I selected that tweet in case you'd also — or rather — talk about the halftime show. What were those puffed-up dancers supposed to represent? Rihanna's pregnancy? The UFO/balloon? Snowmen? Polar teddy bears?Terry Bradshaw’s intrusive thoughts on their way to tell him to call Andy Reid fat multiple times during the post game interview pic.twitter.com/NZXWy1VSbb
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I only half-watched the halftime show. I'm sensitive to vicarious acrophobia — basophobia, really — and I thought the sound quality was so bad that that the music could only be "heard" by those who already had the music implanted in their head.
What, exactly, was the worse thing Bradshaw said? I think it was — directly to Reid, after the game was won — "Big guy. Let me get the big guy in here. C'mon, waddle over here."
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We turned off the sound so we could talk. We did look at it, though. Just factually, an exhibition of decadence.
Opinion: we are idiots and want to show the world that the degree of our idiocy is advancing. A poor strategy. Not entertaining, either; did more than one-quarter of those watching enjoy that show? I'll take the under and so would those we were with.
The media is telling me that Rhianna "crushed" the half-time show. I thought it was meh. If it's mostly lip synced and back-tracked, then it's just dancing to per-recorded music. Does me not liking it make me racist?
In all the excitement, I nearly missed the Pentagon acknowledging the Barent Sea freezing over as far south as the Aleutian Islands. I guess the climate has changed.
I heard there was a fourth balloon shot down over Lake Huron, only 95 luftballoons to go. Hopefully we will learn the cost tradeoff between a balloon and AIM-9X missile sooner rather than later.
Did Bradshaw mention Rhianna's belly?
Terry Bradshaw isn't Howard Cosell, so he will not be fired by Fox Sports. Cosell became infamous during the Sept. 5, 1983, telecast of the Dallas Cowboys-Washington Redskins game. After watching Alvin Garrett, a Redskins wide receiver, make a darting run after a catch, Cosell exclaimed, "That little monkey gets loose, doesn't he?" And Howard was denounced for what some viewed as a racist comment. Monday Night Football let Cosell go after the 1983 season. As a fellow commentator, Don Meredith would sing: "Turn out the lights, the party's over . . . "
When Bradshaw was a player, the general sentiment about him was he couldn't spell CAT if you spotted him the C and the A.
The Super Bowl halftime show is a great time to go shopping. I went to the grocery store to pick up some dessert for 2nd-half snacking. The store was empty of people. There was no loud music. I missed the entire halftime show. Winning!
---The media is telling me that Rhianna "crushed"
Always the last to know.
Did anyone else notice the commercial for a new U2 tour (something about spheres) which featured a large white balloon-like object?
Maybe the big Chinese balloon was just part of a promo campaign?
Because I so clearly remember Bradshaw throughout his post-playing days (which btw began about 40 years ago) as being such a hard body.
The puffed up dancers represented her spouse’s semen. She in her red outfit represented her ovum. This was clearly a biology lesson.
I think he also said "go have a cheeseburger."
I think he also said "go have a cheeseburger."
Are Reid and Bradshaw friends? If so, then this is exactly how guys give each other good-natured sh*t.
I love how the Biden Administration "quietly assured friends" that it was not "aliens," but lets the mushrooms, I mean the American people, steep in the bullshit in the dark
"The media is telling me that Rhianna "crushed" the half-time show. "
And Biden crushed the State of the Union, Joe "plugs" Biden was a "handsome" young man... Propaganda 101, state what you want people to believe as an established fact, and ignore the evidence.
Are Bradshaw and Reid friends? Friends do tease each other like that, so nothing to get worked up about, imho.
Re the halftime show… Simply Rihanna demonstrating she understands human biology lol, sperm ovum vagina and voila she’s pregnant!! (The crotch touching is so 90’s though. Give it a rest.)
I know people that live in the "insult" humor, world. It's a guy thing, although women do it, its just more personal and cutting, catty?
But some do the insults, that guys do....with their close friends. But do it with people they know of, but not really know. It's just boorish. Nobody does boorish better than Bradshaw, but maybe thats just me. YMMV
This seems to fit with Reid's persona as a lovable fat guy. The last time the Chiefs won the Superbowl he said he was going to eat the biggest cheeseburger he could find. Bradshaw did nothing wrong.
Reid is very overweight. It's hard not to notice.
I miss left shark.
The Rhianna show was visually striking, but it had a WTF subtext. You can't really accuse her of wearing a too revealing outfit. That was part of the subtext. She did make a few obscene bumps though so give her credit for that. The show looked extraordinarily expensive. Wouldn't that money have been better spent if it had been used to set up some kind of maternity care program for unmarried workers in the fast food industry? What was the carbon footprint of all those fireworks?.....Terry Bradshaw himself is not exactly svelte. Black people are allowed to use the n-word. Shouldn't overweight people be allowed to say "waddle". In group dynamics, it's how overweight people cope with the dark social milieu in which they are forced to live. Reid and Bradshaw, each in their own way, present a positive role model for all those struggling with weight issues. I look forward to Reid appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated in a Speedo. That would send a positive message to all older, fatter men who struggle for acceptance in this society.
Jim nailed it.
The halftime show was basically Busby Berkeley, complete with moving stages. An extended old-style Hollywood dance number.
Andy Reid is enormous, and in that red Chiefs clothing, he looked like a firetruck. I suspect he's untroubled by Bradshaw.
I'm going to get the biggest cheeseburger you've ever seen...Maybe even a double
What were those puffed-up dancers supposed to represent? Rihanna's pregnancy? The UFO/balloon? Snowmen? Polar teddy bears?
If you didn't immediately go to health care workers in the early stages of the Covid crisis, you slept through the past three years.
The general consensus amounted to Dallas Cowboys linebacker, Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, stating that to the press in the run up to Super Bowl IX(?). I don't know how many people believed that or how much of it was just to stimulate interest (hype) for the game.
It was pointed out then and since that Bradshaw was playing in an era when some quarterbacks, Bradshaw included, were calling their own plays. I don't think, or at least didn't think until it was repeated here, that Henderson's remark had aged well.
I followed my past practice of DVRing the game and then watching it sans halftime show, commercials and post game interviews in about an hour. Great game and much more enjoyable if you can avoid all the extraneous nonsense.
And if Bradshaw and Reid aren't friends, they at least have to be acquaintances considering Reid's finishing his 31st year in the NFL and Bradshaw's past his golden anniversary. They're both fat. It's the way guys rag on each other. I didn't know the cheeseburger story, but now that I do it's perfectly understandable and something guys, for the time being at least, are still allowed to do.
It's hard for me to understand why anyone not already a fan of the half-time performer would actually watch the half-time.
I was working on data manipulation last night. Didn't watch a thing. I'm un-American.
We got pizza -- I went to pick it up, because it's very interesting to see the goings-on at a Pizza Place just before the Super Bowl starts. There were at least 50 pizzas made in the back, ready to be picked up (or delivered).
Would love to see a graph of this place's daily order numbers. Is there a bigger peak than yesterday?
I watched the halftime show because I was intrigued by the pre-game promos showing her sultry walk wearing what looked like a good portion of her front lawn around her shoulders. I was hoping to hear her big hit, "I Fought the Lawn and the Lawn Won."
Bradshaw has always fancied himself a funny guy. I've always fancied him an idiot. I'm right and he's not, as anyone knows. And an idiot who thinks he's funny is a really bad combination.
A pregnant lady pleasuring herself on the world stage.
America… what a country.
The singer isn't married. The father is rapper ASAP Rocky.
I had a friend in the retail pizza business tell me the busiest day (night) for pizza was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Don't know if that's still true ... or if it ever was.
For my son, Rihanna's show was a reminder of all of her #1 hits. For me it was a demonstration that I could only pick out two of her songs from the whole medley. The dancers made me think of the Stay-Puff marshmallow man and that we get to choose the form of our destroyer.
I'm sure Reid and Bradshaw are happy to sit down to triple cheeseburgers and many beers and make fun of each other. It is like the twitterverse doesn't understand how basic human interactions work. Especially adult male interactions. Twitter seems to have completely rid itself of mature men. And I am sure that was a conscious choice.
Didn't see any of the game or the show. Heard that KC won, and learned here that people take old jock banter as seriously as they do ball games.
Boo-rah.
One of the guys at the Superbowl party said the halftime show reminded him of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM3fglmaRrA
"What were those puffed-up dancers supposed to represent?"
Nothing. Like most shows, it's an exercise in nihilism. They represent their own emptiness.
But that doesn't mean they have no meaning. By the circuses their overlords contrive you shall know and judge them.
The first superbowl featured the Grambling Marching Band. Way past time to bring 'em back.
Most of the players may be black but most of the paying customers are white. Why are we subjected to this alien 'cultural' garbage year after year? Self-loathing?
Why is it OK to denounce and disappear nuanced lyrics like, "...baby it's cold outside" or "...teach me tonight" and celebrate performances with physically unambiguous simulated sexual acts?
Listening to crowd reaction during the halftime show, I suspect that broadcast audio was pre-recorded and an applause tract unrelated to actual "live" performance was used.
One of my female guests characterized the show as a dominant black woman being worshiped by born-again Klansmen.
One of my main beefs with ALL the superbowl halftimes is that they actually change the game.
At the superbowl teams get far more time to rest, receive treatment for injuries and master adjustments to game plans. This WRONG! I suspect the reason for addig time is more commercials and MO' MONEY.
Of course, the worst part of the game was the flag for the tickie-tackiest holding call ever that decided the outcome.
Loved the sophisticated crotch grab and was moved by the following finger sniff and finger taste. In not so many years the halftime show will have people fucking trans Disney characters to techno. The culture evaporates slowly and then quickly. We are at the beginning of the quick part.
By the way was she lip synching a song in English. Couldn’t tell.
Mystery or affirmation? Ridicule or celebration? Equal and complementary in conflict and leverage, or faith and fidelity? Choose wisely, ladies and gentlemen.
A large number of SJW and/or hipster football fans have always hated Bradshaw and they're always crticizing him. Too white, Too male, too redneck.
The superbowl went unnoticed in our house. Someone invited me to their party, but i declined. Told them they'd need a lot of good whiskey to get me through that boring spectacle. The whole thing has become absurdly SJW, vulgar, drawnout and tedious.
Groomers everywhere in the blue America.
I forgot about the super bowl.
My brother commented on a defensive holding call on a 3rd and 8 that was really bad and basically ended the game.
I didn't even know it was going on.
The whole thing sounds pretty lame at this point.
1. Good game except for that last ticky-tacky penalty.
2. Missed the half-time show/lack of interest.
3. Bradshaw has put up with bald jokes for decades. Andy could mix in a salad.
Rihanna”s music was boring and the costumes were ugly AF. Woody Allen probably should sue Rihanna for stealing the idea from his costume in Sleeper.
The NPR angle the other day was how Rihanna (who I don't know from Mother Macree) was doing the halftime show this year after refusing/declining a few years ago.
The gist was that the NFL now had the blessing and imprimatur of a true cultural heroine and icon, and isn't it great?
"One of my main beefs with ALL the superbowl halftimes is that they actually change the game.
At the superbowl teams get far more time to rest, receive treatment for injuries and master adjustments to game plans. This WRONG!"
My preferred sport is NCAA men's basketball. The number and length of TV timeouts radically changes the game. It plays to some teams strengths and against others.
But how else can one pay (for the NFL) $0, $40 or more millions per year for a single player.
I turned the game off right after the end, but not before Reid told the first guy to put a Mike in front of him “I could kiss you, but I’m not gonna do that.”
I think Reid was pretty damn happy, and fat jokes by Terry would make him laugh his ass off.
She was grabbing her crotch a couple of times before she showed off her baby bump. Jim "in the comments" was correct. She was having sex in front of the world and getting impregnated.
Meanwhile, Dr Jill is now being called Dr. Jinx. https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2023/02/13/jill-biden-earns-fitting-new-nickname-after-eagles-lose-super-bowl-n703053
Also-did not watch the halftime show, but did Rihanna sport the Dr. Seuss hairdo, or was that just the promos?
--- She was having sex in front of the world and getting impregnated.
Oh, OK, thank you, Wendybar. I must have missed the banana.
Well, then, a biology lesson; there's public service for you. Now I have learned something! I never knew that stuff.
Noticed that the female goddess’male chorus dancers were all dressed up to look like Arabs. That puzzled me until I looked up Rihanna. She is from Barbados where hating America is required. And she is currently the paid mistress of a Saudi Arabian trillionaire. Money talks.
Just the promos
Rihanna was pregnant, not fat. Reid has no excuse for his gluttony. The NFL needs an excuse. It had its officiating crew throw the Game with a non existent penalty that determined the outcome. That will never go away. We all saw it. It happened.
The last thing America’s rigged game will ever do is celebrate America.
Terry Bradshaw is differently weighted - so doesn't he get a pass when talking to/about fellow food enthusiasts?
What “Jim” said. And Woody Allen’s lawyers are working on the complaint.
What “Jim” said. And Woody Allen’s lawyers are working on the complaint.
I wonder if Rihanna thought of Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction when she donned that plastic bodice thingie.
Nice to know I didn't miss anything yesterday.
Ralph L @ 5:06: "...that plastic bodice thingie..." Man, did that look uncomfortable. Imagine wearing that when you're trying to belt out your big song!
I guess the half time show was a musical adaptation of "Night Sea Journey."
It wasn't that long ago everyone here swore they'd have nothing to do with the NFL because the players were kneeling during the national anthem.
I live in KC and an a fan. I didn't watch the halftime show. I normally don't. All my favorite perfrmrs are retired or dead. Also note the two KC players that did kneel during rhe athem disappeared from the roster, KC doesn't roll like that.
Both Bradshaw and Reid make fun of their own weight and age. It's call Self-deprecation.
"everyone here swore" bladdabladda.
I didn't. I've never cared about the NFL, whatever their posture.
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