The Superbowl is the only football game I watch in any given year. Not because I like football, but because I enjoy the commercials and the halftime show. And then, all the hoopla at the end. It’s exciting to watch the exuberant winners, with their wives and kids running onto the field. This was the year of the Bad, Good, Ugly Superbowl.
The Bad:
This year’s game was pretty dull IMO. No one scored for so long that you felt like you were watching a high school game. Scanning the different apps on my Iphone got me through the tedium.
The Good:
The National Anthem sung by soul singer Gladys Knight. She looked gorgeous and it sent chills up and down my spine just listening to her magnificent voice.
The commercials—especially the NFL one. It was entertaining to see all those former players and NFL celebrities throwing cake and football, along with some funny antics. This is one commercial I could stand to see again and again. Not like those disgusting pharmaceutical commercials that you have to endure every night during the evening news. .
The Ugly:
The halftime show which consisted mostly of fireworks, lighting, and people hopping and stomping across the stage while shouting and pointing. What ever happened to real music? You know, those melodies about love and life that stir your soul., and lyrics that touch your heart? I have no idea what any of those performers were supposedly singing and saying, but there wasn’t a song that anyone will remember next year.
The worst was singer, Adam Levine, who ripped off his shirt and proudly pranced around to show us an upper body covered with hideous tattoos. I guess it was supposed to be sexy, but to me , he looked dirty and sweaty.
Don’t you wish tattoos would go out of style? They might look okay on young, smooth flesh, but how about on seventy somethings with wrinkles, sagging skin, and flab? Dermatologists will probably be in high demand 40 years from now. Hopefully, they will come up with a less painful procedure to erase tattoos.
But I digress.
Apparently, they couldn’t get any performers they really wanted to do the halftime show, because everyone was siding with activist Colin Kaepernick, who decided to kneel during the National Anthem in 2016, and got kicked out of football. I don’t know why athletes and performing artists want to get involved in politics, but if they want to risk making a bunch of people mad, I guess it’s their business.