The Sports Guy made a joking list of the Super Bowl Halftime performers for the next 10 years in Friday’s column (including U2, Snoop Dogg and Britney Spears-Woods) and a similar discussion was tip toed around in the current thread discussing this year’s The Who performance. I figured a dedicated thread might be fun, who do you think will be the choices for the next decade? And to be clear, the list is who do you think will be in there, not who do you want to be in there, that’s for a different list.
Here’s mine:
2011: Rascal Flatts and Carrie Underwood (game is in Dallas)
2012: John Cougar Melllencamp (Indy)
2013: Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. and Jazz greats (N’awlins)
2014: Dave Matthews Band
2015: Aerosmith (reunion!))
2016: Metallica (maybe mainstream enough)
2017: Britney Spears (comeback show, um right?)
2018: AC/DC (geriatric rock is back)
2019: U2 (again)
2020: Jay-z and Beyonce (finally past the Janet Jackson fiasco)
Granted, the validity and/or effectiveness of online petitions notwithstanding, it’s actually not the worst idea ever. Personally, I am emphatically in favor. In fact, I’d even propose he play every Super Bowl halftime. Think about it: he has old classic stuff that everyone knows and he can keep up with whatever the current musical trend happens to be, he’s a proven entertainer with a massive, cross-cultural/cross generational fanbase, and he’s clean and family-friendly (the risk of “wardrobe malfunctions” is exactly zero).