Super bowl 45 (XLV)

Well another Super bowl down and another comedy of errors from the game to the stadium to the half time show to the singing of the anthem.

Lets start with the Anthem sung by Christina Aguilera, Aguilera botched the national anthem something fierce before the Super Bowl. Aguilera started out all right, but she had a problem with the ramparts -- specifically, the "O'er the ramparts we watched" line, which she left out altogether. Aguilera tried to make up for it by combining two lines -- "What so proudly we watched," instead of "What so proudly we hailed", but let's just say that it was too late to reverse the error. You'd think these folks would take it serious enough to practice and learn the words, I can't believe it would be nerves or any other excuse for someone used to preforming on large stages in front of 1000's of people.

Then the Stadium, the Jerry Jones Jewel of Dallas....right! The weather caused them to have multiple problems including ice and snow and roofs collapses to 400 plus ticket holding folks to be without seats! I guess there were 400 fans who paid $900 or more dollars for their tickets that ended up without seats, they were put outdoors in a party plaza to watch the game on TV. There were an additional 800 fans that had their seats moved because of another seating snafu and those left out in the cold were understandably unhappy! Jerry added additional seats to the stadium and the fire Marshall had not inspected them yet and they could not be used instead sat empty for the game. The fans were told they would get 3 times face value for the tickets and inconvenience caused but most had paid more than face value and as much as $3000 a ticket and were not happy campers.

Then how about a bonus goof up, a great "fly by" by the USAF in the F-35's after the debacle of an anthem. With the roof closed no one saw them or the fly by, Oh yes we at home watching to TV saw the fly by but no big thing to those folks at the game! If you've been to an event with a fly by you know how exciting and chilling it can be at and in the moment.................too bad those folks that paid mega bucks to see all the goings on missed this one.

Then one writer put the half time show this way....... "Black Eyed Peas Vs. Tron: A Super Bowl Contest No One Wins". "Like counting the times in just the past few months we've seen the Black Eyed Peas on television doing pretty much this same shtick they did at the Super Bowl. If you want to make sure you have the least anticipated Bowl half-time in modern history, a sure bet is to book a group that would show up to play a supermarket ribbon-cutting." "What could the Peas possibly do that we hadn't already burned out on? Bring out the Tron dancers, as it turns out. If you felt like Tron Legacy missed a bet by not having Jeff Bridges lead a war platoon's worth of boogieing hoofers at the climax, Super Bowl XLV made up for that missed opportunity." The live-or-Memorex questions that typically fly after a halftime show were rendered moot here. The Peas' hits usually involve more shouting than singing, anyway, so staying on pitch was not going to pose many problems except in a handful of Fergie moments.
But there might not have been this uneventful a Bowl intermission since the Up With People era of no-name half-time shows. Come back, AARP-rockers, like Tom Petty, The Who, Bruce Springsteen.....all is forgiven!

Then we have the game itself, not a bad football game but still a bunch of over paid cry babies playing a school yard game! Who made out, the city of Dallas, the owners for getting all that TV money, the over-paid players with the big checks to spend now on the break between seasons, and the FOX network cashing in a multi-million dollar 30 second spots from advertisers. The best money spent went to your local grocery stores where we all spent more money than we should have to feast while watching all these comedy of errors and a just another so, so football game!

Oh yes, we'll all do it again next year and everyone but us idiots will cash in on our wasting another 4 to 6 hours in front of the tube while they rake in bundles of cash..................who's laughing now I guess?