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Via Dave Weigel, Marc Hogan at Wondering Sound calls for a “Cultural End Zone Dance”:
The 2014 Super Bowl was the most watched in history, with an average 112.2 million viewers tuned in for the NFL season finale. But as the Seattle Seahawks trounced the Denver Broncos, each team could only have 11 players on the field at a time.
A proposed “Weird Al” Yankovic halftime show performance at American football’s main event would be a victory for that off-the-field 99.999 percent. And it would be a bracing celebration of cultural changes that have shrunk the distance between creative fans and the pop stars who once towered over them.
The idea of the accordion-wielding parodist following this year’s double bill of Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers at Super Bowl XLIX is unlikely, sure. But it could happen. As SPIN points out, a fan has filed a petition on Change.org asking the NFL to have Yankovic headline halftime at the 2015 Super Bowl, scheduled for February 1 in Glendale, Arizona…
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Apart from pop culture, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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