Halftime show still generates complaints...

[TheHappyBurgerMeister]

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/3382388

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FOXSports.com
Posted: 5 hours ago
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Last year, Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" resulted in more than 500,000 complaints to the Federal Communications Commission.


This year, Paul McCartney's halftime performance resulted in just two ... by viewers who found the show to be far less titillating than last year's.

According to a report on Eonline.com, FCC spokeswoman Rosemary Kimball said both complaints were by viewers who were "bored" by McCartney's 12-minute set, during he which he sang Beatles and Wings classics.

Critics seemed to agree. Daily Variety called the show "damage control for last year's Janet Jackson incident," although the Variety did say, "Sir Paul delivered."

Other halftime watchers noted that while the Jackson fiasco sent the NFL scrambling, the league apparently had no issues with McCartney singing "Get Back," complete with its references to "California grass" and cross-dressing.

According to the report, even when complaints about the commercials were factored into the equation, the FCC still had just 33 to sort through Monday. GoDaddy.com's ad, which featured a buxom model testifying before a Salem panel in a clear send-up of the Jackson incident, prompted eight, more than any other commercial. Five viewers were moved to register their displeasure with Cialis and the "four-hour erection" warning.

And three were still so riled up about last year's halftime show, they felt compelled to complain about Jackson again, just for good measure.

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Hey, I have a good idea! How about we just completely cancel all the halftime shows from now on and just have everyone look at an empty football field the whole time! Maybe no one would complain then! *rolls eyes*

note the sarcasm.

Man, I still can't believe people are acting like this.

[TJL]

The controversial GoDaddy.com ad was supposed to air a second time, but FOX pulled the ad at the insistance of the NFL.

[The Modfather]

I hate all people like that. There a waste of skin.

[AllIWantIsYourClutch]

The four-hour erection warning...That one gets me every time.

[dawsongirl]

Too boring? Gawd...go stuff your face with pizza or something. Losers.

It's supposed to be about the football game anyway, not the sideshow.

Though I have had enough of the Cialis/Viagra commercials, I'm not gonna complain to the FCC. What am I gonna say? "These commercials just emphasised the fact that the male race of human beings is doomed by caveman mentality, a fact I've known all my life."

[Mr. Television]

I didn't even watch the halftime show.

[spunkygirl]

Too boring? Geesh what more do they freaking want?

[Cactus Jack]

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

I didn't even watch the halftime show.

[MissZero]

ya can never win I din't have a problem with Paul McCarteny's performance at all

[Mr. Television]

Originally Posted by "Weird" Jack Wilso-vic

At halftime I came onto SO. Its more entertaining. LOL

[David]

I don't really listen to Paul McCartney and his music, but I must say I was impressed.

[x3 Taylor x3]

Pretty soon their not even going to have a halftime show. Seriously, you can do anything without people bitching.

[spunkygirl]

Maybe Paul should have played "naked" like he said he was going too

[TJL]

Originally Posted by x3 Taylor x3

Pretty soon their not even going to have a halftime show. Seriously, you can do anything without people bitching.

Funny you should mention it, Richard Huff of the NY Daily News posted an interesting article today:


Super-size halftimes have to go

Sunday's Super Bowl proved one thing for certain - it's time to stop the overblown halftime shows.
That's right. Let's do away with a bogus halftime show altogether.

It's a total waste of airtime, hype and, no doubt, millions of dollars. It's a bigger waste of the viewers' time.

This is no knock on Paul McCartney. He did exactly what he was supposed to do Sunday, which was to entertain those in the stands for 12 minutes and make sure no one at home saw something better kept in the bedroom.

Yet, as my colleague David Bianculli pointed out, the halftime show was dull - and he's a Beatles fan.

Why is it that we can live without a halftime show the rest of the season, but must have one during the Super Bowl? Obviously, part of it is to keep viewers tuned in to watch more of those pricey commercials.

But that's not a good enough reason anymore.

Thanks to Janet Jackson and her wardrobe "malfunction," halftime shows are going to be boring for the foreseeable future. Even so, it's hard for viewers to pull away. We're trained to fear missing that one moment everyone will talk about tomorrow.

As it is, we are hard-pressed to move away during the actual game in case we don't see the commercial that will become the next-day's watercooler talk. Lord help the second-class citizen who can't discuss the monkeys-in-the-office spot on Monday morning.

So it's time for the networks airing the Super Bowl to do something for us for a change. I know, it's a crazy thought for viewers to be factored into a programming decision. But let's try it.

Free us, the viewers, albeit for a short time, from our couches. Let us rest, just like the players do at halftime.

Why not take a page from the Academy Awards playbook? The producers of that show got rid of the interpretive dance segment, and while dancers balked, viewers thanked them.

Next year, rather than springing for some music star to sing at the Super Bowl, let the analysts yammer on about great and not-so-great plays. We've learned over time that much of what they say can be ignored, so we viewers can move about our homes freely without fear of missing something important.

We'll be back when the third quarter starts, refreshed, reenergized, ready to watch fresh commercials and happy not having to explain to an 11-year-old who Paul McCartney is.

[*Pleasant Tomorrow*]

Amy TOLD him he should've ripped his dong out.