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I actually enjoyed the game. Which is rare.

Lady Gaga did a very good job on the Star Spangled Banner. I was surprised. She's still horrible to look at.

Coldplay was kinda meh for HalfTime. I didn't understand the need for Beyonce or Bruno Mars, other than to add some ethnic flavor to the set.

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I actually enjoyed the game. Which is rare.
Lady Gaga did a very good job on the Star Spangled Banner. I was surprised. She's still horrible to look at.
Coldplay was kinda meh for HalfTime. I didn't understand the need for Beyonce or Bruno Mars, other than to add some ethnic flavor to the set.

It was a very good game.

I was surprised at how nice her voice was. Kudos for her not trying to jazz it up, or anything else, other than pay homage to what it is and what it stands for. I think she did her hair on the way to the stadium, though: put a shit ton of hair spray, mousse, gel, etc., and then hung her head out the window. Good Lord was that horrible.

I would like to echo this, almost word-for-word. One minor distinction: "jazz it up" is okay (in fact, she didn't sing just straight melody). What a lot of people do is go into these vocal gymnastics that wind up detracting from the song.

I guess, in all her "music", I'd never heard her actually sing. I think she has a really nice and well-trained singing voice.

As for her "looks": I think she did a nice job, honestly. She looked attractive without looking trashy and even the blue nail polish made sense when you realize she was doing a "red-white-'n'-blue" theme.

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Once again, my streak of not watching the Halftime show is intact. There was never any doubt for this one. I went back and looked up a list of all the halftime shows, and I can't tell you the last one I actually watched. I know I haven't watched in a long time, but I can't tell you when it was. In 1993, Michael Jackson headlined. It was my 4th year in college, so I was likely drinking, and, having discovered the truth that is heavy metal in High School, I was likely in the bathroom during hafltime. Even when ZZ Top played a few years later, I was unlikely to have watched, as I liked their videos more than their music. I have to wonder if I've ever actually watched a halftime show...

I used to be involved with a young lady whose father got SB tickets every year through a company for whom he consulted. I've been to a few shows. I forget the order but the last one was either KISS or Aerosmith, depending upon which year it was.

None of the shows are really worth a fiddler's fuck. They're prerecorded and over choreographed (the people that are supposed to be "audience" are all in lock-step).

I've always believed that the best seat in the house for a football game is plopped right in front of my TV. Remember, please, that was typed by someone that knows what it is to sit in the upper deck of Shea Stadium in December/January to watch his team lose a regular season game that means nothing.

The game, itself, was very difficult for me. Both QBs seem like decent guys but I've always had this in-grained hate for the Denver Laundry. Also, being a Crimson Tide fan, I'd sooner root for Dallas to beat the Giants than for Cam Newton to beat a Pop Warner team.

Loving defense as I do, I enjoyed the game but felt Keuchly was distracted/contained/not really in the game.



Michael