Excited About the Super Bowl?

As excited, say, as Prince appeared to be during the Super Bowl halftime show in '07, when he performed his screaming guitar solo behind a large fabric screen?



On Super Sunday, let's take a moment to appreciate one of the coolest statements ever made on such a grand stage. If Prince had done this out of the blue it would have been no big deal or might have seemed a rock-star indulgence. But as a comment on "Nipplegate," the overblown kerfuffle over Janet Jackson's boob flash in '04, it was genius--in your face but just abstract enough that nobody could complain about it without coming across as a freak themselves. The point being that Janet's boob, so small and fleeting until fixated on with the perverse perseverance peculiar to our appointed moral guardians, was also in our minds. That's rock 'n roll.



So, we've had Janet's boob and Prince's peepee. Will tonight bring Super Body Part III? I will say this: if the Boss comes out in assless chaps, I am so never watching the Super Bowl again.