If finding your fat, chicken bone-covered uncle sleeping on the sofa wasn't enough of an indication, yesterday was the Super Bowl. And as you can tell from the CHAOS IN THE STREETS, someone gave the middle finger without permission during the halftime show. Alert the riot police!
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What's that? There aren't ... there aren't any riots? Well then it looks like you get the day off, police!
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The halftime show consisted of Madonna performing her new single along with today's hottest artists, and right after Nicki Minaj's verse, MIA took center stage and flipped an uncensored middle finger. Now, I like to think I've got a pretty thick skin, but I was incredibly offended. I mean, how are you gonna put MIA on after Nicki Minaj? You go from worst to best, Super Bowl halftime producers. That's how entertainment has always worked.
You don't serve old bread with powdered sugar AFTER an ice cream sundae.
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Both NBC and the NFL are trying to avoid the steep fines associated with broadcasting obscene content. The NFL blamed "a failure in NBC’s delay system" while NBC released a statement reminding fans (and FCC regulators) that “the NFL hired the talent and produced the halftime show”. The chief executives of both companies did, however, try to come to terms in a meeting today:
The incident is being compared to Janet Jackson's nipple slip from the 2004 Half Time show, but clearly this is worse. MIA chose to give the middle finger — this can't be brushed off as accidental. The middle finger is a hostile gesture. And the last thing we need in football ...
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... are hostile gestures.
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