If we put the game aside, this Super Bowl was an absolute television nightmare. Christina Aguilera should probably never show her face again anywhere. How do you forget the words to the National Anthem? It's only sung before every sporting event and apparently Aguilera has been singing it since she was 7. Way to blow it in front of your biggest audience ever. Her response to her dive-bomb performance was that she hopes everyone understands how much she loves this country. Way to show it by pissing all over our flag last night.
The half-time show was a complete disgrace. The Super Bowl has a long history of botching the half-time show so this should not come as a surprise. The whole Janet Jackson boob debacle led the NFL to veer away from the "MTV generation half-time show" and started booking old time acts such as Tom Petty and the Rolling Stones. Last year, however, The Who put the stadium to sleep (The Who are great but not for a half-time show...We don't need the whole Tommy Medley to pump us up) so the NFL decided to get back into the Billboard top 200.
The Black Eyed Peas were down right terrible. Fergie looked like she was trying to get into the game with her shoulder pads. The blinking lights on their costumes couldn't over power their hollow songs that don't sound nearly as good live as they do in the club. Fergie should have at least worn something closer to nothing to make the show better. Also...if you need to bring on Slash and Usher to play their songs....your just embarrassing yourself. I was certain that Slash died of a drug overdose years ago and that it was really Troy Polamau coming up from the depths of hell last night. I could be wrong though. Also, I don't know who was in charge of the production but maybe they should try to have mics that work. Epic failure...but that's American pop culture. Every teenager and all the other muppets in the country probably loved it.
Finally, the week could not have gone any worse for the city of Dallas. Over 400 people who had tickets to the game could not even get in to watch the game because the seats they had bought were not built in time for the Super Bowl. Really? The NFL can't get these seats built in time for the game...they've known about this game for a long time now. Now they are forced to give away free tickets and other free shit to all these pissed off people in the name of saving face. The weather was a disaster all week and Dallas was inept at dealing with any of the forces of nature. Perhaps if they had turned on the weather channel ahead of time they could have rented a few snow plows and gotten a few bags of salt for the biggest week in the city's history. I don't think Jerry World is going to get a Super Bowl again anytime soon.
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