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Halftime show wish list ;-)

#82
Jxff said:
The news reported that Rihanna was the 2nd most viewed halftime show, the 1st was Katy Perry. I thought it was good the NFL let a pregnant woman perform. I also enjoyed the push for female flag football. I would like to see Rick Rubin produce next year's halftime show. AC/DC with Shania Twain on vocals.
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pregnant female flag football then?
 
#83
Being 60 and past the target demographics for pop music, but still broadcast to from network TV. First the headliner has to show more than the chorus line dancers do. Then a guest with a complimentary style. Finally from last year a MC or hypeman like Snoop to run the show instead of just a flat mashup of the hits.
 
#87
Smooth_bass88 said:
That was a terrible lip-syc performance by Rhianna.

How about The U.S. Army Concert Band? Or the U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors?

Or at least a group of humans actually performing live?

Why does it always have to be some mega pop-star?
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Because they need a spectacle to keep sports fans who don’t give a poopie about music from surfing off to Baywach reruns during halftime to justify charging 7 million a minute for ad space?
 
#90
GregC said:
I don't disagree, but halftime ratings would drop like a rock.
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Well, yeah, I think by now everyone knows that professional sports broadcasts only exist as a delivery vehicle for advertisements (some folks admit it and some are in denial); but after all the thread was about a wish list.

I mean, if it were up to me they'd have 15 max. players on a roster, all playing both offense and defense, no TV timeouts, one-time-only substitutions, and a whole host of other rule changes/reversions, but I realize that the game has largely taken its current form to support TV viewing.
 
#91
turf3 said:
Well, yeah, I think by now everyone knows that professional sports broadcasts only exist as a delivery vehicle for advertisements (some folks admit it and some are in denial); but after all the thread was about a wish list.

I mean, if it were up to me they'd have 15 max. players on a roster, all playing both offense and defense, no TV timeouts, one-time-only substitutions, and a whole host of other rule changes/reversions, but I realize that the game has largely taken its current form to support TV viewing.
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Given how big and fast the players are now, playing both ways would be absolutely brutal. And as much as we're hearing about CTE cases now, I shudder to think about what the aftereffects were for guys in the old days with very limited (or no) protective gear.
 
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GregC said:
Given how big and fast the players are now, playing both ways would be absolutely brutal. And as much as we're hearing about CTE cases now, I shudder to think about what the aftereffects were for guys in the old days with very limited (or no) protective gear.
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After a dozen years or so, they tended to be punchdrunk like old boxers.

If they were playing 60 minutes, it MIGHT tend to reduce the use of the giant bruisers in favor of lighter fleeter players who could stand up to 60 minutes of play. Modern safety gear to the max, of course, no matter what.
 
#93
GregC said:
Given how big and fast the players are now, playing both ways would be absolutely brutal. And as much as we're hearing about CTE cases now, I shudder to think about what the aftereffects were for guys in the old days with very limited (or no) protective gear.
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Yeah. There are a few players I don’t love but I wouldn’t want them to die. That’s different from cheering on your team.
 
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turf3 said:
After a dozen years or so, they tended to be punchdrunk like old boxers.

If they were playing 60 minutes, it MIGHT tend to reduce the use of the giant bruisers in favor of lighter fleeter players who could stand up to 60 minutes of play. Modern safety gear to the max, of course, no matter what.
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There is actually a league like this. It’s called Pop Warner. The players are a lot smaller, more “regular sized” and they aren’t expected to be gym rats.

Or if you’re looking for an older group check out FCF.
 
#97
bdplaid said:
I forgot.
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It happens, as we get older. I misremembered it as them having done a halftime show. It was pre-game (which is even more baffling that they had to do a pared-down version of the song) and they could have had in the neighborhood of 8-12 minutes to perform.

I thought I was wrong, once before, but I'd made a mistake.
 
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