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A Brief Note In Support Of Making Weird Al The Next Super Bowl Halftime Show Star

by on February 5, 2012

After watching Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime show (okay, I peeked at it from the kitchen while washing out the chili pot), the proposal made by Julian Garcia of the New York Daily News in a column in Saturday’s paper seems to me even more appropriate:

We need a Weird Al Super Bowl halftime show. Seriously, this HAS to happen.

The Super Bowl halftime show needs a truly iconic personality to make it work, but it really works best when the icon’s still relevant. And who’s more relevant than Weird Al Yankovic? He continues to record successful music, he sells out his concerts, and it would be way more entertaining than most of the halftime shows we’ve seen in years. Plus, there’s a strong chance Cirque du Soleil wouldn’t show up, which would be a net plus.  And if Weird Al does it, that means another year we won’t get a return performance by the Black Eyed Peas, so, yeah.

Anyway, I have no idea how to make this a reality. Do we hashtag tweets with #weirdalforsuperbowlhalftime? Do we send politely-worded but passionate emails to the NFL? You guys could probably come up with a way.

Weird Al for Super Bowl Halftime. Like #sixseasonsandamovie, it’s an idea whose time has come.

 
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  2. Im all for it. On another note, how does he stay so youthful looking? I don’t think he has aged at all since “Eat It”

  3. Someone should start a facebook page for this, like they did for Betty White hosting Saturday Night Live.

  7. Don’t suggest starting a twitter campaign if you don’t mean it! If you tweet it, they will come!! #weirdalforsuperbowlhalftime

  8. This sounds great. I might even watch the game if I knew Al would be the half-time entertainment. Ok, I’d guess when the half-time show would start, and tune in then. haha!

  9. Ha, love it and might be the only way I’d watch the Super Bowl. Oh well, the only way I’d watch the Super Bowl half time show… I don’t think there’s anything that would make me watch the whole thing.

  12. To be realistic, the only way this happens is if FOX is showing the Super Bowl, because CBS is too traditional and NBC is too desperate for ratings to do anything risky. If FOX decided to do a comedy-centric show (perhaps putting Seth MacFarlane in charge) then the odds go up, and it would help even more if Weird Al had a show on FOX to promote (which is a great idea in of itself).

  13. Madonna almost falls down….the chubby black chick flips us all the bird. What a GREAT halftime show…NOT. Weird Al would be a different kind of show for sure. I am all for it.

  14. They were actually talking about Weird Al during the pregame show, so the time to act is definitely now.

  16. Al would crush this. Come on, how else are we ever gonna get someone to play polka accordion at the Super Bowl?

  17. I think this could work as a halftime show being shown on another network (Example: Puppybowl). Potential hosts could be Cartoon Network, MTV(?), Comedy Central. I would watch the crap out of this.

  18. Sure, Al would be great, but what the Super Bowl really needs is something to replace all the boring FOOTBALL.

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