The traditional pre-Super Bowl press conference for musicians performing at the halftime show was canceled last Tuesday by the NFL, which stated that "the artists will let their show do the talking."
During last night's halftime show Maroon 5 played three songs from their first album, which became a hit in 2003, while Big Boi sang "The Way You Move," also a hit that year.
And oh, what a year it was!
L.A. Rams quarterback Jared Goff turned nine years old, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was on his way to winning his second Super Bowl, and no one outside of central California knew who future ex-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was, thereby allowing our nation's conscience to be clean—until we discovered that our nation's government had lied to us about its reasons for invading Iraq that year.
But all is forgiven, because bringing a foreign country to its knees is still less offensive to many Americans than taking a knee to protest police officers who bring black men to their knees with physical force or even bullets.
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