| February 4th, 2006 10:35 AM |
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| FPM C10 |
The Observer, February 3, 2006
The student newspaper of Case Western Reserve University.
Volume XXXVIII, Issue 15
NFL Guru: Rolling Stones are no improvement for Super Bowl halftime
Andrew Schechtman-Rook, NFL Guru
#3: Worst halftime show. Ever.
The halftime entertainment at the Super Bowl hasn't just been going downhill, it's in free-fall. Back in the good old days, you could expect to see floats, marching bands, helmet cars, jetpacks, and even the occasional hot-air balloon crash. But no, now we live in the MTV era, and we get 'treated' to musical events such as the onstage combination of Britney Spears, N'SYNC, and Aerosmith. I'm sorry, but the halftime show used to have something to do with football, not just trotting out a random band to perform.
This year that lucky group is the Rolling Stones, who are so old they may need to bring IVs up on stage with them. The only possible reason I can see for this choice is that the networks, still reeling from the wardrobe malfunction fallout, decided to put on rockers from an older, more modest generation. Expect to see hundreds of teenagers on the field during halftime concert, no doubt being paid to pretend to like the Stones.
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Spring Arbor students help get Stones rolling
Saturday, February 04, 2006
By Aaron Foley
[email protected] -- 768-4944
About 300 people will build a stage in five minutes in the middle of a football field Sunday for millions to see, or the show can't go on.
Among the frenzy will be two Spring Arbor University students. They are part of the army of Super Bowl XL stage crew volunteers building the set for the Rolling Stones' halftime performance at Ford Field in Detroit.
"We both love football," said Harry Gibbs, a sophomore studying communications and a native of Amsterdam, N.Y. "The reason we're doing this is to be around the atmosphere."
Gibbs and Jackson native Josh Olson, a sophomore studying business, responded to an e-mail sent out in December by Super Bowl XL officials seeking volunteers. The next day, they were notified they were on the team.
The stage is divided into 28 sections, with groups of 10 to 12 working on each section. For the past two weeks, the volunteers have been practicing building the stage for Sunday night at both Ford Field and the Pontiac Silverdome.
Before the five-minute mark, a goal set by team leaders, volunteers must push out their designated sections and quickly assemble them before the Stones take the stage. Gibbs and Olson are on the fourth section, right up front.
"It's all about precision,"
Olson said. "It's a lot of pressure before Sunday."
Gibbs, Olson and the other volunteers were treated to two Stones rehearsals Thursday and Friday nights.
"We got to listen to them practice for about an hour,"
Olson said.
As an added bonus, they also get front-row seats during the actual performance. They can't say which songs the Stones will perform, but expect a flashy 12-minute set with lots of fireworks, lights and pyrotechnics.
"It'll be the (songs) everyone recognizes," Olson said.
Seeing Mick Jagger and the rest of the Stones perform up-close was exciting, Gibbs and Olson said.
"He doesn't look his age," Gibbs said of the 62-year-old Jagger. "He's kind of funny when he's spinning around on the floor and trying to look like a young guy."
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Bob Garfield Wrong About 'Rolling Stones' Half Time Show
While we've been in the ad biz since before Loyd Dobler held that radio over his head in Say Anything, we don't pretend to have the knowledge or insight Ad Age Editor Hoag Levins or black-turtlenecked Ad Age Man-At-Large Bob Garfield possess, except, perhaps when it comes to Garfield's commentary on why the Rolling Stones are bad choice as a Half Time Super Bowl act. Calling the Stones "114 year olds" who have "been around since the early Jurassic period," Garfield can't seem to understand why the Stones are still relevant cavalierly claiming they "have one foot in the grave," their appearance in the Super Bowl is a "last surrender to commercialism" and they're on their way to "Hollywood Squares." Calling them a "commercialized pop act," Garfield is so out of touch with culture, he, in perhaps an apparent attempt to appear hip, can't seem to grasp that fact the Stones still are "hip."
In discussing the rampantly proliferating advertising orgasm that surrounds the Super Bowl and just about everything else in our society, Garfield can't grasp that this is both a very smart thing for the Stones to do from, yes, their own self-promotional perspective but also for the fans watching the game who, for once in a long while, will be presented with actual music rather than the over produced blather we're so often shoveled during Half Time. Certainly not everyone loves the Stones and sure, there are people who, perhaps, have never heard of them, but, a lot more people like them and have heard of them then, say, whoever that collection of rappers where a few years ago.
Choosing the Rolling Stones for Super Bowl Half Time was a very smart decision for the NFL, ABC and fans the world over who will be watching the game, looking forward to seeing a bit less controversy and a lot more entertainment that Janet Jackson could ever deliver.
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Rolling Stones at Super Bowl a logistics challenge
By Steve Gorman
Reuters
Friday, February 3, 2006; 9:00 PM
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Before the Rolling Stones play at Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show, producers will have six minutes to roll out and assemble a gigantic stage, erect 27 tons of lights and herd a 3,000-person "studio" audience to the center of Detroit's Ford Field.
Those are just a few of the moving parts going into a 12-minute performance that each year ranks as one of the most highly watched moments on live U.S. television.
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| February 4th, 2006 10:52 AM |
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| Jumping Jack |
No such thing as bad publicity.
My prediction: STONES KICK ASS BIG TIME!!! |
| February 4th, 2006 10:57 AM |
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| glencar |
Many of the people "pretending" to be fans won't be teenagers but old folks in their 40's & 50's. Real fans from Shidobeee. |
| February 4th, 2006 11:03 AM |
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| chevysales |
quote:
glencar wrote:
Many of the people "pretending" to be fans won't be teenagers but old folks in their 40's & 50's. Real fans from Shidobeee.
well some of us "old" folks aren't from shidoobee.
although this fan reads and occasionally posts there.
or was this in reference to the stage crew/dancers? if so still...
more UC and rocksoff for this fan. |
| February 4th, 2006 11:05 AM |
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| J.J.Flash |
Reading these things make me sick..... |
| February 4th, 2006 11:07 AM |
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| Back Street Girl |
Shidoobee say's
1. Start Me Up
2. Rough Justice
3. Jumpin Jack Flash
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| February 4th, 2006 11:09 AM |
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| glencar |
But there's a passel of Shidobeeeees who are actually going to be on the field doing something. I don't read UC but I get SFJ & post here & Maxy's & Shidobeee. |
| February 4th, 2006 01:24 PM |
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| Gazza |
quote:
Back Street Girl wrote:
Shidoobee say's
1. Start Me Up
2. Rough Justice
3. Jumpin Jack Flash
also confirmed by a poster on IORR who was at the dress rehearsal
and Aretha was NOT with the Stones on "Jumpin Jack Flash"
[Edited by Gazza] |
| February 4th, 2006 02:48 PM |
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| Some Guy |
No such thing as bad publicity.
My prediction: STEELERS KICK ASS BIG TIME!!!
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| February 4th, 2006 02:56 PM |
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| sirmoonie |
quote:
FPM C10 wrote:
The Observer, February 3, 2006
The student newspaper of Case Western Reserve University.
Volume XXXVIII, Issue 15
NFL Guru: Rolling Stones are no improvement for Super Bowl halftime
Andrew Schechtman-Rook, NFL Guru
#3: Worst halftime show. Ever.
This year that lucky group is the Rolling Stones, who are so old they may need to bring IVs up on stage with them. The only possible reason I can see for this choice is that the networks, still reeling from the wardrobe malfunction fallout, decided to put on rockers from an older, more modest generation. Expect to see hundreds of teenagers on the field during halftime concert, no doubt being paid to pretend to like the Stones.
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Jesus, what a chump. And that attempted IV to old age relation is like Billen's "rocket surgery". |
| February 4th, 2006 03:37 PM |
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| Paranoid_Android |
quote:
Back Street Girl wrote:
Shidoobee say's
1. Start Me Up
2. Rough Justice
3. Jumpin Jack Flash
Was this REALLY a spoiler?!? |
| February 4th, 2006 05:05 PM |
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| maumau |
more like a teaser 
anyway i don't buy it
since they decided to keep it secret they sure have some false info to leak out |
| February 4th, 2006 06:12 PM |
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| Joey |
quote:
Paranoid_Android wrote:
Was this REALLY a spoiler?!?
As long as they don't play " Rain Fall Down " everything is copacetic .
JJJJJJJJJJJACKY !
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| February 4th, 2006 06:24 PM |
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| Moonisup |
this will be the same lowpoint as with Justin T |
| February 4th, 2006 06:27 PM |
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| NHStonesfan |
Back Street Girl wrote:
Shidoobee say's
1. Start Me Up
2. Rough Justice
3. Jumpin Jack Flash
1 and 2 are disapointing |
| February 4th, 2006 07:20 PM |
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| maumau |
3 is tisapointing
the whole this is
the whole thing is a bust
i am a bust
the world is a bust
bust is bust
bust is tisapointing |
| February 4th, 2006 07:24 PM |
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| maumau |
bust me up
bust of burden
disappointing jack flash (it's a bust bust bust)
that should fit
what you think? |
| February 4th, 2006 07:48 PM |
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| NHStonesfan |
Since they have to go the warhouse/BB route
My pick
1. The Honky Tonk/Get Off My Cloud combo (not medley) like Love Ya Live
2. On no not you again without the 2 fucks
3. Tumblin Dice, JJ Flash or Brown Sugar |
| February 4th, 2006 08:46 PM |
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| Gazza |
The same guy who posted the info on IORR is now saying the 3rd song was "Satisfaction", not "Jumpin Jack Flash"
amazing that someone who is lucky enough to get access to see a dress rehearsal from five feet away doesnt know the difference....  |
| February 4th, 2006 09:42 PM |
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| sirmoonie |
quote:
Gazza wrote:
The same guy who posted the info on IORR is now saying the 3rd song was "Satisfaction", not "Jumpin Jack Flash"
amazing that someone who is lucky enough to get access to see a dress rehearsal from five feet away doesnt know the difference....
Hey Gazza - Steelers and Stones! It just doesn't get any better. |
| February 5th, 2006 04:22 AM |
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| Brainbell Jangler |
Send your comments to Andrew Schechtman-Rook of the Case Western Reserve University Observer:
[email protected] |
| February 5th, 2006 08:46 AM |
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| crb69 |
It'll be either:
Start Me Up, Rough Justice, Satisfaction (w/ Stevie Wonder). Or a 12 minute version of Rambler. Or Rain Fall Down, Ain't Too Proud To Beg, Satisfaction with Motown singers...or maybe Let's Spend some time together, Star Star and Oh No Not You silly c*%t Again! LOL
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| February 5th, 2006 08:48 AM |
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| crb69 |
quote:
sirmoonie wrote:
Hey Gazza - Steelers and Stones! It just doesn't get any better.
Ain't that the truth!...Tonight will be the most entertaining evening on American TV this decade! |
| February 5th, 2006 09:07 AM |
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| Angiegirl |
quote:
crb69 wrote:
Ain't that the truth!...Tonight will be the most entertaining evening on American TV this decade!
Wow. Really?
I mean, really? |
| February 5th, 2006 09:46 AM |
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| FPM C10 |
quote:
Angiegirl wrote:
Wow. Really?
I mean, really?
Sadly, yes.
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| February 5th, 2006 09:56 AM |
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| Angiegirl |
Believe me, the quality of Dutch TV sucks just as hard as anywhere. |
| February 5th, 2006 09:58 AM |
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| lotsajizz |
yeah--but you Europeans get some flesh on TV....not in the USA
we freak out at a pastied covered tit
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| February 5th, 2006 10:03 AM |
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| Angiegirl |
quote:
lotsajizz wrote:
yeah--but you Europeans get some flesh on TV....not in the USA
we freak out at a pastied covered tit
True.
But seeing naked women twist around getting men to call the sex lines every night on every commercial channel gets really boring when you're just flipping channels to find something decent, like a Seinfeld rererererun. |
| February 5th, 2006 10:14 AM |
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| chevysales |
quote:
glencar wrote:
But there's a passel of Shidobeeeees who are actually going to be on the field doing something. I don't read UC but I get SFJ & post here & Maxy's & Shidobeee.
yea i have been following their thread about it.
i stopped skippy's sfj after watching the "misadventures" had on uc.
each site has their own identity thats for sure. |
| February 5th, 2006 10:14 AM |
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| chevysales |
quote:
Gazza wrote:
The same guy who posted the info on IORR is now saying the 3rd song was "Satisfaction", not "Jumpin Jack Flash"
amazing that someone who is lucky enough to get access to see a dress rehearsal from five feet away doesnt know the difference....
gazza funny stuff there  |
