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    I felt the same way ... what ever happened to marching bands?  I used
    to love watching the different formations.

   re: 338.0 <RANGER::MAYNARD>

   >It featured Patti Labelle...

       The outfit, the song, the dance moves...they should have pick Tina
   Turner for that part!

   :-)
   Tony

  These things are always the pits.

  The time Michael Jackson did the show it wasn't quite as bad but it's usually
pretty awful.

  And the game wasn't much better although the Chargers did give the gamblers
a scare when they threatened to score near the end which would have resulted
in the 49'ers not covering the 19 point spread.

  Highlight was the Bud commercial

  BUD ...
  BUD ... SER ...
  BUD ... SER ... ... WEIS

  George

    
    best part of the entire thing were the toads.
    
    49 to whatever..spells boring as usual.
    
    And the halftime show, what a turkey. nauseating.
    
    Like some 70's disco nightmare.Pure crap.
    
    
    

> This was undoubtedly the WORST halftime presentation I have ever seen!
> It featured Patti Labelle and Tony Bennett and and a storyline called
> "Indiana Jones and the Mysterious Eye."

	the theme was based on the fact that Disney[land] is opening
	a new ride with the Indiana Jones theme .....

    I really didn't watch the Superbowl but kept checking in to see
    the score - unfortunately, one of the times I checked in I
    caught the halftime show - it was pretty bad and that costume
    Patti was wearing was awful - I would have been so embarrased.
    You would think by now she could tell what looked good on her
    and what DIDN'T.  I agree with the previous noter - Tina Turner
    would have been better.
    
    Mo
     

    I have to agree - the halftime show was the worst.  Bring back the
    marching bands!
    
    Can you imagine what people thought, who aren't familiar with the
    Indiana Jones movies? A half-time show that was basically a brawl, with
    badly dressed people and lots of smoke. What an embarrassment! And a
    bet most people missed that it was a plug for a new Disney attraction.
    
    I thought Kathi Lee Gifford did a nice job with the national anthem.
    
    So - considering how much companies pay to advertise during the
    superbowl - what commercials do you remember (and like)?
    
    My votes - the frogs (budweiser) is definately the best. 
    
    	Pepsi had several I remember.... the guy trying to get his money
    accepted by the soda machine, the little kid at the beach sucking on his
    straw to get the last of the soda out of the bottle and sucking himself
    into the bottle, the Coke/Pepsi drivers in a diner.
    
    	The Rolled-Gold Pretzel commercial with the guy from Seinfield
    chasing the dog through the airport onto the plane with Lloyd Bridges
    and having to parachute out was only ok, until the ending where he
    lands in the Superbowl stadium. I've seen that commercial since then
    and it has a different ending. 
    
    	Other commercials - McDonalds, Lincoln, Dodge, Bud and bud-lite. 
    
    How do companies measure if they got their monies worth?
    
    janetb.

> Can you imagine what people thought, who aren't familiar with the
> Indiana Jones movies?

	I would haphazard a guess however that most people have seen
	at least one Indiana Jones movie.  And my guess is sports
	fans are more likely to be action-adventure fans than a
	non-sports fan.

    
    do you think that Geroge (rolled gold) really laned in the superbowl?
    or do you think it was just made to look like he landed there?  
    Wasn't the game in progress when he 'landed' ??
    
    Lou

RE         <<< Note 338.9 by PCBUOA::LPIERCE "Do the watermelon crawl" >>>

>    do you think that Geroge (rolled gold) really laned in the superbowl?
>    or do you think it was just made to look like he landed there?  
>    Wasn't the game in progress when he 'landed' ??
    
  It was during a time out. Had the game been going on we wouldn't have been
watching commercials. 

  But no I don't think anyone landed at that time and I doubt it was that actor
that actually did the jump. But the way they did it made it look very real. 

  It appears that what they did was to film the commercial at one point, tape
someone jumping into a stadium with something of a crowd at a 2nd point, tape
what's his name (George Castanza) walking off the field and a 3rd point, then
they had Al Michaels record the "guy just landed on the field" message. 

  During the time out they ran the commercial then they played the tape with a
guy landing, the actor walking off the field, and Al Michaels saying a guy just
landed. That made it look like they were coming back from a commercial and that
the guy who landed was really the actor but it was just the tape trick. 

  When they really came back a minute later, there was no sign of anyone having
landed and no discussion of the event so I doubt it really happened. 

  George 

          

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Not only did Jason Alexander not land on the field during the real game, but
Kathie Lee Gifford was lip-syncing the National Anthem!  I also think Tony
Bennett was lip-syncing but others disagree.

If only all this advertising money and athlete salaries were used to pay
teachers...

adam

    Why not take the money it took to put that piece-of-we-all-know-what of
    a half time show together and donate it to some worthy cause!  I mean
    there's really need to look at the ugliest woman on earth (La Belle) in
    the most ridiculous get up ever made (even if it was worn by T Turner)
    and listen to lip-synched, un-music.
    
    I shudder to think what the producers of this Half Time Heffer think
    the average American's IQ is.
    
    MJ

	I'm gald to hear that you thought the half-time show was less than
	entertaining. Overhere in the UK, I had to stay up to around 1am
	to witness that rubbish - my first thought was "And Americans
	think this is good?!?!". Put me off the second half.

	Paul.

  I don't really understand the half time show. I've never met anyone who
liked watching it on TV.

  I suspect it's designed to look appealing from the stands but it looks
stupid on the small screen. But that doesn't make a lot of sense, why design
a show for such a small audience (relative to the TV audience) when every
seat is guaranteed to be sold anyway?

  Since so many VIP's attend, the NFL may well be doing it for political
reasons. 

  George

    .8 who hasn't seen an Indiana Jones ... and watch the superbowl?
    	my folks, my sister, a good portion of other family members. Though
    most of my friends would recognize it. I would guess there are more
    than you/half-time producers think. Even having seen the Indy movies,
    this stunk as a half-time show.
    
    re: Rolled Gold commericial  
    	It seemed to me that the stadium behind George when he "landed" had
    very few people in it, so I would guess that it was filmed sometime
    prior to the game. But, given the look on Jason Alexander's face, he
    might have done the jump.
    
    .11  - I'm still smiling over your opinion!!
    
    Lip-syncing - is it possible that the songs weren't lip-synced, but
    that the acoustics in the stadium threw off the timing between the
    lips-moving and when we heard the sound? 
    
    And I like the idea of taking the money normally spent on crummy
    half-times, with megabuck stars and using that money for charity!
    Anyone have ideas of who we could write to suggest this? Bring back
    marching bands! At least the people in the stadium could also enjoy
    halftime then, rather than being in-undated with smoke and the backside
    of props!
    
    Thought of another commercial - Cuomo (NY) and Richards (Tx) having to
    get used to the "new" changes and then eating the Doritos chips out of
    the new style bag.
    
    janetb.

    re: .15
    
    �  I don't really understand the half time show. I've never met anyone who
    �liked watching it on TV.
    
    If you mean halftime shows in general, I agree with you.  I usually
    don't like them in person.  In the early '70s, every band in every
    halftime show played "Spinning Wheel".  It almost made me give up
    football.
    
    The Super Bowl Halftime Show was put on by Disney to tout its new
    Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland, as well as the 40th anniversary of
    Disneyland.  I'm sure they paid the NFL a lot of money for that right.
    
    �  I suspect it's designed to look appealing from the stands but it looks
    �stupid on the small screen. 
    
    It was similar to the type of production number that Disney produces in
    its theme parks, and they are very successful.  However, the music is
    generally better than they had for this show (IMO).
    
    Also, the ad they did after the game with Jerry Rice and Steve Young
    was supposed to be for Disneyland.  But Steve Young appeared to screw 
    up and said he was going to Disney World, er, Disneyland or somewhere.  
    
    --Jay
    
    

> The Super Bowl Halftime Show was put on by Disney to tout its new
> Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland, .....

	also reported in .5 :-)

> I'm sure they paid the NFL a lot of money for that right.

	i read/heard somewhere that Disney didn't pay any money for
	that right.  supposedly the NFL and Disney are in bed together
	somehow .....

    re: Young/Rice ad
    
    They are *supposed* to appear to be arguing about which park they are
    going to (Disneyworld/Disneyland). It's supposed to be humourous (I
    think)
    
    Dennis Faust
    

    Since when is halftime a thirty minute commercial?!?!?!
    
    Let Disneyland buy a sixty-second spot like everyone else and give
    halftime back to the kids across the country who practice on their
    clarinets for years to have a moment like a Superbowl halftime moment. 
    We all know what and where Disneyland is.  We all love it, we'll all go
    once or twice in our lifetime.  So LEAVE IT ALONE!!!!!
                                             

    Disney didn't pay the NFL -- quite the reverse.  The NFL's position is 
    that Disney shows always get good response; the TV ratings don't drop
    during halftime.

    Ratings, shmatings!
    
    They may not have paid cash, but they paid *something* believe me.  TV
    gives nothing away for nothing!  And it's an ad for Disney wether cash
    was used or not.  That's like saying that a sound bite of the latest 
    pop hit on the internet isn't advertising.

    >Ratings, shmatings!
    
    Well, you'd never make it in the TV biz, I can see.
    
    The NFL paid Disney at least six figures for the show.  The NFL was
    buying Disney's track record.  That's not something for nothing.

    Besides also thinking the half-time show was half-a****, I thought I'd
    pass along some Kathy Lee info.  She says she was actually singing it,
    but TV viewers heard a tape--the reason was so we wouldn't hear the 
    background noise, etc.
    
    If nothing else, this entry will make my wife happy...
    
    							Don

    
    They did the same thing to Whitney Houston x number of years ago.
    She was singing, but we heard a tape. 
    
    Patty