Wasn't a bad half-time show. Not the best, but certainly not the worst. I've also seen Kid Rock live a few times. He was good, not sure what that alternative show was supposed to be other than some kind of group cope over the fact their GodKing has led them into an populism abyss.
Decades ago I saw Kid Rock and Travis Tritt play at a "private" party (the Barnstable Brown Gala), and it was crazy fun. Slash showed up along with a bunch of other celebs, and it was pretty great. As much as I don't like country music, Travis Tritt rocked the house down... dude is a great performer.
Having married into a family of Nebraska fans, I can tell you that having a shitty O-Line is definitely not going to help you win football games.
I was once an unwilling participant to a Kid Rock USO concert while deployed. Our crew lodging was not far from where the stage was at and the timing couldn't have been worse. The concert started an hour or so before we returned from a mission and after ~20ish hrs awake, with about twelve of them in the air I just wanted to go to sleep.
I'm not a big country fan either, but i really enjoy it in the right setting. A lot of it, like pop music, is hot garbage though.
So was that the worst Superbowl ever in terms of ads? Zero funny ones that I can remember, tons of AI slop, shitloads of gambling, a soulless desecration of Jurassic Park, a horrifying panopticon surveillance state presented as a good thing by Ring, and a PSA by RFK Jr about how Mike Tyson used to be a fat fuck who wanted to kill himself. What in the holy hell.
Almost like the economy is shit and nobody has that stupid Internet Startup Bubble money any more. Still one of my all-time favourite Superb Owl commercials:
Yeah I didn't need the multiple ads for AI products. Outside of tech, no one knows who Anthropic is or cares.
Everyone loves that commercial. It’s an all-timer. That was back when they were in the golden era for ads. My favourie(s):
And the game wasn't even that good, despite my wish for New England to lose. The ads sucked overall for the reasons already mentioned. However, I was ecstatic to see the Mandalorian ad with tauntauns. I'm a huge Star Wars fan and toy collector but i LOVE tauntauns. Always have. The halftime show... I admit, I said to my family, "Geez it'd be nice to have subtitles so I know what he's singing," but overall I enjoyed it. Kind of in the same way I can appreciate the music at a local Mexican place even though I don't understand it.
It wasn't that good if you like offense. But if you like smothering defense and exceptional special teams, Seattle had it all on tap for you. Frankly, New England's defense was pretty good too with the exception of a few run plays that gashed them - Gonzalez probably single-handedly (pun intended) saved a few scores. I knew Seattle's defense was good but I haven't seen a lot of them this year and I wasn't quite prepared for that level of basic, "we're going to rush 4, sit in zone, not disguise anything, and just destroy you." Definitely the worst ad load ever, though. The Guy Fieri Bosch one was at least a tiny bit funny because it was actually him as the "just a guy" and not more horrifying AI slop. I also didn't see this one at the time but someone mentioned it afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMTcZb48aVU
I just saw a clip of Kid Rock's opening at the MAGAFest and Christ, I've seen better lip-synching at the School for the Deaf. Edit: Or was it a streaming issue?
They get worse every year. When the ads were great everyone was trying to bring the funny. Why did that tradition die?
We all get bombarded with ads and memes at every corner, especially when using our phones. I would imagine a funny Budweiser commercial that would have killed in the 90s/00s probably loses its luster in this environment.