And only one of them is also an Oscar winner.Wow, the spin is there are 5 Grammy winners for the first time together.
Dre, Snoop, Eminem, Blige, Lamar to perform at Super Bowl
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will perform for the first time together on stage at the 2022 Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show.apnews.com
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Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show Lineup Announced (2022)
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The Super Bowl has had exciting games and also many blowouts over the years. The game is fine. It's just that the pre-game hype and coverage is out of control.I think you just won a free lifetime Curmudgeon Club of America membership with that!
I actually love the concept of the Super Bowl. It's not a long, drawn out and often anticlimactic deal like the World Series*. It's a one-time, winner takes it all challenge. More like a Shakespearean sword fight, it fight to the death in one singe game.
* Which actually should be called the Part Of North America Series.
Maybe the Super Bowl Concert should be moved to Saturday with all the celebrity crap.
On Sunday, just play the game.
Baseball and football have cheapened the championship by expanding the playoff format. Of course, we know the reason for that. $$$...
You've obviously never been to a Super Bowl. On Saturday, there is a different major concert, sponsored by Budweiser. The one on Sunday is sponsored by Pepsi. Never miss out on an opportunity to make money.
I actually went to one in New Orleans.
You missed the point. I'm talking about the fact that the game itself is almost an afterthought now...
Not from a sponsorship perspective. The NFL has turned a one-day game into a week of activities.
And sure a lot of the other activities are mainly for people who don't care about the game.
The primary reason all the "pre-game hype and coverage" is done is because people buy into it, viewers in other cities watch it all and loads of people travel to the host city to take part in it. The reason cities put on such elaborate (and costly) sales pitches to try and host Super Bowls (a "priviledge" which is selected/awarded years in advance), and why there are always pitches from multiple cities is because it's not just about "The Big Game" (which is what most everyone must call the Super Bowl with certain exceptions, since the name is an NFL registered trademark) but there are billions of $$ at stake overall, with the actual game being the central "theme".
Major upgrades were completed just recently to Miami Dolphins' stadium, for instance, specifically with hosting future Super Bowls in mind. That stadium has hosted 6 Super Bowl games already, but they were told that, due to the age of the stadium itself (built in the late 80s), the lack of amenities and bells/whistles vs. newer facilities and the lack of a roof (pouring rain put a huge damper on one Big Game and threatened at least one other) their chances of hosting future contests was in jeopardy. They know how much the area has to gain when hosting, with people spending money at area airports, hotels, restaurants, concert venues, transportation, clubs and bars and all that goes along with the game and activities leading up to it - Equipment rental and catering companies, security firms, etc. While it costs $$ to bring the Super Bowl to their city, the potential payoff is huge if they are chosen as the host, with much more to consider than just the actual game itself.
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And for the ad industry it is a showcase for creativity. Those Super Bowl sports are on every participating agency's demo reel.
That's what I hear. For me, it's something I can charge as a business expense. I'm not the only one.
The game itself takes only 60 playing minutes (or almost 4 hours on the clock) but the hype and accompanying media BS takes forever (with a significant part of that BS allocated to tailgating, sports bars, bets and lots of other hot air).
In its history it has been anything but the pinnacle of American football (or halftime shows).
The Super Bowl has had its moments, but for the most, the AFC and NFC Championship games are usually much better. The SB is rather anticlimactic in a lot if years.
In fact, outside of the SB game itself, football season for me ends after the conference championships. I have no use for useless hype. See ya on Draft Day, NFL.
Give me a good World Series or Stanley Cup Final over even the best Super Bowl.
In fact, outside of the SB game itself, football season for me ends after the conference championships. I have no use for useless hype. See ya on Draft Day, NFL.
Give me a good World Series or Stanley Cup Final over even the best Super Bowl.
It’s almost as if businesses are in the business of making money. And people are interested in fun. Not that we really expect you to understand that latter part.
You are absolutely correct. In the past the major pre-game coverage (general news variety) has been on the commercials. Then on the halftime show and then, for the purists, the actual football game. My state just went live with off-site betting a few weeks ago so naturally most local news has covered that in great detail and with an overwhelming number of commercials. I expect that will continue and become even more ubiquitous as "the BIG Game" gets closer. The game itself, except for the cities involved, will be sucking hind teat trying for media time.
There is usually no better sporting event in the world than the normal Stanley Cup Final. It has all the anticipation and excitement of the Triple Crown but lasts a week and a half (sometimes a bit more).
The Triple Crown? You mean the event that consists of about 8 minutes of action spread over five weeks about which most of the hype and media BS is allocated to betting, rich people, betting, stories of horses that won the races years ago, betting, more rich people, and betting? Did I mention betting?
Hockey is unfortunately a fringe sport. The ratings are non existent outside of a few markets and Canada. Even the World Series doesn't get people excited anymore as interest in baseball has waned. The NFL is still King. Of course, now much of the interest revolves around Fantasy Leagues and gambling...
And the Triple Crown looses a lot of its luster once people seriously look into the treatment of the horses, what happens to the horses that aren't good enough to make the big money races, etc. Just a few months ago, high profile/well-known trainer Bob Baffert had his horse stripped of its Kentucky Derby win because the horse failed a mandatory drug test, and Baffert himself was banned from the Kentucky Derby for 2 years for doping. This wasn't his first horse to fail a doping test, either. A few years ago I watched the Preakness and the horse was almost an afterthought. There was all the hoopla and fanfare leading up to the race, the race itself which was relatively quick, and then afterwards they did the awards and the horse that actually won the race was quietly led away, his saddle and blinders were removed, he was washed down by a handler and very uneventfully placed back in a plain, unadorned stall. The cameras then cut back to the action and the owners were still screaming like banshees, being splashed with champagne and patting themselves on the back.
Then there are stories like the one I read a few years ago where a horse with great potential wasn't doing well. The owner paid someone to back their truck near the stall while the horse was sleeping, tie a rope around the horse's front leg and around the trailer hitch, drive off and purposely break the horse's leg in the dead of night so it needed to be killed. This was done so the owner could at least recoup some of their investment by cashing in on the insurance policy. Luckily all involved were caught, but yeah..Brutal.
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Been playing the horses since I was a teen, used to go to the cheap tracks in New England and the Massachusetts fair circuit a lot before they closed, seen much, heard about more. And guess what, I was still at the OTB teletheater the other day, played races from England on the computer this morning, went up to Saratoga last month. The sport could use some cleaning up. So could all of them, but I still look forward to the big races every year.
No. I meant the "two most exciting minutes in sports". Of course, horse/dog racing are not genuine sports as they depend on animals and are not contests between humans. The mint juleps, big hats, rich white people and "be seen" environment add to the absurdity. Betting is obviously the main attraction. But if you condense the individual races into just the race itself I have to admit it is exciting. It doesn't last nearly as long as the Stanley Cup but the Cup games are normally equally exciting.
Hockey is not as popular in the USA as the "Big Three" but it is immensely popular worldwide, especially in Europe and even in the USA it is not a fringe sport in the northern states especially. Because of the costs of playing hockey when young and teams have only 18 players (as opposed to baseball and football squads with up to three times more) it is not likely it will ever surpass either of those two sports. Baseball needs only a bat and ball (and a mitt if you value your fingers). Basketball needs only a ball and court which you can find at virtually every school yard or city park. I grew up playing football and soccer where you needed only a ball. Hockey will never be that inexpensive.
I live in the Phoenix metro area and can tell you it has become very difficult to get ice time at any one of our six ice sheets. It's hot in Phoenix most of the year - not hockey weather - but we have hockey year round. We have tons of kids playing hockey. A significant number of high schools have teams. ASU has a team. We have a NHL team. And if you think hockey is predominately a "white" sport you would probably be surprised at the makeup of a typical hockey crowd. A significant number of Hispanics have been drawn to the sport and they will make up the fans and adult players of the future.
Want to play or watch a hockey game and then go swimming when you get home? Phoenix is your place!
I always watch the Super Bowl halftime show I like Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg's old music in the early '90s I like old-school hip-hop/rap and club rap with Flo Rida. I like the Triple Crown in horse racing if the second leg there is a new winner then I'm done with horse racing for the year.
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