Hmmm, no boob accidents this year?
Super Bowl halftime show:
Is it my imagination or has Tom Petty gotten a lot better looking in the past 20 years? Like a LOT better. It’s hard to see because the mic is right in front of his mouth but he has got a really nice smile. Maybe he got braces since the last time I really remember seeing him, which was probably MTV in about 1989.
On a related note, who are all these kids in the audience and how on earth did they afford Super Bowl tickets? Is the halftime show somewhere else, I mean, not in the same place as the game? Yah I know that’s pretty ignorant to not know where the halftime show is, or if it’s in the same stadium. I don’t give a flying hoot about football and haven’t watched a game since 1975. But anyway where are these kids getting ticket money? They can’t all have rich daddies, can they?
February 7th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Nope, no tickets, nor were they there to watch the game. Super Bowl organizers got a bunch of local kids together & brought them in as ‘extras’, probably just for the offer of a possible half-second TV appearance. They got ferried into the stadium onto the field right after the stage was set up, and back off and out after the halftime show was over. The general criteria for the gig: young, enthusiastic, attractive, and (ideally) knowing enough of Tom Petty’s repertoire that they might be seen singing along.
OK, that’s based on secondhand knowledge from a different Super Bowl. But the people that put these things together prefer to leave little to chance. They’d set the final score in advance if they thought they could get away with it …
February 8th, 2008 at 7:59 am
A ha, thanks! That makes a lot more sense than all those people having Super Bowl tickets. I had seen them all running down to the stage too and wondered (if they were regular spectators) “What kind of nutty security is this that people can just storm the stage?!” Their being hired extras definitely explains things!