Turning Point USA is having a patriotic alternate halftime show

John Brunner said:
When I hear "Bad Bunny," I think of ice cream recalls. I've not watched NFL in a long time (way before the kneelers), but I like college ball. I find it interesting(?) that one huge topic of conversation surrounding the game is the commercials. Consumerism consumes our lives.
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This is totally on the NFL leadership, I read they want to go worldwide with their sports, aka NWO.
Only way to stop this is for Americans to stop going to games or supporting their sponsors.
Seems we are on fast forward to the NWO.
 
Mary Robi said:
It was a great game, heavy on the defense, but in the end the Seahawks won. Go Seahawks! I was on the phone several times with my Seattle family, who were having a party. Wish I had been there....it sounded raucous.
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I spent most of my live outside of DC and have been to many Redskin games, including playoffs when they went to the Super Bowl. Those parties are always fun (and mandatory) when your home team is playing. Interestingly, I had a friend who was born & raised in Virginia, and she was a die-hard Seahawks fan. I never asked her why. She probably had Largent Fever :p
 
I just read that California has a Jock Tax. The state taxes non-resident professional athletes a percentage of their total annual salary based on the number of work days they spend in California. Per this terrible math, their quarterback received $178,000 for winning the Super Bowl but owes California an estimated $249,000 in income tax based on his total annual income...and he don't even live there.

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John Brunner said:
I just read that California has a Jock Tax. The state taxes non-resident professional athletes a percentage of their total annual salary based on the number of work days they spend in California. Per this terrible math, their quarterback received $178,000 for winning the Super Bowl but owes California an estimated $249,000 in income tax based on his total annual income...and he don't even live there.

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Stupid tax, but I have a hard time feeling bad for millionaire professional athletes. Maybe the NFL will have to pull out of CA.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Stupid tax, but I have a hard time feeling bad for millionaire professional athletes. Maybe the NFL will have to pull out of CA.
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I was thinking that if I owned a team, I would never have them play in such a state. Folks on another forum say that Washington state is in the process of passing similar legislation.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
I never watch football at all so I couldn't care less. My gripe is with the NFL and their "Forever Woke" bullshit. I think they should have high school marching bands at halftime instead of half-dressed rappers, but I guess I'm not their target audience.

For the past few years since The Kneeling my hubby has only watched college games, but this year he watched the NFL playoffs when it looked like the Texans might win. I don't know if he will watch the Superbowl or not, but I can say with certainty he will not watch "Bad Bunny."
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The kneeling should have been undone by the owners. They lost a lot of viewers and money after that and adding wokeness definitely did not help. Even Roseanne wasn't as bad. I don't think she was making fun of the game I think she knew her limits as a singer and was making fun of herself.
Put on more Clydesdales!
 
It looks like this is definitely taking a toll on the Super Bowl and its advertisers. Even though a lot of people watched the bad bunny halftime show, many of those people were not from the US, they were in Spanish speaking countries, and not the target market for the advertisers.

The main group of purchasers are apparently the millennials and the GenX people right now, and many of them didn’t watch the halftime show, and some didn’t even watch the game at all, because of the terrible halftime show.
On the other hand, most of the people watching the TPUSA show were Americans, and are people who will be buying products that were advertised .

So, this may well change what happens with the Super Bowl entertainment from now on. The advertisers were promised a certain level of people watching their ads, and it just didn’t happen, plus many people are boycotting those advertisers now, too; so they will still be losing money even though the show is over and done for the year.
This is going to reflect really poorly on the NFL people who set this up.
 
As usual, since the kneeling thing and especially when they started playing the new national anthem, I haven’t even thought of watching anything the NFL has to offer.

All that said, halftime was a lot better when the shows were some outstanding college and university bands doing their thing. Sadly, after about 1971 the bands partially gave way to celebrity bands and then later, absolute pandemonium including the occasional bra malfunction.
 
According to the statistics that I read, the BB halftime had about 40 mil live viewers, and the TPUSA had 20 mil, (which is actually pretty awesome for a first time event).
However, out of those 40 million viewers, many of the BB watchers were from other Spanish speaking countries, like Puerto Rico, Honduras, and elsewhere.
Most of those people will not be buying the products the advertisers are selling, so even though they watched the show, it didn’t help the advertisers much, if any.

The TPUSA show had mostly American viewers, and they were of the right age group that would be buying the products advertised at the Super Bowl, so it is quite likely they will have advertisers offering to place ads by next seasons game.

This is likely going to change how the Super Bowl works from now on, if alternate intermission shows can pull advertisers away from the NFL scheduled ones.
The NFL people are either going to have to cater to the people who the advertisers want to target, or lose viewers who don’t like the halftime performers.
 
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