Giants Win The Super Bowl And M.I.A. Flips The Bird

Watercooler

By Nads | Sunday, February 5, 2012 | 8:56 pm | 31 Comments
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Hey Gasmii! In case you missed it, The Giants won the Super Bowl 21-17! It was an amazing game…well so I hear from football fans. To me it’s all “sports ball” and I just go for the festivities, wings and beers…

I did however put my beer down to watch the halftime show. It was pretty great, except for Madonna’s new song. First of all…Gwen Stefani called and wants her cheerleaders back, and second, what’s with her new song? Is she paying an homage to herself? It was a great performance in all, but not gonna lie–the cheerleaders cheering for Madonna was weird for me. At least Gwen cheered for sh*t being bananas.

Oh and to top off the show, I don’t know if you caught it in your feed, but M.I.A. flipped the bird. Why does the halftime show always have to be so dramatic?

 

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

31 Comments

  1. 1
    BellicoseBaby
    Posted February 5, 2012 at 9:24 pm

    Was that why there was the momentary blur-out? It happened during the pompom routine when Madonna was on the floor with her legs in the air. I thought perhaps her dress slid up (or down, I guess) and the censors blurred it out for that reason. Anyone?

  2. 2
    Nads
    Posted February 5, 2012 at 9:28 pm

    yes! some people got it in their feed…but most got the blur-out. pretty sure it was when madonna was on the floor.

  3. 3
    BellicoseBaby
    Posted February 5, 2012 at 9:36 pm

    AH, thanks, Nads! Funny story: I said to my grade school aged son, “That’s Madonna! Doesn’t she look great? She’s 50 years old or even older.” And he says, “She looks 23.” I tell him she does look young but that they are not really showing close-ups of her face. At the break, the commercial for The Voice comes on – you know the one where the judges are trying to find who is singing in the shower. When Betty White finally emerges, my son says “Is that Madonna?”

  4. 4
    Nads
    Posted February 5, 2012 at 10:07 pm

    omg!!!! that is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!! I am dying!!!! So cute, and so priceless.

  5. 5
    snowshoecat snowshoecat
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 4:39 am

    Nailed it Nads! And yup. Priceless stawrie!!!!!

    “Is she paying an homage to herself?” Madge? C’mon. No ego there.

  6. 6
    Nads
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 8:11 am

    Maybe MIA was flipping off Madonna. Hahahha

  7. 7
    NotWithoutMyTV notwithoutmytv
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 8:32 am

    Oh, great. Now we’ll have to hear about M.I.A.’s stupid ass–and the perils of broadcast obscenity–for the next 5 years. I’d love to slap her just for that.

  8. 8
    Elmstreet
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 8:38 am

    I watched the half-time show on 38 TVs, six of them HiDef (I work at a sports bar) and I totally didn’t catch that.

    Madonna’s show was a great homage to herself … and it didn’t belong at a Superbowl Halftime. Next year, can we get Bruce Springsteen again? The Rolling Stones? Queen featuring a resurrected Freddie Mercury?

  9. 9
    LAC LAC
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 8:54 am

    After that hot mess of a show with the Black Eye Peas last year, this was a welcome blast. Granted, it is all about Madonna and her yoga moves, but it was good. I think I missed M.I.A.’s middle finger contribution, but that might have been what was taken out of the feed. Didn’t get the cheerleader song, but whatevssss…

    GIANTS WIN!! SUCK IT, NEW ENGLAND!!!! Boom goes the dynamite! :)

    Seriously, a great game and Eli Manning in the 4th quarter should be made into an action adventure movie. It is that good!

  10. 10
    Classy Drunk classy drunk
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 8:55 am

    So basically I have been singing Lucky Star all week for nothing?

  11. 11
    BellicoseBaby
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 8:59 am

    She was paging homage to herself! But that’s what you get with Madonna. Her energy seemed kind of low, too, but I think that’s because she was in danger of falling off her shoes.

  12. 12
    CattyFan cattyfan
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 9:18 am

    Madonna’s new song sounds a lot like a bunch of other songs mashed together…like the “Gimme all your love” line sounds amazingly similar to the Dandy Warhols “Bohemian Like You.”

    My husband and I watched part of the half time disaster. He asked if it was him, or did eeveryone really appear to be dancing in slow motion. And some of it (not all) was obviously lipsynched.

    Is this really the bast the NFL can book?

  13. 13
    Val
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 9:18 am

    There we go again..a middle finger malfunction!

  14. 14
    snowshoecat snowshoecat
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 9:22 am

    Elmstreet said it all– Homage to Madge and her ego. And the lineup for future halftime shows was spot on!

  15. 15
    NotWithoutMyTV notwithoutmytv
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 9:27 am

    @LAC: I live in Boston (I’m a transplant), and I’m totally getting off to a obscene degree at the degree of angst the people all around me are displaying today. You’d think they played in the Super Bowl, or owned the team, or were married to a player and had already spent the money, or had EVER TOUCHED A FOOTBALL THEMSELVES the way they carry on whenever the Patriots lose.

    Fans bring it on themselves. I enjoy watching it.

  16. 16
    NotWithoutMyTV notwithoutmytv
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 9:32 am

    @Cattyfan: I think the NFL targets totally different audiences for a) the game and b) the half-time show. I’m pretty sure they know the people watching for the game are not going to watch the halftime show, but the people watching the Superbowl largely for the commercials and the spectacle will keep eyes on the screen for some kind of buzz-worthy pop act.

  17. 17
    Deja Johnson
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 9:43 am

    Haters gonna hate. We wanted a show and Madonna gave us one. The lip-syncing couldn’t even make me tear my eyes from the screen. I may be in the minority, but I loved it.

  18. 18
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 10:06 am

    @NWMTV…AMEN! Today is the best day of the year so far!

  19. 19
    LAC LAC
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 10:12 am

    Notwithout, you know how petty I am? I was listening to WEII on my computer this morning, laughing my ass off at the angst. You are right, you think folks had given birth to Tom Brady’s child and he left them for a supermodel with the level of betrayal and sobbing on the radio.

    I am sorry, but I loved the dancing, the lights and all that jazz. I also loved Paul McCartney and the Stones in the previous years. I don’t enjoy it when folks try to go above their fighting weight, i.e. the Black Eye Peas. Madonna gave us a Madonna show with no breasticles or invisi-panties…I am happy and relieved. :)

  20. 20
    Hypnotoad Hypnotoad
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 10:20 am

    She sang “Like a Prayer” live, which was awesome. And hell, I’d freaking lip-synch too if I were doing a half time show. It’s more about the spectacle than anything else. (Sometimes. They seem to like to rotate pop artists and singer/songwriters.)

    I don’t think we’re in the minority, Deja — the consensus around the internet(s) is that Madonna kicked some half time show ass. I’m a good 20 years younger than Madonna and if I tried to do any of the dance moves she did I’d probably end up pooping my pants. It was a helluva great show. And I didn’t like her new single at first (didn’t stop me from pre-ordering, though!) but it’s totally growing on me. It’s pretty damn catchy. Madonna forever!

  21. 21
    Deja Johnson
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 10:34 am

    @Hypno The new single is growing on me as well.

    I am a Madonna FAN. I don’t think ppl have to like her but I defend her when I have to. The woman is an icon and deserves at least a tint of respect. I like Lady Gaga’s music but tell her to call me when her career spans 30 years. But Madonna has always polarized people so its no surprise that its happening now.

    When Like A Prayer started, I nearly DIED. That was such a great visual. If she did Hung Up, I might have pooped my pants. Best halftime show in a while (along with Bruce Springsteen, Prince and Aerosmith). Love her or hate her but you can’t deny that woman has a real presence onstage. LOVE MADONNA!

  22. 22
    Mister_Dangerous
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 10:46 am

    I’m with Hypno on this. Madonna is SuperFab. I watched it again this morning TWICE on my computer.

  23. 23
    NotWithoutMyTV notwithoutmytv
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 11:01 am

    I didn’t see it. Did she sing her old hits straight, or “re-imagine” them? I’m old skool 80s… I just like to hear them the way they were.

  24. 24
    CattyFan cattyfan
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 11:06 am

    I, too, have been transplanted to Boston. And yes, the weeping and gnashing of teeth is weirdly fascinating. It isn’t like our household. When we grieved for our Packers’ loss, we did so as team owners. (yeah…we bought stock.)

  25. 25
    Danielle
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 11:22 am

    LOVED the half-time show!!! If anyone can put on an entertaining show, it’s Madonna. I thought she had a ridiculous amount of energy! It was awesome to see her perform Vogue. :-)

  26. 26
    caligal
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 11:27 am

    LOVED Madonna. She never disappoints and I squealed like a middle schooler when Vogue and Like a Prayer started. :)

  27. 27
    Xouille Xouille
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 11:44 am

    I have now watched the halftime show on Youtube and all I want is a giant char and three batallions of hot muscled men dressed as roman soldiers to drag it wherever I want to go. Well thank you Madonna !

    And at least MIA didn’t show a nipple. God knows we don’t want a reedition of the nipple gate of 2004.

    Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to buy a VW because Darth Vader, and his pack of dogs barking the imperial march, told me so.

  28. 28
    wcsdancer
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    I seem to be in the minority, but I was completely underwhelmed by the halftime show. Yes, it was big, opulent and visually stunning. Madonna is in fabulous shape for any age. No surprise that she lipsynched it. I’m with cattyfan’s husband, though, the dancing – especially Madonna’s – looked like it was in slow motion. She looked very wooden and by the numbers. She executed the choreography, but she didn’t *dance* – no musicality whatsoever.

    @notwithoutmytv, ita! Blah, blah, blah OMG WHAT ABOUT THE CHIRREN???

    Loved “The Voice” commercial with Betty White!

  29. 29
    Classy Drunk classy drunk
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 1:13 pm

    FYI, Madonna was nursing a hamstring injury which would probably definitely explain why she was moving so gingerly.

  30. 30
    NotWithoutMyTV notwithoutmytv
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    Well, when I was a dancer for Madonna’s crew, I got a tendon injury. And I pushed through it, baby. Just like Madonna. You gotta be willing to bleed for your art, yo.

  31. 31
    Jazzy
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 6:52 pm

    Ok, as a native Bostonian I gotta defend my peeps. New Englanders LOVE their sports and to be SO close to a title and miss out is heartbreaking. You have to remember how embarrassingly bad the Patriots used to be to understand the love now. Not to mention what the Sox put us through before finally winning in ’04.
    I lived in Wash DC in the early 90s and the obsession over the Redskins was like nothing I’ve ever seen in Boston. We aren’t the only city that loves its sports teams!
    Oh yeah, I once went to a Jets home game, and it made a Pats game look like a friggin’ tea party. Those fans were friggin’ nuts!

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