From: Greg Hatmaker, gregh@mpinet.net
Subject: RE: sellout(NC)
Date: 2/4/2002 1:24:50 PM
To: jlmicek@mindspring.com


I, too, didn't look at U2's performance with a cynical eye. Those songs
will never fail to move me. I sorely regret not shelling out the bucks to
see them on their last tour. Every time I see them live on TV I just kick
myself because I know all the words, and I feel the words and I want to be
there with 50,000 other people who feel the same thing. After years of the
likes of Michael Jackson and other retardness at halftime, how could anyone
find fault with the bresh of fresh air U2 provided? And besides it *is* a
beautiful day out today. Why not acknowledge it?

That game was a good one, too. Rooting for the Patsies wasn't as bad as I
thought it'd be. Good to see an AFC David finally knock off another NFC
Goliath. Elway started the trend, but I had gotten so sick of Da Hogs and
Da Bears and Da Niners and Da Gints and Da Boys and Da Pack. Just sick sick
sick of all them. This one was for Dan Anderson and Chris Collingsworth,
David Woodley and Jimmy Cefalo, Dan Marino and the Marks Brothers, Tony
Eason and Lin Dawson, Boomer and Icky, and Jim Kelly and the Thurminator. 

g!

At 09:26 AM 02/04/2002 -0500, John L. Micek wrote:
>I've just got to leap to U2's defense here.
>Granted, playing the Super Bowl halftime show is about as corporate and
>commercial
>as you can get.
>But I think for a band of their stature, they pulled it off with power and
>grace. It's easy
>to slam the big guys, but I think for most of the people here who have ever
>seen that band in a room,
>they know that it's about as close as you can get to a transcendant
>experience.
>They did it well -- and if you want a comparison, just think about that
>frigging Britney/Aerosmith/N*Sync
>cluster-fuck of a halftime show last year. That, friends, was corporate.
>
>John 
>(transplanted New Englander glorying in his team's win!)
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>John L. Micek
>Harrisburg Correspondent
>The Morning Call
>Allentown, Pa.
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