It got way too hot at the big game
By Staff
Leada DeVaney, Editor
I may be one of the few people in the United States to admit this, but I really don't care too much for the Super Bowl. As much as I love college football, it seems odd that I wouldn't appreciate the professional variety of the sport.
But I don't.
In fact, I wouldn't have even paid any attention to last Sunday's game if Greg hadn't mentioned it while we were at dinner that evening. I missed the first half but made it home just in time to see the halftime show. I was watching the show and reading the Sunday paper at the same time, not paying too much attention to the television, when I caught Janet Jackson out of the corner of my eye. She and Justin Timberlake were gyrating on the stage for all the world to see.
"Well, at least she's not Michael," I said to myself.
And then, just when I was ready to change the channel, Timberlake reached over and pulled the top part her blouse (if you can consider a top made of leather a blouse), exposing nothing more than a shiny silver sticker as a cover-up.
Well, now. There's something you don't see everyday, at least not on television. And yes, I did think it was odd and a bit much, though no more than the previous song that contained the words "it's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes." Not too sure what either had to do with football, but then again I prefer three choruses of "Sweet Home Alabama."
The announcers on the Super Bowl were dumbfounded by the whole performance, so much so that they really didn't have much to say. That wasn't the case the next day, when the incident was the talk of all the morning shows. Halftime organizers blamed the baring on a "costume malfunction," something that sounds as believable as "I did not have sex with that woman."
Still, you have to give someone the benefit of the doubt, even if they are Michael Jackson's sister.
After all, it's fairly common to be walking down the street and the top portion of your leather bustier just fall off, exposing your sequined pasty, isn't it? That happens all the time, right?
You certainly can't hold someone responsible for an accident that they had no control over, such as your shirt flying off on national television. This obviously was a malfunction of some sort, not a planned act or deliberate attempt to spice things up.
Or, maybe, just maybe, Janet Jackson was getting a jump up on things and performing a public service, so to speak. After all, her flashing occurred just one day before Groundhog Day. Maybe she was thinking she would flash us and see a shadow.
I wonder if we'll have six more weeks of winter.
