Who will be Super Bowl halftime act? Yes.

My sister has two tickets to see him a week today at the Air Canada Centre and she wants me to go with her. I think it's something like her fifth or sixth Buffet concert. I really don't want to go but she keeps pestering me (you have to know my sister to appreciate this).

I'll use your comments as a my reason NOT to go. Thanks

 

Here's what I always wonder when people get all excited over the Super Bowl preshow and halftime show.
If you claim to be the greatest sport in America and this is your greatest game and you always get great ratings because people who know nothing about football think they have to go to a Super Bowl party, why do you need entertainment to attract people?
Isn't the greatest game of the greatest sport supposed to be enough?

 

They haven't had Dylan yet. That would be fun.

 

How big is the list they're choosing from? They have to be big. They have to be mainstream enough that people in their 20s won't think it's lame and people in their 60s will have heard of them. That limits the list considerably...

1. U2
2. Springsteen
3. Paul McCartney
4. Rolling Stones
5. Billy Joel
6. Sting/Police
7. Bon Jovi
8. Eagles
9. The Who
10. Stevie Wonder

Maybe Van Halen? I don't think Journey is big enough. Coldplay? Maybe... Zeppelin or AC/DC would probably be too controversial.

 

Only if he sings Rainy Day Women... ;D

 

I'd like a duet between Dylan and Tom Waits, with Shane MacGowan for three-part harmony.

 

Seriously, does the NFL think the halftime show draws more viewers than the SB would with no halftime mini-concert?

 

I didn't think he came around our part of the world too often. I much prefer his books to his music although I own the four-CD box he put out a few years back and it makes good summer listening (or occasionally in the winter if you want to feel like you're in a beachside bar), particularly stuff you don't hear all the time like "Elvis Imitators", "Pencil Thin Mustache" and "The Great Filling Station Holdup".

 

It's not just a game, it's an event. It's the one game non-football people watch every year, so you have to have something for them -- aside from commercials.

 

You also want a band or a person who will get you excited and not depress you.

If I cannot drink a PBR to it, I do not want it on the halftime show.

 

Elton John could make that list Mozzou.

 

Dylan/Baez would be something.

They could do all their 60's protest songs. The networks would love that.