 2012
No. Which is why they should hire me to make this decision.
fbihop - February 5, 2012
All the other networks are countering the Super Bowl with infomercials.
fbihop - February 5, 2012
Is that Frank’s table?
mleadman - February 5, 2012
Money that can be potentially earned in 2012 by free agent starting pitchers
Hiroki Kuroda – 10
CJ Wilson – 10
Edwin Jackson – 9
Brad Penny – 8
regfairfield - February 5, 2012
my Dad and I
Both cracked up at the post
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
I love the commercial
With the football players singing “Wind beneath my wings”
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
Seriously Kelly Clarkson you couldn’t hold that note for another half second so I could win my bet?
regfairfield - February 5, 2012
Easy way to lose a grand
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
Audi
It kills Vampires
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
Daylight in a headlight – clever.
berkowit28 - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
Safety for the first score. Wonder what the odds were for that bet.
VegasBlues - February 5, 2012
+2000
regfairfield - February 5, 2012
Not a good start for Brady.
Nor for Al Michaels, who seemed unaware that intentional grounding in end zone=safety ’til after the call.
underdog - February 5, 2012
Welp time to burn my pool. 0-3 and 7-3 down the drain.
regfairfield - February 5, 2012
Wonder how much the "first points = safety" bets paid out
underdog - February 5, 2012
D'oh, didn't see same question above
I’m glad I have no bets on this game. I had no gut feeling about anything this year.
underdog - February 5, 2012
if the internet allowed sports gambling
i’d play more.
But since it doesnt, its not worth it.
Joey Joe - February 5, 2012
My Patriots 6 - Giants 5 square suddenly looks a little better.
Humma Kavula - February 5, 2012
9-0
Joey Joe - February 5, 2012
nice catch
CRUUUUUUUUUUUUZ
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
Battleship: The Movie
sounds like a joke from the Onion
court168627 - February 5, 2012
had no idea david beckham had that many tattoos
Joey Joe - February 5, 2012
Josie did :)
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
teleflora
yes good commercial
Joey Joe - February 5, 2012
was that the one that said "give and you'll receive?"
because I found that one repulsive.
court168627 - February 5, 2012
……..why?
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
because it’s calling women whores?
court168627 - February 5, 2012
wow
at that interpretation
Joey Joe - February 5, 2012
really?
I’m not stretching at all. She’s clearly talking about sex. So it doesn’t really take much textual digging to translate it to “buy women flowers and they’ll have sex with you.”
court168627 - February 5, 2012
I didnt take it as in give any woman flowers and she’ll sleep with you, but more so for men in relationships, which IMO, is mostly true.
uschris0304 - February 5, 2012
bullshit, both the statement above, and the commercial. I totally side with court on this one.
David Young - February 6, 2012
Really
Can’t everyone lighten up? Dave posts pics of T&A and people make jokes loaded with sexual innuendo all the time, and now we have this prudish morality session?
Pure Azure - February 6, 2012 via Android app
There is a difference between joking around amongst friends and national commercial spots. It’s not a “morality session” to notice that the commercial’s essential message is that women can be bought for sex, if you use teleflora.
David Young - February 8, 2012
Madonna
looks like the sorceress from he-man
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
seriously
these costumes are stupid as hell.
court168627 - February 5, 2012
It's Madonna
This was clearly coming.
Taylor Maricle - February 5, 2012
wtf?
is that richard simmons?
court168627 - February 5, 2012
the first 3 songs were whatever
But like a prayer was awesome
Ivdown - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
“Vogue” is one of my favorite songs ever, so I dug that, despite the stupid costumes.
court168627 - February 5, 2012
I like how she worked in LMFAO and Niki Minaj, 2 of the more popular sounds in the business right now, but they were side acts to Madonna.
uschris0304 - February 5, 2012
I didn’t watch live — just saw it on youtube — but I thought Madonna kicked ass. I’m neither a fan nor a hater — I have very few opinions of Madonna — but I thought she did great.
Humma Kavula - February 5, 2012
Guy Ritchie: “she spent so much time in the gym, fucking her was like fucking a piece of gristle”
Pure Azure - February 5, 2012
True or False: that quote says waaay more about Guy Ritchie than it does about Madonna.
Humma Kavula - February 5, 2012
Don’t care as I don’t know either person thus cannot make a judgment. It made me laugh though.
Pure Azure - February 5, 2012
Okay I want to kill whoever scheduled that band…
VegasBlues - February 5, 2012
This performance is what I imagine it would look like if Madonna was the dictator of the world.
court168627 - February 5, 2012
She'd do well in North Korea.
Taylor Maricle - February 5, 2012
soon
Soon…………..
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
Like a prayer!!!
uschris0304 - February 5, 2012
right!!
Ivdown - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
When Vin dies (hopefully very far away)
I hope the Dodgers wear the “VS” black patch for a season for every season he announced.
If anyone needs to be commemorated more than one season, it’s Vin
Taylor Maricle - February 5, 2012
I’d rather not talk about this
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
I dig the Seinfeld commercial.
court168627 - February 5, 2012
I really liked it
Ivdown - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
whatever happened to the Bud Bowl? I miss that.
uschris0304 - February 5, 2012
lol
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
welker drop may lose them the super bowl
Joey Joe - February 5, 2012
Aaron Rodgers photobombs a team picture every week, apparently.
http://www.rodgersphotobomb.com/
Taylor Maricle - February 5, 2012
whatta throw and catch
Joey Joe - February 5, 2012
Giants need to kill the clock – dont let Brady have it back
Joey Joe - February 5, 2012
Saw this in GB-Denver SB
Hm, crazy strategy but would you let the Giants score TD here if you’re New England? #SuperBowl
underdog - February 5, 2012
Haha, that's just what NE did
he wanted to stop too.
underdog - February 5, 2012
first time i ever seen an offensive player attempt to not score a TD
crazy..
Joey Joe - February 5, 2012
I like how I left my twitter hashtag in there for no reason
#nottwitter
Yeah that was weird, the famous “Sitdown Touchdown”, haha.
underdog - February 5, 2012
lol patriots let them score
and Bradshaw tries to down it
Joey Joe - February 5, 2012
SUPER SHREDDER!!!!!!
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
wow
9 win team wins the super bowl..
close hail mary
Joey Joe - February 5, 2012
Eli
Is better than his brother
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
I don't know very much about football
but Eli Manning looked as calm and in control as any athlete I’ve ever seen
court168627 - February 5, 2012
tom brady
that QB that couldnt beat the Giants
Joey Joe - February 5, 2012
Manningham > Tyree
fbihop - February 5, 2012 via Android app
somewhere
Ivdown is seething
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
you've got no idea, lol
Not only that, but I lose my bet by ONE point. :(
Ivdown - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
D’oh!
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
Since too many men on the field is just five yards and they don’t reset the clock, why wouldn’t the Giants throw like 30 dudes out there for that last hail mary?
regfairfield - February 5, 2012
i thought the exact same thing.
court168627 - February 5, 2012
according to my brother, the game can’t end on a penalty. but that doesn’t answer why the Giants didn’t do that for the several other hail mary plays before the last one.
court168627 - February 5, 2012
If it was obvious, Patriots would have just spiked the ball.
dodgerpreacher - February 5, 2012
I thought the same thing but eventually they would have to do it with 11 men since a game cannot end on a defensive penalty and eventually they’d start getting called for 15 yard unsportsmanlike conduct for being assholes.
Xeifrank - February 5, 2012
right
nolander - February 5, 2012
I dont think they can be called for unsportsmanlike conduct for that.
Joey Joe - February 6, 2012
game cant end on a defensive penalty
So the last play of the game would have to be played straight up with 11 players.
Its probably a good idea to run extra guys when there’s like 25 seconds left and the other team needs to go 75 yards…only way they can do that is to hit a big pass…but you’d need to be sneaky about it so the QB doesnt see it and just spike the ball, only have 1 second run off, and get 5 yards.
Joey Joe - February 6, 2012
My friend at the 2 minute warning said the Patriots should let the Giants score. I said wait a little longer, but he probably turned out to be right.
Xeifrank - February 5, 2012
ELI MANNING > TOM BRADY
nolander - February 5, 2012
Word
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
I did enjoy in the lead up to the super bowl
seeing people argue both that the giants had a weak schedule so would lose, and that the pats had had a weak schedule, so they would lose.
nolander - February 5, 2012
Word
Tommy Blackjack - February 5, 2012 via iPhone app
THIS MATCHUP WAS SO BORING I HATE WATCHING GOOD FOOTBALL
IF IT DOESN’T HAVE ONE OF A HANDFUL OF FRANCHISES THAT I LOVE.
nolander - February 5, 2012
I’m just mad ’cause the random numbers that were assigned to me were not the same as the random numbers in the points the teams scored!
Humma Kavula - February 5, 2012
Despite the opening safety!
David Young - February 6, 2012
I didn't think it was a very good game
just a close game….a lot of errors by the Pats, Giants were solid and steady, fortunate to recover the fumbles. I hate the Giants but I have to give Eli his props, he makes great throws in 4th quarters to beat the Patriots in Super Bowls. It’s what he does.
Pure Azure - February 5, 2012
That was fun.
Maddz - February 5, 2012
Best commercial
the Fiat one with the hot Italian girl, but I understood what she said so maybe I’m biased.
Pure Azure - February 5, 2012
I approve. But there were also two Adriana Lima commercials. I double approve.
Nolij - February 5, 2012
What happened?
I thought Cory said the Giants would win by 10.
kinbote - February 5, 2012
Rockies get Jeremy Guthrie for Matt Lindstrom and Jason Hammel.
It’s a minor upgrade but Guthrie in Coors could get real ugly. I guess the Orioles get a guy that’s like a worse Guthrie with an extra year of control.
regfairfield - February 6, 2012
new post
http://www.truebluela.com/2012/2/6/2726556/arizona-diamondbacks-2012-offseason-review-national-league-west#comments
Eric Stephen - February 6, 2012
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