The NFL has announce that Madonna will be your halftime entertainment for Super Bowl XLVI in February . As the press handout inform us , " Madonna link up an prestigious list of late halftime acts that includes The Black Eyed Peas , The Who , Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band , Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers , Prince , the Rolling Stones , Paul McCartney and U2 . "
Here are some of the premature acts not being tout by the NFL this dawn :
1 . Be Bop Bamboozled in 3 - D.Back in 1989 , Super Bowl XXIII boast the first - ever mesh broadcast in 3 - D , starring cosmos - famous magician Elvis Presto ( actually aSolid Golddancer ) , who sing his whole witching schtik vaguely in the style of Elvis . This really happen :
2 . Super Bowl IV in 1970 paid tribute to Mardi Gras at halftime with the outspoken stylings of Carol Channing . She ’s a legend , but I have a hard time imagine Carol Channing capturing the attention of football fans .
3 . In 1974 , fans were treated to Judy Mallett , Miss Texas 1973 , playact the fiddle . I guess Carol Channing was busy ?
4.When Disney was in burster of the whole halftime function in 1977 , they took advantage of the situation to not only get the most annoying and repetitive call in the history of prison term stuck everyone ’s heads ( " It ’s a Small World , " of course),they also tried to cram the fellow member ofThe New Mickey Mouse Clubdown America ’s throat . Despite sport whizz like Lisa Whelchel ( Blair fromThe Facts of Life ) and Corey Feldman ’s older baby Mindy , the ratings for theClubwere bad . The Super Bowl stunt did n’t help - the show was off the air by June .
5.Disney trotted out " It ’s a Small World " again 14 age later . The 1991 halftime show was all over the shoes . kid in random costumes , the Armed Forces tribute , " It ’s a Small World , " NKOTB , giant Disney balloons … there ’s just so much going on in three minutes .
6.The Winter Magic halftime extravaganza have a tribute to the Winter Olympics , including resilient functioning from skate champ Dorothy Hamill and Brian Boitano . multitude were unimpressed , because this was the yr the Wayans Brothers take a nice chunk of viewers aside at halftime with a peculiar sequence ofIn Living Color .
7.Up with hoi polloi , the famous non - lucre that counts Glenn Close among its alums , put up the halftime entertainment for several shows in the ' 70 and ' 80s . This 1986 clipping marks the last time they were the big attracter . It ’s worth determine just for the richly - waisted knickers , neon sweatshirts and jackets with sleeves roll to the elbow .
8 . Nothing say football like a malarkey clarinetist , am I right?Apparently the Super Bowl thought so , because the feature in 1973 was clarinetist , saxist and braggy band drawing card Woody Herman , along with the Michigan Marching Band , in an extravaganza called " Happiness Is . "
9.OK , technically this was the pregame , but in 1977 , the big number used to get everyone jazzed for the game ? Ashley Whippet . A one - hit wonder singer?Nope : a firedog who was really good at Frisbee . I mean , reallygood , I do n’t want to discount Ashley ’s acrobatic prowess . Ashley aid popularize the whole craze and was even the star of an Oscar - nominate 1977 documentary calledFloating Free . But still … a Frisbee - catching detent as pre - game entertainment ?
This article originally appear after last year ’s Super Bowl
