Ethertap: Is this even a football game? I've had the teevee on for 20+ minutes now and all I've seen are annoying commercials and a bad halftime show

This is why I reflexively auto-mute it as soon as it isn't a live play any more

ALL the shiat that comes WITH the football has gotten painfully bad in recent years

RepoManTSM: Iamos: Marbleisheavy: Hey Nurse!: I am old. She is lip-synching. I find that annoying. You may all continue to like what I don't.

Aren't most halftime performances lip synching?

Even Whitney Houston's national anthem was lip synced.

I think I knew that but it's still disappointing to hear.

They're all at least half lip synced. Have been for years now

NFL can't take the chance something naughty gets out on a live broadcast. The contract to do the show includes riders that you must provide a recording ahead of time that will be played o'er the top of the live show and you match that in the performance, so they can cover their ass

Its why some bands will not even plug in their guitars to do it, and why others (see: Metallica) never did any

knbber2: Missed the halftime show, anything good?

watching the trump puddle dry: Did anyone actually see what happened to von Miller

My twatter timeline is aflame with people screaming about the turf exploding his knee

Including OBJ