Bengals-Rams: Running Super Bowl LVI thread

[BTExpress]

They thoroughly understood the ashignment. They white washed clashic rap/hip hop for the American mashes. They made the most artistically threatening aesthetic in 40 years a series of dioramas for children to gawk at. And they proved the ultimate genius of America, everyone can be bought and made to conform.

I kinda prefer my "artistic aesthetics" to be beautiful, not threatening.

I know at one time it went too far the other way (starving models, airbrushing out cute moles or dimples in the pursuit of perfection), but there really is a celebration of ugly in our society today. When did dystopia become cool?

I really don't need to walk into Target and see a cardboard image of a 290-pound woman in her underwear. But I did on Saturday.


YMMV.

 

[Batman]

All of the Boomers and Gen Xers watching last night's halftime show:

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Point of Order: I don't think any Boomers were rapping last night. That show was aimed directly at the heart of Gen Xers. They should roll out a Pearl Jam/Foo Fighters set next year.

 

[goalmouth]

""If the Super Bowl is the ultimate game, how come there is another one next year?"

-- Duane Thomas

 

[Guy_Incognito]

I wasn't following, and can't catch up, but I never remember watching a SB with the feeling that these are not the best teams as intensely as last night. Often you get it in one conference, but rarely both. After all of the great playoff games, this was a huge letdown. There must have been 5 teams watching and kicking themselves, correctly believing that they could have beaten either team.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

 

[Mngwa]

I wasn't following, and can't catch up, but I never remember watching a SB with the feeling that these are not the best teams as intensely as last night. Often you get it in one conference, but rarely both. After all of the great playoff games, this was a huge letdown. There must have been 5 teams watching and kicking themselves, correctly believing that they could have beaten either team.

But they didn't

 

[Brian J Walter]

Every single performer at the Super Bowl in the past 30 years has done it as a cash grab. FFS, the Stones took the money.

Um, probably not, considering they don't get any cash.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

But they didn't

Of course. It counts. Harsd stop.
But as a fan / viewer I felt not quite robbed, but very let down. And from the other side, the Rams make a terrible Cinderella.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

OK, that was in 1967. Why aren't jet packs available to the mashes yet?

 

[Deskgrunt50]

It would've only been a story if Snoop DIDN'T smoke weed before the snow.

It's amusing how much Millennials are rushing to claim this halftime show as their own. Sure, there's some overlap. But this was Gen X.

And as true Gen Xers, we collectively say "whatever" to the desperate Millennials and the Shaking Fist At Clouds Boomers.

We do seem to be the Overlooked Generation.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I wasn't following, and can't catch up, but I never remember watching a SB with the feeling that these are not the best teams as intensely as last night. Often you get it in one conference, but rarely both. After all of the great playoff games, this was a huge letdown. There must have been 5 teams watching and kicking themselves, correctly believing that they could have beaten either team.

The Bengals got there because Mahomes suddenly became terrible in the second half of the AFC game. The Rams got there because Todd Bowles called a most inadvisable blitz for the Bucs in the divisional round. Fortunes of war as they say. There were no great teams this season, so any Super Bowl pairing was bound to seem somewhat flawed. At their peak performance, IMO the Bills were the best team of the season. They also lost to the Jaguars.