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Pearl Jam not "international enough" to play Superbowl? HUH?
was just watching Jim Rome and a guest on there talking about the Who playing said the superbowl and the NFL are gonna start going with big name bands and one of the other guys mentioned would the NFL get the same reaction if someone like PJ played as they would with the Who? and the other guy commented with they are known in the US but not internationally???? that has to be one of the most absurd things i have ever heard and funny at the same time...oh well thought i would share
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He's a comedian, on a sports show, talking about music.
Seriously, no reason to get riled up.
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oh im not riled just baffled at the ignorance of a statement thats all...comedian or not...i thought the comment was unintentionally funny
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Don't think it's really watched out side the US. Very little coverage in the UK although due to a couple of games being played in London the profile has raised a notch.
They play the odd game on digital tv here in Australia, but I wouldn't say it has a following. We've already got 4 codes of football over here proffessionally, I don't think there's much of a demand for a 5th
The NFL is not very international perhaps, but the superbowl is. I think internationally everyone watches it but even in the US, all walks of people living in the US watch that game, even hot chicks! Also someone hit on it earlier that they tend to pick older acts.
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I love the NFL.
I hope Pearl Jam NEVER plays the Super Bowl halftime show.
The show is sold-out beyond belief... the Springsteen set was just depressing as hell, and I freaking love Bruce. Changing lyrics to make them about football? Having people dressed as refs on stage? Making lame football puns? That set had so much cheese my arteries started clogging just watching it.
Please, for the love of all that is good in this world, keep Pearl Jam away from the halftime show. I'll burn my PJ memorabilia if I have to hear "Even flow, thoughts arrive like blitzing linebackers" or "If someone's offside, I wanna throw a little flag at him."
As for the Super Bowl's popularity - for all the TV hype about how it's the most-watched sporting event in the world... it isn't. On average, it's something like the 5th or 6th most watched sporting event in the world - the World Cup and the Olympics absolutely dwarf it in actual viewership (even Rugby World Cup has more viewers, if I remember right). The last numbers I saw had the World Cup viewership something like 5x more than the Super Bowl's - so it's not even close (and the World Cup final is closer to 10x more).
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Good one!
yeah and the songs are skrunk too, like 2-3 minutes if that, a whole verse gets dropped, no jams
I hope they don't consider it now, or 10 years down the road
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wow i was going to rip into you for being way wrong..... but it turns out your right, not about the rugby world cup i dont think, its on par with the champions league for viewing numbers
there's a real sport!
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i totallly hope one day the world gets to see pj play SB. the band deserves that respect.
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More seriously, a few months ago I never would have thought they would play a superbowl, but after seeing these http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-films-team-yearbook now I am not so sure. I'm not saying these videos are bad (go Colts!) or that it would be bad if they played the superbowl, I think the band has just become more open to things like this lately.
And they are DEFINITELY international enough.
i was listening to Mike Francessa (sp?) and he was stating how many press passes are given out during the Superbowl, and he mentioned how a lot of people from other countries watch the Superbowl to get a glimpse of that aspect of American culture...i don't know how right he is (i never know how right Mike is) but i thought it was interesting...
as far as PJ being international...come the fuck on...you foreigners practically starve to have them come play in your country...enough said
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You're right. It's the Who by a landslide, as far as being able to draw in a bigger audience, ANYWHERE in the world.
Eh ... U2 once made grand political statements too, and yet, they turned the corner in their career and eventually played the superbowl (quite well, I might add). They actually used their set for something pretty special.
With Backspacer, and the newer more radio friendly image this album brought, I think organizers and the band could make it work if each party wanted it. In other words going forward, I don't think the reason organizers won't chose PJ is because they are thought of as a risk.
All I ask is that we don't see Boom's tit come flying out in a 'wardrobe malfuntion'.
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
Superbowl is shown on American sattelite channels but it's arrogant in the extreme to think anyone outside the US who isn't a US citizen cares about it at all. We really don't.
I just read that last year's Super Bowl had a record 94 million viewers...the final game of the 2006 World Cup had 715 million viewers!
I think I might watch it just for that.
thank you. that is what I was trying to say too.
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