Football, A Streaker, And Peek-A-Boob

I spent almost the entire first half of the Super Bowl on the phone with one of my best friends. Like many others, I expected the game to be a long boring one and for the first twenty seven minutes it lived up to expectations. It wasn't until the last three minutes of the first half that it actually got exciting with points actually being scored.

I didn't bother watching the halftime show. Super Bowl halftime shows, contrary to what planners think, suck. It doesn't matter who they get to perform or how many performers they have, it's only entertaining to middle America, not that there is anything wrong with middle Americans. The finale of this year's halftime show had a bonus - a boobie.

Janet Jackson was the featured performer of the show and for the finale she was wearing a black leather gladiator outfit that looks like it was rejected from the Matrix. Justin Timberlake was performing a duet with her and they were singing his horrible "Dance With Me" song. Right when he utters the words about being naked by the end of the song he rips off the covering off her right breast. The cameras cut away from showing her breast but it was all over the Internet for the world to see. Her nipple had a metallic sun covering it.

CBS, MTV(who organized the halftime show), and Justin himself were all apologizing for what happened. A lot of people called CBS immediately following the stunt in order to complain. Timberlake issued this apology, "I am sorry that anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance of the Super Bowl. It was not intentional and is regrettable." What a crock. Drudgereport.com was nice enough to have an enlarged photo of the offending breast, which I saved for journalistic research purposes, and humorously named it jjteet1. They also had an animated .gif of the costume ripping incident so the world could see for themselves what happened.

This was a publicity stunt. I don't know what kind of wardrobe failure can take place when the covering for the breast wasn't sewn on, it was held in place by snaps. If Timberlake was going to apologize, he should have simply apologized and not chalked it up to wardrobe failure. Jackson has not made any comment of the incident as of the time of this posting.

The FCC is now going to start an investigation into what happened and will quite possibly be issuing costly fines. The potential smoking gun is that Jackson's choreographer promised some shocking moments in the routine. So, it's quite possible that MTV knew what was going to happen.

As if the jjteet debacle was not enough, before the second half could begin, a man dressed as a referee took the field and ripped off his clothing. It was none other than the famous Liverpudlian Streaker working his magic again. The cameras wouldn't show what was happening. They showed some graphics on the screen of the score and the announcers had only a few comments without actually saying there was a streaker on the field. What you could see was a bunch of people suddenly converge on one spot, which in fact was the streaker being tackled and arrested.

The Super Bowl actually turned out to be a good one. Not for the varying degrees of nudity, but for the football action itself. The lead in the fourth quarter was a see-saw affair and the winner of the game was unclear. However, the Patriots kicked the winning field goal with a handful of seconds left to seal the deal just like they had only two years before. What a game, indeed.