Alright so here it is, everyone who is anyone knows that the Super Bowl is the largest event in not just the sporting world, but maybe the entire entertainment community. Whether you are a devoted football fan, Tom Brady fanatic, avid finger food and cheap beer enthusiast or just one of the, "I just watch it for the commercials," types. Odds are, you will still be gathering around the television with your friends to watch the Super Bowl when it comes around on Feb. 7.
It goes without saying that football is America's pastime, but it is unheralded how great television ratings are projected to peak for this year's game. The 2016 Super Bowl marks the 50th anniversary of the event, and every auspicious sentimentalist will be taking notice of who performs at halftime for such a special occasion. Ever since the NFL began headlining the big game with big name performers in 1990, ratings have skyrocketed. In 1990, Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw and Irma Thomas performed during the halftime show, and despite that most millennials have never heard of any of these names the broadcast still reeled in 73.85 million viewers. That was an astounding turnout simply to watch the 49ers blowout the Broncos 55-10.
But since halftime performances have increased in popularity TV ratings have also escalated accordingly reaching outstanding heights with 114.4 million viewers in 2015. 114.4 million viewers is an astounding amount, more than the populations of Spain and Italy combined.
With that being said, fans have been patiently waiting since last year's Super Bowl for the announcement of who will be headlining the performance of Super Bowl 50. After copious weeks of patiently waiting the NFL finally announced that British pop-rock band Coldplay would be leading the halftime ceremony this February.
And sure it's hard for fans to be happy with anything other than another than a J.T. and Janet Jackson duet or striptease, but did the NFL really band together and decide with all of their millions of dollars they make every year to go out and get Coldplay?
If Coldplay is planning a collaboration with anyone other than the resurrected Tupac himself I'm afraid most Super Bowlers are going to have to prepare for a letdown this year. No I'm not a complete Coldplay hater, I'll reflect on my life to a rendition of "Clocks on the Radio" on a rainy day once or twice a week, but the chances of them pulling off an attention-grabbing, edge-of-the-your-seat performance, is about as likely as The Who making another comeback.
So what can fans look forward to instead? Without a doubt, their performance should be aesthetically pleasing. Most Coldplay concerts put on quite the artistic show...
And after Katy Perry coming out on 50-foot lion last year, if Coldplay arrives on anything other than a herd of live unicorns stampeding through a field of Tom Brady's deflated footballs this year will probably be let down. It looks like America's only real hope for Super Bowl 50 is the return of the left shark.
