BRUNO MARS at half-time. New York Times photo 2/3/14 by Barton Silverman
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.
1. What happened to the cheerleaders? Have they been dumped because of allegations of financial abuses and other humiliations by pro teams? Did you miss them?
2. Did it bother anybody that there were no women in the half time show—especially those who are scantily clad (like at the Emmys?) or who have wardrobe malfunctions (like Janet Jackson) Was this some kind of social engineering messaging about how women are portrayed on big-time TV?
Why do you think that women do the on-field interviews, while none appear in the commentator booths?
3. Is Bruno Mars an exciting talent? I think he is. Did you think that the half time show was superb? I do.
4. I liked the ketchup commercial and the big bear in the store eating yogurt commercial. Which commercial did you think was wonderful?
5. Remember when the Seattle player exclaimed, “We’re going to New Jersey!” How come everybody laughed? I enjoyed the scenes of downtown East Rutherford.
Did you notice that this event wasn’t portrayed as a New York City happening. The Big Apple didn’t come up—-it was beamed to the world as a New Jersey Super Bowl. We got some respect now. Didn’t we?
6. The National Anthem performed by a first class singer: Renee Fleming. Wasn’t that great? Do you care how the Star Spangled Banner is sung at big time events?
7. Fox had the Declaration of Independence read in the beginning, and there were other patriotic elements as well. Did you like this patriotic thematic material repeating during the show, including in some commercials? Did you appreciate the Budweiser tribute to a Florida soldier returning home?
BRUNO MARS: “Just the Way You Are” performed at the Super Bowl tonight.
Nice to see the Roxbury Marching Band from our former hometown perform at the halftime show. Quite an honor for them to be selected. Bruno Mars was great too!
Funniest Commercial (laughing at it not with it :-))…Maserati…no red-blooded American Man is going to buy a car call the Ghibli. hee..hee…
Best commercial ….2nd Tim Tebow commercial…I like the fact that he was big enough made fun of himself.(oh…and earn pockets full of cash!).
Most painful commercial. Seinfeld.
Cheerleaders? Female performers at halftime???? Why? Wasn’t Burno Mars pretty enough!?!?!?!?!? 🙂
The game was dull. I’m not a big football fan. I love Bruno and thought the RHCP combo was odd, but it worked. I like the patriotic theme of the commercials but my fav was the Budweiser puppy and the Clydesdales. I also loved the brief Pepsi ad just before halftime . Now looking forward to the Olympics! 😀
Thought Renee Fleming’s rendition of the national anthem was superb, and I was really enjoying Bruno Mars and his band until the RHCP dudes (duds?) stomped their way onto the stage. Not so hot in MHO.
Best commercial was for the new Maserati Ghibli with Quvenzhane Wallis in it. To my eye it is the best looking sedan out there. It must be to other people also because the Maserati corporate website crashed right after the commercial aired. Plus there is a glimpse of a Moto Guzzi about halfway thru.
Bruno Mars and the Chilli Peppers were great.
Bruno Mars was a MVP for his drumming, dancing with his band, jumping with the Chili Peppers and singing. An absolute tour de force!
I thought most everything about this Super Bowl was boring. The one bright spot of the entire game was the commercial showing that the TV series 24 will be brought back to fox on 5/5/2014. The Seahawks have cheerleaders and they were on the sideline behind the bench– you really don’t see much of them— so what’s the point. Maybe next year the Giants will get their shot.