Bryan W. Alaspa 1When sports and entertainment collide
February 8th 2010 14:42
Well another Super Bowl has come and gone. The game itself, this year, turned out to be a pretty good one. I was, quite literally, rooting for both teams. Whichever team had the ball, I was cheering. I couldn’t help it. I like Peyton Manning and the Colts, quite a bit, but the story of the Saints was just too good to pass up. I mean, the city and the hurricane, and the whole thing about the team being bad for so long, just hits you right in the heart. So, I was happy no matter who won and I am glad the Saints pulled off the upset.
The Super Bowl is an interesting thing. It is the one time where sports and entertainment collide head on, unabashedly. We all know, all season long, that football is really just TV entertainment. However, we all try (those of us who are fans) to say that it is the competition between two teams, the strategies and the sportsmanship are the real reasons we watch. Sure, because we just HATE seeing big huge men in padding and helmets smash into each other with the force of battering rams. In the Super Bowl, with its pageantry and commercials and half-time show, the two collide and we just give in.
The game itself turned out to be classic entertainment. It was something right of “Hoosiers” with the underdog team coming back and beating the big, bad team. But the rest of the show was rather interesting and, at times, sad.
I noticed, on Twitter, that a lot of older folks were raving about the half-time show. I saw a lot of people in their mid to late 40s and mid to late 50s raving about how “The Who” rocks. Folks, let me start off by saying that we did NOT see The Who playing. We saw this group that should just call themselves Townsend and Daltry. Unless the two dead members are resurrected and playing bass and drums, we cannot call half of the original group The Who. If we do that, then every time Ringo and Paul McCartney are together we can consider that the long-awaited and anticipated Beatles reunion. I believe the two of them even played on stage recently, so we got that Beatles reunion and we can shut up about it.
I thought that the half-time show had a great light show, but Daltry and Townsend sounded off-key and poorly rehearsed. The cut-offs for the Greatest Hits medley were strange for some of the songs. All in all, it was two old guys singing and playing…poorly.
As for the commercials, well, I was not overly impressed there either. Sadly, I missed the early commercials as I was traveling from one spot to the other and missed the very beginning of the game. I missed the Doritos commercial people were raving about and I missed the Betty White Snickers commercial, too. A lot of people seemed to like the Google commercial and I thought it was OK. Yes, I remember it probably more than others this morning, but I still don’t know if it worked. Maybe because I have had a few long distance relationships and they NEVER work out, so the whole concept had me rolling my eyes and going, “Phhh…yeah, RIGHT!”
It was another celebration of commerce mixed with sports. It had music and lights, lasers and colliding. Ultimately, New Orleans showed that the real entertainment was right there on the field as the underdog came back and overcame the big guys. Not a bad way to spend an evening.
The Super Bowl is an interesting thing. It is the one time where sports and entertainment collide head on, unabashedly. We all know, all season long, that football is really just TV entertainment. However, we all try (those of us who are fans) to say that it is the competition between two teams, the strategies and the sportsmanship are the real reasons we watch. Sure, because we just HATE seeing big huge men in padding and helmets smash into each other with the force of battering rams. In the Super Bowl, with its pageantry and commercials and half-time show, the two collide and we just give in.
The game itself turned out to be classic entertainment. It was something right of “Hoosiers” with the underdog team coming back and beating the big, bad team. But the rest of the show was rather interesting and, at times, sad.
I noticed, on Twitter, that a lot of older folks were raving about the half-time show. I saw a lot of people in their mid to late 40s and mid to late 50s raving about how “The Who” rocks. Folks, let me start off by saying that we did NOT see The Who playing. We saw this group that should just call themselves Townsend and Daltry. Unless the two dead members are resurrected and playing bass and drums, we cannot call half of the original group The Who. If we do that, then every time Ringo and Paul McCartney are together we can consider that the long-awaited and anticipated Beatles reunion. I believe the two of them even played on stage recently, so we got that Beatles reunion and we can shut up about it.
I thought that the half-time show had a great light show, but Daltry and Townsend sounded off-key and poorly rehearsed. The cut-offs for the Greatest Hits medley were strange for some of the songs. All in all, it was two old guys singing and playing…poorly.
As for the commercials, well, I was not overly impressed there either. Sadly, I missed the early commercials as I was traveling from one spot to the other and missed the very beginning of the game. I missed the Doritos commercial people were raving about and I missed the Betty White Snickers commercial, too. A lot of people seemed to like the Google commercial and I thought it was OK. Yes, I remember it probably more than others this morning, but I still don’t know if it worked. Maybe because I have had a few long distance relationships and they NEVER work out, so the whole concept had me rolling my eyes and going, “Phhh…yeah, RIGHT!”
It was another celebration of commerce mixed with sports. It had music and lights, lasers and colliding. Ultimately, New Orleans showed that the real entertainment was right there on the field as the underdog came back and overcame the big guys. Not a bad way to spend an evening.
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