Professional athletics is a field where - if you want to play - you have got to have game! No one at this level is mediocre. No one. And when, after the long slog of the season, we finally get to the championship - the Finals, World Series, Super Bowl - the players and their level of play can cannot be improved. These guys are good.
Then why does the music played at halftime suck?
The acts who perform around the games are seldom very good. They are made even shabbier through comparison with the athletes. Yet we are asked to greet the spectacle of the popstar and "the show" with enthusiasm. These interludes are even advertised and promoted as reasons to watch the game!
Get musicians who play at the same level as the athletes and then I'll pay attention.
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The occasion for this minor rant was the inexplicable presence of Lisa Marie Presley voguing during halftime of the first game of the NBA Finals on Wednesday night. This woman walks this earth blessed with a whole lotta the genes of the King. How is it possible that she has absolutely no rebop? Worse, though, was the simple fact that - from a purely aesthetic perspective - she's not fit to be on the same court with the ball players.