Madonna “bringing gay to the Super Bowl.”

Madonna “bringing gay to the Super Bowl.” So says one of the dancers, anyway. Back in the early days of the Super Bowl, a typical halftime show featured stuff like the Whodaheckaredey College marching band playing music to chop celery by. Try and locate a video and play it instead of watching this one, you’ll enjoy it a lot more.

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  • Bwarney Frank and his new Husband/wife will be dancing the in the Madonna Manboob Dance Review Troupe. After the show they are going to auction Bwarney's glittery outfit for chartity.."The help Chrissy Mathews come out of the closet fund"

  • Used to be EVERY ONE watched the SuperBowl. Crime stopped during the game. Now? Not so much! Boring games, appalling "entertainment" during half=time combined with an annoying rehash of the game to that point. Now lots of people can't be botyhered. And I'll take a decent college band half time anytime. Watch the Texas A&M Fighting Aggle Band!

    http://youtu.be/ZnHP9lIle2w

    • Why cant they start doing that? Bring in bands from colleges, maybe make it competitive. As in whichever band wins their championship division or whatever, gets to play the Super Bowl half time show.

      That would be worth watching.

  • My halftime screen will be BLANK. Watching a ho in a bowl is not entertainment. Maybe next year it will be pole dancing.

  • With her, this year's half time show will be more like the Toilet Bowl. Unfortunately, without a handle to flush.

    • I believe your assessment is correct. It may be the single largest sporting event anywhere. There is a possibility that futbol conducts a larger event somewhere sometime, but that's soccer.

      There are a great many people that find NFL completely useless, much like most people consider the Ren Faire scene a nice place for a turkey leg but find the kilts and tights oddly wrapped around the loins of too many men. Many non-NFL fans still enjoy the party environs that the Superbowl creates. I think NFL is less a niche and more entertaining than MLB, NBA or any NCAA stuff, but that's just me. They do play way fewer games. Maybe because it is so brutal, but not so much as MMA.

      • I just get terribly bored by all ball games. Especially the ones that have action in 4 second bursts, separated by 30 seconds of walking around talking about it.

  • I can't remember who played in superbowl last year much less who did halftime, ( all SB's should be in N.O. )

    • No football should ever be played on carpet or indoors! The game was supposed to be exposed to the elements in nature, not under a roof! Mud and grass, a big lawn with all the rocks and sticks cleared out.

      The original venue for the Superbowl is about as forgiving as should ever be allowed, being located in southern California while the northern climes are typically iced and snowed.

      Football indoors. The person that came up with THAT idea shoulda been flogged!

  • If the Super Bowl has another Janet Jackson situation, they have no one to blame but themselves. Wounded people starved for attention like Madonna, Lady Gaga and Janet Jackson among others, sow seeds of confusion and unhappiness among wounded people young and old, in my opinion.

    • Hey MD, didn't mean to be rude, been having serious 'puter issues, driving me bonkers. You wondered a couple weeks ago if I was from Cinci, close, up on I-70 west of Dayton. And you were right, huge Reds fan, I can't wait but still catch myself wanting to say Marty & Joe every now and then. Now, can somebody please fix my desk-top?

    • The NFL got pissed at Janet Jackson, so they are trying to class it up with Madonna?
      Hardly a move forward.

  • That dried up old hooker is well past her "sell by" date -- not sure what pinhead thought she was relevant enough to book. Maybe she moved on from doing entire football teams to doing the guys in the front office. Hope they are up on their shots.