According to press reports, The Weeknd is spending millions of his own dollars on the production of his performance at halftime of today's Super Bowl. Color me skeptical, unless "his own" means "his record company or other corporate interest". This little feature from Forbes is a bit more credulous about the topic.
In any event, I don't care all that much. I like The Weeknd's stuff, but that opening paragraph was really only a device to get to the real point of this post, which is the best halftime performance in Super Bowl history. And it ain't really all that close.
By my count, we've mentioned Prince's Super Bowl XLI performance thrice here, but I can't find evidence that we've actually posted video of it. Consider that rectified.
You've probably seen that clip before. Doesn't mean you shouldn't watch it again. You might not, however, have seen video from the pregame press conference. Prince brought his whole band, and they tore the roof of that mutha in front of a bunch of dudes in ill-fitting khakis (sorry, OBX Dave).
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Up With People says, “Fuck you, Rob”.
i laughed
calvin johnson has the second highest yards-per-game career average in history, the 6th-best yards-per-touch, the single season record for receiving yards. and he was a fucking mutant who did things physically nobody's done before or since. it really isn't his fault his team sucked and the organization was run poorly. maybe we can quibble about first-ballot, but the dude belongs in the hall of fame.
It's hard to argue against Calvin Johnson. He averaged 100/1712/11 from 2011-2013. I think the football HOF is different from baseball. For football it's really a bunch of guys that you want your kids to know about, while baseball has this weird mathematical religiosity to it. Derrick Mason and Steve Smith have more receptions and yards than Johnson, but do either of those guys really compare to Johnson as a player?
Now I'm in a pro-football-reference.com rabbit hole. Anquan Boldin, Reggie Wayne, Andre Johnson, Brandon Marshall and Santana Moss all grew up in Florida around the same time. That's pretty crazy WR talent.
Scratch that. Reggie Wayne is from Louisiana. Still an insane collection of talent.
i was today years old when i learned that these are actual lyrics to ‘let’s go crazy’:
“Let's go crazy, let's get nuts
Look for the purple banana
'Til they put us in the truck, let's go”
my wife sang it and i laughed at her. purple banana!
and that’s...one to grow on.
I saw Anquan Boldin play in high school. He played QB for Pahokee and he was fucking awesome. Florida has the most talented football players in the country. Texas and California like to argue about it but it’s not really an argument over the past 20-25 years.
If you have a subscription to The Athletic you should go read the article from earlier this week about the Miami Northwestern team that Lavonte David played on. Over 25 guys went to to get D1 scholarships. Just an absurdly talented team from one of the toughest neighborhoods imaginable.
And if you don’t have a subscription to The Athletic, you should get one. Fantastic sports writing for pretty cheap.
i've got chiefs -3.5 in a parlay with over 56.5, mike evans to score twice at +650, and both teams to score in each quarter at +480. so if you're interested in winning some money, take the other side of those bets.
That’s the squarest parlay possible. But I think you’ve got a good shot at it.
Best of luck to all of you degenerates. RIP Prince.
I got a huge pirate ship tattoo on my left thigh last January. Bucs make the Super Bowl the following season. Can’t be a coincidence, right?
direct line.
here's today's misadventure in gambling. teased hofstra -3.5 against drexel with iowa -3.5 at indiana, so i had both teams at +0.5. hawkeyes led throughout the game before gacking in the final minutes and losing, 67-65. hofstra came through, but it didn't matter.
thinking this whole gambling thing is gonna be a short-lived mini-obsession.
That’s probably a better outcome than you going all in on gambling, then engaging us with posts about your wagers and pending divorce.
I think I’ve gambled less than any year in close to a decade. The pandemic left me with no feel for the momentum of teams/seasons. That said, I’ve made substantial amount of prop bets today.
Gotta sting a bit for Pats fans. Brady AND Gronk!
Goodell appears to be wearing a box of Tic Tacs as a watch.
Anyone have this as the score at half?
Was thinking similar on Roger's watch.
The non conversion on that 4th down could haunt me on the prop bets w 4:1 odds.
Up on the half but the 2nd shaping up to be bloody.
this performance is competent. and that’s about it.
The Weeknd is killing it.
Rob and I disagree it seems.
My $10 free bet from DraftKings that I put on Koepka at +5500 means I’m playing with house money tonight. Doing my best to give it all back.
i thought the production was cool, mark, but the sound mix was muddy.
My stage name would definitely be The Weekday
how is devin white real?
I hope I'm not breaking jinxing anything for you Mark, but I think if the Bucs go on to win you owe it to yourself and all of us to find ink space for a large tat of the old logo.
Lavonte David had been everywhere tonight.
I think I can manage some space for Bucco Bruce.
i may have underestimated the impact of the chiefs offensive line injuries
It's not like Mahomes has played poorly. He is still pulling plays out of his ass, but he's not getting a lot of help from the people who are supposed catch his passes.
And goodness, that line is a sieve.
both teams scored in each of the first three quarters. the fourth? not so fast, my friends.
Mahomes is a magician. He throws from insane angles and is absurdly accurate. The Bucs D has ruled the day. The front four and the best LB duo in the NFL balled out.
love it when a gheorghie gets sports joy. good on you, mark.
You could have given me +8000 odds before the game started on KC NOT scoring a TD and I wouldn't have taken it.
Can’t say I’d disagree with you, Jam.
I laid some bucks down on Tampa getting 3 and Tampa giving 13. Did all right. Also had a couple of squares land. Not a bad return.
More fun was drinking and joke telling and eating and watching sports and electing popes and gambling and having fun with old friends over a long weekend in Steamboat, CO. Good days.
Steamboat is on my Rockies wish list. Folks talk mythically about the powder there.
Chiefs’ O-Line was hot garbage. Everybody was talking about it this week. We all thought the Chiefs could scheme around that. Guess they couldn’t. Not sure how I feel knowing it was an extra-Jets coach who dialed up that Bucs’ D. Mark owes Bowles a big thank you for what he got out of that D tonight.
And I can’t believe I am typing this, but I was pulling for Brady tonight. Now that he’s out of the AFC and not killing the Jets twice a year, I can just appreciate him as an old guy doing impressive things.
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