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SUPER BOWL LVI :: The Real Show Happens at Halftime

SUPER BOWL LVI :: The Real Show Happens at Halftime

Right smack dab in the middle of Christmas, New Years, Valentine’s Day, and Saint Patrick’s Day is the biggest holiday in the United States: the Super Bowl.

Sure, it’s not a holiday in the traditional sense, but it might as well be. Football is basically a religious experience for a lot of people, and fans from LA and Cincinnati are putting all their faith and prayers behind their respective teams for the big game today.

Friends and families gather together for the Super Bowl the same as they do on Thanksgiving, uniting at central locations to watch football and eat a smorgasbord of delicious food. The only thing missing is the following Monday off from work, which has sparked a viral petition to move the Super Bowl to Saturday so we can all recover from the festivities and work through our collective food comas.

The Super Bowl began as the National Football League’s championship game, a meeting of the superior teams from each conference to decide the true king of the castle each season. But it has become so much more, as millions of people who probably don’t even care about the game of football tune in just for the pure FOMO of it all. The Super Bowl has become a spectacle that transcends sports, with over 100 million viewers from around the world usually tuning in to see what happens on the field and off it.

From the prop bets about how long the National Anthem will run to the flavor of Gatorade that the winning coach will be showered in, the debate over which commercials were the funniest or most creative, and all the other peripheral traditions that have become just as integral a part of Super Bowl Sunday as the game itself. One could argue the biggest must-watch moment of Super Bowl Sunday every year has nothing to do with football at all, and it goes down at halftime.

The Super Bowl Halftime Show has become the biggest concert experience in the world every year, bigger than the Sunday closer at Coachella, bigger than the Grateful Dead on tour, bigger than Billy Joel at MSG, bigger than When We Were Young Festival. It’s the big show, and it’s at the top of every musician’s bucket list. It’s a crowning achievement for any performer that gets the opportunity to grab the entire world’s attention for those 15 or 20 minutes in between the 2nd and 3rd quarters of the biggest sporting event of the year.

Sometimes it’s a global pop star at the top of their game, and other years it is more of a lifetime achievement celebration for a legendary musician everyone has loved for decades. But either way, we all watch. And then we all discuss. And whether we love it or hate it, for those 20 minutes during and those few days after, that artist is the center of attention around the world.

This year, with the Super Bowl taking place at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, it was only right to celebrate LA’s long legacy of incredible music with a lineup of the biggest West Coast icons of the past 30 years. Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Kendrick Lamar will all touch the Super Bowl stage to run through three generations of legendary LA hits, joined by Mary J. Blige and Eminem to top it all off.

This year’s Halftime Show is shaping up to be one of the best ever, another in a long line of memorable Super Bowl sets. Let’s take a trip down memory lane and relive some of the best Super Bowl Halftime Shows of all time. Well, at least the ones we were allowed to show you. The NFL blocks all the Super Bowl Halftime Shows (and all their other content) from being shared on other sites for some reason. Whatever. Here are all the bootleg ones we could find, and you can head to the NFL’s Youtube page to watch the rest.

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