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Superbowl Conspiracies MegaThread

In honor of the big game, we are going to run through some of our favorite conspiracies surrounding the Superbowl:
  1. Games are fixed either by the NFL, the refs, or by the teams themselves (there are a ton of these)
--The tuck rule that gave the Patriots the title post 9/11 in 2001.
--The Blackout during Superbowl XLVII. In 2013, in order to prevent a blowout, the NFL had the stadium lose power in order for the 49ers to come back on the Ravens.
--The NFL screwing over the New Orleans Saints due to bountygate.
--In Superbowl LX, the refs were screaming about being underpaid so they called one of the worst games in superbowl history in order to force the league to pay them more.
a. Phantom flags. Phantom touchdowns.
b. After the game, the supervisor of NFL officiating caught a flight to South America
c. Later, one official said “"It was a tough thing for me," he said. "I kicked two calls in the fourth quarter, and I impacted the game, and as an official, you never want to do that."
  1. Sex Trafficking
--The theory began in the late 1980s although in a slightly different form--that domestic violence rates skyrocketed on game day and that Superbowl Sunday was the single biggest day for domestic violence each year. This led to a national movement and Congressional Act (championed by now President Biden) despite any evidence of this being true.
--In fact, the claim was debunked almost immediately in 1993 (three days after it first appeared in a major publication) but the claim still exists today.
--Eventually, the theory shifted to forced prostitution, sex trafficking, and even child prostitution.
--There seems to be an attempt to confuse traditional sexwork (which should be legalized) with illegal, harmful trafficking. The theory is that this confusion was intentionally spread by law enforcement to justify a near military state around the big game.
--Already Tampa Bay police are using this myth to justify low-level police stings to arrest people on misdemeanor prostitution charges.
--Important to note, that Robert Kraft (one of the wealthiest men in American and the owner of the New England Patriots) got two hand jobs during the Patriots 2019 playoff run. The massage parlor is a source of a number of crazy conspiracies mostly because a man worth $6 Billion tried to save $15 on a $59 massage by getting the early bird special.
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  1. Half time shows
--Lady Gaga’s performance in 2017 was actually a carefully orchestrated Satanic Ritual. Gaga was scheduled to fly in from above with an army of drones signaling the rise of robots and the enslavement of humanity.
--Janet Jackson’s boob out was not a wardrobe malfunction. What is more important was the tribal sun pasty that covered up her nipple. The sun symbol appears on a lot of celebrities--Nick LeShea, Cisco, Adam Levine. This all relates back to the theory that Viacom--owners of CBS among other things--has deep ties to the Illuminati and their high priestess Beyonce. The goal is to take over mass rituals such as the halftime show or the VMA and usher in Illuminati symbolism.
--Good analysis on Bruno Mars’ halftime show in the context of the Illuminati is here
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  1. Betting
--In 2015, someone bet a HUGE amount of money on a prop bet that the national anthem would take longer than 2 minutes and 2 seconds. The bet was placed shortly before the anthem. The anthem lasted 2 minutes and four seconds.
--Jim McMahon claimed that Coach Mike Ditka ran up a huge bet that William the Fridge Perry would score a touchdown during Superbowl XX. He did score the touchdown.
--Superbowl XLVII was rigged when the Seahawks blew out the Broncos. This was seen by the safety on the first play which has some of the best odds in prop betting.
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We are going live a little earlier today (a little after Noon) so we don't interrupt anyone super spreader parties. Let us know if there is more we should cover.
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Could a CBS Super Bowl producer legally wager on prop bets he has control over?

There are many bets a person can place regarding the National Anthem, including who the camera shows first. If the CBS game producer were to place a huge bet on a particular player being shown first and then followed through with that on game day, would bookies or betters have any legal standing, or would the producer generally be protected?
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Super Bowl LV Props Betting Action! (Over 500 Betting Lines Available)

Super Bowl 2021 has become fever pitched after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs emerged victorious in their respective Conference Final games. It is something to watch out for as all-time great Tom Brady faces new-age superstar Patrick Mahomes in a Super Bowl showdown for the ages. It is also worth betting the proposition bets that revolve around this showdown. Props betting gives online American football betting enthusiasts something to look forward to aside from the game itself. Some of the prop bets include the length of the national anthem and how many touchdowns will a player score in one or two quarters. But before we check out the prevailing prop bets for this year’s biggest show, let’s take a look at some basic information that we should take note of.
Visit: https://www.betnow.eu/nfl/super-bowl-lv-props-betting-action-over-500-betting-lines-available/
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Super Bowl LIV Watch Thread

Welcome to Super Bowl Sunday! If you don’t want to hangout in nfl for the Super Bowl, you can chill here and watch the game with Broncos Country! Here is everything you need to know about the big game:
San Francisco 49ers vs. Kansas City Chiefs
Super Bowl Notes
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Super Bowl LII Discussion

There wil be a Live thread posted before the game.

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JaguarGator9's History of Halftime- Day 37 (Part II): Super Bowl LII Halftime Show (Justin Timberlake)

Before I start this somewhat late review of the halftime show (I always like waiting a few days to do it so that it has time to sink in and so that recency bias can’t take over), I want to start off by saying that I got interviewed on the Super Bowl XXVI halftime show a few days ago and on the history of the Super Bowl halftime show, so if you want to take a look at that, go check it out. As for the Super Bowl LII halftime show, it was definitely a continuation of the last halftime show starring Lady Gaga. An upbeat song to close the show, instead of the ballad? Check. One artist performing the entire show? Check. Fans on the field? Check.
However, unlike the Lady Gaga halftime show, this one seemed to get mixed reviews initially. With Gaga, it was nothing but praise, including from myself (I had it ranked #3 on my all-time list of halftime shows, only behind U2 and Katy Perry). With Timberlake, there was criticism at almost every turn, from the Prince projection to the ending with the selfie to the audio issues to the lack of singing (and we’ll get to all of those later). While I’m not sure that anyone thought of this as an awful halftime show, there have been a fair portion of average reviews. Again, though, I have disagreed with the critics before; I loved the Super Bowl XXXIV halftime show with the Tapestry of Nations (a show that gets routinely panned as one of the worst of the past 25 years), and I hated the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show (a show that had absolutely nothing going for it before Janet Jackson showed up to perform “Rhythm Nation”). Having said all of that, let’s dive right in and take a look at the Super Bowl LII halftime show.
NOTE: As always, this is not a review based on one viewing. Over the past 48 hours, I have seen this show five times to get an accurate assessment and make this review. Keep that in mind, as this review is not purely based off of what I saw on Sunday night.
Background Information
On October 23, 2017, it was announced that Justin Timberlake would be headlining the halftime show. This, of course, came with a mixed reception, for one fairly obvious reason. If you know anything at all about halftime of the Super Bowl, you probably know one incident in particular involving Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson.
However, time had passed. It was 14 years between the two games, and in that time stretch, Timberlake had gone from that guy in *NSYNC to arguably the biggest male pop star of the 21st century. From Super Bowl XXXVIII to Super Bowl LII, as the main artist artist, he had four songs hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and 10 songs hit the top 10. If you include his work as a feature artist, he had five songs hit #1, and 16 songs hit the top 10. Keep in mind that all of this was with a seven-year gap between two albums while he was focusing on his acting career. At that moment, Timberlake was the perfect choice for a halftime show, especially with his new album coming out.
There were two major questions with this halftime show when it was announced. The first was whether or not there would be any guest stars. Would there be an *NSYNC reunion for the first time since the 2013 VMAs? Would he bring Jay-Z or T.I. out for a performance of “Holy Grail” or “Dead and Gone”? Would he bring Chris Stapleton out to perform either “Drink You Away” or “Say Something” off of his latest album? I don’t know why this was a prop bet to begin with since they have no songs together, but would he bring Britney Spears out? And, of course, would he bring Janet Jackson out?
I just want to address something before I go any further that’s been bugging me with the criticism of the halftime show. If you want to criticize the show, that’s fine. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. However, comments like this and other comments slamming the halftime show because it didn’t have Janet Jackson are ridiculous. I love Janet Jackson’s music. She’s one of my favorite pop stars of the 90s, and when I first discovered “Rhythm Nation,” I listened to that track nonstop. However, criticizing the NFL or Timberlake for not having Janet Jackson perform is ridiculous.
Number one, the two have zero songs together. It’s not as though Timberlake performed one of his biggest hits with Janet Jackson. The Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show was a mish-mosh of artists thrown together that didn’t work whatsoever. Number two, there’s a reason why Janet Jackson wasn’t at the halftime show, and that’s because she hasn’t been relevant since the early 2000s. It’s not sexism or revenge or anything like that- the bottom line is that since 2002, Jackson has had a grand total of zero songs hit the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, and her biggest charting hit was “Feedback”, which hit #19 back in 2008. If an artist has one song inside the top 20 in the past 17 years, why should he or she be invited to perform at halftime? Nelly Furtado has enough material to do a halftime show, and has more top 20 songs since 2002 than Janet Jackson, yet, I don’t hear any calls for her to do the show. If she was relevant and had a bunch of hits in the past decade and she didn’t get a chance to perform, then maybe I would understand.
But she’s not being blackballed by the NFL here; she just hasn’t been relevant since the incident, and hasn’t had any massive hits since the Houston Texans became a team. This isn’t a case of the NFL being sexist; a female has performed at all but one halftime show from Super Bowl XLV (the first Super Bowl at the end of the Classic Rock Era) to Super Bowl LI, and the NFL even went back to a female artist for Super Bowl XLVII after the past three shows to have female artists featured major controversies (Janet Jackson at Super Bowl XXXVIII, Fergie sounding awful at Super Bowl XLV, MIA flipping the bird at Super Bowl XLVI following an uninspired lip-sync). Janet Jackson Appreciation Day? Fine, go for it. It’s great that her Spotify sales increased the day after the game; the more people who like her music, the better. But putting Timberlake down and criticizing the show solely off of the basis that Jackson wasn’t there? Completely over the line.
After that tangent, the other major question was about a Prince tribute. My guess is that if Prince was still alive, he would’ve gotten the Super Bowl LII halftime show, which would’ve had the potential to be the greatest one ever. He only performed two of his hit songs at the Super Bowl XLI halftime show, opening with “Let’s Go Crazy” and closing with “Purple Rain.” There were tons of songs he had that he didn’t play, from “When Doves Cry” to “Raspberry Beret” to “Kiss” to “U Got The Look” to “Cream” to “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man” to “Delirious” to “Gett Off” to… you get the idea. He could’ve put on a show, and in Minneapolis, it would’ve been a show like no other.
Alas, he died way too soon, dying two years ago on April 21, 2016. Prince was the heart of Minneapolis, and he’s engrained into that city and the state of Minnesota. He is to Minnesota what Billy Joel is to New York. It was definitely a possibility that whoever did the halftime show was going to do a Prince tribute, so Timberlake honoring Prince in some way during this performance was always a possibility.
After all the build-up for this halftime show, it was time to see how he would perform. Would Timberlake be able to redeem himself 14 years after the most controversial incident in the history of the halftime show? How does this halftime show hold up? Let’s take a look.
The Show
Full Show
As is tradition under the Pepsi era of halftime shows (Pepsi has sponsored every halftime show since Super Bowl XLVII, which is impressive since right around the turn of the century, if a sponsor even lasted two years, it was remarkable), there was a brief Pepsi ad beforehand. This, however, might be one of the best ones. It features Jimmy Fallon (who is very good friends with Timberlake) on a Pepsi-Cola sign, introducing the show and then rooting for Timberlake. It’s quick (it lasts only 10 seconds), it gets the point across, and it allows the show to have more time. I love ads like this for halftime; enough of the 30-second or minute long ads playing before the show even begins. Keep it short and sweet.
However, when the show begins, you’ll notice something a bit different. He’s not on the field. He’s on a stage inside the stadium performing “Filthy,” which is the first time since Super Bowl XLIV that the first main song of the show was not a song that hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. This is the first time that a live portion of the show did not take place on the field; keep in mind that Lady Gaga’s performance on the roof at NRG Stadium was pre-taped. It’s an interesting decision to have a portion of the show not on the field, and you’ll see during this show that Timberlake uses a lot of his surrounding environments and not just the field area. Props to him for trying that.
While I don’t have a problem with starting not on the field (I’m not a huge fan of it, but it’s very reminiscent of his performance at the 2013 VMAs, where he started in the concourse of the Barclays Center in a pre-taped segment), there’s one glaring issue with this opening. The audio is way too low. I’m willing to give NBC a pass on this, since this is literally their first halftime show with audio issues (Super Bowl XLIX had perfect audio, as did Super Bowl XLVIII and Super Bowl XLIII; it’s not like CBS where every halftime show has some glaring audio issue), and because afterwards, there are no audio issues.
Having said that, though, something about this opening felt a bit off besides the audio. This just doesn’t feel like an opening song outside of the first chords at the beginning. Normally, the shows have a bit of an introduction before jumping into the first song to get the build-up going; you saw this at Super Bowl XLVIII when Bruno Mars did his drum solo before “Locked Out of Heaven”, you saw this at Super Bowl XLVI when Madonna had a very long introduction to “Vogue”, and you saw this at Super Bowl LI when Lady Gaga came down from the roof to a short mega-mix of some of her biggest hits. Yes, sometimes, the show gets right into it; heck, my two favorite halftime shows ever (U2 and Katy Perry) did that. However, there’s a difference between when U2 did it, when Katy Perry did it, and when Justin Timberlake did it. When U2 did it, it made stylistic sense; plus, the opening to the show is not why I have it at #1 (it has to do with the beautiful 9/11 tribute during “Where The Streets Have No Name”). When Katy Perry did it, not only was “Roar” an emphatic (albeit very similar song to “Part of Me”) song all the way through, but she performed it on top of a lion. But when Justin Timberlake did it, it was plain with nothing special outside of some lighting, and it was to a song that didn’t feel like an opener. The first impression wasn’t strong with this show.
Then, Timberlake enters the field after a pretty good transition into “Rock Your Body,” and while the performance isn’t bad, it doesn’t feel right that he’s performing this song. It has nothing to do with what happened during the Janet Jackson incident; it has to do with the fact that this song was already performed at halftime before back at Super Bowl XXXVIII in the same exact manner (verse and chorus). The instrumentation was a bit different, but this is something we’ve heard before. I’m not a fan of doing repeat songs at the Super Bowl. It would’ve been odd if, at Super Bowl 50, Bruno Mars came out with a surprise entrance and did “Treasure” again. It would’ve been odd if, at Super Bowl 50, Beyonce came out with a surprise entrance and did “Crazy in Love” again (although you heard the horn section of that song during the dance-off for about five seconds, but again, there’s a difference between five seconds of horns and a full-out song). I would’ve liked to have seen a little something different here, because as a halftime enthusiast, Timberlake performing “Rock Your Body” was something that I’ve seen before. In the age before YouTube, this wouldn’t have been a huge deal. But in today’s age, when the last song you played on the field at a Super Bowl halftime show was “Rock Your Body,” and then in your next halftime show, the first song you play on the field is “Rock Your Body,” I’ve got a bit of a problem with that.
So the first two songs were choices that I didn’t necessarily agree with, and that comprises roughly the first 2:30 of the show (the pacing is fantastic during this show, as he just goes from song to song with no breaks in between). Here’s the odd part, though- everything that happens in the middle is fantastic, and I’m not sure I would have done it any differently in terms of the design. The “Senorita” sing-along (which I had a very good feeling was going to be in the show) transitioning into “SexyBack” was a transition that had no business working, but did. As he goes to a different stage, I’m fascinated by the scope of the stage design. There’s tons of different stages and I’m not sure where exactly everything is (very similar in that regard to the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show), but it’s something that I love. The more you use the field and the more elaborate the stage design, the better.
Once he’s done with “SexyBack” after some impressive choreography (while it’s not the best choreography ever at a Super Bowl, as it’s going to be tough to take the crown from Beyonce at Super Bowl XLVII on that one, it’s still pretty good), we get into “My Love.” One of the things that you may have noticed at times during this halftime show is, at times, the lack of singing by Timberlake. This happened at the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show with Beyonce, as there were parts during that show where she wasn’t singing, and instead, was merely dancing. Personally, I’ve got no problem with it, so long as you’re doing something else. This becomes evident during “My Love” and “Suit and Tie” in particular. For “Suit and Tie,” it didn’t bother me, because he’s doing some pretty cool tricks with a microphone stand. However, for “My Love,” if you’re not singing and you’re not really doing anything else, it gets kind of boring. While I’m not surprised by it, because that’s what Timberlake likes to do a lot during his concerts, it doesn’t work when you’ve got 13 minutes at halftime of the Super Bowl.
He goes from “My Love” to “Cry Me a River” after another solid transition (it’s always tough to do transitions between two songs in two different keys, but he pulled it off effortlessly throughout the entire show), and once the vocal part of that song is done, we get some interesting decisions that I happened to love. The first is the fact that Timberlake is on the field. He’s not on a stage; he’s actually on the shield at the 50-yard line. This is the first time in the history of the halftime show that the main artist is actually on the field at the 50-yard line. We’ve seen artists on the field before, such as U2 during “Beautiful Day” at Super Bowl XXXVI, and Shania Twain during “Up” at Super Bowl XXXVII, but never on a scale like this. U2 and Shania Twain did it to get from one point to another. Timberlake is doing this to highlight the fact that he’s on the field.
The second is the really long dance break, which might have been my favorite part of the show. Yes, it looks like he has to think about the choreography (it didn’t look effortless out there), but it was a decision that paid off. Everyone was *NSYNC (pun completely intended), the transition fit between the first part and the second part of the show, and some of the moves were pretty impressive. As the first part closes, the thoughts are that it started off a bit weak, but definitely got better as the show went on.
I’m dividing this halftime show up into three parts. The first part is the longest; it comprises about half of the show. The second part is everything from “Suit and Tie” onto the end of the Prince tribute. As the University of Minnesota Marching Band comes on following a brief tease of the violin from “Pusher Love Girl” (the second time that this marching band has been involved in a halftime show, as they were involved during the absolutely terrible Super Bowl XXVI halftime show to help out with a really bad rap version of “Frosty the Snowman”), it marks the first time since Super Bowl XLVI halftime show that a marching band has been on the field (although that was merely a drum line; the last full out marching band at the halftime show was Super Bowl XLV). Marching bands providing the accompaniment at halftime shows is something that I really enjoy, and I wish more artists would do it. Prince probably did it the best at Super Bowl XLI with “Purple Rain” and with the “1999” transition after “Let’s Go Crazy,” but Timberlake comes a close second with how he integrates the band into “Suit and Tie.” Side note- one of the members of the marching band did an AMA a few days ago that was really good, so go check that out if you’re interested in knowing what that performance was like.
The only thing about this performance of “Suit and Tie” that I don’t like is the costume. Since there was a bit of a gap between “Cry Me a River” and “Suit and Tie,” I really wish Timberlake could’ve pulled off a costume change. There’s something that feels off about performing a song called “Suit and Tie” with a band all in suits, and then you’re up there singing like you just got back from watching the rodeo. Other than that, the performance was fine; the swinging mic stand stunt was really cool, and the arrangement was top notch.
Then, we get a performance of “Until the End of Time,” which is a song that I’m shocked he performed. I never thought in a million years that he would perform the slowest hit in his catalogue at the halftime show. Amazingly, though, it works. Every halftime show needs to have a ballad; Lady Gaga did last year with “Million Reasons,” Katy Perry did at Super Bowl XLIX with “Firework,” Bruno Mars did at Super Bowl XLVIII with “Just The Way You Are,” and you get the idea. This is the part where Timberlake is at his strongest vocally.
After a verse and chorus of that, we get a Prince tribute. Before I talk about the tribute and this part of the halftime show, I want to address the rumors of the Prince hologram that got canned a few hours before the show. I highly doubt this ever happened. These halftime shows are so calculated and planned so far out in advance, that you don’t think the league would go through all this trouble to make a hologram and then cut it just a few hours before the show? What I think happened was someone saw a dress rehearsal, saw what Timberlake and Prince were doing, and assumed it to be a hologram and not just a projection on a blanket. This projection was always the plan from the start.
This tribute was done incredibly tastefully. As cool as a hologram would have been, it would’ve been against Prince’s wishes and would’ve been distasteful in that regard (although I loved the Michael Jackson hologram at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards). This was the way to do it- get the audio from a Prince recording, isolate it, and then have him duet with Timberlake in a way that doesn’t stop the halftime show. The song choice and the arrangement was good.
My only complaint? It had to do with the shot outside the stadium. Number one, the Prince symbol shown at the stadium was not clear enough; if everything is purple and the Prince symbol is just a different shade of purple, it’s tough to make out. I had no idea what was happening at first; it took me a second viewing to realize that there was a Prince symbol in the streets. But my other complaint? There’s no way that was filmed the same day. At least try and make it look like it was filed the same day. You can still see sunlight in the background. There’s too many cars on the road right next to the stadium for me to believe that was taken right when the show was happening.
Why did I not have a problem with the outside shots from Lady Gaga at Super Bowl LI, even though those were pre-taped? Because that looked believable. It was nighttime, and those shots took place at night. Here, I can see sunlight in the far left corner, whether it’s the sun rising or the sun setting. There’s no way there was any sunlight in Minneapolis when this halftime show was happening at around 7:20 at night in the Central Time Zone. It’s pitch black where I go to school in the south by 6:30. Just film that shot an hour later and nobody notices. Instead, it’s a small issue that I have a glaring problem with.
Once that tribute is done, we get into a performance of “Mirrors,” with a great arrangement and a really good on field visual with the fans on the field now holding up mirrors and rotating them after every measure. I really liked the way this part of the show looked, and it felt like an anthem-like closer. Timberlake then takes a bow as the final chord hits, and so concludes the halftime sh--- nope.
He’s still got to do “Can’t Stop the Feeling.” Even though the way “Mirrors” was performed was incredibly reminiscent of what a closing song at the Super Bowl should be (very similar to how “Halo” was performed at Super Bowl XLVII, which was one of the all-time great closers in halftime show history), we’ve still got one more song. Once that first chord hits, the mirrors flip around, and all of the sudden, I’m reminded of an Up With People halftime show. There’s so many colors and so much happiness, and it feels like a more elaborate production of a halftime show from the 80s.
This performance is remembered for something that has never happened at halftime before, and that’s the fact that Timberlake actually goes into the crowd. I want to take a moment to appreciate how ballsy this move was, because again, these shows are so calculated and watched by so many people that one tiny screw-up messes everything up. Remember the controversy that happened when MIA flipped the bird at Super Bowl XLVI (another NBC halftime show)? All you needed was one drunken fan to do that, or one fan to yell an obscenity or an advertisement into the microphone, or one fan to throw up an inappropriate sign, and you get a disaster. I’m pleasantly surprised that this didn’t happen at this halftime show. Going into the crowd is such a risky move, to the point where nobody has ever done it before, and nothing went wrong.
Did it pay off, though? Well… I’m not sure. You’ve got all of these colors on the field, and instead, all of the focus is on a random staircase in the stadium. The spotlight is taken away from Timberlake and is focused on a kid on his phone the whole time while Timberlake is right next to him. And once that final chord hits, the show just ends. It doesn’t end with anything elaborate like Lady Gaga jumping off into the Sunken Place, or with a powerful sequence of chords. Instead, it just ends. It just feels like an incredibly anticlimactic ending to the halftime show.
This is a weird show, because it feels very much like Super Bowl 50 (albeit, a much better version of it) in many regards. The beginning was really shaky. The ending was really shaky. The middle was really good. So how would I fix this halftime show if I was in charge?
My Fix
Again, I have to stick with what I’m given. This has to be a Justin Timberlake solo halftime show. I can’t take Timberlake out and replace him with another artist. I can’t get *NSYNC back together (as much as I would’ve loved to do that). I’ve got to just focus on Justin Timberlake with this halftime show, which clocks in as one of the longer ones in Super Bowl history.
This is going to sound crazy, and it might be the first time I’ve ever done this in all my years of trying to fix the halftime show, but I’m actually removing a song. Timberlake ended up doing 11 songs during this show (10 if you count “Until the End of Time” and “I Would Die 4 U” as one song), but I’m reducing that number to 10. “Filthy” is gone from the set. I like the song (it grew on me after a few listens), and I understand why he performed it (a hit song off of his latest album), but it just didn’t fit with the set at all.
I start the show with Timberlake on that stage underneath the field in one of the club areas. The instrumental to “Dead and Gone” is playing, as Timberlake rises from the stage with smoke blasting in his face. Then, we start the show with “Can’t Stop the Feeling.” That’s right- I’m moving the ending song to the beginning. He walks from the stage onto the field, and when he enters the field at the chorus, an explosion of colors appears. Perform a verse and a chorus of that, and then go to “Take Back the Night” for a verse and chorus. A really good arrangement of that song could’ve been built for the Super Bowl.
Once that’s done, do everything exactly the same up until the Prince tribute. Seriously. I’m keeping everything the same; the middle was fantastic. Fit a costume change in there to get Timberlake to look more formal before “Suit and Tie,” and you’ve got it. Film the Prince tribute at night and not at evening to make it look more believable; instead of lighting everything up purple, I’m wondering if they could’ve used drones with purple lights in the sky to make the Prince symbol, similar to how Lady Gaga used drones at Super Bowl LI with the American flag.
After the Prince tribute, Timberlake does that slowed down pre-chorus of “Mirrors” before going to the main stage. We then hear the opening chords to Mirrors, and he does a verse and chorus of that song (so he goes back to the beginning at full tempo). In short, he does one less song. “Can’t Stop the Feeling” replaces “Filthy” as the opener, “Take Back the Night” replaces “Rock Your Body” as the second song, and “Mirrors” becomes the closer.
Conclusion
Don’t get me wrong- this was a good halftime show. A bit underwhelming? Maybe. But this was definitely a good halftime show that had a lot going for it. The problem was that the first and last impressions were not that strong. Everything in the middle was superb, so much so that I wouldn’t change a whole lot about the show. After watching Timberlake do the 2013 VMAs, I can’t help but have expected just a bit more with regards to some things. Was this better than Lady Gaga’s show last year? Absolutely not, and that’s not a knock on Timberlake, as that’s an incredibly high bar to set. But is this a show that I’ll watch regularly like I do with a lot of the other halftime shows atop my list? Yes. It was a solid show that’s definitely top 10 all-time, but calling it top five might be a bit of a stretch.
Rankings
1) Super Bowl XXXVI- U2
2) Super Bowl XLIX- Katy Perry, Lenny Kravitz, Missy Elliott
3) Super Bowl LI- Lady Gaga
4) Super Bowl XLVIII- Bruno Mars, Red Hot Chili Peppers
5) Super Bowl XLI- Prince
6) Super Bowl XXVII- Michael Jackson
7) Super Bowl LII- Justin Timberlake
8) Super Bowl XLVII- Beyonce, Destiny’s Child
9) Super Bowl XXXV- *NSYNC, Aerosmith, Britney Spears, Nelly, Mary J Blige
10) Super Bowl 50- Coldplay, Beyonce, Bruno Mars
11) Super Bowl XLIII- Bruce Springsteen
12) Super Bowl XXXIV- Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, Toni Braxton
13) Super Bowl XLVI- Madonna
14) Super Bowl XXXIX- Paul McCartney
15) Super Bowl XXXIII- Gloria Estefan, Stevie Wonder, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
16) Super Bowl XXX- Diana Ross
17) Super Bowl XLII- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
18) Super Bowl XXXVII- Shania Twain, No Doubt, Sting
19) Super Bowl XLV- The Black Eyed Peas, Usher, Slash
20) Super Bowl XXXII- The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves, Queen Latifah, Boyz II Men
21) Super Bowl XLIV- The Who
22) Super Bowl XXII- Chubby Checker, The Rockettes
23) Super Bowl XXXVIII- Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Kid Rock, Nelly, P Diddy
24) Super Bowl XXVIII- Tanya Tucker, Clint Black, Travis Tritt, The Judds
25) Super Bowl XXXI- Blues Brothers, ZZ Top, James Brown
26) Super Bowl XXVI- Winter Magic, Gloria Estefan
27) Super Bowl XL- The Rolling Stones
28) Super Bowl XXIX- Patti LaBelle, Tony Bennett, Indiana Jones
29) Super Bowl XXI- Disney
30) Super Bowl XVIII- Disney
31) Super Bowl XXIII- Elvis Presto
32) Super Bowl XXIV- Salute to New Orleans & The Peanuts
33) Super Bowl XX- Up With People
34) Super Bowl XIX- Tops in Blue
35) Super Bowl XXV- Disney, New Kids on the Block
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95% of Money Wagered on Super Bowl Remains Offshore, Restrictions on Mobile to Blame

Sports betting may be legal in 8 states, but an American Gaming Association survey indicated that 95% of the expected $6 billion to be wagered on Super Bowl 53 (up from $4.76 billion last year) will be placed through unregulated or illegal channels. 8% of fans (1.8 million) gambling illegally on the game will place bets with their local bookies, the balance will give their business to off-shore online sportsbooks. Super Bowl bettors have been slow to migrate to a legal means of wagering, just 2% of those who bet on last year’s game illegally are expected to transition to a licensed gaming operator this time around.
Howie Long-Short: With 15% of the country offering legalized sports betting and the regulated gaming industry only expecting to covert 2% of fans from grey markets for the Big Game, it’s worth wondering why gamblers are foregoing the legal avenues available to them. VSIN CEO Brian Musburger explained to me that “most states that are currently operating prevent bettors from funding their mobile accounts without depositing cash at a brick and mortar casino (see: NV) and others – like Mississippi – only permit mobile gambling on the premises. Once bettors can fund mobile sports betting accounts with a credit card and place bets remotely, you’ll see that number explode; you’ll see a huge surge in deposits. As it currently stands, in many states it’s still easier for people to bet offshore than it is to do it in a regulated environment.”
What can the states do to convert those betting offshore into domestic sports bettors?
Brian: It’s on the states to be competitive [with pricing]. A good sports bettor is always going to seek the greatest potential edge. If the states overtax sports betting and regulated markets can’t be competitive with the illegal markets, the big money will remain in the gray areas. Smart Money looks for prices if the state taxes are too onerous that will only keep money offshore.
Nearly 1/10 Americans (22.7 million) will place a bet on Sunday’s game, but you won’t hear Jim Nance or Tony Romo (they’re on the call) reference the line (NE -2.5) or oveunder (56.5). That’s because with sports betting legal in just 16% of the country, CBS has opted to avoid the topic. That could change by the time Super Bowl 54 rolls around though as upwards of a dozen states could add sports betting legislation over the next 12 months. Fox has the broadcast rights to the 2020 game. I asked Brian if he would expect Murdoch and Co. to include gambling conversation and/or commercials during the game broadcast – if 40% of the country were to permit sports betting within their borders?
Brian: Well, after reading JohnWallStreet’s column from yesterday about Super Bowl advertising rates, Fox should be incentivized to take ads from casinos. But back to the first part of the question, the primary rights holders should probably stay away from sports betting; you don’t want to alienate your audience and there’s a lot of kids watching the Super Bowl that shouldn’t be inundated with sports betting talk. However, many of the people tuned into the game do have money on the line. Those individuals can use their second screen for sports betting information and I think they’ll find an outlet like VSIN is more informative and of far greater utility to them, than what Tony Romo (or Troy Aikman) will provide.
The NFL wants prop bets (wagers on an individual/team performance unrelated to the game’s outcome) “restricted – or even outlawed” deeming them too vulnerable to fixing/manipulation, and has asked congress to “allow professional and amateur sports organizations to identify which types of bets simply pose too significant a risk to the integrity of sports and to work with regulators not to authorize them.” Good luck with that. As Brian told me, “if there’s a marketplace for it, it will continue no matter what the NFL Commissioner says; and there really isn’t even a reason for the league to be concerned. The amount of money you can put down on a prop bet would never be enough to sway a professional athlete; most sports books place a low limit on props.”
Fan Marino: Most the money that has been bet on the game thus far has been sharp money. That’ll change by Sunday as casual bettors begin to place wagers on things like the coin toss and national anthem. As of Thursday evening, the money wagered in Las Vegas has been split between the Rams and Patriots.
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JaguarGator9's History of Halftime- Day 34: Super Bowl Halftime Show Awards

I’ve reviewed 32 halftime shows now, ranging from the absolute best to the absolute worst. Remember that my work here is not done- I’m going to be reviewing the Super Bowl 50 halftime show on Monday, and then, I’m going to review every halftime show that I’ve missed that was prior to Super Bowl XVIII, but I did not review because it broke up chronological order. Since I’ve reviewed 32 halftime shows, it feels appropriate to now nominate the best things that I’ve seen, as well as the worst. I asked you guys to come up with some categories that you’d like to see me nominate winners in, and I’ve got a few of my own. So, with that being said, let’s hand out the awards.
Biggest Controversy: Janet Jackson (Super Bowl XXXVIII)
Was anything else going to win this award? Personally, I didn’t think it was such a big deal, but this was going to be the clear winner from day one, seeing as the implications from this included, but were not limited to, destroying Janet Jackson’s career, banning MTV from future halftime shows, new FCC regulations, fines of half a million dollars to CBS, and the creation of YouTube. It’s a moment that will forever live in halftime show infamy.
Craziest Outfit: Patti LaBelle (Super Bowl XXIX)
When someone suggested this category, this was a hard one to decide. A lot of the edgy artists, such as Madonna, decided to play it incredibly safe with their outfit choices. Katy Perry didn’t even do anything that outlandish. However, I’ve got to give this one to Patti LaBelle, who, in the Indiana Jones themed halftime show, was forced to wear this. Instead of Patti LaBelle on stage, I saw what it would look like if a female played Jafar in the Broadway version of Aladdin. Everything about this halftime show did not work, especially that outfit.
Best Staging: Katy Perry (Super Bowl XLIX)
Try arguing against the fact that Katy Perry had the best staging at any halftime show ever. She started off on a lion, then moved onto the field which was a slanted checkerboard with pillars rising from it, then moved to a different stage with fire, then moved back to midfield (which was now a beach with happy clouds, palm trees, and dancing sharks), then moved to a different stage towards the end zone with a Trivial Pursuit board, then finished off flying around the field while the entire stage and surrounding facility was a firework. It doesn’t get better than that. Madonna may have been the one that experimented with on field graphics for the entire show, but Katy Perry perfected it.
Worst Staging: Black Eyed Peas (Super Bowl XLV)
At least they tried. That’s really all I can say about the staging at this halftime show. The stage took forever to develop (it was only the completed stage with about three minutes left in the halftime show), and when it was developed, it spelt out “love,” which only applied to one song. Even worse? The letter “v” did not light up. There were a lot of technical difficulties from this halftime show that were not the fault of The Black Eyed Peas, and this is one of them.
Worst Audio: Black Eyed Peas (Super Bowl XLV)
Speaking of technical difficulties at this halftime show, I feel as though they put the audio responsibilities for this halftime show in the hands of high school students that knew nothing about how audio worked. Fergie’s microphone was quiet most of the time, and when Usher had his solo, his mic wasn’t even on. You could only hear what he was saying when he was physically screaming it. The Black Eyed Peas deserve the blame for a lot of what happened at this show, but not for this. This was just inexcusable on the part of the organizers.
Weirdest Pairing of 2 Artists That Worked: Katy Perry & Lenny Kravitz (Super Bowl XLIX)
Maybe the pairing of Lenny Kravitz and Katy Perry wasn’t entirely strange. What was strange was the fact that Lenny Kravitz sang “I Kissed a Girl” alongside Katy Perry. What was even stranger was the fact that this actually worked, sounded completely natural, and had an incredible transition that I didn’t think was possible. If you told me going into the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show that Lenny Kravitz would be on stage for about a minute, and the entire time, would just be singing a Katy Perry song, I would’ve face-palmed and have been dreading that moment. Turns out, it was one of my favorite moments in any halftime show.
Weirdest Pairing of 2 Artists That Did Not Work: Black Eyed Peas & Slash (Super Bowl XLV)
There were so many candidates for this spot that I could’ve chosen from. I could’ve gone for Bruno Mars with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but decided not to, because in the end, it was just the RHCP performing their song. I could’ve gone for Madonna with LMFAO, but decided not to (even though it was incredibly awkward). I decided to go for Fergie with Slash, simply because it resulted in an absolute butchering of “Sweet Child O’Mine.” No other collaboration completely butchered a song like this one. When people point to this halftime show being one of the worst in recent memory, they more than likely point to this number.
Best Choreography: Super Bowl XLVI
Madonna herself was a mixed bag at the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show. The guest artists were a mixed bag; Cee Lo Green got praise, while every other artist got panned or caused some sort of controversy. However, if there was one aspect of this halftime show that was praised afterwards, it was the choreography. Beyonce’s halftime show had tight choreography, but Madonna’s halftime show had more variety. The “Music” number was incredibly well done, from the four guys in jackets dancing perfectly in sync to the guy on the tightrope that looked like Will Ferrell. There wasn’t one misstep, and for a show with that much going on, that was remarkable. Kudos for that; it’s one of the reasons why, even despite its flaws, I ranked the Madonna halftime show relatively high on the list.
Worst Choreography: Super Bowl XXV
There are so many reasons why Super Bowl XXV is the worst halftime show of all-time. The choreography here was, simply put, atrocious. It was an all kids halftime show, and I’ve got no problem with that if the kids are good. However, Disney made it an all kids halftime show so that the poor choreography was an excuse. In the end, there were no kids that were in sync. When Roger Rabbit was coaching the kids to do moves, it didn’t sync up with the actual choreography. During jumping scenes, there were still kids in mid-air while others were on the ground. It was genuinely bad.
Best Transition: “It’s Gonna Be Me” into “Jaded”- Super Bowl XXXV
There were a lot of candidates to choose from with this one. Some of them included anything that Diana Ross did at her halftime show, Bruno Mars from “Treasure” into “Runaway Baby,” and Katy Perry from “Dark Horse” into “I Kissed a Girl.” However, I decided to go with a transition where one artist started singing the end of the first song before going into the next song. Steven Tyler singing the final line of “It’s Gonna Be Me,” which then transitioned perfectly into Aerosmith’s set for “Jaded” was great. It took a chance; having Steven Tyler actually sing a lyric to an *NSYNC song to transition into an Aerosmith song is a bold move, but it worked.
Worst Transition: Anything from Super Bowl XX
Here’s how you don’t do a transition. You don’t stop the music completely at the end of the song. You don’t have this long narration go into the next section that connects one idea to the next in an incredible forced manner. And you don’t try to force-feed a message to a section that doesn’t have one. I’ll go more into this with the “worst narration” section, but every transition at this show bombed. If by “transition,” you mean “stop the show for a minute while introducing the next segment,” then this was perfect. However, if you’re talking about what most people would call a normal transition, then this didn’t even come close.
Best Narration: Super Bowl XXXIV
Edward James Olmos has some incredible narration at this halftime show, and even though this halftime show got panned by so many people, I’ve got it as one of my favorite halftime shows of all time. A big reason why is because of the narration. It’s meaningful, it’s profound, it makes you think, it’s appropriate for the theme, it’s played over some incredible music, it doesn’t stop the show, and it transitions one idea to the next. I’m generally opposed to narration at the halftime show, but when it’s done correctly, it can be magical, like this one.
Worst Narration: Super Bowl XX
“The Super Bowl was born in the USA in the 60s, and here it is 20 years later being seen around the world. It was on the wave of the future then, and it’s still moving in that groove today, just like the music of the 80s.”
Do I even need to say anything else? That was an actual quote from the narration of this halftime show.
Worst Theme: 3-Way Tie between Super Bowls XIX, XX, and XXIV
I couldn’t come up with a winner for this one, so I’ve got a three-way tie. Super Bowl XIX’s theme was about the World of Children’s Dreams, but then, forced a message about the United States military in it that clearly did not belong. Super Bowl XX’s theme was about riding the wave of the future while honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the way that the theme was presented was incredibly awkward. And, Super Bowl XXIV’s theme was about celebrating New Orleans (nothing wrong with that) with the 40th anniversary of the Peanuts (awful idea). How do those two ideas go together? As you’d find out when watching the show, they don’t, and the end product is incredibly boring. Each of these themes are bad in their own right.
Best Pregame Video: Super Bowl XXXV
This 90-second pregame video starring *NSYNC, Aerosmith, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, and Chris Rock was surprisingly funny. It didn’t drag on for too long, and while I would’ve cut it down by a bit (eliminating Chris Rock), I actually enjoyed this video, especially Ben Stiller. The idea behind it (a coach pumping up the halftime show act) is actually pretty funny and original, and it was executed well. MTV went all out with this halftime show, and it showed.
Worst Pregame Video: Super Bowl XXXVIII
The theme of this pregame video was “Choose to Vote.” In the end, it had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the halftime show. The only connection that it had was in the first seconds afterwards, when Jessica Simpson said “Choose to party.” The fact that you’re connecting the fact that you have political power to the fact that you have the ability to party when the connection never needed to be made in the first place is just flat out insulting. The video was poorly edited as well; there was a lot of duplicate audio for no real reason. A minute-long video about choosing to vote is not what I want to watch before a halftime show.
Best Introduction: 2-Way Tie between Beyonce and Bruno Mars
I couldn’t pick a winner here. Call it a cop-out move, but I genuinely can’t decide which introduction is better. Honorable mention goes to Michael Jackson here, but I thought that his may have been a bit too long. With Beyonce and Bruno Mars, however, I couldn’t find one flaw. Beyonce started out her show with an a cappella rendition of “Love on Top,” and Bruno Mars started off his show with a drum solo. Both were bold moves that worked perfectly, and both were flawlessly done. I can’t decide which one was better; it’d be unfair to not crown both of these halftime shows as winners here, because I enjoyed these introductions equally.
Worst Introduction: Super Bowl XXV
When your introduction is so bad that five seconds into the halftime show, I want to stop watching, you know it’s bad. A kid reporter introduces the halftime show, stating that it’s an all kids halftime show, and then the show starts, with some awful music and some awful choreography. That first number is ear-bleedingly bad; I had to pause the video at least seven times during the first number alone just to re-gain my thoughts and composure (and the show got worse- we’ll get to that later). Nothing will ever come close to topping Super Bowl XXV’s atrocious halftime show.
Best Goosebumps Moment: “Where The Streets Have No Name”- Super Bowl XXXVI
There was only one possible winner of this category. I’d be willing to bet that 99% of people watching the U2 halftime show during that number either shed a tear or got goose-bumps when the names went up, when Bono held out the long note as the guitar solo picked up, and/or when Bono lifted his jacket to reveal the American flag. Other halftime shows have given me goose-bumps, but none to that extent. It was an emotional and powerful moment, and I don’t think that anything will ever top it; you’d need another national tragedy to top it, and obviously, none of us want that to happen.
Best American Moment: “Where The Streets Have No Name”- Super Bowl XXXVI
No point in repeating myself here. Look above at the “Best Goosebumps Moment” category, and you’ll see exactly what I mean.
Worst American Moment: Stopping the Super Bowl XXV halftime show
There were tons of possible options for this one. I could’ve gone with Kid Rock wearing an American flag poncho at Super Bowl XXXVIII, and I could’ve gone with the military thing at the Super Bowl XIX halftime show with the barbershop quartet singing “This Is My Country.” However, there was only one thing that was going to win this, and it was when the Super Bowl XXV halftime show literally stopped to reveal a two-minute message from the President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. Re-watch that halftime show if you have to; the show literally stops for that. There were some great American moments at Super Bowl XXV, including the Whitney Houston national anthem. However, this entire halftime show was overkill, and no moment exemplified that more than this one.
Funniest Good Moment: Left Shark- Super Bowl XLIX
Left Shark is love. Left Shark is life. Kneel before Left Shark.
Funniest Bad Moment: Elvis Presto- Super Bowl XXIII
I’ve watched the entire Super Bowl XXIII halftime show multiple times (I think I’ve watched it five times, which is about five times too many). The show is really bad. Elvis Presto does one Elvis song and does two songs from “Grease.” He’s just running around the field or riding on his motorcycle half of the time. It’s a surprisingly boring halftime show. However, the magic trick that Elvis Presto does with the card trick around the entire stadium is legitimately so bad that it good and hilarious. From the lyrics to the apathy in the crowd to the fact that the trick did not work, it was absolutely hysterical. I still watch that moment a lot on my own because of how funny it was. Remember that at this point in halftime history, a lot of shows were either really bad, really boring, or both. This, at least, was something interesting.
Best Song Choice of an Unknown Song: “Runaway Baby”- Super Bowl XLVIII
From an entertainment perspective, Bruno Mars doing “Runaway Baby” at Super Bowl XLVIII is the best number in the history of the halftime show. The vocals are incredible, the mash-up with “Shout” is incredible, the energy is incredible, and the James Brown-esque dance moves are incredible. This was the peak of the halftime show, and it really is a shame that the Red Hot Chili Peppers came in afterwards to ruin the show’s momentum. “Runaway Baby” is one of those songs that’s good as a studio recording, but as a live song, is unbelievable.
Worst Song Choice of an Unknown Song: “Rough Justice”- Super Bowl XL
Does anybody know what “Rough Justice” is? You’ve got The Rolling Stones, a group with a discography spanning more than forty years, and a group that’s one of the most iconic rock bands of all-time. Not only does the band only perform three songs at the halftime show, but one of them is a completely new and unknown song called “Rough Justice.” Lots of artists have performed new or unknown songs at the halftime show of the Super Bowl before, but what separates this one from the pack is that they do the entire song. It’s the full-length version. On all accounts, this was a horrible idea.
Most Ironic Song Choice: “Born in the USA”- Super Bowl XX
Remember what I said about the Super Bowl XX halftime show and how it was celebrating how the USA was riding the wave of the future, and was essentially honoring the USA and Martin Luther King Jr.? The transitional song was this one, which is a Bruce Springsteen song that criticizes America. It’s not this pro-American anthem that a lot of people seem to think it is. Yet, Up with People decided to use it at this halftime show to transition from one idea to the next. Clearly, it didn’t work.
Best Self-Promotion: “Up” by Shania Twain- Super Bowl XXXVII
I’m not a fan of self-promotion at the Super Bowl halftime show. However, of all the self-promotion songs, this one worked the best. It’s fast-paced, and the ending to the song where she rises up on a platform full of balloons and fireworks was really good. The pacing could’ve been better, and I would’ve preferred if she sang live instead of mimed her vocals; that being said, of all the self-promotional songs, this was the best one.
Worst Self-Promotion: “Rough Justice” by The Rolling Stones- Super Bowl XL
See above with the “Worst Choice of an Unknown Song” category. When you do an unknown song when you have an entire catalogue of material that you’re excluding because of it, and when you’re doing the full-length song, it’s a recipe for disaster.
Best Closing: Diana Ross- Super Bowl XXX
Considering the amount of regulations with flights nowadays, this is something that’s never going to happen again. However, Diana Ross left the show in a helicopter. A helicopter literally came onto the field, then she entered the helicopter and left the stadium, which concluded the halftime show. How can you possibly top that?
Worst Closing: Rolling Stones- Super Bowl XL
Here’s how you don’t do a closing number. You don’t close the show by performing the same song for six minutes. Maybe you do that at a live show; by all means, go right ahead when you have two or three hours to yourself. However, when you have a twelve-minute set at halftime of the Super Bowl, you don’t spend six minutes playing one song. That’s exactly what The Rolling Stones did at this halftime show, and the more I think about it, the more I think I should’ve ranked The Stones lower on the list, even below some of the Disney halftime shows (and I already ranked it low enough). It was that bad.
Best Card Stunt- Super Bowl XXVI
Yes, Winter Magic actually did something right. The horribly panned halftime show with a rap version of “Frosty the Snowman” and figure skating actually had some good elements to it, with the most notable one being the card stunts (something that you don’t see often at halftime shows anymore). I love the card stunt here with the Olympic torch, Olympic rings, and the snowflakes. The card stunt actually adds background to the halftime show, and enhances the scene in a way that on-field props could not. This halftime show was bad, don’t get me wrong on that; however, this part was genuinely good.
Worst Card Stunt- Super Bowl XXV
Honorable mention goes out to Super Bowl XXX here, but I decided to go with Super Bowl XXV, because you could actually hear when the announcers wanted you to put up the cards. There was actually a part of the halftime show at the end where the PA announcer said to put the cards up; not only that, but he said what side they should be facing. There’s something called a scoreboard that can help you do that without interrupting the flow of the halftime show.
Best Vocal Performance- Individual Song: “Love on Top” by Beyonce- Super Bowl XLVII
Remember everything that Beyonce was dealing with at this time. Two weeks before the Super Bowl, there was the lip-synching controversy at the inauguration while she was performing the national anthem. There hadn’t been a strong female vocal performance at the Super Bowl halftime show since Diana Ross at Super Bowl XXX. If this show bombed, considering the last three halftime shows with females were Janet Jackson, Fergie, and MIA, we’d be in serious trouble. She starts the show off with an incredibly powerful a cappella rendition of “Love on Top,” where she changes keys seamlessly and has the Superdome in silence. That moment gave me goosebumps when I saw it for the first time, and for good reason.
Worst Vocal Performance- Individual Song: “(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave” by Martha Reeves- Super Bowl XXXII
The Super Bowl XXXII halftime show was ok. It could’ve been a lot better, but there were some artist choices and some setlist choices that just did not make sense in the grand scheme of things. However, the worst thing about this show was not Queen Latifah’s awful song, and was not Boyz II Men slowing things down with “A Song for Mama.” It was Martha Reeves failing to hit a note during her number. Her voice sounded downright atrocious here. After some great performances by The Temptations, Martha Reeves comes in to destroy the momentum that the show was building up.
Best Vocal Performance- Entire Show: Bruno Mars- Super Bowl XLVIII
Bruno Mars absolutely killed it at halftime of Super Bowl XLVIII. He did the entire thing live, and hit practically every note. He nailed it with the fast songs, and then nailed it when the spotlight was completely on him (“Just The Way You Are”). There’s not much else to say about this one, other than I highly recommend that you watch this halftime show if you have not done so already. If you think that Bruno Mars is just another pop singer that’s a product of autotune, then prepare to have your opinion changed after watching this show.
Worst Vocal Performance- Entire Show: The Rolling Stones- Super Bowl XL
The fact that Mick Jagger actually is worse than any vocal performances by The Black Eyed Peas truly shows how awful this halftime show was. If you re-watch this halftime show, though, you’ll know exactly what I mean; at least with The Black Eyed Peas, you could understand what they were saying. Mick Jagger, on the other hand, is slurring every word, and sounds completely out of breath at times in the show. You can’t understand what he’s possibly saying. Out of all of the shows from the Classic Rock Era, this one was, without a doubt, the worst.
Best Pacing: Katy Perry- Super Bowl XLIX
Katy Perry’s halftime show consisted of nine separate songs. That, in itself, is remarkable. What made this win, though, was the quality of the songs. Each song was done for an appropriate amount of time, and I never thought that an individual song went on for too long. On top of that, even though there were nine separate songs, there was a different theme for most of them, and yet, it still worked. She was able to fit a mini-concert inside twelve minutes, and the pacing worked perfectly here.
Worst Pacing: The Rolling Stones- Super Bowl XL
I’m showing The Rolling Stones no mercy here. This halftime show was genuinely awful, and the pacing was a big reason why. The band only performed three songs, and all three of those songs were full-length versions. The transitions between songs were bad, as Mick Jagger was interacting with the crowd in between songs (something you never do when you only have twelve minutes). And, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” lasted for an entire six minutes. You don’t play a song for six minutes at the halftime show, and you don’t double the length of the studio recording to get to that point.
Best Choice for the Elements: Prince- Super Bowl XLI
Who else could’ve won this award? Prince literally performed “Purple Rain” in the rain. Does it get more fitting than that? When people put this halftime show near the top of the list, it clearly deserves to be. However, a big reason why is because of the setting of playing that song in the rain, and performing it with a marching band to perfection. One of my favorite moments at any halftime show; clearly, it’s the most iconic moment from that halftime show.
Worst Choice for the Elements: Gloria Estefan- Super Bowl XXVI
Super Bowl XXVI’s show was called Winter Magic. It was about winter. So, who do you get to follow up some winteChristmas themed songs and some figure skating? Let’s get the lead singer of the Miami Sound Machine that’s a Cuban-American. I like Gloria Estefan, but having her do a halftime show and sing a song in the halftime show about winter was a giant mistake. Fortunately, she was invited to do the Super Bowl XXXIII halftime show in Miami, where she was much more in her element. Still, the fact that she was a part of the Super Bowl XXVI mess is saying something.
Best Lip-Synching: Katy Perry- Super Bowl XLIX
The best lip-synching is done when you can’t even tell that the person is lip-synching. Katy Perry said that she was going to mime some of her vocals. However, after watching that halftime show over and over again, I can’t tell when she’s miming and when she’s singing live. They sound exactly the same, and they don’t sound like they come directly off of the studio album. I think Katy Perry’s vocals have improved dramatically in recent years, and credit to her for that.
Worst Lip-Synching: Patti LaBelle- Super Bowl XXIX
Patti LaBelle cannot lip-synch to save her life. If you re-watch that Super Bowl halftime show, she tries to lip-synch, but fails miserably at it. Her lip movements don’t match up to the audio, and she misses practically every single entrance. For some reason, Disney wanted every halftime show to be pre-recorded (a decision that I hated), but some artists are better at lip-synching than others. Patti LaBelle is not one of them. You can tell that she’s never done a mimed performance in her life before that halftime show, and boy, did it show.
Worst Super Bowl Halftime Show: Super Bowl XXV
I’ve seen all of the good halftime shows, and I’ve seen all of the bad halftime shows. There have been times where I have paused the show to laugh or just shake my head in disbelief. However, there was only one halftime show where I actually yelled at my computer screen while watching because of how bad it was, and that was the Super Bowl XXV halftime show. Let’s recap everything wrong with this show. You’ve got awful choreography, an awful song with a horrible message, some poor lyrics about football teams, a random appearance by Warren Moon out of nowhere, a six-year old kid singing “Wind Beneath My Wings” really poorly, a message from the President of the United States which interrupts the show, “it’s a small world” being performed three times, New Kids on the Block appearing for all of one minute, and a card stunt that actually has to be announced over the public address system. Watch this show if you want to lose your eardrums, and read the review if you want to see my full frustration. It’s bad.
Best Super Bowl Halftime Show: Super Bowl XXXVI
And finally, we’re at the top award- the best halftime show. This one takes the cake because of the circumstances around the event at the time. U2 does an incredible remembrance to the victims of 9/11 here. “Beautiful Day” is a great song, and it’s performed perfectly. However, it’s what happened after the opening number that puts this show at the #1 spot. Everything about U2’s tribute is perfect, from the song choice to the wall of names to the vocals to the heart-shaped stage to the American flag jacket to everything in between. This was a powerful moment that brought people to tears; no other halftime show has ever had that ability. Is it the best halftime show if you want to be entertained for twelve minutes? No. However, it’s the best halftime show because of the emotion surrounding it, and because it combines both feelings of entertainment (“Beautiful Day”) with sorrow and remembrance (the ending). This halftime show will be very hard to top.
Rankings
1) Super Bowl XXXVI- U2
2) Super Bowl XLIX- Katy Perry, Lenny Kravitz, Missy Elliott
3) Super Bowl XLVIII- Bruno Mars, Red Hot Chili Peppers
4) Super Bowl XLI- Prince
5) Super Bowl XXVII- Michael Jackson
6) Super Bowl XLVII- Beyonce, Destiny’s Child
7) Super Bowl XXXV- *NSYNC, Aerosmith, Britney Spears, Nelly, Mary J Blige
8) Super Bowl XLIII- Bruce Springsteen
9) Super Bowl XXXIV- Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, Toni Braxton
10) Super Bowl XLVI- Madonna
11) Super Bowl XXXIX- Paul McCartney
12) Super Bowl XXXIII- Gloria Estefan, Stevie Wonder, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
13) Super Bowl XXX- Diana Ross
14) Super Bowl XLII- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
15) Super Bowl XXXVII- Shania Twain, No Doubt, Sting
16) Super Bowl XLV- The Black Eyed Peas, Usher, Slash
17) Super Bowl XXXII- The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves, Queen Latifah, Boyz II Men
18) Super Bowl XLIV- The Who
19) Super Bowl XXII- Chubby Checker, The Rockettes
20) Super Bowl XXXVIII- Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Kid Rock, Nelly, P Diddy
21) Super Bowl XXVIII- Tanya Tucker, Clint Black, Travis Tritt, The Judds
22) Super Bowl XXXI- Blues Brothers, ZZ Top, James Brown
23) Super Bowl XXVI- Winter Magic, Gloria Estefan
24) Super Bowl XL- The Rolling Stones
25) Super Bowl XXIX- Patti LaBelle, Tony Bennett, Indiana Jones
26) Super Bowl XXI- Disney
27) Super Bowl XVIII- Disney
28) Super Bowl XXIII- Elvis Presto
29) Super Bowl XXIV- Salute to New Orleans & The Peanuts
30) Super Bowl XX- Up With People
31) Super Bowl XIX- Tops in Blue
32) Super Bowl XXV- Disney, New Kids on the Block
Super Bowl Database
Later today, I’m going to dive into my predictions for the Super Bowl 50 halftime show. Stay tuned for that one either later today or tonight.
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Super Bowl Props Thread

The best part about the Super Bowl is the obscene number of props available. Beyond the in game one's, books always post a number of "novelty" props related to the game presentation. Because these props are mainly put up to 1) draw media attention to the books during the most high profile American gambling week of the year and 2) take advantage of the many casual gamblers that flock to bet on these.
There are so many props that there is bound to be some solid value in them. I broke down a ton of the more exotic American options in a long post here- https://quartercourtpress.wordpress.com/2016/02/04/ultimate-super-bowl-nonsense-prop-guide-all-the-props-thats-fit-to-print/ but I'd like to continue the discussion here, regarding both normal and "novelty" props for the Super Bowl.
What will people be playing on Sunday? Here's a good list of a lot of the options out there- http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2016/2/1/10880632/super-bowl-50-prop-bets-mvp-national-anthem-coin-toss
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ACS | February 5th, 2019 | Super Bowl Commercial Grade with Christie Bishop, plus Super Bowl Blah Blah Blog and #SportsBall Tweets

Download/Listen: https://adamcarolla.com/blogs/podcast-archive/super-bowl-commercial-grade-with-christie-bishop-plus-super-bowl-blah-blah-blog-and-sportsball-tweets
Summary:
At the top of the show, the guys comment on the announcer for today’s show, who won a charity auction to take over Dawson’s job for the day. Adam then talks about stay–at-home dads, and shares his reactions to the Super Bowl. The group also talks about devastating sports losses, and reacts to a promo commercial that just didn’t read properly. Next, Bald Bryan goes through some of his favorite ‘Sports Ball’ tweets, and Adam talks about trying to watch the right ‘Fyre’ documentary to prep for a guest on Reasonable Doubt. Before the break, the guys play a Super Bowl themed round of Blah Blah Blog, voiced by our auction winner, Max.
Christie Bishop is in studio next for a round of Commercial Grade: Super Bowl Edition. Gina then begins the news talking about a particularly big payout on a pre-game prop bet involving the National Anthem. The group also talks about the Maroon 5 halftime performance, a horrible plane crash in Orange County, CA, and the original cast of 90210 reuniting. As the show wraps up, enjoy more Super Bowl commentary from Adam and Dave Dameshek!
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Prop Bet Results thread!

For those of you who didn’t watch the game and then spent today in a cave, THE BRONCOS WON THE SUPER BOWL!!!!! WOOOOO!!!
OK, now that I have that out of my system, let’s talk prop bets. I was able to successfully keep track of most events during the game. For the couple I was unsure of (noted below) I used this SBNation article for the answers. After my initial tabulation of scores I was surprised to find one stand alone winner who blew everyone away. Not only blew everyone away, but got every single one right. I then realized that entry was my answer entry that I filled out during the game to track results. Leave me alone, it’s Monday.
Now the actual results were more what I expected when 104 of you filled out a ballot with only 23 bets: a 3 way tie. I am pleased to announce The_Tic-Tac_Kid, bullmoose_atx, and puffadda as the winners of the Super Bowl Prop Bet Pick ‘em!!! The three all tied with 15 correct answers.
Answers and Data and stuff It was suggested in the game thread to post some info on how people voted and I liked the idea so all that info is down below. The questions marked with an asterisk are the ones I used the above article to find an answer. Correct answers are in italics.
The Coin Toss Will Be… Heads 64 Tails 40
Which team will win the coin toss? Broncos 54 Panthers 50
How long will the National Anthem take? Under 2:20 36 Over 2:20 68
The first score of the game Broncos field goal 20 Broncos safety 2 Broncos touchdown 4 Panthers field goal 27 Panthers safety 2 Panthers touchdown 45
Longest field goal Under 42.5 36 Over 42.5 68
Total touchdowns Under 4.5 29 Over 4.5 79
Will there be an extra point missed? Yes 19 No 85 Most agreed upon answer!
The first Panther TD ball will be given to a... Boy 65 Girl 27 Neither 12
Number of John Fox mentions?* Under 1.5 21 Over 1.5 83
Will Mike Carey be wrong on a challenge? Yes 62 No 42
Will they mention Kubiak was Elway's backup?* Yes 92 No 12 Most commonly missed answer!
What color will the liquid dumped on the coach be? Blue 45 Green 6 Red 3 Yellow 12 Orange 29 None of the above 6
Who will the MVP thank first? God 42 Teammates 37 Fans/city 16 Coaches 2 Family 3 None of the above 0
What color will Beyonce's shoes be? Black 32 Silvegray 25 White 7 Brown/gold 25 Any other color 12
Will the winner of the coin toss win the game? Yes 58 No 46
Will a backup QB take a snap? Yes 29 No 75
Will Peyton announce his retirement on the field? Yes 68 No 36
Will Peyton be seen crying? Yes 55 No 49
Total turnovers? Under 3.5 82 Over 3.5 22
Who will the Super Bowl? Broncos 27 Panthers 77
What will be the first turnover? Broncos fumble 13 Broncos interception 58 Panthers fumble 15 Panthers interception 15 There won't be any 1
Who will win the MVP? Cam Newton 70 Peyton Manning 16 Luke Kuechly 3 Von Miller 4 Ted Ginn Jr. 1 C.J. Anderson 0 Greg Olsen 1 Jonathan Stewart 0 Josh Norman 0 Demarcus Ware 0 Anyone else 6 Question with the fewest correct answers!
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JaguarGator9's History of Halftime- Day 29: Super Bowl XLV Halftime Show (The Black Eyed Peas, Usher, Slash)

The halftime show put on by The Who at Super Bowl XLIV was not remembered fondly, to say the least. Many people called it a boring, forgettable halftime show where the band showed their age in a poor way. However, by this point in history, everyone had largely forgotten about the Janet Jackson incident. It was now seven years since the incident took place, and by this point, instead of the halftime show being a fun event catering towards everyone, it was a somewhat boring event catering to people in between the ages of 40-60.
Because of this, the league decided to change it up for the Super Bowl XLV halftime show and go back to the way things were. Instead of getting an act that hadn’t been popular since the mid-70s, the league got an act that was, I kid you not, the most popular pop act in the world. There was a stretch of 26 straight weeks where this artist held the #1 spot on the charts. This was a group that had released ten consecutive singles charting inside the top 20, and six consecutive singles charting inside the top 10. Of course, I’m talking about… The Black Eyed Peas.
Notice how they haven’t done anything notable since 2011. That’s because I choose to believe that the Super Bowl halftime show singlehandedly killed their careers. Many people panned this halftime show to a ridiculous degree, putting it up there with Indiana Jones, Elvis Presto and Winter Magic as one of, if not, the worst halftime shows of all time. But does it deserve the criticism that it ended up getting? Was this halftime show truly as bad as the critics made it out to be? Let’s dive right in and take a look at the Super Bowl XLV halftime show.
Background Information
Before getting into any articles about this particular halftime show, I want to bring up two things in particular about the context of the Super Bowl at the time. The first is that Super Bowl XLV was an absolute disaster for the NFL. There have been many controversies regarding the NFL, from DeflateGate to SpyGate to the entire Ray Rice situation and domestic violence cover-up. And, the league hasn’t been able to get out of those scandals. However, I’m still baffled as to how the league managed its way to wiggle out of Super Bowl XLV like nothing ever happened. Do people not remember everything that transpired at that event? In no particular order (and some of it is unfortunate, while some of it is clearly on the fault of either the NFL or the Cowboys):
Keep that in mind as this review is going on. Super Bowl XLV was an absolute catastrophe for the NFL that we all somehow forgot about and let slide (and in the offseason, I’ll probably do an in-depth post about that Super Bowl, because the amount of things that went wrong at this Super Bowl was baffling; it went so poorly that Cowboys Stadium (now AT&T Stadium) hasn’t hosted a Super Bowl since, and likely won’t for a long time). This halftime show is the most memorable part, but there were a lot of other problems with the event itself.
The second thing with regards to context is that we have entered a new era of the halftime show. The sixth era of the Classic Rock Era is now gone, and we’re in the seventh era, which is the Poly-Performer Era. Notice the difference between the Poly-Headline Era (era #5) and the Poly-Performer Era (era #7). The distinction is that in the Poly-Performer Era, there is only one headlining act; while there are other acts besides the headliner, there is a clear distinction as to which act is the headlining act and which acts are supporting acts. As an example, the Super Bowl XXXIII halftime show involved, primarily, Gloria Estefan and Stevie Wonder. However, it was not advertised as a Stevie Wonder halftime show featuring Gloria Estefan, or vice versa. Both performers got equal time. In the halftime shows in the Poly-Performer Era, though, the distinction is clear. For example, even though Usher and Slash performed with The Black Eyed Peas at this halftime show, it was very clearly a halftime show starring The Black Eyed Peas; Slash and Usher were just there in supporting roles.
FOX took over production for the halftime show, as Fox Sports president David Hill said that he wanted to move away from classic rock. The rumors came out in September that the pop act would do the halftime show, but it wasn’t until a Dallas Morning News report two months later where it was confirmed. This Rolling Stone report came out at the end of November, which officially confirmed it, alongside this article from NFL.com. I also found this MTV article about the announcement as well, which is more of the same. There’s also this Billboard article, this USA Today article, this article from a New Orleans newspaper… it goes on and on, and it’s more of the same. If you’re really interested in the announcement portion, then there’s plenty of material out there since this halftime show took place in the 2010s, and it’s very easy to get archives of articles from that point in history.
Leading up to the halftime show, there were some articles about what to expect from the performance. Fergie said at a press conference that the show won’t have a malfunction like the Janet Jackson performance. Then, you’ve got will.i.am and his take on what to expect from the halftime show, including quite possibly the greatest quote to come from any halftime show press conference. When speaking about how you keep the energy up for the performance, even if the game is really bad, he said, “How do you keep the energy up even with the cats that are getting their booty whipped?” If you read that article, he says exactly that. He has a way with words.
Then, there’s this Page 2 article about the halftime show, this People Magazine article, this Forbes article about why the band isn’t getting paid for their performance, this SB Nation article, this Rap Up article, this Daily Trojan article, and then, by far the most outlandish article, this Layover Guide article about the band’s flight down to Dallas. Yes, there’s an actual article about the plane ride down to Dallas. Riveting stuff.
Interestingly enough, the guest stars were unknown until the week before the show. It was only announced in early February of 2011 that Usher and Slash would be doing the halftime show alongside The Black Eyed Peas. If you want some announcements on that, here’s a Hollywood Reporter article, here’s a Huffington Post article, here’s an EW article, here’s a Gossip Cop article, here’s a Mass Live article, and here’s a Metal Slasher article. There are tons of articles about that; I just chose the first few that I could find, because it’s all redundant and the same news.
So, you’ve got the background information. This was the first halftime show in a brand new era of halftime shows, combining The Black Eyed Peas with Usher and Slash. From a personal perspective, I was sick for two weeks in a row in December in eighth grade (and then was sick the week after the Super Bowl, with a mini fever during the game). This means that to pass the time in December, I watched most of the halftime shows; the Super Bowl XLV halftime show was the first time ever that I intently followed every development from the show. Additionally, this meant that to pass the time the week after the Super Bowl, I watched this halftime show over and over again, analyzing every detail to the point where I could memorize all the moments of the show, from the song order to the coloring of the stage.
Looking back on it, how does this show hold up? Do The Black Eyed Peas deliver, put on one of the worst halftime shows ever, or something in between?
The Show
Full Show
Full disclosure right now- you’re probably going into this review with the mindset that it’s one of the worst things in the history of humanity. I don’t know a single person that actually liked this halftime show. If you’re expecting me to just bag on this halftime show, I’ll say it upfront- you’re right… kind of. I’m going to criticize this halftime show, but it won’t be as harsh as you may think (in certain parts, it’s going to be bad, but not all the way around).
We’ll start with the opening, as the band members come down from the ceiling of the stadium. What a great way to open up the show. Nobody has ever entered the halftime show before coming down from the ceiling, and yet, this happens twice at this halftime show. Remember the openings of previous halftime shows, where a lot of them was either just the artist starting to sing (The Who, Paul McCartney, Shania Twain) with no background, or made no sense (Super Bowl XXXVIII). This is a unique way to open up the show, and the good thing about the Poly-Performer Era is that each of the five shows in this era consists of five ways to enter a halftime show that have never occurred before.
While it looks like there are fans on the field at the start, this would later be debunked. After a decade of fans on the field, this is the second straight year where there were no fans on the field. Those people in the white suits act as fans for part of the show, and then act as the dancers for the other parts. This is a unique idea that I actually really like. It’s never been done before where the fans were the dancers, and I think it works really well here. For the record, this hasn’t happened since, and I’m not sure if it ever will happen again, but it’s an idea to consider if you want to have stuff going on while, at the same time, have that concert-like atmosphere.
As the band members detach themselves from the chords, the opening song is “I Gotta Feeling.” What else were you going to start with? Perfect opening song, if you ask me; it’s not just their biggest hit, but one of the biggest songs of the 2000s, and could be one of the biggest songs of all-time (it still gets considerable play on the radio today on certain stations, and is played all the time at sporting events). One thing you’re going to notice about this halftime show is that the setlist of the band is actually pretty good. There are a few things that I would change, but the band takes some chances with transitions and decisions in the set, and for the most part, they work out.
However, the main criticism from this halftime show comes from the vocals, and you can tell in the first ten seconds that this is going to be a theme throughout the entire 13-minute show. Frontman will.i.am is incredibly autotuned to a laughable degree, Fergie doesn’t hit too many notes, and the mic levels for Fergie are all off at times. Looking into the future, this is why the opening at Beyonce’s halftime show blew me away; all I had known up until that point in my life with regards to the females at the halftime shows were classic rock acts (no females), lip-synched vocals (Madonna), or absolutely terrible vocals (Fergie). When Beyonce opened up a cappella with “Love on Top” and just hit all of those high notes, it blew me away (and obviously, I’ll talk more about that in my Super Bowl XLVII review).
Fergie’s performance here is obviously less than stellar (and I’ll mention it now, because if I point it out every time that she misfires, you’ll be reading this review all night). That being said, who was in charge of sound for this halftime show? Fergie is, arguably, the biggest name in the group, and has half of the lines, with will.i.am having the other half. I know nothing about sound in terms of production, but it seems simple enough- during a Black Eyed Peas song, turn her mic up, and during a non-Black Eyed Peas song, turn her mic down. Can’t be that hard. It feels like the people in charge of sound were surprised whenever Fergie sang, as if they didn’t know the setlist. This is an embarrassing mistake, and I’m not sure what the excuse was for it.
The band performs the opening chorus, first verse, and a portion of the next chorus, with the next chorus consisting of some playing from the Prairie View A&M Marching Band. This was the last performance in the history of the halftime show with an actual marching band (Madonna would have a drumline at the next halftime show), and it works surprisingly well. The band is used sparingly, yet, it’s used at appropriate times to transition in between songs. How it transitions from “I Gotta Feeling” to “Boom Boom Pow” is impressive; it’s something that if I was planning the show, I never would’ve even thought of in the first place.
Once we get to “Boom Boom Pow,” it goes way downhill. The next three minutes of this halftime show is, in one word, not good enough (props if you got that Phil Simms reference). There are some minor technical issues, where some of the green arrowed people are red for no reason, the stage isn’t all the way lit up (and I’ll talk more about the staging towards the end of the review), the song goes on for far too long (two verses, two choruses, and a small part of the bridge), the censoring in the song feels awkward, and the autotune is really bad. It doesn’t help that as much as I like the music by the band, that “Boom Boom Pow” is a terrible song. When all that the group is doing is saying “gotta get that” and taking pauses to edit out censored words, it definitely does not translate to a venue that seats upwards of 90,000.
This is probably the worst autotune by will.i.am, especially when he’s saying “oh.” Once we hit the second verse, apparently the other members of The Black Eyed Peas needed to get some lines in and needed to get the spotlight. Bonus points if you can name the other two members of The Black Eyed Peas; everyone knows will.i.am and Fergie, but do you know the other two? If you guessed Taboo and apl.de.ap, then congratulations- you know how to use Google. This is where the censoring of the lines just sounds really weird, because there are certain parts in this verse where one member of the group is literally just standing on stage, and absolutely nothing is happening. It’s hilariously awkward. If there’s one good part about this song, it’s, once again, the addition of the marching band during the final part of the second verse. The fact that the songs are different than the recordings and that the show was actually catered to the Super Bowl is something that I do like and respect.
After that, we get one of the worst things to ever happen at any halftime show in the history of the Super Bowl. I’ve seen literally all of the halftime shows, and I’ve seen more than my fair share of absolutely horrendous moments that make me pause the video so I can regain my composure. Nothing’s ever topping Super Bowl XXV, where a six-year old kid got a solo to “Wind Beneath My Wings.” Coldplay could literally do standup comedy for twelve minutes and it wouldn’t be as bad as that. I’ve seen every halftime show on YouTube multiple times over, so when I say that something is one of the worst of all time, it has meaning to it. From Fergie’s “people in the place” line throughout the entire version of “Sweet Child O’Mine,” it has to be up there with the worst things I’ve ever heard at a Super Bowl halftime show.
First off, Fergie literally does not hit a note on that opening line. I have perfect pitch, so I can easily detect when a singer goes out of tune (and, much like Peter Griffin, it grinds my gears). She literally did not hit a note on that first line. Then, you’ve got the transition from “Boom Boom Pow” to “Sweet Child O’Mine,” which does not work in the slightest bit. The transition is that during the guitar solo, will.i.am is singing “I’ll be rocking them beats” over it. Not a good idea to sing autotuned vocals over one of the greatest guitar solos in music history. There’s a small thing that happens where Slash’s guitar isn’t synched up with the backing track (it comes early on in the song).
And then, there’s the fact that Fergie butchers the song completely. What was the purpose behind this even happening in the first place? Was it just so that Fergie could stand awkwardly close to Slash while Slash makes no eye contact whatsoever, and so that Fergie could shimmy and grind on Slash? It just felt really uncomfortable the entire time. If you’re going to do a cover, then make sure it’s good and not a waste of time. Fergie’s vocals don’t have a candle on Axl Rose’s for this song. The fact that you’re following “Boom Boom Pow” with “Sweet Child O’Mine” in the first place is questionable enough, but I have an open mind, because certain things at the Super Bowl have no business working out (like a tap dancing solo), yet, somehow do. This wasn’t one of them.
After Fergie manages to kill the eardrums of at least 5 million Americans watching the game, we get into a genuinely good part of the halftime show. The mic levels for Fergie, once again, are low (and for the entire band, they’re low at the start; it’s like the people responsible for sound were asleep during the show), but other than that, this is good. The band performs “Pump It” with a marching band, Fergie sounds a lot better here than she did before (which isn’t saying too much), will.i.am’s vocals sound legitimate, and the pacing for the song is good. There’s a bit of a sloppy transition between this song and “Let’s Get It Started,” but it works well enough. I love the pacing for “Let’s Get It Started”; it’s a faster version of one chorus done with a marching band and with some fun dance moves by members of the band. Those two minutes of the show weren’t fantastic, but they were a lot better and a lot more enjoyable than some of the earlier parts of the show.
This then transitions into Usher, who comes down from the ceiling to perform “OMG.” There’s so much that goes wrong here that it’s hard to describe in one paragraph. For one, this one song takes two minutes to perform. While two minutes doesn’t seem like a long time (and it’s not, especially when compared to the other things that I said I’d keep at three or four minutes in previous halftime shows), these two minutes feel like five. In my last review, I said that I wouldn’t cut any more out of the four-minute version of “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” because what are you going to cut? I said that I wouldn’t cut anything of “Live and Let Die” at Super Bowl XXXIX, because you can’t cut anything from that song.
“OMG,” however, is a different story. It’s not because I don’t like the song (and trust me- I don’t like that song). It’s because the final minute and a half of the performance is literally Usher and will.i.am repeating either the word “oh” or “oh my gosh” over and over again. I don’t need to hear seven thousand different repetitions of the phrase “oh my gosh” when there’s other material that you could get to. Additionally, the mic levels on Usher are atrocious to the point where you can’t hear him. At least with Fergie at times, it was only for a line. With Usher, it’s for the entire show. You hear the background overpowering Usher for the entire show. There’s also the fact that Usher doesn’t sing that much at all, and that he’s just dancing to a pre-recorded vocal track. Not a huge fan of that, to say the least.
The vocals for will.i.am are either lip-synched or autotuned to a ridiculous degree, and it feels like Usher is either out of breath or has to scream to be able to be heard. The song repeats itself over and over and over again. There is one positive part about this section, and that is the Usher split over will.i.am’s body. That was not only cool, but the first time in the history of the halftime show that an artist performed a split (it wouldn’t be the last; you’d see it three years later at Super Bowl XLVIII). Unfortunately, that one highly athletic and impressive move (and it was insanely impressive; even if Usher was standing on a higher platform at the start, he still jumped over an entire person and performed a split, then immediately went back up) can’t save an otherwise awful number.
Now feels like a good time to talk about the staging, because the entire show was being built up to this. The stage started off as the letter “o,” and slowly but surely, came together towards the end. It’s the first and only time that the stage was ever being put together while the show was going on; obviously, this was planned. And the final payoff is the spelling of the word “love,” which applies to one song, “Where Is the Love?”. This was the payoff? Why couldn’t you just use the logo from this album cover as the stage instead? The payoff being the word “love,” which only works for one song, feels not only underwhelming, but is very disappointing in terms of a stage design. And, to add to the list of things that went wrong with this halftime show, the “v” in the word “love” does not light up. I’m betting that over half the people involved with this halftime show got fired by the end of it, because the amount of inexcusable mistakes that occur that the band has no control over is ridiculous, especially for an event like the Super Bowl.
As you probably guessed, we go into “Where Is the Love?”, and this number is a mixed bag. Even though this is a bit of a slower song, I like the fact that it is being performed at the halftime show. I also like the dancers here forming the shape of a heart; it adds to the scene. And, I like the ending where Fergie has some legitimately powerful vocals that transition into the next song. When she hits that high F as sheer, raw power, it actually works. For as much as I criticized Fergie for this halftime show (and deservingly so, in many ways), that moment in “Where Is the Love?” was really good.
However, there are a few things from this number that need to be addressed. I don’t remember this being a controversy in the slightest bit when it occurred, but the lyric change in “Where Is the Love?” was something that caught my eye immediately, and hasn’t been talked about since. The original lyrics of the song state:
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin’
In the USA, the big CIA,
The Bloods and the Crips and the KKK.
If you’re doing an abbreviated version of the song, you can’t go into the chorus with those being the lyrics; it doesn’t transition at all. “Where Is the Love?” is different from a lot of their other popular work in that it tells a story, so you can’t just chop off some lyrics and have it flow. Because of this, the band altered the lyrics to this:
In America, yeah, we need to get things straightened.
Obama, let’s get these kids educated
Create jobs for the country, stay stimulated.
This is dedicated to all the innovators.
My take on the lyric change? Obviously, you can’t reference the KKK or terrorism at halftime of the Super Bowl, and even if you could, you couldn’t do an abbreviated version of that song and have it work where the chorus is about finding the love and the final line of the verse is about the most racist organization in the history of the United States. I get why they had to change the lyrics, and at the end of the day, I have no problem with it. While I don’t think the lyrics are great, it could’ve been a lot worse; the only weird part about it for me was the name dropping of Obama. It’s the only time that the main performer has ever name-dropped the President of the United States in the middle of the halftime show. Not the greatest lyric change, but considering the alternatives, it’s not bad.
The vocals in the chorus aren’t good. Ten seconds after the chorus, Fergie delivers a strong vocal performance for a few notes, but in the chorus, she tries to harmonize with the other members of the group, and it backfires. Not only do none of the notes match up in terms of harmonies, but her mic is so loud for this one that her off-pitch harmonies actually overtake the main melody of the song. This song is a mixed bag; the good stuff is some of the best in the halftime show, and the bad stuff is… bad.
Once that song is done, we get a performance of “The Time (Dirty Bit),” which is one of the laziest songs in the history of music to ever become a hit. I’m not a fan of the song, and it does feel ridiculously weird hearing will.i.am’s lip-synched vocals to a chorus that isn’t his, Fergie’s surprisingly solid vocals to a chorus that isn’t hers, then transitioning from that slow chorus into a bunch of dancing cubes. It’s a short number, so I don’t have a huge problem with it, but this could’ve been an outright disaster if it outstayed its welcome.
And, to cap it all off, we end the show just like we started, going with “I Gotta Feeling.” This halftime show takes a few chances, and some of them don’t pay off. This is one that pays off incredibly well. Normally, I’m against performing the same song twice at any point in the halftime show; this is the exception to the rule. The transition between “The Time (Dirty Bit)” and “I Gotta Feeling” is well done, and the part of “I Gotta Feeling” that was played was the bridge and the final chorus. “I Gotta Feeling” is a song that, for the halftime show, is suitable as the opener and the closer. Why not both? Good decision by the band in an otherwise interesting halftime show, for better or worse.
My Fix
For this segment, I have to fix the halftime show in terms of what I would do differently. I have to work around what I’ve been given, but I can add or remove artists, so long as I keep The Black Eyed Peas in the show. They’re still going to be the headlining act, but I’m changing a lot of things around. For one, the stage is not the word “love” anymore, but rather, becomes that picture shown earlier, which was the album cover to “The E.N.D.”; that cyber-head would now be used as the stage. I’m also hiring people that are actually trained in sound and audio to do the halftime show to make sure that the mics are good and that all the levels are in order.
I feel dirty doing this, seeing how this move eliminates the most talented artist from the halftime show. However, I’m cutting Slash out of the performance. I think that no “Sweet Child O’Mine” is better than having Fergie absolutely butcher the song. Usher stays in and gets an expanded role, but his set is changed around a bit. The show is still focused on The Black Eyed Peas, because with a few improvements and a sound team that knows what they’re doing, this halftime show could’ve actually been salvageable.
Start off with “I Gotta Feeling,” keeping the marching band in place. Then, once that chorus is done after the first verse, go into “Boom Boom Pow,” doing the opening chorus, first verse, and next chorus of that song. After that, seeing how the final note of that chorus and the opening note of the next song that I’m about to propose are the same, I’m going into “Rock That Body,” a song that was a massive hit in 2010, but was not performed at the halftime show for some reason. Start with the first verse (skip the intro), move into the chorus, then do the second verse, and end it with the “I wanna rock right now” part.
After that, have a slide on the word “now” to the next section of the show, which is the older material. Do exactly the same thing that you did before with “Let’s Get It Started,” but cut out the “whoa” section, since you’re not transitioning into “OMG.” End that song with the band playing the opening riff of “Don’t Phunk With My Heart” (but don’t actually sing the song), and that riff leads into “Pump It.” Do the same thing in real life on that song, ending it with the slide on the word “now.”
This transitions into a miniature set by Usher, where he does three minutes of his biggest hits. As Usher comes into the stadium, you hear the marching band of Prairie View A&M play the opening chorus of “You Make Me Wanna.” Picture the University of Houston Marching Band at Super Bowl XXXVIII doing “The Way You Move” for an example of how that would turn out. Once Usher comes in from the ceiling and is settled, Usher does a three song set with abbreviated versions of his hits. Start off with the first verse and chorus of “Love in This Club,” and you could have the marching band trumpets playing the beat to the song. Then, do the first verse and chorus of “U Remind Me,” taking a few music pauses like Janet Jackson did during “All For You” at Super Bowl XXXVIII (if you listen to the song, you’ll see what I mean when I talk about possible pauses in the first verse). And, to close off Usher’s set, of course, you have to end it with “Yeah!”, doing a verse and a chorus of that song. I’m cutting “OMG” out in its entirety; in exchange for that, though, I’m expanding Usher’s setlist.
Once Usher is done with his set, we go back to The Black Eyed Peas. It’s going to start off with a bit of a weird choice, but it’s only used as a transition. Start off with the first few lines of “Alive,” just doing the first two lines of that song, which are sung by will.i.am. Not one of their biggest songs (more of a promotional single), but this could’ve been one of those unknown songs where if you dim the lights down low, it could work. Move from that into the first verse and chorus of “Meet Me Halfway,” and finish that off with only the chorus of “Where Is The Love?” (which means that the verse about Obama is gone), which transitions into the end of “I Gotta Feeling,” completing the show. It’s a doozy, and there’s a lot going on in this revised setlist, but if you can picture it, you’ll know what I mean when I say that this halftime show, with a lot better management, was salvageable.
Conclusion
Was this halftime show bad? In many ways, yes. I don’t think there’s any denying that the production problems were inexcusable, and that the vocals were not sharp at all. However, in some ways, I enjoyed this show in a legitimate way. After years and years of safe, boring halftime shows, this one took chances and experimented with ways to do the setlist. Some of those chances did not work, but others did, and when they worked, they were the best parts of the show. The show could’ve been better with some tweaking in the design and in the production phase, but it wasn’t the worst halftime show ever. I’ve seen them all at this point, and I can safely say while many parts of this show are bad, this is far from the worst. Not great (and not even good, in many ways), but definitely not even close to the worst halftime show ever.
Many people felt differently, and because of this, the league compromised with their next halftime show. While they wouldn’t get a more recent pop act, they would get an older act that was still relevant in many ways. Madonna did the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, and had some strange special guests alongside her. How would that halftime show hold up? Tune in tomorrow to find out.
Rankings
1) Super Bowl XXXVI- U2
2) Super Bowl XLI- Prince
3) Super Bowl XXVII- Michael Jackson
4) Super Bowl XXXV- *NSYNC, Aerosmith, Britney Spears, Nelly, Mary J Blige
5) Super Bowl XLIII- Bruce Springsteen
6) Super Bowl XXXIV- Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, Toni Braxton
7) Super Bowl XXXIX- Paul McCartney
8) Super Bowl XXXIII- Gloria Estefan, Stevie Wonder, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
9) Super Bowl XXX- Diana Ross
10) Super Bowl XLII- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
11) Super Bowl XXXVII- Shania Twain, No Doubt, Sting
12) Super Bowl XLV- The Black Eyed Peas, Usher, Slash
13) Super Bowl XXXII- The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves, Queen Latifah, Boyz II Men
14) Super Bowl XLIV- The Who
15) Super Bowl XXII- Chubby Checker, The Rockettes
16) Super Bowl XXXVIII- Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Kid Rock, Nelly, P Diddy
17) Super Bowl XXVIII- Tanya Tucker, Clint Black, Travis Tritt, The Judds
18) Super Bowl XXXI- Blues Brothers, ZZ Top, James Brown
19) Super Bowl XXVI- Winter Magic, Gloria Estefan
20) Super Bowl XL- The Rolling Stones
21) Super Bowl XXIX- Patti LaBelle, Tony Bennett, Indiana Jones
22) Super Bowl XXI- Disney
23) Super Bowl XVIII- Disney
24) Super Bowl XXIII- Elvis Presto
25) Super Bowl XXIV- Salute to New Orleans & The Peanuts
26) Super Bowl XX- Up With People
27) Super Bowl XIX- Tops in Blue
28) Super Bowl XXV- Disney, New Kids on the Block
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I saw a comment in /nfl yesterday which suggested that your MVP odds are based not only on the actual odds of the player winning, but on the amount of money that is being bet (which was their explanation for why a guy like Manziel even has odds in the first place.) Part of the fun in posting odds like these across any sport is having to follow the opinion of crotchety sportswriters talk about why they may vote for a player because he "plays the game the right away". Goodness.
I'm an avid gambler and I always wanted to work in sports gambling- how did you get in your position? I kind of fell into it. I had been wagering on sports from a very young age with medium levels of success. While I always thought that I just "got sports", having a mathematical background helped me quantify what I was seeing, and then eventually, what and how I was betting.
One stupid question (maybe) what are the restrictions on betting for you since you are an oddsmaker? Because there isn't often a 'Help Wanted' sign when it comes to these positions, I'd recommend familiarizing yourself with the ins and outs of excel, programming and intense mathematics. Then go out and start crushing books. The best way to get noticed by sportsbooks is to go and take their money.
How do you determine odds for WWE events when it's a scripted event? Admittedly I'm not the biggest WWE fan, but there's a lot of information in messageboards and podcasts about what storylines make the most sense and what fans reasonably expect to happen.
Having said that...
The Undertaker was a 1/20 favorite at Wrestlemania versus Brock Lesnar. Long story short, his reign of Wrestlemania supremacy came to an end and we suffered our worst single-event loss in the month of April of this year.
Lesnar has the rare distinction of costing us a lot of money in both real and scripted fighting.
What (in your opinion) is the most interesting prop bet you've ever done on the site? Wracking my brain and we've really run gamut here. Our Super Bowl props this past February had 500 different options surrounding national anthem length, gatorade color dumped on winning coach, Bruno Mars' first song...etc.
Lately we've been experimenting more with in-game props. If a player is close to a significant in-game achievement, we've begun to offer odds on perfect games, no-hitters, hitting for the cycle. Anything that differentiates us from our competitors. The reception to these have been really positive.
Do you have any stories or examples of a time you've set a line and found yourself WAY off where other books (Vegas, online, anywhere) have put the number? The Super Bowl is a great example here as while most games closed it as a PK (or SEA/DEN) small fave, we held with the Broncos as 3-pt favorites. I know this seemingly contradicts what I've said before about recreational money affecting the line, but the Super Bowl as a one-off event takes more than anything else we'll offer in a calendar year.
Did you stick to your number or move more in line with the consensus? Because of the overwhelming action on a event like this, we were happy to have money on the Broncos at this price while conceding that those betting on Seattle likely had very valuable bets.
What was the largest bet you have ever taken? In relation to the average bet size for the market, we took mid-five figures over-limit bet on Mitt Romney to win the last Presidential Election from one of our larger players. Political wagering was something that in previous years had seen average bet sizes of $10-$20 but with more science behind the process (ie. poll aggregation etc), we had much higher limits in 2010 than we had had in previous years.
We were big Obama fans by election night.
What's the hardest sport to get right? Of the main sports right now, I'd say NCAA-B was brutal last year, if only for totals. The new rules surrounding called fouls pushed scoring up ~20 pts per game early last season as games devolved into free-throw competitions. Fortunately the calls softened as the season progressed but there were a lot of NCAA-B events last year that both we and our competitors were unable to even post totals for.
Curious approximately how much money (in how short a time span) has to get put down for a line to move by a point (or even half a point)? There's no one answer here as there's a lot of competing factors here. Earlier in the week when the limits are lower, a smaller bet from a respected player can move the line simply by having his financial opinion out there whereas a longterm loser dropping a significant bet on a point spread will rarely make us bat an eyelash. More often than not it's the opinion of the few (or changing information) that moves lines for us, not pure volume.
How come you guys are always the last ones to put up moneyline bets or even spreads in general? Why are your spreads constantly worse than other sites such as 5dimes? We get this one a lot and its dictated largely by our player base. Because our players are more of the recreational variety (smaller bets with bets coming closer to game time), we don't traditionally see a lot of handle, especially in relation to our game day handle when we post early. In terms of raw numbers, ~80% of our wagering for an NFL event comes in about an hour before it kicks off.
Recreational, small bettors are the majority everywhere. You are in fact driving away the larger bettors at the same time by limiting yourself to that audience. 2 days prior to the game is not posting early. Most large, growing sites list at least a week in advance. That's a fair point and we may look in the future to posting earlier with even lower limits. As it stands, we're comfortable with the current offering times as a business practice.
Why is it that bovada only offers a limited amount of moneylines? It's a liability issue -- When spreads get up to a certain point, the ML payout on the underdog becomes high enough that, when available for parlays with other significant underdogs, creates concerning liabilities. Each book eventually kills the moneyline offering when the underdog odds get up to a certain point. Ours is just a touch more conservative.
How come you dont offer any kind of betting trend statistics? Eh, a lot of the time these trends are close to useless. There are so many mitigating/contextual factors missing from "[team-x] has covered the spread [y-times] when [z-factor] is in play" that there's not always a lot to be taken from it.
They serve as entertainment but I would rarely be betting off of these so-called trends.
Have you looked in to adding Esports such as Starcraft 2, or League of Legends? As for Esports, I loved playing StarCraft when I was younger but I just don't see the market for it with our players and to be honest, wouldn't know where to start when it comes to capping it.
What stats do you use when making odds for week 1? Preseason or last season? A combo of both? Does it vary for the team? Last season with adjustments for depth. Preseason is largely a tirefire (the Colts under Peyton Manning would traditionally go 0-4 and 1-3) but there are small snippets of info worth gathering, especially with teams that are looking to improve and actually need those extra reps, versus teams that are already established.
How does live betting work? Do you hire people to watch the games and close betting when certain events happen (penalties, goals, etc)? Are the people hired sitting in the actual stands watching the games? Because it seems they always see things happen before the delay. We try to optimize the variety of the feeds we have available to us to ensure we have the quickest feed possible. Unfortunately (for our live traders), they have not yet been given the opportunity to attend the matches they're trading, but we try and keep them as comfortable as possible with their own private offices, big screen TVs and 6 different television feeds for each event.
What are your best leans for a 7 team parlay this opening weekend? I would advise finding individual bets that you like more than looking to make it rich on a massive payout like that. Typically sportsbooks hold much higher on parlays then they do on a straight bets so you should...
Wait.
Seahawks Browns Bengals Bears Cowboys Giants Titans/Chiefs u43.5.
Lock it up :)
Who do you like for final two this year and why? (NFL) The Broncos out of the AFC because the rest of the conference is hot garbage otherwise. While the Seahawks are still the class of the NFC, I personally like the Saints to represent them in the Super Bowl this year. (I think that Rob Ryan defense will be deadly )
I find pop culture bets really fascinating; outside of awards shows, what leads to a pop culture event getting posted odds? Any chance that you'll increase your number of pop culture bets going forward? Player interest drives these and awards shows are becoming more and more popular. We used to only offer the Academy Awards for film related wagering, but have since complemented that with the Golden Globes and Screen Actor's Guild awards.
We're probably not going to add the Razzies anytime soon, though.
Is it hard to cap teams such as Baylor, Oregon, etc in NCAAFB? They seem like they can score so much that setting a line seams difficult. Going back the past two seasons, they are 11-0 ATS at home. If it's a prospective blowout, then very much so. We have our ratings based on how strong we believe teams to be, but at what point do they take their foot off the gas? Trying to account for that is much harder than a shorter spread that is more likely correlated to what a team is trying to achieve over 60 minutes.
Are any games memorable as huge money makers (or losers) for Bovada? Most recently, the Super Bowl was the best individual day in terms of spread, props, futures, even live betting -- We continued to offer an updated spread throughout the game and the Seahawks covered each one, the highest being around -37 in-play.
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