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Re: Halftime: Stone cold dead?
By:Charlie
Date: Monday, 6 February 2006, 8:00 pm
In Response To: Halftime: Stone cold dead? (Oscar the Grouch)

I'm with you grouch - I didn't like them - never did. I suggest that they retire and that the Super Bowl entertainment co-ordinators retire too - hee hee.

> One thing that the Rolling Stones are not
> suited for... CLOSEUPS! Is it just my
> prejudice (I don't like their music) or are
> they way, WAY too old to still be doing
> that? Keith Richards looks embalmed and
> Ron Wood looks worse than some people I have
> met ina rest home! Do people STILL call this
> entertainment?

> On the one hand the NFL, and the networks,
> want to increase the ratings for this,
> supposed, extravaganza, but on the other
> hand they are afraid to alienate their bread
> and butter demographic, the over 30 male
> viewer. But the STONES??? Good Grief! How
> about someone who doesn't remind us of our
> own mortality, for pete's sake? Seeing
> Jagger prance around like an effeminate
> queenie (no offense meant to all you
> effeminate queenies out there) just makes me
> gag! What, doesn't he have anything ELSE to
> do?

> Surely there are some other groupss that
> could generate excitement. I may be an old
> grouch, but wouldn't the Black Eyed Peas be
> visually more alive and musically more
> relevant (along with some sound man with a
> finger on the mute button, appropriately)
> than that geriatric display? Perhaps they
> ought to look up those youth rejuvenating
> pods from the movie "Cocoon".

> Any suggestions?

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