Post by Grumpyoldman on Sept 20, 2013 21:13:24 GMT -5
Football fans have a message for the NFL: Forget the boring pop acts and take a risk with next year's show.
In the wake of the NFL’s announcement that pop star Bruno Mars will perform the Super Bowl 2014 half-time show, an online petition has been created demanding heavy metal costume band GWAR perform the 2015 show.
And it has more than 23,000 supporters after only a few days.
Never heard of GWAR? The heavy-metal group started in the 80s, peaked in the early 90s, and is probably best known for its elaborate science-fiction inspired costumes and its habit of spraying its audience with fake blood.
The petition received some attention from sports news radio earlier this week, resulting in a surge of signers. It's the brainchild of Kentucky video producer Jeff Cantrell, who addresses his request to NFL Senior Vice President Greg Aiello.
GWAR frontman Dave Brockie writes an often-raunchy football column for MetalSucks.com called "Necessary Roughness," a fact Cantrell argues should make the band a strong contender.
“We don't want another year of sitting around talking through a muted, boring NFL Super Bowl halftime show,” Cantrell writes. “We want something different. We want a real spectacle that only GWAR can provide.”
You know, our country is pretty fractured right now. Politics divide us. Sports teams cause us to root against one another.
But here is something, finally, that we can all get behind: A petition to have GWAR play the 2015 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
The Change.org petition currently has 18,000(!) signatures and the logic behind it is just about airtight.
Doesn’t the NFL want more viewers? Don’t advertisers want more people paying attention? This way everyone wins.
They’re right. Of course they’re right. How could they be wrong?
Sure, the NFL could have a proven pop act out there like Taylor Swift who would appeal to young viewers and reach a broad demographic. OR, and hear me out here, OR they could have a heavy metal band from Virginia comprised of people dressed up as hell-demons attempt to simultaneously melt every single person on earth’s face off.
In the wake of the NFL’s announcement that pop star Bruno Mars will perform the Super Bowl 2014 half-time show, an online petition has been created demanding heavy metal costume band GWAR perform the 2015 show.
And it has more than 23,000 supporters after only a few days.
Never heard of GWAR? The heavy-metal group started in the 80s, peaked in the early 90s, and is probably best known for its elaborate science-fiction inspired costumes and its habit of spraying its audience with fake blood.
The petition received some attention from sports news radio earlier this week, resulting in a surge of signers. It's the brainchild of Kentucky video producer Jeff Cantrell, who addresses his request to NFL Senior Vice President Greg Aiello.
GWAR frontman Dave Brockie writes an often-raunchy football column for MetalSucks.com called "Necessary Roughness," a fact Cantrell argues should make the band a strong contender.
“We don't want another year of sitting around talking through a muted, boring NFL Super Bowl halftime show,” Cantrell writes. “We want something different. We want a real spectacle that only GWAR can provide.”
You know, our country is pretty fractured right now. Politics divide us. Sports teams cause us to root against one another.
But here is something, finally, that we can all get behind: A petition to have GWAR play the 2015 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
The Change.org petition currently has 18,000(!) signatures and the logic behind it is just about airtight.
Doesn’t the NFL want more viewers? Don’t advertisers want more people paying attention? This way everyone wins.
They’re right. Of course they’re right. How could they be wrong?
Sure, the NFL could have a proven pop act out there like Taylor Swift who would appeal to young viewers and reach a broad demographic. OR, and hear me out here, OR they could have a heavy metal band from Virginia comprised of people dressed up as hell-demons attempt to simultaneously melt every single person on earth’s face off.
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