Why do they throw a crummy high school dance party in the middle of my big football game?
I know the Super Bowl isn’t the only game with a halftime show, but it’s the one with all the hype. I totally ignore all the college bowl halftime shows, but it seems like watching the Super Bowl “extravaganza” is a requirement to keep your U.S. citizenship. And inevitably, it’s not nearly as exciting as the people throwing it want you to believe. (Accidental nudity doesn’t count.) For many years the halftime show of the NFL championship game mostly featured marching bands. Football and marching bands go together in high school and college. I suppose it’s natural to think they should continue their relationship in the pros. Maybe that’s why it doesn’t seem odd to have people in toy soldier outfits take the field with instruments. Wheeling out huge stages, fog machines and hundreds of dancers, on the other hand, is not in any way natural. Though apparently Carol Channing starred in a Mardi Gras show at Super Bowl IV. I have to tell you, if they replayed that halftime show, I’d watch eve
