It Was Just a Halftime Show. The Meltdown Reveals How Dumb We’ve Become

[Dirk the Daring]

Apparently Bad Bunny is the number one artist downloaded from Spotify.

Who knew?

Bad Bunny may be international culture but he isn't exactly White Middle Aged Men culture. (80% of NFL fanbase)

Also his audience does not have the $$$ that Middle aged white men do. Which is where the advertising dollars spent on the superbowl are targeted towards. ($8 million per 30 second spot)

And so....

Investors and advertisers always vote too. And unfortunately money says who is right and who is wrong in American society because dollar votes have much more weight than anyone else's vote.

The ads surrounding the halftime show will drop in price to rock bottom in years to come.

According to rumor....TPUSA put together their entire show inside of 6 months.
Meaning someone else has a shot at doing it too....especially if they make a good plan and promise a dynamic halftime show.

At this point it could be Victoria Secret models singing "I'm a little teapot" off key and dancing in their new catalog outfits and it likely would be the biggest watched show in television history. (Political commentary would still happen but it wouldn't be the focus of the program)

Billy Graham's son Franklin could have a sermon to cover sports and charity for 20 minutes and it would grab a portion of the audience too....albeit much smaller than the amount bad sounding lingerie models would.

NFL broke themselves. Nobody to blame but themselves.

Using Spotify to determine who to invite?
Worst call in NFL history. Funniest part is that the refs didn't make that call. They did their job better than the executives did.

Key point that I don't want to get lost in this discussion. Yes, 80% of the NFL's current fanbase is (probably) middle-aged white men. But these were the fans who were there for the NFL for the past 20-30-40+ years. We've been with the League maybe not since it's infancy, but certainly throughout it's formative years. We saw the first player to ever make a million dollars per season (Lam Jones, 1980). But the League has now looked at us and said 'we already have YOU, now we want the REST OF THE WORLD!' I think we're 10-20 years away from a London Super Bowl. Or a Mexico city SB. Or Tokyo. Which honestly doesn't really bother me b/c I couldn't afford to go even if it were held in the stadium nearest to my house. Watching the SB will always for me be a televised activity. But I think there are a certain amount of old / current fans who are now feeling betrayed as the League says 'thanks Old Timer, we'll take it from here!'

 

[ThisIsMe]

I saw a video of the show taken from the stands, and you could hardly see anything for long stretches. That halftime show was very much designed for the TV audience, rather than the stadium audience.

Why would they design it for the tv audience and not those in attendance.

 

[Lisa558]

Why would they design it for the tv audience and not those in attendance.

Doesn’t the half-time show break for commercials? (I wouldn’t know.)

 

[WEATHER53]

3 Grammys. I said Emmys was a typo and thanked you for correcting it. That’s recognition of the error which I made immediately.

Let’s roll… Ching Ching I’m about to hit my bonus

No typo but rather a stupido who loves to mouth off. How many Oscars does he have ?

 

[ThisIsMe]

Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States. PR's culture is part of the overall culture of the United States of America.

Ok, Puerto Rico is a part of America, but Americans culture is Spanish speaking, it’s just one part of it.

 

[ThisIsMe]

Doesn’t the half-time show break for commercials? (I wouldn’t know.)

They don’t do commercials while the halftime show is running. . But the halftime show time show wasn’t designed just for the tv audience.

 

[Lisa558]

They don’t do commercials while the halftime show is running. . But the halftime show time show wasn’t designed just for the tv audience.

OK….i didn’t know that. IF they ran commercials during the halftime, then they would want to design it for the TV audience.

Either way, it was a show designed to be as much anti-American as possible, right down to having it in a foreign language that most Americans don’t understand,

 

[WEATHER53]

Nonsense. the music was boring, the sheilas were presented as trollops/whores and the blokes were sleazy.

When the NFL got it right.



Greg

When music was musical

 

[WEATHER53]

Ok, Puerto Rico is a part of America, but Americans culture is Spanish speaking, it’s just one part of it.

Puerto Rico is a territory which is vastly different than being a state. It is still an independent nation. The lib loon white people haters are trying to sell the contrary but thinkers who still run the show are not buying

 

[Lisa558]

When music was musical

When leftists weren’t brainwashing the gullible to hate America.

 

[gtopa1]

kind of like Mississippi.

Without the French there'd be no USA Republic. There'd be Nth and Sth Canada. Be grateful.

Greg

 

[fncceo]

Ultimately… it’s not about a half-time show in Spanish for America’s largest sporting event.

It about the culture undergoing an engineered change vs an organic change.

Our culture changes organically all the time. I’m sure everyone misses the days when you could kick an Irishman to the curb for having the audacity to share the sidewalk with a WASP.

But those changes reflect a change in our nation’s psyche and demographics. It is not an artificial elimination of time honored communal behavior.

By all means celebrate Hispanic culture, Black culture, Asian culture, Jewish culture, Lithuanian culture… but not to the exclusion of American culture at an event that has - traditionally - brought all of us together as Americans.

 

[dudmuck]

When leftists weren’t brainwashing the gullible to hate America.

 

[toobfreak]

The author laid this out perfectly. Many of you on both the right and the left played your parts perfectly. You operated as programmed and never once thought for yourselves. The conservative backlash wasn’t really about music. It was about discomfort with change and the refusal to admit that not everything is designed to feel familiar anymore.

How little you understand. Next, you will have naked women gyrating in church calling themselves nuns then trying to tell us it is just our failure to change and adjust to the unfamiliar that is the problem.

No, it is about a nation preserving its own traditions and identity so to remain a sovereign country. The Left doesn't want us to have any fixed morals or traditions so they can keep changing them and thus, keep changing America.

The NFL is about wokism and globalism. First they began moving games overseas to other countries, next up we are having halftime shows now by non-English speaking artists, next you watch, in 1-2 years, Goodell will try moving the whole Super Bowl to somewhere in Europe.

Obviously, Goodell neither cares about nor values the broader, traditional fan base of the NFL otherwise he would not keep offending them, much less be looking to replace them.

Goodell is all about becoming a global market not an American market and turning football into a global sport not an American one. The NFL is losing fans left and right in the USA, while picking up fans in Europe. That alone should tell you everything.

 

[Montrovant]

How little you understand. Next, you will have naked women gyrating in church calling themselves nuns then trying to tell us it is just our failure to change and adjust to the unfamiliar that is the problem.

No, it is about a nation preserving its own traditions and identity so to remain a sovereign country. The Left doesn't want us to have any fixed morals or traditions so they can keep changing them and thus, keep changing America.

The NFL is about wokism and globalism. First they began moving games overseas to other countries, next up we are having halftime shows now by non-English speaking artists, next you watch, in 1-2 years, Goodell will try moving the whole Super Bowl to somewhere in Europe.

Obviously, Goodell neither cares about nor values the broader, traditional fan base of the NFL otherwise he would not keep offending them, much less be looking to replace them.

Goodell is all about becoming a global market not an American market and turning football into a global sport not an American one. The NFL is losing fans left and right in the USA, while picking up fans in Europe. That alone should tell you everything.

What do you base your claim that the NFL is losing US fans left and right on?

I agree that the NFL would like to be global. The bigger the audience, the more money they’re likely to make. Where I disagree is the idea that the NFL is about wokeism and globalism. The NFL is about money, however they think they’re most likely to get it. If that includes having a halftime show featuring a Spanish speaking and singing artist (who is apparently one of the most popular artists in the world), that’s what they’ll do.

I don’t think the NFL wants to lose older fans, but they absolutely do want to gain younger ones.

 

[fncceo]

I don’t think the NFL wants to lose older fans…

And yet …

 

[Montrovant]

Ultimately… it’s not about a half-time show in Spanish for America’s largest sporting event.

It about the culture undergoing an engineered change vs an organic change.

Our culture changes organically all the time. I’m sure everyone misses the days when you could kick an Irishman to the curb for having the audacity to share the sidewalk with a WASP.

But those changes reflect a change in our nation’s psyche and demographics. It is not an artificial elimination of time honored communal behavior.

By all means celebrate Hispanic culture, Black culture, Asian culture, Jewish culture, Lithuanian culture… but not to the exclusion of American culture at an event that has - traditionally - brought all of us together as Americans.

Was American culture excluded? Outside of Puerto Rico being part of the US, I think Bad Bunny is considered a hip-hop artist (with a Latin style, of course), and hip-hop is very American.

I wouldn’t really describe the Super Bowl as bringing people together as Americans; that’s granting it a sort of profound nature I don’t think it really has. But the halftime shows have certainly changed a lot over time, and I don’t think many of them could be considered something that appealed to everyone. I don’t think this was any different, outside of the language.

 

[toobfreak]

What do you base your claim that the NFL is losing US fans left and right on?

Data shows their following dropping off for years. Last year I think it was, SB ticket prices had dropped down not risen. If you looked closely, there were a fair amount of empty seats, maybe as much as 1:10 or 1:20.

Where I disagree is the idea that the NFL is about wokeism and globalism.

They pepper the fields and helmets with woke messages. Goodell is trying to move the market into a global one with global appeal, which means a loss of the American market and American appeal. If they are playing X games in Europe, that is this many fewer games being played before an American audience.

a Spanish speaking and singing artist (who is apparently one of the most popular artists in the world),

Have you seen the posted video? The guy is a hack. If he is one of the most popular artists in the world, then why did I never hear of him until they signed him up for Halftime?

I don’t think the NFL wants to lose older fans, but they absolutely do want to gain younger ones.

But they ARE losing older fans, and I don't know many younger fans who can afford $10,000 to go watch a football game anyone can see on TV for free.

 

[toobfreak]

Was American culture excluded?

Obviously yes. Possibly 40-50 million people tuned that a-hole out.

 

[Dirk the Daring]

Why would they design it for the tv audience and not those in attendance.

The TV audience is MUCH larger...