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Why can't the nfl pick half time entertainment that appeals to the larger majority of their fan base?

For quite a few years the NFL has been narrow-casting to what they imagine their audience will be in the near future. I can't remember the last time the Super Bowl halftime performer was someone who interested me.

     You guys know that was me, right? Ben Dayho is one of my proudest creations. I got the name "Isidro" because that was the name of my yard guy way back when I still lived in the People's Republic.

LOL.  Yeah, I remember you and I had some conversations about ol' DT back in the day.

I still can't figure out how you've pulled off what you have.  I mean, you TOLD them.

 

KC

Same here! That was a fun trip down memory lane.

     You guys know that was me, right? Ben Dayho is one of my proudest creations. I got the name "Isidro" because that was the name of my yard guy way back when I still lived in the People's Republic.

SuzyandPuffpuff (463 posts)

9. Jfc

Reply to malaise (Original post)
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 04:26 PM

... and on and on and on it goes. So sick of this hatred. Young old black white male female hate hate hate ..needs to ****ing stop

Exp (845 posts)

19. What THE **** is WRONG with people ??!!!!

Somebody is dangerously - for hoplophic dogma - close to seeing that the problem is the trigger-pullers, not the guns.

Evolve Dammit (21,656 posts)

17. Old enough to remember we had ZERO. Columbine which was the first and a unique tragedy. Now it is the norm. Thanks NRA

So that 1960s mass shooting in Texas didn't happen? Nor the gang killings in the 1920s? To the degree there's an increase, it's in reporting and in reporting-with-agenda. BUT IRL, gun ownership has been widespread in the US since July 4, 1776, and in the colonies before that. And while there was no NRA back then, the NRA has been around much longer than I have, probably well over a century.

What has changed in the US is people. Increasingly: people reject or ignore the idea that there is a Being Who created them and to Whom they are answerable; people reject that there are moral absolutes; people see killing as OK if one can sufficiently dehumanize their target (blob of tissue, Hitlerian, racist, cis-______, patriarchy ... ). Whatever the RI shooter's dehumanizer, the problem was him, not his rationalization nor a mixed hunk of steel, polymer, lead, and brass.

BeneteauBum (370 posts)

28. Trump derangement syndrome

Reply to Exp (Reply #19)
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 06:48 PM

Peace

I ASSume this was supposed to be scarcasm, but IRL, the Trump Administration is backing efforts to keep male-posers out of girls'/women's sports. So I won't say that cannot be correct.

In early 2020, Dorgan went to the North Providence Police Department and reported he had recently undergone gender-reassignment surgery and that his father-in-law wanted him out of their North Providence home because of it.

-snip-

Around the same time, Dorgan’s then-wife Rhonda Dorgan filed for divorce. Under grounds for divorce, Rhonda initially wrote, “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits.” Those reasons were then crossed out and replaced with “irreconcilable differences which have caused the immediate breakdown of the marriage.”

He was married but had a dickectomy and thought he was a woman? Gee, I wonder why wifey was less than supportive.

He was living with his inlaw(s)? Not exactly stable and provident.

Rhonda wrote the full truth when filing for divorce. I wonder whether some PC-bureaucrat made the "correction" or a bureaucrat "persuaded" her to make the correction.

yellow dahlia (5,313 posts)

31. This is tragic.

Reply to malaise (Original post)
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 10:40 PM

Apparently the father had well known mental health issues, and strife with his family.

And somehow - he was allowed to have guns.

Intentionally accurate? Or slipped up?

Chuuku Davis (606 posts)

37. She

Reply to yellow dahlia (Reply #31)
Tue Feb 17, 2026, 12:53 AM

Is trans.

True-Believer asserts Prog Orthodoxy - kneel, kulak!

If Swede really cared about understanding BB's lyrics, translations are easily found with a search engine ... and Swede would quickly understand why those "songs" could not have been done in English on US broadcast TV.

As for the the "songs" being Spanish-only, the pop-rock music of my youth included Spanish-lyric songs, so that is not a big deal to me. It was the NFL flipping off normal Americans - including Spanish-speaking Americans - and narrow-casting to a small segment of their potential audience that had me not watching the halftime show. With nearly 10 million people changing channels or turning off their TV instead of watching BB, I know I'm not alone in that.