Purely speculation on my part but TBN numbers will undoubtedly increase next year, the question is by how much. If their numbers grow from 5 million to 15, 25, and maybe 50 million viewers during the next 5 years the NFL will take notice because TBN will be able to host bigger venues with far more popular artists. Don’t be surprised if other cable networks try running a show next year’s halftime show.
Official Super Bowl LX ('26) game thread
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I can't decide whether New England's play or the halftime show were more boring, forgettable, and incompetent. For me, this was the worst Super Bowl in memory. Not entertaining or interesting in any way. Five years from now when somebody says, "Hey, remember the 2025 Super Bowl", we will all have to do a Google search to recall what happened. I'm someone who looks forward to the Super Bowl, and this one was a complete disappointment.
My synopsis:
Respect to the Seahawks. They were dominant on D. Definitely earned that W. Not the result we were looking for, but the result that was deserved.
Pats need improvement on the O-line. It'll be interesting to see if they can/will keep the core together and stay motivated and focused to get back and try to win it next year.
I think Maye's shoulder was an issue. Wouldn't be surprised to see him get some "work" done over the offseason. He was trying to throw deep balls later in the game, but these were just weak catapults up for grabs. He usually has a pretty deep ball. Good kid, though ... keep your head up.
The Bad Bunny halftime show was interesting. I think he made a mistake trying to piece together a narrative/story, simply because it didn't make any sense to me as I didn't understand the words to the songs. The whole marriage storyline was lost on me. When he went to nicely choreographed dancing bits, that's where it shined. Of course, I liked the message of bringing the Americas together, rather than tearing them apart and turning them into adversaries.
Respect to the Seahawks. They were dominant on D. Definitely earned that W. Not the result we were looking for, but the result that was deserved.
Pats need improvement on the O-line. It'll be interesting to see if they can/will keep the core together and stay motivated and focused to get back and try to win it next year.
I think Maye's shoulder was an issue. Wouldn't be surprised to see him get some "work" done over the offseason. He was trying to throw deep balls later in the game, but these were just weak catapults up for grabs. He usually has a pretty deep ball. Good kid, though ... keep your head up.
The Bad Bunny halftime show was interesting. I think he made a mistake trying to piece together a narrative/story, simply because it didn't make any sense to me as I didn't understand the words to the songs. The whole marriage storyline was lost on me. When he went to nicely choreographed dancing bits, that's where it shined. Of course, I liked the message of bringing the Americas together, rather than tearing them apart and turning them into adversaries.
Oh, and to those trying to give whatever that "alternative" halftime show was supposed to be some legitimacy ... go yell at clouds somewhere else. That show was legitimately AWFUL, musically speaking, and was headlined by someone far worse than anyone that appeared at the actual halftime show, since R.Kelly didn't make a guest appearance. You're most definitely trying WAY too hard, and, in doing so, making yourself, and your views, look worse, not better.
You can yell "Sal de mi césped" to someone who gives a poop.
You can yell "Sal de mi césped" to someone who gives a poop.
When you love the player you (I) give slack to the announcing
USFL or whatever will be here soon enoughNow what do I do? Last night‘s dogsh|t football is better than the lebron-ba, and I only watch the NHL during the playoffs. ”College” basketball () offers me nothing. Baseball (not here yet) doesn’t do it for me until the World Series. And Liverpool sucks a$$.
I guess it’s the Winter Olympics for the next two weeks (at least a few sports) and PSU wrestling for another month. That’s it.
It's incredible to think about how much the Patriots absolutely dominated the league ... and especially the AFC ... during Brady's tenure. The Pats, as an organization, had the most Super Bowl appearances in the history of the NFL, by a comfortable margin, and hold that record despite being absolute uncompetitive trash for much of the franchise's existence. I know people know these facts, but still not sure they're appreciated the way they should be. I hated the Pats for many years, including some of the Brady years, and only became a reluctant fan based on my kids' experiences up here, but that kind of success, in modern sports especially, is just unfathomable. So to be back in the Super Bowl discussion so quickly after Brady left and it all went south, with a young QB who looks like he could lead this charge again for many years ... must be so incredibly frustrating to the fans of other teams who can't get their stuff together, or maintain their stuff for very long.
Still a big number. Don’t think they can measure all platforms accurately. Is that 5.7 million Households?
Think next year it could expand as it was successful.
Well......my wife loved it because she really likes country music. Those who don't like country, I would not recommend. We went back to the game before Kid Rock came on....not a fan.
That's great. Go watch it. It's not for you, we get it. They're not trying to get your eyeballs. Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, Usher, Rihanna, Dr. Dre, The Weeknd, Shakira/JLo ... those are the most recent halftime performers.
The Morgan Wallen/Classic Rock Corpses crowd are already going to watch football because they loves them some football ... the halftime show is meant to appeal to a much wider audience, to bring in more, and potentially different, eyeballs.
Yeah none of them are nearly as “dignified” as someone like you who attacks those with whom he disagrees as racists and alternative entertainers as white trash.
This halftime flap is easy to put in to perspective. The NFL got 142 million people to pay attention to their TV's during the dead space between the 2nd and 3rd quarter of a football game when the teams are not even playing. I have watched so many football games in my life that I probably should be embarrassed. I have never once, between the 2nd and 3rd quarters, sat back down and stared at the TV wondering how great the entertainment was going to be. I just simply don't care. I curate my own entertainment and I love of football. With that comes learning to kill off the void of halftime. So, while I'm catching up on the Michigan wrestling match from Friday night, the NFL got 142,000,000 people to sell advertising to. That is a remarkable accomplishment. Simple as that.
And according to the Seahawks D, their strategy was to fluster Maye as they knew taking him out would short circuit the Pats offense. I’m proud to say the Bills fired coach, McDermott, laid the floor plan to beat the Pats by playing Cover 6. They shut down the Pats in that game and other teams followed suit. Maye was plain awful in the playoffs, especially playing teams with a defensive pulse.
I don't care about the halftime show. I wish I could FF through it and all the commercials and just watch the game.
The first half was pretty underwhelming, thanks in large part to Seattle's D and/or the Patriot's offensive struggles. I feel like I should be happy for Darnold given his history in the league but I can't shake the image of him and the gum-chewing a-hole Pete Carroll celebrating like Ric Flair every TD they scored in the Rose Bowl against PSU.
The first half was pretty underwhelming, thanks in large part to Seattle's D and/or the Patriot's offensive struggles. I feel like I should be happy for Darnold given his history in the league but I can't shake the image of him and the gum-chewing a-hole Pete Carroll celebrating like Ric Flair every TD they scored in the Rose Bowl against PSU.
And half of those people just kept the tv on and not really watching. lol.
I was neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed with it. It was ok, better than some (Hello Black Eyed Peas) and nowhere close to others (Prince).
The collective mind losing over it was just lame and laughable.
And yes Martin can still sing and has aged really, really well.
I thought the entire Super Bowl was pretty boring but then I thought the Pats and Maye were overrated Both the Broncos and or Bills would have been more interesting.
I think that is the direction it's headed.
As for older bands. I would be more than ok with U2....OMG I cant believe I just called U2 an older band.
I couldn’t agree more on last paragraph. Feel like other teams being unhealthy (Bo Nix, Bills defense decimated, Ravens, Texans losing Nico Collins and their TE for Pats game) let Patriots in by default. Bills always seem to choke, but Patriots were not best team in AFC in my estimation. Healthiest and Vrabel is a damn good coach too.
I thought the the game and the halftime show were on the boring side. The commercials and movie trailers were kind of lame.
I wanted to see Green Day but I was out hiking and didn't get back until the game was about 5 min. in.
Green Day may have been the best part of the whole thing . The flyover as well.
Ricky Martin has aged really well.
Living in Las Cruces, NM I am immersed in several cultures. It's really pretty cool, food, music, spirituality its all represented.
If someone purposefully kills a bunch of people in ritualistic fashion, and without an exculpatory reason, is it an "attack" to call them a "serial killer"? If someone keeps getting pulled over for going 40 mph over the speed limit, is is an "attack" to call them a "speeder"?
She must REALLY love "country music," to the point where, if someone recorded nails screeching on a chalkboard combined with the cries of a puppy being ritualistically sacrificed and labeled it "country music," she'd be line-dancing to it.
I laugh at people who are triggered by a football halftime show. I'd never heard of Bad Bunny before the announcement was made that he'd be performing. It didn't matter to me because it just a friggin' halftime show. My guess is many of the people who are mad had never heard of him either because it's not a genre they're into. But the mothership told them to be outraged and they can't disobey the mothership.
Yeah...the game itself was a DUD. At halftime I was thinking has a kicker ever won the MVP???
Belichek’s girl trolling Kraft with a t shirt from the day spa where he got the happy endings!
I've always disliked these over the hill rockers looking the fool 30 years later. I am a dyed in the wool classic rock fan, but no matter how great they were, whether The Stones or Aerosmith, these performances always kind of suck. The NFL knows full well if it makes their known audience queasy, it's certainly not going to reel in new viewers. For me, The Eagles are legendary, but I probably wouldn't even watch it. The NFL really can't win with that.I think that is the direction it's headed.
As for older bands. I would be more than ok with U2....OMG I cant believe I just called U2 an older band.
And totally redeem yourself...Belichek’s girl trolling Kraft with a t shirt from the day spa where he got the happy endings!
Then I hear people are ripping Billy Joe for NOT being political enough and not ripping POTUS and ICE - you can't win no matter what these days.
For some reason I feel compelled to post this quote from Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne: “The universe doesn’t exist to make you happy.”
The left side of the Pats' line was playing injured ... they were out for awhile and they were completely different/limited when they did come back. Maye's shoulder was a problem in the playoffs, even before it was "known."
I don't think relative health was the great difference maker here.
Son1 was at that rose bowl and told me he’s rooting for Darnold cause he has Stockholm