The Big Game recap
Well, FSC called it again. To recap:
9-8-2006
Fan Stop Central lays it on the line this season in predicting the Super Bowl XLI matchup:
Representing the American Football Conference (AFC) - the NFL’s single-season touchdown passing king, Payton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts.
And, representing the National Football Conference (NFC) - the NFL’s single-season touchdown passing king’s brother, Eli Manning and the New York Giants.Indianapolis will finally breakthrough and play in the game of games. The New York Giants will make their fourth Super Bowl trip in team history … but this year, victory will go to the Colts of Indianapolis.
Though FSC blew the NFC representative, the champion was um, “right, uh, bang on” to quote Alan Thicke. But that’s not the real recap that we’re going to discuss here. The real disappointment in this game was none other than the artist formerly known as now known as again … Prince.
FSC was so ready for some of Prince’s eccentric, artistic flashes of entertainment, and what did the world get? Cover songs? Hendrix? Foo Fighters? Come on, Prince, what happened to the magic? Did your Aunt Jemima headpiece cut off the circulation to your brain?
OK, so Purple Rain was somewhat fitting (you know, south Florida, rain …), but what about When Doves Fly, Little Red Corvette, Raspberry Beret, U Got The Look? You had the perfect opportunity to show the world that Prince still has what it takes to rock a crowd, and instead you pretty much made up our minds that you should keep doing whatever you have been for the past (insert length of time here) years … maybe decades.
The stage was cool. Using Florida A & M’s marching band was a cool addition. At the FSC watch party, we were all cheering for the dancers to slip and bite it on the wet stage.
And don’t even get started on the disappointment of the commercials. That was too pathetic to even bring up.
Here’s to next year, and hoping someone puts an end to the streak of aging rockers at halftime (Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones, Prince, Phill Collins, Areosmith, Patti LaBelle, Tony Bennett, Arturo Sandoval, Miami Sound Machine). If they are going to stick with a single act for halftime (which FSC doesn’t think they should) then stick with the U2’s of the industry … enough with the geriatrics. Here’s a list of Super Bowl performers. Was Country that big in 1994?
