The STUPIDEST BROADCASTING DECISION in Super Bowl HISTORY

[@outlawrip-offartist4161]

If you’re going to bring in Bon Jovi for the Super Bowl, why wouldn’t you have Bon Jovi perform at halftime show so Bon Jovi can perform living on a prayer, you know the song with the lyrics were halfway there.

[@KWCline91]

Yeah! Have him sing that and It’s My Life at halftime.

[@mgb4692]

Or Everyday, which was on Madden 2003. Plus wouldn't you do that song with the guy *calling the game?*

[@francis1971]

@@mgb4692 They actually did play Everyday but the viewers on ABC only saw the first few seconds because they went to commercial.. However this video shows more of the song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4DGhJRrgJqZibM

[@captainnebulous2918]

Why have Bon Jovi at all? Butt rock and the worst hip hop artists in the country don't make me excited for football. Slayer would be perfect. But I'm happy to see this year they're bringing in some real rap and hip hop artists... instead of lowest common denominator bullshit

[@outlawrip-offartist4161]

@@captainnebulous2918 If I’m being honest I would pick Bon Jovi over Slayer to perform at Super Bowl, because let’s be honest here the Super Bowl is watch by billions of people, and Bon Jovi is a more popular band then Slayer, and also Bon Jovi is more suited to playing in a Stadium, and won’t swear, because remember the Super Bowl halftime show is also watched by children, and it’s on primetime, so for this situation you’re better off going with Bon Jovi.

[@holstorrsceadus1990]

Postgame concert? Don't even watch the halftime show. It's exactly 30 minutes and I've got my take a dump, smoke a blunt, refresh the food and bev routine down to the second. Mike McCarthy wishes he had my clock management skills.

[@jasonfischer8946]

Except for the blunt, that's my routine as well. I even run a load of laundry.

[@holstorrsceadus1990]

@@UNUSUALUSERNAME220 that's would certainly explain McCarthy's lack of ability to perceive time

[@oaktree1290]

The halftime show is now full of no name no talent crap.

[@seanlanglois8620]

Lamar Jackson

[@joshuakissner8102]

@@oaktree1290 no name? The halftime show this year is Eminem, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg, the Goats of rap

[@JJWestmoreland84]

When you said Bon Jovi played the same song before the opening game, I thought "Maybe those ratings were really good and they were thinking starting and ending the season with the same song was a nice way to bookend the season." When you added they also played it on Thanksgiving I thought "Yeah, I've got nothing...." 🤣

[@higgy04]

I know this is a football discussion but Bon Jovi also performed 'It's My Life' at the Closing Ceremonies of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics as well. That's FOUR TIMES they performed that song on national television in almost 12 MONTHS!! Do you think people were getting tired of that song being performed live on television?!?

[@cheap25]

Which one sucked the worst?

[@haywoodjablowme699]

No, people weren't getting tired of it. People are generally pretty thick. They don't want something new. They want the same thing... over and over and over again. Why do you think American Idol, The Voice, The Bachelor and The Masked Singer are all still on TV?

[@nachoalvarez7171]

​@@haywoodjablowme699to be fair, that depends on each country, here in Argentina we had The Voice for a while, it first aired in 2012, lasted 1 season, came back in 2018, lasted 1 season, came back again in 2021, lasted 2 seasons

[@rrrob19]

“It was like the NFL was trying to give us bad medicine…” I see what you did there.

[@JJWestmoreland84]

My man in the Curtis Martin jersey watching Bon Jovi is the closest the Jets have come to making the SuperBowl in the last 50 years 😭

[@Venom3254]

Shit, that season was the last time they won the AFC East and hosted a playoff game

[@jpmnky]

To be fair, in 2004 they upset the Chargers in the wild card (I think?) maybe divisional. And in 2009 upset the Patriots in the divisional. All I mean is that the 10-12 year streak between 1998-2009 was the greatest stretch they’ll have in 50+ years. What’s sad is that they seem to always come outta nowhere, get far into the AFC playoffs, then face plant for the next few years, then do it again.

[@JJWestmoreland84]

@S L but this Jets jersey was there! 🤣

[@Venom3254]

@@jpmnky It was the wildcard against the Chargers, it was 2010 against the Patriots. I'm just referring to hosting a playoff game.

[@kevinramsey417]

The NFL WAS trying to give us bad medicine. They really gave love a bad name.I was living on a prayer and feeling like I was wanted: dead or alive for a minute there, but it's my life and at least I had the comfort of knowing I was going to go out in a blaze of glory on a bed of roses in these arms but don't worry, Jag. I'll be there for you. Just keep the faith and don't runaway. Have a nice day.

[@CC-rb1yf]

Always

[@sirjer73]

Not a Bon Jovi outside of wanted dead or alive but that was done very nicely!!!

[@osu4mul8r]

Bon Jovi may have been better off just walking on stage and spiking the ball 🤷🏼

[@stevevernon1978]

would they have gotten a rating of 39?

[@John6-40]

2001: We responded to terrorist attacks with outpouring of patriotism. 2022: We'd sympathize with the terrorists and say we probably deserved it.

[@whathell6t]

*2022: Hey! It’s not our fault. We didn’t know that teaching these terrorists on flying jumbo jets against our commie enemies will someday use those lessons against us.

[@michaellee8816]

I know one person who enjoyed it - the end of the Buccs episode of "America's Game" has Gruden saying how much "My Life" (as he called it) is his favourite song and how much he loved it.....

[@MisledDan]

It just never ceases to amaze how the NFL constantly stumbles over itself in trying to deliver to fans all these things they never asked for.

[@joeylawn36111]

I usually skip watching the SB halftime show - Anyone else do the same?

[@joeylawn36111]

@@G50-o5w LOL - and teen girls whom most of the acts seem to be geared toward....

[@Staceyatkinson4496]

Yes

[@GoLions67]

Only when Celebrity Death Match was on!

[@fromthehaven94]

I definitely skipped the Adam Levine halftime.

[@notoriouseagle1074]

@@G50-o5w This halftime show will be good. Hip hop and football go well together and Snoop's a good ambassador for the sport. His youth football league is doing quite well.

[@vdubproductions2646]

Within a week and a half we went from broadcasting genius to broadcasting disaster for ABC as far as Super Bowl goes on this channel.

[@nasetvideos]

I remember this one so well..Fantastic lay out of this entire story. And you laid out the "correlation does not equate to causation" regarding the prior Super Bowl was excellent analysis, too".... Outstanding video--Great job

[@nasetvideos]

And I forgot that Bon Jovi did this song multiple times in the same season. What a decision--Absolutely made no sense...and best line of the video was "It's Bon Freakin Jovi"....finally, your statistics, graphs, and content on this video were awesome.

[@daBEAGLE1017]

@@nasetvideos having Bon Jovi play the same song multiple times is worse than the quarterback spiking the ball to the ground on every play imfao.

[@mrmoose6619]

Having Bon Jovi perform is worse than having the quarterback spike the ball on every single play.

[@nasetvideos]

@@daBEAGLE1017 Good one! Why didn't I think of that? :)

[@nasetvideos]

@@mrmoose6619 Good one! Why didn't I think of that? :)

[@jmanna66]

It's funny watching this because I follow Australian Rules Football. After their championship game; usually played the last Saturday in September, they have an After Party right in the stadium. They have rock bands come and play. It usually goes on without problems.

[@mustaffa1611]

Bon Jovi is horrible and only old single divorced women listen to them anymore. The gays don't even like them anymore.

[@DefendYoungstown]

Well, one, if it's always done and expected, it's going to work fairly well. If it's unexpectedly foisted upon what's left of the audience in attendance, and comes off as half-assed instead of a bonus worth watching, why bother? I don't even think they gave it much promotion to let folks know they were trying it beforehand. You hear about the halftime show well in advance. Just saying "stick around for Bon Jovi" day of isn't really what you'd call promotion.

[@jakubwidlarz]

That because the GF starts at 2:30

[@lightningmcseed7303]

Keyword: Saturday

[@daBEAGLE1017]

I prefer the puppy bowl during halftime.

[@luisreyes1963]

Me too. 🐕

[@tygrkhat4087]

Super Bowl XXVI was played before Fox had the NFL. They had a live episode of "In Living Color" that was timed perfectly with halftime. I don't even remember who played halftime of that Super Bowl.

[@daBEAGLE1017]

@@tygrkhat4087 i remember that. We must be old now.

[@markmac2206]

Lingerie Bowl used to be fun. back when we were allowed to have nice things.

[@marcus813]

I remember watching that Bon Jovi performance after my Bucs won. I thought it was a bit unusual for a concert to take place after the game. This situation was not thought out very well. Given the fallout, I understand why there hasn't been a postgame concert since then.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Yeah I'd say that the party doesn't stop after the Super Bowl wow they could just pick another singer. Pfft

[@marcus813]

@MY Opinion Channel You took that part of what I said completely out of context. It's not that deep, fam.

[@markmac2206]

@@marcus813 i say "my Bucs" all the time too. that clown probably dont know what loyalty is. takes everything literally and looks stupid.

[@littleblackduck3134]

There way a band called the Bay City Rollers they were the musical guests on Saturday Night Live (the one with Howard Cosell on ABC). The band had a song called Saturday Night, they performed it 3 times on that one show

[@agrayer7104]

As a raiders fan and a college student at the time I walked away early in the second half and then was pissed off doing my homework.

[@ZhangtheGreat]

While this was the bigger disaster, the NFL also thought it was a good idea that season to have halftime performances during the conference championship round. It took the first performance to realize this was a huge mistake: Ja Rule and Ashanti performed at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, but the crowd was so frustrated with how the game was going at the time (the Bucs were up 17-10 and outplaying the Eagles) that they showered boos on the two singers.

[@markmac2206]

50 Cent probably got the fans to do that.

[@braves4life25]

That’s just because it’s Philly

[@freeparking301]

As a native normally I would say yeah that’s how we roll but come on Ja Rule always sucked

[@Rockhound6165]

Meanwhile Philadelphia is still waiting for Bon Jovi to come through with the free concert he promised when the Soul won the AFL title.

[@luisreyes1963]

🤣🤣🤣

[@tygrkhat4087]

Bon Jovi has said he'll never do a show in Buffalo again, due to the abuse he took from Bills fans when he was with a group with ties to Toronto that wanted to buy the Bills after Ralph Wilson's death. Personally, whoop-de-frickin'-doo. He's Springsteen light at best.

[@Rockhound6165]

@@tygrkhat4087 not for nothing but he brought Philadelphia it's first championship since the Stars won the USFL title in 1984.

[@Phan211]

Dude that Bad Medicine joke was perfect. I lost it.

[@antoinestroman3431]

I stumbled across your channel a few weeks ago, already one of my favs. Excellent content! Keep up the good work!

[@gabrielmontoya1407]

LOL your level of concern rising through this was great! nice rant!

[@Sephiroth766]

Shania Twain, No Doubt, and Sting were the halftime show. If you're gonna have Bon Jovi there, just have them do the half time show, maybe have Sting do a collab with them which would have been cool.

[@heinzbucksandcastle2053]

The networks have lost their minds on scheduling. NHL hockey playoffs start at 8:30 in my market, which means I have to stay up until nearly midnight to finish the game and I have 5 hours to sleep. Not worth it, so I miss half the game and it always pisses me off, but I care less each and every year. They are just so stupid.

[@coachkj62]

Gruden liked it. Love your work. The passion in your voice on this one had me cracking up.

[@MillionaireWizard]

At least it wasn't like the dumpster fire that was the Genesis Halftime Show.

[@GoLions67]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ThatFanBoyGuy]

Thank you for covering for this. I thought I had imagined this because I never hear anybody talk about it.

[@RandomBattler]

Maybe they were hoping to make "It's My Life" a kind of theme song for the NFL and wanted to play it once more like the ending credits for a show.

[@msarzo]

Excellent job of laying out the reasons this didn't work. I'm a diehard Stevie Nicks fan. She's often been asked to sing the same songs over and over again (typically "Landslide" or "Rhiannon" from Fleetwood Mac or "Stand Back" or "Edge Of Seventeen" from her solo career). The saving grace for her is that she varies the performance often enough where it's slightly different each time. That said, asking her to do the same song over and over again is enough to bore her diehard fans, never mind the casuals or the non-fans who actually know that she sang the same track previously. I agree with you: If the NFL had chosen a different act and a different song (or even Bon Jovi singing a different song from "It's My Life"), it might have worked. Singing the same song on three different nationally-televised you-get-non-football-audience occasions doesn't work so well. It was definitely worse than Rich Gannon's passer rating in the game itself.

[@dannys3476]

Was Gannon's performance worse than spiking the ball into the ground on every single play? 🤣

[@msarzo]

@@dannys3476 I looked up his passer efficiency rating in that Super Bowl. It was marginally better than if you did nothing but spike the ball into the ground on every single play, but not much. 😂

[@americangiant1003]

Msarzo keep in mind the Super Bowl is also shown in dozens of countries as well i.e Canada, the UK, etc. So it's more than a "National Telecast" like Sunday or Monday Night Football shown only in America during the regular season. The SB has been shown internationally since at least the early 1970's. There is a reason British/Irish artists such as the Stones, The Who and U2 have also performed at the halftime show.

[@javi__...]

Such an awful super Bowl. Might be the worst super bowl this century.

[@kcindc5539]

C’mon guys…. there’s no baffling mystery here. It’s very very straightforward. This was a a branding effort designed to stir up feelings of patriotism and all things American in the wake of the 9/11 attacks one year prior. The way they chose to do that was to closely associate “America’s Band” Bon Jovi with the “America’s Game”, North American Football. So they chose to bookend the entire season by featuring an opening game showing, a closing game showing, plus one high profile mid-season performance of that band doing that song. Their goal was that people would immediately associate one with the other. The way to do that is through repetition. Reinforce the brand association. And the industry-recognized number of times it takes for an advertising message to have a chance of sticking? THREE TIMES. Hence the three identical performances. There you have it. It’s that simple. It didn’t work, of course, but it was by no means an oversight on anyone’s part.

[@donaldpaluga]

Bon Jovi Jennifer Garner and Jimmy Kimmel If that ain't a trifecta of suck I don't know what it

[@ChrisRobbins1231]

Love the random Bon Jovi references in here lmfao Awesome

[@tookmyjob]

I remember that thinking, why?

[@taylordunekacke5784]

I think a lot of it had to do with the game. That game was boring because it wasn't even close and people who didn't care about football stopped watching after halftime.

[@freeparking301]

This was around the time Jon Bon was flirting with football team ownership and owned the Arena League Philadelphia Soul. “Hey Jon your team just won the Arena Bowl what are you gonna do now?!” “I’m going to Action Park!”

[@jscrashad]

So Bon Jovi for this time period was Up With People in the early SuperBowl days.

[@matthewdaley746]

Three words I, so, truly, never, ever, want to hear again, Up With People.

[@mgb4692]

Didn't you just want Jack Lambert to make a U turn and start forearming dudes? Yeah, 'Up With People', see I can make them go up

[@matthewdaley746]

@@mgb4692 Jack Lambert would have been perfect for the Raiders, but, he'd have fewer rings, and, surely wouldn't be a HOFer.

[@GoLions67]

I feel bad for my Grandfather! Lmao. He went to the Superbowl in Detroit in 82 and was stuck with Up with the People! Now you get a great show!!

[@matthewdaley746]

@@GoLions67 Look on the bright side, it was a great Game, and, it was the beginning of Joe Montana, such is life, two out of three ain't bad, (RIP, Meat Loaf).

[@Rossturnerphoto]

I'm a buccaneers fan and don't remember anything that happened after the game. Then again, I was watching the game with friends and we may have turned the TV off as soon as it ended. It was a jubilant and festive atmosphere around the greater Tampa Bay area for weeks after the game. A couple other interesting notes about that game for anyone interested: It was the last super bowl to take place in January because the NFL extended the time from one week to two weeks following the conference championships the following year. It was also the last time San Diego hosted the super bowl, unfortunately. I know Jack Murphy/Qualcomm stadium wasn't the best stadium for football and was far outdated by this time, but I always thought it was decent enough, at least from a TV viewer's perspective.

[@americangiant1003]

Ross dumb question? Did the local ABC station in Tampa right after the trophy ceremony cut into their local news to show the fan celebrations all over Central Fla.? I think in the NYC/NJ area right after the trophy ceremonies with either SB42 (Feb. 2008) with Fox or SB46(Feb. 2012)NBC the local station cut into their local news for a bit to show the local residents/NY Giant fan celebrations for a bit delaying the post SB shows. If I am wrong please correct me. Thanks

[@Rossturnerphoto]

@@americangiant1003 it's possible. That is something the local stations in this area would do, but I honestly don't remember.

[@wildethang93]

Possibly the only one that enjoyed the performance was Bucs coach Jon Gruden, who's a big Bon Jovi fan.

[@xzzz444x9]

Love your channel man , gets me through the day

[@jasonfischer8946]

Why do people even watch the pre game and post game shows?/I don't need an hour show to tell me about the game that I'm going to watch or a show about the game that I JUST WATCHED.

[@tevinsherrill5653]

It's amazing how one network can have both the best and worst broadcasting decisions in Super Bowl history.

[@matthewdaley746]

The law of Averages truly caught up with them, just tragically sad.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

@@matthewdaley746 Yes especially since ABC has some good shows too. Whenever they have the Super Bowl I wouldn't be surprised if they air a new season of the current Wonder Years after the Super Bowl.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@runrafarunthebestintheworld I don't watch that show for two reasons, the original was perfect, and, it smacks of a decision to use the name because the network didn't think it could, possibly, succeed on its own.

[@kalbuskj31]

The Bad Medicine Pun was a good one!

[@toddbiesel4288]

A 20 share? That's worse than if you did nothing but just... never mind, you know the rest of that phrase.

[@brakosjacob8019]

That's it everyone, JG9 has officially been driven insane. We can go home now 😂

[@Fencellisk]

This should just be a meme now. Just randomly hit your friend with some of the footage from all three games. Excellent troll material.

[@Largeagegaplove]

I hate everything about the whole "spectacle" aspect of the Super Bowl. Just give me the damn game....

[@clintmatthews3500]

Absolutely! I have no interest in the commercials, the pregame show, the halftime show, or anything besides the game itself. It’s all just embarrassing and excessive.

[@clipobserver]

I don't blame Bon Jovi (get those paychecks), I blame the NFL and the Networks.

[@dannygordon1450]

The part where he talks about Bon Jovi already having played pregame shows twice in the regular season had me rolling LMAO

[@lamontbradford4630]

I don’t care about entertainment. I watch the Super Bowl for the game. Let’s hope for a Tom Brady free super bowl.

[@kevincrittenden7567]

Shhhh every time you insult tom Brady he plays another year just to spite us. Don't the bear

[@luisreyes1963]

I'd rather deal with another SB with Tom Brady than with Aaron Rogers & The Packers. 🤬

[@matthewdaley746]

After this year, he's losing both coordinators, so, the team, probably, never goes again.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@kevincrittenden7567 The 2023 season, likely, is his last because he just gets tired of losing coaches, and, teammates, he's, not, going to play just to play, period.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@luisreyes1963 If he beats the 49ers, he could go, (in theory), if he doesn't, just give Tom Brady the SB MVP now, period.

[@LukeBCtown]

I'm sorry but i completely started laughing like crazy when i found out bon Jovi performed 3 different times in a year

[@matthewward7524]

I still would rather watch marching bands or frisbee dogs than some half ass concert.

[@nasholston5112]

I've never once heard anyway even talk about U2's halftime performance. No way it's the most iconic lol

[@BobPlaysOfficial]

Right? I can only speak for myself, but I think Prince's halftime show will never be topped. I mean, Purple Rain...in the rain? It was perfect.

[@anthony0358]

oh excellent job on this video! I remember this game, I had a big problem looming at work the next day , so I had to go the bed. I recorded Alias and that was a super hot intro with Jennifer Garner. So this was a huge error in judgement by ABC

[@MalEvansUSA]

Bon jovi is the musical equivalent of spiking the ball on virtually every single down.

[@MalEvansUSA]

@Coogan they are awful. Bon jovi can’t sing anymore and they have zero talent. Awful and horrid

[@Neckrollios18]

If the NFL wanted to give us bad medicine, they would have asked Bon Jovi to do Bad Medicine

[@tyelerhiggins300]

That comment about Vinatieri is insane. "In his 6 year career", and that was 20 years ago.

[@Johnnycdrums]

Bon Jovi doesn’t even qualify as Hard Rock. Who cares, I don’t , nor do I remember it. If they had The Scorpions that would be a different animal.

[@jackofallgamesTV]

I wonder if you'll talk about competition to the halftime show. The two most notorious cases I could think of was the first time that was tried with Fox's In Living Color's Men on Football skit live that was going to take material from the first half of the football game to prove that it was not prescripted humor. The other example was Nipplegate, which ironically I was watching for the Lingerie Bowl at halftime on a pay-per-view. That was the first time in a long time I visited my friends after moving away and we had an annual Super Bowl party as well as a couple other get togethers a year until the two main people we visited died. Yeah I thing thing is the people who would have appreciated Janet Jackson's bare breast were seeking it in a place where they wouldn't get it: namely hoping for a waist tackle slipping below the panty line and pulling a thong off on a pay-per-view that was automatically rated TVMA because of the potential was high for violating material. I know live shows were not supposed to be rated, but ever since the Bret Hart Incident on Monday Night Raw (he was throwing around BS's and GDs every 5 seconds in a minute or two,) live shows had to compute a likely or a target rating for their show. Even basic cable live shows like Raw. I don't think even to this day the NFL football games are rated. Even though it's in the realm of likelihood that you'll see a lot of physical contact that will cause injuries and occasionally bad sportsmanship to the point of being excessively and pointlessly violent, (like the Miles Garrett helmet bop, which the only thing that saved Miles Garrett from criminal prosecution was that that helmet bop was not premeditated but just a natural action of fighting)which because of the potential I would probably rate as TVPG, because it rarely happens but when it happens it's causes trauma in the viewers especially those below 10.

[@KWCline91]

I love It's My Life by Bon Jovi. But after watching this video, you could've gotten better results from having the Simpsons cartoon of the man with his shorts down singing "The Old Gray Mare. She Ain't What She Used to Be."

[@banjoplayingbison2275]

The performance of the song is incredibly off from the original, it’s so off that it doesn’t seem to bring the energy the original has

[@jsivco3sivco785]

2:40 SB XXXV! - The game that never ended. There was still 2 seconds on the clock when the ball went over the cross bar. The idiot timekeeper merely ran off the last couple seconds. After that game, there was established "the Patriot rule" which stipulates that if there are more than 5 seconds on the clock, the other team must get the ball, either by turnover or kickoff!

[@SyndicateSuperman]

I thought I was the only one irritated by that. I was a big fan of the Rams back then and thought they got screwed.

[@Anynom]

As a huge Alias fan, was so pissed their post-game show was delayed, especially as it turned out to be a massive game-changer for the entire series that should have gotten a monster rating but dwindled as folks had been flipping channel for post-show.

[@tobiaswilliamson00]

11:21 I understand where you're coming from, but it should be noted that Bon Jovi performed "It's My Life" on Thanksgiving in Detroit which aired on CBS rather than ABC.

[@L_Train]

The next year was the wardrobe malfunction

[@eyeluvverbutterdogsheds4941]

“Guess who performed the halftime show on Thanksgiving?” me: No! “You guessed it, Bon Jovi! And guess what song they sang, again!” me: NOOOOOO!

[@mfree80286]

Ahh, a post-game concert. When half the watchers have turned off the TV to tend to their egos, and the other half have likely started celebrating at home and also turned off the TV.

[@russschoewe3551]

Lmao...I knew there was a reason why I hated that song!

[@tonyamaddi3044]

JG9, I love it when you lose your sh*t. I feel ya man. 🤣

[@DukesMusic84]

It never works when they try to overdo it. Like 04 when Diddy did most of the show but the only thing people remember is Janet. In 03 very few fans remember that Bon Jovi was even there.

[@dougclark7077]

This Alias episode was sort of a refresh for the show. The goal was to perk up ratings for what was a critical success but had a relatively small audience. The episode used popular music (if I remember correctly, the song "Living in Stereo" by the Cars opened the show, and as already discussed below, "Back in Black" by AC/DC). Unfortunately, although the viewership for this episode was higher than for a normal "Alias" , it did not give the show any appreciable boost going forward. I have often thought that the kickoff should move back to the original 6:18 p.m. Eastern when the game first went prime time, meaning the game would be concluding around 10:00 p.m.,; have a 15-20 minute postgame, and the lead out show start around 10:20-10:30. I am curious what time the postgame will sign off this year, considering NBC is using the Winter Olympics for the lead out, the first time any network has ever aired the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics on the same day.

[@cheap25]

Bon Jovi blows and their fans suck.... A pure symbiotic relationship

[@tannerhall588]

Somebody in the NFL REALLY likes that song

[@gregoryfilar1783]

The whole premise is flawed because the game is played on Sunday evening in the east. A substantial chunk of the viewers turn off the tube and/or leave the party. Playing the game on Saturday, or moving the start to 4pm eastern, would be more consistent with the paradigm.

[@BrettBoozeReviewsNOLA]

Not going to happen…they can get more money for ad revenue by airing the game on Sunday evening

[@bfure1]

@@BrettBoozeReviewsNOLA yep, Saturday night makes it easier to organise big parties to watch the game, meaning less TVs tuned in

[@damagekritical]

Lol I love your outrage

[@ericsmith8373]

I frankly have never understood having a SIX HOUR pre-game show. Now, I realize the game has to start later than a normal game because if it started at 1pm on the east coast it would be 11am in the west. But why not move it up to, say, 4pm east coast, which still puts it at 1pm in the west?

[@americangiant1003]

Eric Jag has done previous videos on why the SB has had a 635pm (ET) kickoff for at least 35-40 years now. Before SB 12 in Jan. '78 (Cowboys over Broncos)the SB usually until Jan. 1977 had a 3-4pm (ET) kickoff. Please look at the highlights of the first 10 "Big Games" usually in those days, most of the game was played in sunlight.

[@SuperNuclearUnicorn]

At the AFL Grand Final they do a post game show. Most people have left so they kinda move everyone to a specific section and rather than the stage being in the middle of the ground it's much closer to the audience. You should look up Jack Riewoldt signing Mr Brightside with The Killers after winning the premiership

[@pullt]

I'd forgotten how hot early 00s Jennifer Garner was....

[@billleonard9930]

4:39 - "If you didn't know anything it (One Shining Moment) going in, you know right away what you're in for when you hear the opening line of 'The ball is tipped.'" When I was young (and not yet into basketball), the first time that I ever heard "One Shining Moment," it was used in the telecast of the final game at the original Comiskey Park (Home of MLB's Chicago White Sox). In that version, the first line was "The gun goes off," instead of "The ball is tipped." That version can be heard here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/imrMo3WZaZqarqM This was in 1990, three years after it had debuted as the song to close the NCAA Tournament. I have never heard this version anywhere else, so I emailed David Barrett to see if he knew of an existing studio copy. Unfortunately, he didn't, but he did inform me in his reply that "The gun goes off" was originally the first line. Again, unfortunately, the email is long gone (This was at least 10 years ago) but I did copy and paste that part of his reply into the One Shining Moment Wikipedia page, where it still remains today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Shining_Moment

[@zacyorke337]

Great Video: Some more interesting thoughts on this .. JBJ was actually supposed to be a 3-Song performance but ABC was already running so far over and viewership was done before the end of the 3rd quarter. So they cut the song to 2 and only aired 1 The failure really comes in the form of the blowout ; The game was anti-climatic as Tampa had won by halftime and sealed midway through the 3rd quarter (also see the Bill Fallaghan controversy : Tim Brown & Jerry Rice assert that Callaghan threw the game) The viewership momentum was dying down before end of the 3rd and we had 2 concerts by that time now. People were turning tvs off and leaving the bars , going to bed and moving on. There wouldn't be a OSM (as you state) as NCAA-MM is a rather short contest and consistently on good running time The Super Bowl is a Loooong day for the broadcasting team(s) and you just can't maintain those massive viewership numbers by forcing it the way the NFL has "Pigs get fat" and the NFL got fat during SB XXXVII (37) by attempting the 3rd Concert at 10:00 - 10:28 PM- EST has been deemed the SB post game show sweet spot (I learned this whole interning at ESPN in 2016**) per marketing and advertising data from league sources. - Alias began at 11.01 and had 17m viewers ( 27.9M viewers is the average) Side Note: Friends 2nd Season Premier still remains the most viewed Post/SB Broadcast with 54M Viewers!! (😇 💩) - and STILL ranks #1 since 1/28/1996 SB XXX (30) Pittsburgh V Dallas twenty -six years later

[@ReverendBenzo]

I like how the "fans" in the crowd happen to have signs and conveniently pointed right where the cameras can see it.

[@bishyo22]

Coincidentally I didn't see any of it. As the power went out in my dorm room right as the clock hit :00 and wouldn't come back on again until right before Jimmy Kimmel Live.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

They should start the game at 5:20 PM to avoid this crap.

[@matthewdaley746]

They shouldn't start the NCAA Championship Game at 9:30 p.m., on a Monday Night, either, but, because four people in California still care about basketball, that's exactly what happens, and, will.

[@ajk]

@@matthewdaley746 Or World Series games after 8pm.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@ajk The Dodgers had a Game where the temperature was over triple-digits, because that was the earliest start time, possible, yikes.

[@ajk]

@@matthewdaley746 What game was that one?

[@matthewdaley746]

@@ajk It was, either, 2017, or, 2018, I can't remember the year, sorry, 2020, wasn't held there because of the pandemic.

[@johnk6123]

Actually laughed when you said bon jovi played the opening game and guess what song they played...lol EDIT: I paused to comment before the mention of...omfg LOL the thanksgiving game bon jovi....guess what song they played... :D jon bon jovi must have had pictures of execs in some revealing and compromising situations

[@clipobserver]

Also, nothing against "It's My Life" I do like that song but the NFL should have considered "Running Down A Dream" By Tom Petty among others for their theme.

[@DisportDialogue]

I'm sure Jon Bon Jovi's friendship with Bill Belichick might have had to sometime with this.

[@scottaznavourian3720]

Still a better idea then Justin timberkake and Janet Jackson.

[@matthewdaley746]

Either, one of them is a bad idea, putting them together is simply asking for it.

[@lynngatrell7965]

Shot down in a blaze of glory? Ha ha! I see what you did there.😆😆

[@mst3kanita]

Looks like the only people who stayed for the concert was the cheerleaders 😹

[@notoriouseagle1074]

Jon Gruden's a huge Bon Jovi fan, he talks about it at the end of the 2002 Bucs America's Game.

[@mrdgenerate]

The AFC championship this year got me to watch that 3 level chef show lol it was pretty cool tho 😂

[@JTupp96]

That bad medicine pun lol

[@jameswarner5878]

2:43 still have 2 seconds on the clock. Call is good, ball is dead on the ground. Clock kept going. Rams didn't ask for the ball. Rigged.

[@eyezzsodrppyXXX]

What are you gonna do with 2 seconds lol even if NE kicks the ball, those 2 seconds are gone while the ball is in the air and then what?

[@notoriouseagle1074]

Stop whining James

[@deadmansgulf911]

ITS BON FREAKING JOVI!!! 🤣

[@KG-xt4oq]

Meh, having Bon Jovi perform the same song 3 times during the season is akin to how their music was played on the radio/MTV. If you listened to the radio or watched MTV for more than an hour back then, you were guaranteed to hear whatever song of theirs was popular at that time at least twice during that hour...

[@francis1971]

The think I like most about this was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers cheergirls dancing to Bon Jovi!

[@luisreyes1963]

Do you know just how many corporate backers the Super Bowl Halftime Show had? Right now, PepsiCo is it's current backer. 😑

[@MikeyKaos716]

Nice slipping Bon Jovi song titles into the video without it just being you naming the titles you thought they should play.

[@saintrocketIX]

I watched the entire post game episode of Alias and half of Jimmy Kimmel. I woke up late for school the next day and so I didn't wake up my mom, I walked two miles in single digit (Fahrenheit) weather to show up two hours late. So yeah, terrible idea.

[@DarthVader19-77]

Jennifer Garner is very attractive.

[@andrewr7395]

Bon Jovi also performed at halftime of the Giants vs. 49ers opening game I don’t think it was televised, but at least they didn’t play “ It’s My Life”. Instead they play the song from their latest album at the time. Can’t remember which one though.