Thursday, February 7, 2008

Superbowl thoughts and random flashing


yeah, it's a little late in the week to be talking about the Superbowl, but I thought I would share my thoughts. :)

Well, I think it was pretty obvious that when Jordan Sparks sang the National anthem it was pre-recorded. My first tip off was hearing that the recording was available on iTunes before the Superbowl even started. (watch out!) The other tip off was my impeccable skills of reading lips. Well, they're not that great, but working in a place where every Sunday I stare at a video looking for lip sync has helped. But anyway... moving on.

What I did not expect was my suspicions that the Halftime show with Tom Petty was also pre-recorded. When it came halftime and the announcers started their "Halftime Report" in the back ground, I kept hearing music. At first I thought it was just music being played in the stadium. But then, I happed to recognize "Free Falling" which happens to be a Tom Petty song. Hmm... why would they be playing a Tom Petty song before he comes out and sings it? And then the next song I recognized was a Petty song too! Soon the music died away and the announcers finished their report and then "the concert" began that included "Free Falling". Weird.... is it possible because of the Justin Timberlake/Janet Jackson fiasco, that they have begun to pre-record the halftime show so that they can censor any potential random act of flashing?
Sorry, I couldn't find any YouTube videos to prove my point - but it happened, my friend! Believe you me! (what exactly does that mean, by the way? sounds like tarzan talk to me...)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i'll have to look a little closer at my dvd next time i get it back. yeah.. i'm a geek who happened to make a dvd of the national anthem, the commercials, the halftime show and the play of the game.

not sure about jordan's lip-syncing, although i heard the same thing. but you're probably right about the halftime show.. it could have been recorded live, but delayed just enough to censor any random acts of stupidity. i can't imagine a wardrobe malfunction with petty (oh, my eyes...) but maybe they thought he'd drop the eff bomb or something...

BW said...

Hahaha, "Tarzan Talk?" Awesome!