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2020-02-03 Home Front: Culture Wars
Desperate NFL Goes Full Caligula in Super Bowl Halftime Show
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-03 05:19|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 ..well, technically, Puerto Rico is an American Commonwealth and has been since the Treaty of Paris. They've fully embraced the corrupt politics of the Donks on the mainland. What could be more American than that? (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-03 06:17||   2020-02-03 06:17|| Front Page Top

#2 It's Miami. No big deal re waving the P.R. flag there.

That said, the show was really vulgar. The "music" was unlistenable and the "dancing" was spastic. The stripper pole was a low point. Too bad they couldn't have just done traditional salsa, etc numbers
Posted by Lex 2020-02-03 06:25||   2020-02-03 06:25|| Front Page Top

#3 The NFL is ghetto.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2020-02-03 06:50||   2020-02-03 06:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Daddy, that stripper is almost as old as the Super Bowl!
Posted by Huperesing Glains9539 2020-02-03 06:52||   2020-02-03 06:52|| Front Page Top

#5 She actually looks pretty good for her age. But she still can't sing, and the dancing was vile and vapid.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-03 07:13||   2020-02-03 07:13|| Front Page Top

#6 The guy who wrote this column did not watch the halftime show or is distorting it on purpose. There was no 'crotch grabbing' and it was J-Lo attempting to play the guitar, not Shakira. Furthermore it was J-Lo who went first, then Shakira. How do you miss that?

Other than that, it's a completely accurate column!

To me it was a typical Latin / South American (read - Brazilian or Argentinian) dance show where the chicks dance in slutty outfits and there were a few annoying guys with microphones running around like they're cool or something.
Posted by Raj 2020-02-03 08:08||   2020-02-03 08:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Looks like I was wrong on the crotch grab thingy; prolly getting a beer when it happened.

I still think this column is borderline ridiculous. Caligula? Really? Come on...
Posted by Raj 2020-02-03 08:19||   2020-02-03 08:19|| Front Page Top

#8 The NFL is ghetto.

The Oakland LA Oakland Raiders are now the Las Vegas Raiders. Seems about right for a half time show for Vegas. However, its suppose to stay there.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-03 08:22||   2020-02-03 08:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Sorry Raj, but it was Shakira first on stage, playing the guitar (which she actually can do pretty well) and then later a drumset (where she's also fairly proficient).

How do I know? Well, I've been kind of a fan of her's since the late '90's.



Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-02-03 08:29||   2020-02-03 08:29|| Front Page Top

#10 The game was pretty good ... after I killed the sound on my TV so I was spared the color commentary drivel.
Posted by magpie 2020-02-03 08:58||   2020-02-03 08:58|| Front Page Top

#11 After watching the commercials thru the game, I came away with the conviction that the country is doomed.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-02-03 08:58||   2020-02-03 08:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Mullah - yeah, looks like I missed more of the halftime show than I thought. That's what I get for buying a bottle of vodka for the game. Still, I'm not gonna get bent out of shape because Latin dancing is closer to softcore than most Americans are used to, at least on TV.
Posted by Raj 2020-02-03 09:20||   2020-02-03 09:20|| Front Page Top

#13 As the halftime shows slid down from "Oops my top came off" To the twerking and stripping I always said that all we need is a stripper pole and glass bottomed floor. Well, we are there, but kids in cages??? I bet Bill loved it and Epstein would be proud. The NFL should be proud to be a role model to our youth, young men can be gang bangers and their sisters strippers... Keep it classy.
Posted by 49 Pan 2020-02-03 10:16||   2020-02-03 10:16|| Front Page Top

#14 Whole lot of tushy shakin goin on.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-02-03 10:21||   2020-02-03 10:21|| Front Page Top

#15 If it had been actual Latin dancing that would have been nice. Instead there was spastic, ridiculous herky-jerking, some twerking and that stupid pole dance stunt.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-03 11:11||   2020-02-03 11:11|| Front Page Top

#16 They can shake their booties. Too bad they can't sing.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-02-03 12:31||   2020-02-03 12:31|| Front Page Top

#17 Raj, if you were getting a beer or vodka instead of watching that booty show, you did the right thing.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-02-03 12:35||   2020-02-03 12:35|| Front Page Top

#18 Ti**y bar stuff. They've devolved from 'wardrobe malfunction' to ti**y bar pole dance. Eros and Himeros are pleased.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-03 12:46||   2020-02-03 12:46|| Front Page Top

#19 Super Bowl strip club...
Posted by 49 Pan 2020-02-03 12:48||   2020-02-03 12:48|| Front Page Top

#20 I taped a couple dollars to my big screen...
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-03 13:06||   2020-02-03 13:06|| Front Page Top

#21 Raj, if you were getting a beer or vodka instead of watching that booty show, you did the right thing.

I'm usually washing dishes at halftime, which is fine when real musical turds are onstage (Maroon 9 and Justin Timberlake, anybody?) but I watched this one at home because my buddy (who I've been watching the SB with for over twenty years) has a girlfriend who threw a ill-timed and fairly ugly tantrum during Christmas. I walked out and told him 'If I never see her or speak to her again, I'm fine with it'. So I caught a lot of this one. Katy Perry wasn't too bad, either, but I wasn't watching any of them for the choreography...
Posted by Raj 2020-02-03 13:41||   2020-02-03 13:41|| Front Page Top

#22 Old habits die hard Frank.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-03 13:45||   2020-02-03 13:45|| Front Page Top

#23 The little one actually has some musical talent but she's totally ordinary looking. The bigger one has big league T&A but zero musical talent. Neither one can sing or dance worth a lick anything.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-03 14:27||   2020-02-03 14:27|| Front Page Top

#24 #11 After watching the commercials thru the game, I came away with the conviction that the country is doomed.

Thankfully, I never saw the one with the tranny in my sporadic viewing, but there seemed to be a lot of ads with celebs all hanging around together, like I'm supposed to give a shit.

Scorcese appearing in a drink commercial after his denunciation of "theme park ride" movies was unintentionally hilarious.

And the one with Yawn Legend-In-His-Own-Mind and his yapping chihuahua of a wife was just skin crawling levels of cringe.
Posted by charger 2020-02-03 16:17||   2020-02-03 16:17|| Front Page Top

#25 
I don't see the problem. The half-time show was full of cuties; Jenni-PURR Lopez and CAT-ira were adorable, and the only wardrobe malfunction I saw was when CAT-ira's wig fell off.

Oh, wait - we're not talking about the Puppy Bowl? :-D
Posted by Barbara 2020-02-03 16:30||   2020-02-03 16:30|| Front Page Top

#26 I don't care much about the show. The game was excellent.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-02-03 16:36||   2020-02-03 16:36|| Front Page Top

#27 Scorcese appearing in a drink commercial after his denunciation of "theme park ride" movies was unintentionally hilarious.

Forced penance for the Hollywood sinner. Corporate Father, forgive me, for I have sinned...
Posted by Lex 2020-02-03 17:02||   2020-02-03 17:02|| Front Page Top

#28 What is this "Super Bowl" you speak of?
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-02-03 18:09||   2020-02-03 18:09|| Front Page Top

#29 It's something colonists watch instead of real football :-)
Posted by European Conservative 2020-02-03 18:16||   2020-02-03 18:16|| Front Page Top

#30 Not Metric Football
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-03 19:40||   2020-02-03 19:40|| Front Page Top

#31 I think I'm older than most of you . . . . but you people sound old! Like REALLY OLD! And get the hell off my lawn.
Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2020-02-03 20:36||   2020-02-03 20:36|| Front Page Top

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