Thanks alot Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson..not (ie halftime)

[jwill535]

Now we are forced to watch horrible and over the hill bands that are way past they're prime. Of the 30 seconds i had on it looked like Tom Petty has a peanut allergy and bathed in peanut butter before the show, man he was puffy. With that said, Prince rocked last year and will always rock, i know that makes me a hyprocrite but its Prince.

[Brian the Automator]

Speak for yourself, I really enjoyed the Mr. Burns halftime show.

[brettac1]

I thought the Cryptkeeper was great.

[Menotti80]

yeah no offense jwill, but you are WAY off on that.

 

fantasic show by a legend of rock... horrible indeed...

[mothershipconnection]

In defense of the family-friendly entertainment favored in recent years, can you really say anything involving Justing Timberlake was superior? I sure as heck can't/won't.

[jordanmuehl]

I really enjoyed Petty -- the performance was nearly flawless.

[jwill535]

other then Prince, every half time show has been bad.

[TooLiveBrew]

Yea, Prince was good, but so was Petty.

[rluzinski]

I got a star on Mario Galaxy. I don't even try to watch the halftime show anymore.

[Hammer]

Petty was good? He was AWFUL! His voice and body are shot and really had no place on that stage. This is the freaking Super Bowl...get a real, non-drug wrecked star on the stage. Poor choice in my opinion.

[Brian the Automator]

Maybe next year we'll be able to look forward to Bob Dylan or Enigma.

[Crew2323]

I'm younger (27) and thought Tom Petty was good. I've always enjoyed his music to begin with. The previous Super Bowl acts had me begging for more. This one had me curious, and I'm glad I didn't flip the station. He played a lot of good songs. I liked it.

[Brian the Automator]

Yeah at least Petty didn't do "a song off his new album". They were all classics.

[logan82]

I liked it when fox used to do an alternate halftime show.

[RyDogg66]

I really enjoyed the little 4 song set.

 

Although, the OP is right, the days of tossing 15 one-hit wonders up there to lip sync were great. I really miss having Britney Spears/Backstreet Boys/Aerosmith/Busta Rhymes all on stage at the same time, doing different things and lip synching different songs.

 

Those were the days, but until we can get them back again, I'll happily take Petty.

 

It is almost like people are expecting some great rock show that will overshadow the Super Bowl. Come on. Its 12 minutes, you cant possibly have that much invested in it.

[jason21nl]

I honestly could careless about the halftime show. Halftime is for getting more food. I did watch the halftime show today and I liked it.

[PeaveyFury]

Yeah, the Jackson incident finally brought about good halftime shows featuring one act, instead of that crap they pulled before of having 9 different acts in some craptastic medley of songs that no one wants to see or hear like Rydogg mentioned.

[bjkrautk]

There was nothing exciting about the halftime show. Petty did the songs you'd have expected....and they sounded decent but not great. Unfortunately, I don't know that we'll ever see anything better than a low-risk, B- halftime show for the next decade.

 

I do wonder whether Mtv's halftime debacle has pushed the networks away from any under-40s artists. I'd love to see a band on the upswing play a halftime show again (then again, I'd just love to see someone like The Killers do a SB halftime).

[PKBadger]

(then again, I'd just love to see someone like The Killers do a SB halftime).

 

Seconded.? I would love to see the Killers do an SB halftime show and I think they would bring the house down.

 

For my money, this is as good as it gets.? A lot of it has to do with the time frame (4 months after 9/11) and the emotions that many of us were feeling, but the performance was sublime.

 

[JimH5]

Tom Petty was terrific.

 

And why would you actually get angry about their choice for a halftime show? How could that merit such a strong emotional response?

[igor67]

My 2 year old daughter loved her first Tom Petty show. I thought it was solid. I strongly suspect that given the time constraints it is wuite difficult to get an ideally concert balanced sound system working with the normal broadcast balance.

[Hammer]

It wasn't the "sound system" that caused a bad show...it was a man that was up there singing on his last vocal cord. I'm not saying that I would expect another group of 9 pop artists again. But c'mon, get a non-geriatric pill-popping, non-strung out Blue from Old School sounding, non-"wow, I didn't know he was even still alive" type of artist out there. There are plenty of good, younger rock bands around that could do a 10-12 minute segment without doing anything anything "off his new album". The Killers, Maroon 5...etc. I guess I watched this Super Bowl for the following reasons:

1. I love football

2. The commercials

3. Great halftime shows (in the past now)

[craigharmann]

I'm a voice teacher by training, and Tom Petty has always bothered me, because he sounds like he's singing out of his nose, and he sounds like he's in pain. Every time when he went for the high note on Freefallin, I cringed. That said, it could have been much worse. But it's halftime.

[Invader3K]

Tom Petty was fine. He sounded and played like Tom Petty. If you already didn't like his music, you weren't going to enjoy his show.

 

I'd much rather see acts like Pettty, Prince, and Paul McCartney performing (ie. not lip-synching) than the aforementioned hip-hop/pop acts. I mean, I don't think the majority of the Super Bowl audience is really into Nelly or whatever. Also, I can't remember the specific performance, but I seem to remember MTV booking another act that did a bunch of inappropriate stuff during the Super Bowl (might have been the year after the Janet/Timberlake incident, I can't remember, though).

 

Worst one in recent memory was probably the Rolling Stones, though. Bad mix coupled with a shaky performance ended up being just an embarrassment.

[Hammer]

I liked Tom Petty pre-2000 but now his voice is gone. For the anti-lip sinking group out there...did you neglect to notice that he wasn't the one hitting the high notes in Free Fallin'? That was someone else with a much better, younger voice. Personally, I am not a fan of bands that should have retired rather than ruin their image while out on the stage in depends...