Feb 042012
Here are a few of mine. Please add your own, and we can compare notes during the broadcast.
- 5: Over/under on number of references on broadcast to National Anthem singer Kelly Clarkson’s start on American Idol
- 2: Over/under on number of references by broadcasters to Clarkson’s “pipes”
- Even money: Someone in your living room will compare Clarkson to a linebacker
- Who is more likely to be seen in the crowd: Steven Tyler rooting on his hometown team or Kurt Warner’s wife?
- 3: Over/under on number of references on broadcast to Madonna and “wardrobe malfunction”
- 2: Over/under on number of references you and your friends will make involving Madonna and “tight end”
- 5-1 odds: Male dancers dressed as Tom Brady and Eli Manning will join Madonna in a “threesome”
- 10-1 odds: Cee Lo Green will do the bump with Madonna
- 100-1 odds: Madonna will break into a Beatles song as Cirque du Soleil does their thing on stage
- 1000-1 odds: Indiana boy John Mellencamp will sniff on Monday that a real heartland rock ‘n roll band should have been the halftime act
- 10,000,000: Over/under on number of “WTF!?!?!” moments that will take place in households across American when LMFAO joins Madonna on stage.
Take the under on “pipes”. That’s a term we have more fun saying than sports broadcasters. They only use that term on the hockey rink.
The line on Clarkson as a linebacker has moved. It’s now even money she’s compared to a D lineman.
Celebrity crowd sighting: skip Tyler and Warner. Take Rob Lowe. He’s been getting a lot of chatter as a big Indy fan who somehow has the inside scoop on Peyton’s next move.
I think the broadcasters will be more reserved in their evaluation of Madonna and simply point out what great “shape” she is in for a woman of a certain age.
2-1 that someone will do a salsa dance during halftime indicating their support of the Giants.
Hasn’t the NFL added a big pre-game concert to the show? I remember that Sheryl Crowe played a mini set before one of them. Anyone know who’s doing that?
It’s a lock that someone will “tebow” during the game, but will someone tebow during the halftime show?
The game is on NBC. Networks use the game to show their stars watching the game (being extra careful not to put the camera on them while they are disinterestedly scanning their i-phones). I’m going with a camera shot of NBC super-flop Whitney as one of the celebrity shots. 2nd choice is NBC savior Alec Baldwin.
Shall we keep track of the number of times the camera cuts to Mrs. Brady, Giselle Bundchen? Any guesses on whether she will be wearing Pats colors or a jersey?
2: Over/under on number of references you and your friends will make involving Madonna and “tight end”
Umm… shouldn’t that last part be “wide receiver”?
Madonna. . .hat/headgear…or no hat/headgear?
Jersey? Not flattering enough. No.
Pats colors? I’m going no on that too. Red and blue are two primary colors, and I don’t see Giselle wearing both simultaneously.
Number of camera hits is tricky. I think they go to family members only when something good happens for your team. No one wants to see a family member mouthing “Jesus Effing Christ, that call was bullshit!” Even in a thick German accent.
If the game is a back and forth affair, we probably get a decent number of looks at her and the Manning family.
I wonder how many references to the late Myra Kraft we get in childish quasi-religious terms of her “looking down from above.” Is her body in a sky box?
How about “backfield in motion”, like the 1969 Mel & Tim song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0AU5Mckb3Q
“Backfield in motion, yeah,
I’m gonna have to penalize you
Backfield in motion, baby,
You know that’s against the rules.”
Good stuff, so far. I see a lot of action on whether or not there will be a halftime show Tebow.
With the Oscars right around the corner, can we get a crowd shot of Oscar-nominated Rooney Mara, from the NFL-sanctioned Mara-Rooney clan?
I never think of Madonna as a hat wearer, although maybe she comes out in a football uniform with the shoulder pads worn atop the jersey, of course.
I say the Bundchen shots will top 6.
Mach Schau!
If headgear includes the wrap-around burger king microphone thing, then it’s a lock. She is certainly wearing that.
Mics don’t count in my book. I’m talking about some kind of thing on her head that is more than a microphone — I just heard on the radio you actually get action on that in Vegas.
While we are waiting for the game — this may have been posted earlier in sports-related video threads, but I’d never seen it.
Hole “Be A Man” from the Any Given Sunday Soundtrack.
http://youtu.be/N65xY5cavAs
Courtney literally gets down and dirty with players.
Here is a power pop song called Love Receiver by the late Phil Seymour who was in the Dwight Twilley Band.
http://youtu.be/VxsrpJFyzIU
SPYGATE 2: Belicheck plants hidden cameras in Madonna’s dressing room!
Headgear!
Big time — no replay needed on that one.
Robed choir. Renown on the cross?
Damn — should’ve called the World Peace ending!
Polyphonic Spree.
Autocorrect spoiled my joke: Tebow on the cross.
Chickenfrank wanted meta world peace, or whatever Ron Artest goes by now.
Beauty!